Suspected Sonic Labs-Related Address Transfers 11.78 Million S Tokens to Binance, Valued at Approximately $5.55 Million

According to official announcements, Lighter announced today that it has completed the destruction of 2,452,017 LIT tokens. The tokens were automatically repurchased via its program by the end of Q3 2026.

Per HTX market data, GRASS has rallied above $0.89, logging a more than 24.5% gain in the past 24 hours. News driving the move: Grass has recently pivoted from pure DePIN bandwidth sharing to delivering real-time web content retrieval for AI agents. Its Contents API launched around October 8-9, with official benchmark tests indicating a 97%-98% retrieval success rate—outperforming some rivals and reinforcing its "AI data layer" positioning.

Beating AI News Brief: Andrej Karpathy, who currently works on Anthropic’s pre-training team, has again addressed the public perception gap regarding AI capabilities. He argues this gap is widening, evolving from two distinct user groups talking past each other into an increasingly steep funnel. In his rough estimate, roughly 6 billion people (75% of the global population) have almost no exposure to large models. Around 1 billion to 2 billion people only occasionally use free chatbots, treating AI as a search or writing tool. Moving up the funnel, about 20 million people (0.2%) use cutting-edge models in professional fields like programming and mathematics. They have observed that complex projects that once took weeks or even months can now be handled by AI agents. At the very top are roughly 5,000 people (0.00006%), who have internal access to the most advanced AI systems. Karpathy outlines these frontier capabilities as including thousands of AI agents collaborating continuously for weeks, automatically discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, conducting cyber offense and defense at machine speed, and advancing mathematical research. He notes that human ability to review and understand these AI outputs has begun to lag behind. Karpathy attributes the gap to three factors: differing scales of problems users face; faster AI progress in fields like programming and mathematics where results are easily verifiable; and capability and access gaps between free, paid, and internal AI systems. The general public may still view AI as little more than an error-prone chatbot, while a small group of professionals have already started using it to handle large-scale projects.

The Sui Foundation has announced a $30 million investment in DATA Network as part of a strategic partnership. The AI training data protocol will integrate into the Sui technology stack and connect with on-chain data storage platform Walrus. Per the agreement, the Sui Foundation will become DATA Network’s largest institutional holder, joining existing stakeholders PIP Labs and DATA Foundation. DATA Network will upgrade to a protocol native to Sui, with its independent chain set to be retired. Existing DATA tokens will migrate to Sui at a 1:1 ratio. The original network will remain operational until the transition is finalized, and the foundation will publish a detailed timeline ahead of the upgrade. Walrus will act as the default storage layer for applications operated by the DATA Foundation. Separately, the DATA Foundation shifted its focus from general intellectual property infrastructure to AI training data this June. Its Trace tool, launched in June, tracks the source and usage rights of AI training data and facilitates payments to data contributors. Since its launch, the Trace registry has logged over 250 million contributions, and it currently processes more than 3 million receipts daily.

Beating AI News Flash: Reuters exclusively reports that executives of Moonshot AI are negotiating a settlement with their former company Recurrent AI and its investors, aiming to resolve a nearly two-year arbitration dispute ahead of its Hong Kong IPO. It remains unclear whether the two sides can reach an agreement. The dispute involves Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin and CTO Zhang Yutao, who co-founded Recurrent AI in 2016. According to a letter seen by Reuters, Recurrent AI and some of its investors accuse the pair of establishing Moonshot AI without board authorization and providing false information to Recurrent AI’s investors. The letter also alleges that servers holding key large language model data were improperly transferred, with some data deleted. The shareholding arrangement of Moonshot AI President Zhang Yutong has also been called into question. Reuters has not independently verified these allegations. Yang Zhilin has previously stated the startup obtained all necessary approvals, while his legal representative noted the case lacks factual and legal basis. At Moonshot AI’s founding, Recurrent AI was allocated a 9.5% initial stake. Now, Recurrent AI and some of its investors are seeking compensation equivalent to 10.5% of Moonshot AI’s initial share capital. Based on Moonshot AI’s $30 billion valuation from its June funding round, the potential compensation could exceed $700 million, according to people familiar with the matter. Moonshot AI has secretly submitted its Hong Kong IPO application. Sources close to the matter believe the dispute will not directly block the listing for now, but if left unresolved, issues related to equity ownership and disclosure could still act as obstacles.

Keep an eye on this new wallet (0x2f59), which made over $1M in a single day longing $STRK and is now going long on $W! 6 hours ago, it opened a 5x long on 28.88M $W ($643K). $W is already up 25% today. Can it go even higher?