Anthropic pointed out that GLM-5.3 is highly skilled at adversarial attacks, and Zhipu AI immediately responded that the model is also very capable of defending against such attacks.

Bitwise officials announced that the U.S.’s first spot NEAR ETP, the Bitwise NEAR ETF (ticker: NRR), reached $36 million in assets under management (AUM) on its debut day, with a net inflow of $35.5 million and trading volume of $15.1 million. Earlier reports noted that Bitwise plans to internally stake the NEAR tokens held by the fund to maximize participation in NEAR’s average ~5% staking rewards.

EU MiCA-regulated stablecoin issuer AllUnity has announced the launch of its USD stablecoin USDAU, which maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserves. The stablecoin will first be issued on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon. This is AllUnity’s fourth fiat stablecoin, following the euro-pegged EURAU, Swiss franc-backed CHFAU, and Swedish krona-linked SEKAU. AllUnity CEO Alexander H?ptner said USDAU aims to bring U.S. dollar liquidity into the European regulatory framework, providing a USD settlement tool for European enterprises’ global trade and cross-border payments. (Cointelegraph)

Beating AI News: Personal AI agent assistant Instinct has launched a new feature called Selections, which integrates recommendations from real human experts into the agent. The company partners with local chefs, designers, architects, travel guides, and other professionals, who curate restaurants, travel itineraries, and products in their areas of expertise. Instinct then delivers recommendations tailored to user preferences. For example, if a user is looking for a restaurant, Instinct will draw on a list curated by local chefs; for home goods, it will suggest options matching the user’s style and budget from products recommended by independent designers. Noah Shinn said the team aims for these recommendations to be significantly higher quality than those from standard web searches and other chatbots. Notably, Shinn recently made clear his opposition to ad-based models in his first public long-form interview. He argues that personal agents hold large amounts of user data, so allowing brands to pay agents to persuade users to purchase items they wouldn’t otherwise want would create major conflicts of interest. Instinct plans to offer free access to users, generating revenue by taking commissions from merchants for orders driven by the agent. Selections is not currently classified as an ad product. Instinct has not stated whether merchants can pay to be included in recommendation lists, nor has it disclosed whether collaborating experts are compensated. However, if Instinct does eventually rely on transaction commissions for revenue, Selections will face a pressing question: Will its recommendations be tied to how much the platform stands to earn from them? Shinn did not address this in the interview.

Crypto analyst Darkfost’s data shows that demand from Bitcoin retail investors (trading volumes between $0 and $10,000) has rapidly faded during this latest BTC rally, with the 30-day change rate shifting from over 17% to -3.5%. Darkfost notes that this indicates retail investors tend to engage in quick in-and-out trades at current market highs, which could impact BTC’s short-term volatility.

Solana ecosystem project Paid has announced its new claim system is now live. The fee distribution structure has been adjusted: previously, recipients received 80% of fees while 20% went toward PAID buybacks; under the new setup, recipients get 65%, 25% is allocated to PAID buybacks, and 10% is retained by the protocol.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) reports that Bitget has started replenishing its protection fund, with the fund size now back to $200 million. In the past two hours, 2000 BTC (valued at $166 million) was transferred from Bitget’s cold wallet to the protection fund address. The latest on-chain balance stands at 2484.71 BTC, worth $206 million, indicating that Bitget’s earlier commitment to “replenish $300 million within a week” is being fulfilled.