OpenAI is reportedly testing its next-generation image model: three codenamed "Aurora" have emerged, with red and green variants exposed.

Strive(@Strive) has been buying $BTC aggressively recently, purchasing 4,045 $BTC ($335M) last week at $82,803. Over the past 2 months, #Strive has bought a total of 15,462 $BTC ($1.27B) at an average price of $82,417.

According to official sources, Bitmine increased its holdings by 12,535 ETH over the past week. As of 3:00 PM ET on October 18, 2026, Bitmine’s crypto holdings include 6,041,481 ETH, 215 Bitcoin, a $180 million investment in Beast Industries, a $74 million investment in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) — codenamed the "Moon Shot Project" — and $582 million in total cash and marketable securities. Bitmine’s ETH holdings account for 4.9% of the total ETH supply, which stands at 122.1 million ETH.

According to official announcements, Strategy purchased 267 bitcoins over the past week and repurchased STRC stock for $193 million. As of October 18, 2026, the company holds a total of 848,517 BTC and $5.3 billion in U.S. dollar assets.

According to relevant filings, Strive purchased 4,045 Bitcoin at an average price of approximately $82,803 between October 12 and 16, 2026. The total includes the 2,822 Bitcoin bought between October 12 and 13 – a figure announced on October 14 – plus 1,223 Bitcoin acquired from October 14 to 16 at an average price of roughly $81,734. As of October 16, Strive holds a total of 36,818 Bitcoin, along with 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (valued at approximately $49.35 million in fair value) and around $317.5 million in cash.

Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson said that as the three-month stock market correction enters its final stage, investors should be prepared to buy on dips. Historically, high-quality stocks typically outperform by 7.5% in the year following similar scenarios. (Bloomberg)

Beating AI Express: MiniMax officially launches M3.1 Flash, confirming that the previously viral anonymous model Space Bunny is its early version. Space Bunny launched on OpenRouter and OpenCode in late September, with total calls exceeding 200 trillion tokens and once topping the daily call charts on both platforms. MiniMax rolled out M3.1 Flash Preview on September 27, and has now officially released full benchmark results and API pricing. In MiniMax’s published tests, M3.1 Flash scored 62.2% on the office automation benchmark Automation-Bench, outperforming DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (60.5%) and Opus 5 (50.3%). It notched 73.7% on the DeepSWE programming test, close to Opus 5’s 74.0%; its visual reasoning score on BabyVision hit 91.0%. However, its 61.7% on the computer operation test OSWorld still lags behind Opus 5’s 70.6%. Pricing is a key highlight: the API charges $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and just $0.015 for cached reads. MiniMax states that compared to M3, the new model’s overall cost is reduced to roughly one-third, while its speed is tripled. The model supports a million-token context window, with weights scheduled to open on October 23.