Cointelegraph daily top 10: OpenAI reportedly scraps October GPT-6.1 Astra release
A crypto news roundup includes a report that OpenAI scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra for ChatGPT and Codex after researchers raised safety concerns during internal testing.
🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 NEAR Intents says its SHIELD system rejected over $50M in Bitget hack funds and froze $503K mid-transaction. 🔹 Anthropic's IPO filing reportedly shows a $42B net loss in 2025 despite 12x revenue growth, with the listing potentially valuing the AI lab at over $2T, per Reuters. 🔸 Goldman Sachs is taking its $100B Treasury fund onchain via Avalanche-based Lynq, letting institutions earn yield between trades. 🔹 The CFTC approved Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearinghouse, enabling Coinbase to settle fully collateralized contracts using USDC and 24/7 settlement. 🔸 OpenAI has reportedly scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra for ChatGPT and Codex after researchers raised safety concerns during internal testing. 🔹 Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief or frozen funds, calling an Axios report “untrue.” 🔸 The SEC has issued nonbinding guidance saying crypto token buybacks, network activity and staking receipt tokens do not automatically qualify as securities. 🔹 Crypto perpetual futures open interest has climbed to nearly $160 billion, its highest level in 11 months. 🔸 Polymarket has launched 15-minute Bitcoin up-or-down markets on its U.S. app, letting users trade on short-term price moves. 🔹 Belarus has registered its first crypto banks, marking the start of operations under the country’s new regulatory framework.