☕️ GM! Here are the most important market events over the last 24 hours:
🌍Market Overview:
🔸 OpenAI cut developer pricing on its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20% for three months, down from $5 and $30 per million input and output tokens, with Anthropic and Chinese labs closing in.
🔸 The S&P 500 rose 0.43% Friday to 7,674.37 and the Dow added 517.80 points, but the index still lost 1.4% on the week and the Nasdaq 2%. Both snapped three-week winning streaks.
🔸 The Treasury's bigger buyback bought one day. The 30-year finished the week at 5.273%, higher than the 5.21% it yielded a week ago, and the 10-year sits at 4.734% against 4.63% last Friday.
🔸 Nvidia research got Claude Opus 5 to a 100% score on the ARC-AGI-3 reasoning benchmark using a custom harness with a supervisor component. Without the harness it scored 30%, still the best of any model tested.
🔸 Gold booked a third straight weekly gain, spot up 2.3% to $4,619.57 and US gold futures up 2.4% to $4,680.60, with a softer dollar and the buyback plan doing the lifting.
🔸 Anthropic will name negative public sentiment toward AI and data centers as a risk factor in its IPO prospectus, sources told CNBC. The company is valued near $1 trillion privately and is already meeting investors.
🪙Crypto Updates:
🔸 Solana opens its first on-chain governance vote today. One of the three proposals would cut projected $SOL issuance by 18.9 million tokens, and each needs at least 66.67% of decisive stake to pass.
🔸 Ripple voted for the PermissionDelegationV1_1 amendment, which lets one XRP Ledger account hand another narrow transaction rights. Seven of 35 trusted validators back it, and it needs 80% for two straight weeks.
🔸 Uniswap's tokenized-stock volume on Robinhood Chain crossed $1 billion for the first time, up from $638.5 million earlier in the week. Founder Hayden Adams says he expects it to eventually reach $1 trillion.
🔸 Ethereum's next upgrade splits building from proposing, stretching a roughly two-second critical path so the next proposer gets six seconds to validate a payload and every other validator gets nine.
🔸 Coinkite shipped new Coldcard firmware after a seed flaw cut entropy from 128 bits to roughly 40 on some devices. Roughly $130 million of $BTC has been stolen, and new seeds now require user-supplied randomness.
🔸 Nomura's Laser Digital became Japan's first newly registered crypto exchange service provider in about four years. It starts by supplying liquidity to domestic venues, ahead of new Japanese rules in 2027.
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