A whale went 20x short on Bitcoin and added to their Ethereum short position, currently sitting on a nearly $1.5 million unrealized gain

Beating AI News Brief: ElevenLabs has launched Music v2.5, making it the default model for ElevenMusic. The new version focuses on improving melody, arrangement layers, and instrument realism. The company conducted 47,885 blind tests, generating versions of identical prompts with both v2 and v2.5; v2.5 won most comparisons, with the biggest performance gaps seen in R&B, soul, hip-hop, rock, metal, orchestral, and film soundtrack genres. Additionally, licensing terms have been relaxed: Free users can download 5 lossless songs daily, and generated content is eligible for commercial use, provided it is labeled "Made with ElevenMusic". Pro users get 400 lossless downloads monthly, no labeling required, and can distribute their songs to streaming platforms. Permissions granted at creation will not change if a user downgrades their plan or cancels their subscription. Adaptations of other artists’ songs cannot be downloaded or publicly distributed. ElevenLabs also clarified that Music v2 will not be retired. Separately, Suno recently launched v6 while retiring all its previous models, sparking dissatisfaction among many long-time users. A Hacker News (HN) user who tested both tools noted that ElevenLabs’ v2.5 has better audio quality, but they still prefer Suno v5 for musicality.

Cathie Wood noted that David Sacks, co-chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), believes recent reports about "AI destroying humanity" may be orchestrated. The comments originated from a long-inactive X account belonging to an Anthropic employee who left the company just six weeks after joining, and the content quickly made its way into mainstream media. Sacks also named the parties involved in the incident and criticized The Wall Street Journal for its role. Recently, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay calling for slowing the advancement of frontier AI capabilities, arguing that AI is increasingly involved in developing the next generation of AI. Paired with multiple recent incidents of AI agent malfunctions, he added, security research is failing to keep pace with capability growth. Sam Altman soon publicly backed the call, stating that OpenAI has also been discussing "pacing the frontier" in recent weeks, and announced the company will introduce similar long-term independent assessors. Sacks, former White House AI and crypto chief and current PCAST co-chair, then fired back: "If you truly believe internal models are dangerous, shut them down yourselves." He argued that requiring government approval for the largest AI firms to collaborate on setting speed limits would amount to a cartel, and also singled out METR, questioning whether it is fit to serve as an independent referee for the entire industry. METR has long conducted external evaluations for companies including Anthropic and OpenAI, and recently hired Joe Benton, an Anthropic security researcher who left the firm. However, METR clarified that it does not accept funding from these frontier AI companies, only model access and free tokens.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of EMBER, the platform token of Solana-based token launch platform Ember Curve, briefly exceeded $40 million and currently stands at $35 million. The token has rallied 48.7% in the past 24 hours, with a 24-hour trading volume of $27.3 million. Ember Curve is a new token launch platform on Solana built on Meteora. BlockBeats reminds users that token prices are highly volatile, so investment requires caution.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa)’s monitoring, today, the so-called "meme coin" LSK’s project-linked address deposited 3.29 million tokens to Binance five hours ago, valued at $3.79 million. The deposit came after LSK’s first sharp drop from $2 to $1, and shortly afterward, the token saw a second plunge, falling from $1.22 to $0.7 before rebounding to $1.17. Per Coinglass data, LSK’s liquidation volume over the past 24 hours hit $44.66 million, second only to ETH.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated in an interview on the 13th that a meeting scheduled for the 14th in Oman will center on a new maritime corridor in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran will present to participating countries the details of the relevant agreement reached with Oman and the roadmap for the new corridor. Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that the Iran-Oman deal does not signify the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He noted that the prerequisite for Iran to reopen the strait is that the United States fulfills its commitments under the "Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding". (Source: CCTV News)

According to Bloomberg, the UK Labour government is advancing legislation to restrict large political donations from wealthy overseas-based individuals. Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said the new bill proposes an annual donation cap of ￡100,000 for British citizens living abroad, applicable to those who have recently returned to the UK, and would also retroactively cover past donations, requiring non-compliant funds to be repaid within 60 days. On Saturday, two crypto billionaires each donated $48.7 million to the UK’s Reform UK, jointly setting a new record for individual political donations in Britain. Crypto investor Christopher Harborne gave ￡36 million (about $48.7 million) to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Saturday, matching the amount of a donation made the day before by BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo. The two crypto billionaires combined to contribute a total of ￡72 million (roughly $97.4 million) within 24 hours, making the two donations the largest individual political contributions in UK party history. Harborne is an investor in stablecoin issuer Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex.