Binance will close UAH fiat deposits and withdrawals and delist the USDT/UAH spot trading pair.

Beating AI News: Anthropic has for the first time integrated its "cutting-edge model development" restrictions from the Fable series into its Opus line. Opus 5.5 now includes a Fable-like classifier. When handling a small number of cutting-edge LLM development tasks—such as developing kernels for specific AI accelerators—the system automatically switches from Opus 5.5 to the less powerful Opus 5, which does not have this restriction. Fable 5 had already restricted tasks including distributed training infrastructure development, AI accelerator design, and certain kernel development. At the time, Anthropic explained that powerful models could accelerate next-generation model development, and it did not want Claude to help competitors build cutting-edge models of the same level faster. Fable currently also blocks or switches models for a small subset of such tasks. Anthropic’s internal evaluations also have these safeguards enabled. Once a cutting-edge LLM development task triggers the restriction, Opus 5 takes over, which may lower Opus 5.5’s related benchmark scores. Anthropic emphasized that this type of classifier covers only a very small portion of cutting-edge LLM development tasks, and most general AI, machine learning research, and daily programming will not be affected. After a downgrade is triggered, Claude will clearly indicate that it has switched to Opus 5, and subsequent conversations will continue using Opus 5.

Beating AI News: Qwen has officially launched the Qwen-Audio 3.1 series of large speech models. This upgrade not only brings comprehensive improvements to three core models—Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and real-time speech interaction (Realtime)—but also introduces two new key models: the audio creation model Qwen-Audio 3.1-TTS-Next and the audio understanding model Qwen-Audio 3.1-ASR-Next. The five new speech models launched together form a complete audio capability stack covering "understanding, generation, interaction, and creation". To further lower user costs, all Qwen-Audio series speech models have had their prices reduced: TTS by approximately 70%, Realtime by around 85%, and ASR by up to 95%.

Binance announced it will launch U.S. dollar-margined U.S. stock Pre-IPO perpetual contracts for OURA at 16:30 (UTC+8) today, with the underlying asset being U.S. stock Oura Inc. and supporting up to 20x leverage.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost notes that while Bitcoin’s price is rising, sustained buying pressure has yet to reestablish, leaving mixed market signals. As of the 30th, cumulative spot demand stood at -180,000 BTC, remaining negative; futures demand was +54,000 BTC, still positive but slightly down. Total average demand improved from -188,000 BTC to -126,000 BTC, narrowing the gap but still in negative territory overall. A recent divergence has emerged between price and total demand: Bitcoin’s price is up, but total demand has not turned positive, indicating the rally is driven more by easing selling pressure than strong buying. Breaking down by segment, demand recovery is uneven. For institutional players, while geopolitical and macroeconomic conditions remain unfavorable, the volume-weighted Coinbase Premium briefly turned positive, signaling U.S. spot prices occasionally trade at a premium to other markets, with institutional selling pressure easing notably. ETFs have been the biggest change in this cycle: demand has flipped completely compared to this summer, with recent net purchases of roughly 70,000 BTC. Cumulative inflows for 2026 still stand at around -17,000 BTC, but are close to turning positive. For trading platforms, net outflows dominated throughout September, a trend pointing to accumulation rather than distribution—Bitcoin leaving exchanges typically translates to lower near-term selling pressure. Analyst Darkfost concludes that the current price rally is not driven by stronger buying, but rather by investors refraining from adding more selling pressure at higher price levels, leaving the market structure still fragile.

Beating AI News Flash: Firecrawl secures $75 million Series B funding led by Smash Capital, and launches Alexandria. The platform integrates web search, third-party data sources, and Firecrawl’s proprietary index into a unified interface, eliminating the need for AI agents to connect to separate APIs for each data type. For instance, an agent researching a company can first search the web, then directly call Fiscal.ai for financial data; access economic data via FRED and the World Bank; and search GitHub and Firecrawl’s Developer Index for coding-related queries. Alexandria currently covers additional data types including academic papers, government datasets, commodities, real estate, and job postings, accessible via API, MCP, and CLI. Firecrawl reported that when testing the same model and prompt across 845 tasks, responses using Alexandria were 21% higher in quality than those generated by the model’s native web tools. Proceeds from the funding round will also be used to acquire and integrate additional data sources. Firecrawl already has a paid partnership with Wikimedia Enterprise, and plans to onboard more researchers, publishers, and data providers to contribute their content to Alexandria, with revenue generated when agents utilize this data.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea's KOSPI index closed up 61.02 points, a 0.87% gain, ending at 7078.93 points. Samsung Electronics rose 3.25%, and SK Hynix gained 1.2%.