The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

Beating AI News Flash: According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with the matter have disclosed that Anthropic has decided not to proceed with its acquisition of AI startup Decart AI. Anthropic had previously evaluated the deal and conducted due diligence on Decart, but ultimately withdrew. The two parties may still explore other collaboration opportunities in the future. Representatives from both Anthropic and Decart declined to comment. Bloomberg earlier reported that Anthropic, the developer of Claude, had been in talks to acquire Decart for roughly $60 billion, though the transaction was never finalized. Decart primarily develops software that boosts chip efficiency to lower the training and operational costs of AI models. Anthropic rarely pursues large-scale acquisitions; it is currently investing continuously in computing power to develop new products, serve clients, and prepare for its highly anticipated IPO.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams published a statement noting that UNI’s 7-day annualized burn amount has exceeded $250 million. Data shows that, calculated based on daily closing prices, the annualized amount corresponding to UNI’s 7-day burn rate is currently around $263 million. The figure is an annualized projection derived from the past seven days’ burn volume, not the actual value of UNI that has been burned.

Beating AI Express Flash: OpenAI has uniformly reset usage quotas for all paid subscribers. Core product lead Tibo Sottiaux stated the move aims to allow users who have exhausted their quotas to continue running GPT-6 Astra. Since Astra’s launch, the community has been complaining about overly fast quota consumption. Some Plus users claimed Astra uses up their entire weekly quota in roughly half an hour, while others reported hitting a 5-hour limit on a single task. Sottiaux had just the prior day reduced quota consumption for heavy-use scenarios to approximately 1/3 to 1/4 of its original level, and has now rolled out a global quota reset.

Beating AI Express: DeepSeek has opened around 150 new social recruitment positions, focusing on two roles: server-side development engineers and Agent elastic computing R&D engineers. These roles are primarily responsible for large language model (LLM) research platforms, Agent frameworks, R&D infrastructure, APIs, online services, data engineering, and the underlying runtime environments for Agents. Cui Tianyi, head of DeepSeek’s Harness team, explained that data, machines, containers, training tasks, evaluation tasks, Agent environments, users, and request volumes are all growing rapidly. The existing backend systems are gradually failing to meet future scale requirements, necessitating a large number of engineers to continue upgrading, maintaining, and rewriting them. A key focus is DSec, DeepSeek’s elastic computing platform built for Agents. When Agents execute code or call tools, they can obtain batch, mutually isolated runtime environments here. DeepSeek-V4 technical report shows that a single DSec cluster can already run hundreds of thousands of sandboxes simultaneously. The new positions will also involve ongoing optimization of underlying systems including operating systems, virtual machines, networks, storage, and scheduling.

According to data from the Fomo platform, as meme coins undergo a broad pullback, crypto KOL Bonk Guy (@theunipcs) has seen his portfolio value decline by more than $6 million from its previous peak, currently standing at $21.08 million. His highest-value holding is 10.9 million PONS, worth approximately $8.209 million, with a return on investment (ROI) of 12,023.33%. He also holds 24.9 million MARSCOIN, valued at around $3.817 million, delivering an ROI of 289.56%, and 15.8 million USELESS, worth about $3.591 million, with an ROI of 314.14%.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), Justin Sun has once again applied to redeem 5,000 ETH from Lido. Since August 26, he has redeemed a total of 10,000 ETH from the platform. After the last batch of ETH was redeemed, addresses linked to Justin Sun transferred ETH worth approximately $12.3 million to Poloniex in two separate transactions, at a time when ETH was trading at around $2,481. Currently, his on-chain holdings still include roughly 238,000 stETH, valued at about $594 million, making it the second-largest asset in his on-chain portfolio.