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

June 13th – Per Ember Monitor, the SIREN whale has sold approximately 118 million SIREN tokens in exchange for 18 million USDT starting from 10:00 AM today, triggering a sharp price plunge for SIREN. Bitget market data shows SIREN is currently trading at $0.132, with a 73.39% decrease over the past 24 hours.

June 13: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of venture capital firm a16z, is clarifying his stance on U.S. AI regulation. He’s outspoken in opposing rules drawn up by non-technical individuals, clunky approval processes, or onerous compliance requirements that stifle innovation, letting big corporations lock down the market and block new entrants. Overregulation, he argues, burdens startups with red tape and steep compliance costs—driving top talent to more open regions while regulatory agencies overexpand beyond their original goals. Andreessen is particularly critical of centering regulation on the precautionary principle, warning that overemphasizing it could push society to reject new technologies over hypothetical risks. He notes many regulatory measures only take root after tech and industries have already shifted fundamentally, making them ineffective at solving real issues and more like roadblocks to innovation. He even attributes Europe’s recent lag in tech innovation to its overreg

June 13 (Reuters) – South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix plans to list its shares on the U.S. Nasdaq exchange, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The global leading memory chip maker aims to capitalize on strong investor appetite for AI-related stocks to list on the tech-heavy exchange. The listing could take place as early as August. SK Hynix’s stock has surged roughly 230% this year, driving its market capitalization to top $1 trillion in May. The U.S. listing is expected to expand the company’s investor base and boost its visibility in global capital markets. Sources said SK Hynix ultimately chose Nasdaq over the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Since the information is not yet public, the two sources requested anonymity. SK Hynix declined to comment on the matter, and Nasdaq did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside regular business hours. Click the original link to join BlockBeats’ Beating · Feishu AI News Channel, which monitors global AI tr

As of June 13, data from Farside Investors shows total net outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs reached $319.3 million this week. For individual funds: BlackRock’s IBIT posted a net outflow of $355 million, Grayscale’s GBTC logged $87.9 million in net outflows, and VanEck’s HODL had a $13 million net outflow. On the inflow front, Fidelity’s FBTC recorded a net inflow of $55.7 million, ARK Invest’s ARKB saw $39.1 million in net inflows, and BTC brought in $27.5 million. Funds BTCO, EZBC, and BRRR had zero net fund flows during the week.

June 13 — According to a report from Fortune, Anthropic has completely shut down access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The move follows the U.S. Department of Commerce invoking national security export control rules to bar the firm from granting access to any foreign national. The order applies not only to people outside the U.S., but also to non-U.S. citizens residing within the country, plus Anthropic’s own non-U.S. national employees. Anthropic said the directive’s broad scope left it with no other option than disabling access to those models for all users. However, less powerful models like Claude Opus 4.8 remain unaffected. The policy has sparked fierce pushback across the AI industry and among policy experts. Some frame it as another punitive step from the Trump administration against Anthropic. The Trump White House had earlier ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s models and labeled the company a "supply chain risk." AI policy expert Dean Ball no

On June 13, X-Agent, in partnership with Sentient, Alibaba, Fudan University, and other collaborators, hosted the Open AGI Developer Day at Fudan Science and Technology Park in Shanghai. During the event, Prime Xiao, X-Agent’s Engineering Director, shared the company’s product vision: X-Agent is focused on building an Agent Application Layer for individual creators, developers, and the community, enabling Agent Apps to be created, deployed, run, distributed, and monetized. The team believes that an Agent App should not only connect business states, call external tools, and complete tasks within clear bounds, but also be discoverable and adopted by real users after launch, forming a closed business loop centered on usage and task fulfillment. Xiao further emphasized that X-Agent is far more than an AI coding tool—it is an end-to-end platform linking Builder, Runtime, Payment, and Distribution functions, helping Agent Apps transition from proof-of-concept demos to viable products, and