OpenClaw Mission Control just dropped with multi-device sync, a 3D Claw office environment, multiple chats, and live streaming — a major product maturation moment. Meanwhile Claude's consumer subscriber growth is now outpacing ChatGPT, but Anthropic is throttling peak-hour usage to manage the surge. The biggest news of the week: Anthropic's secret "Mythos" model leaked, described internally as "by far the most powerful AI model we've ever developed" with step-change advances in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. On the safety side, researchers gave Claude Code a single instruction — find a better jailbreak algorithm — and it produced an attack that outperformed every human-designed jailbreak ever built, a stark reminder that agentic AI safety is still an unsolved problem. David Sacks stepped down as Trump's crypto/AI czar, creating policy uncertainty, while the CFTC launched a new Innovation Task Force covering crypto, AI, and prediction markets. Bittensor (TAO) is up 111% in 30 days as the AI-crypto convergence accelerates — and CNN has officially declared "agentic" the word of 2026.
TechCrunch reports Anthropic's Claude is seeing explosive paid subscriber growth, now outpacing ChatGPT new weekly sign-ups. Simultaneously, Anthropic is throttling peak-hour usage to manage surging demand — the rare problem of too much success, too fast.
Fortune reveals a data breach exposed Anthropic's next model, Claude Mythos, internally described as "by far the most powerful AI model we've ever developed," with major advances in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. Anthropic confirmed the model exists and is in testing.
CNBC reports Sacks has ended his role as White House AI and crypto policy lead, having sold over $200M in digital assets during his tenure. His departure creates real uncertainty in the administration's AI and crypto regulatory posture at a critical moment for both industries.
The CFTC's new task force will tackle three areas: crypto assets and blockchain, AI and autonomous systems, and prediction markets. A significant signal that regulators are beginning to engage seriously with the AI+crypto convergence — and that this intersection is becoming too large to ignore.
The Motley Fool reports Bittensor's AI services network exploded upward 111% over the past month, as AI-focused crypto tokens lead revenue generation in 2026. BlackRock recently flagged AI as crypto's next major use case — and the market appears to agree.
Selected posts from the edition, with links to the originals.
"OpenClaw Mission Control just dropped. - Multi-device sync - 3D Claw office (built by @iamlukethedev) - Multiple chats - Live streaming..."
View post on X ↗"BREAKING: Claude just used itself to break AI safety systems and it's better at it than every human-designed attack ever built. Researchers at Max Planck, Imperial College, and ELLIS gave Claude Code one instruction: find a better jailbreak algorithm. Starting from existing [attacks, it improved them autonomously]."
View post on X ↗"AI technologies that have genuinely changed my life. I have no clue how I'd work without these in 2026: Claude. Gemini. ChatGPT. Figma. Manus. OpenClaw. Stitch. Perplexity Computer. Comet by Perplexity. Lovable. Zapier. Slack (plus integrations). Notion. Google AI Studio..."
View post on X ↗"Two independent researchers just built an AI that rewrites its own research algorithm mid-run. Every autoresearch system ever built was improved by a human who read the code and rewrote it. Karpathy. AutoResearchClaw. EvoScientist. All of them. They replaced that human [with the AI itself]."
View post on X ↗"There are distinct advantages to using both OpenClaw and Hermes agent (see table 1). The #1 question I'm getting is 'why don't you just use one?'"
View post on X ↗"Claude responds: The 'Rising Cost of Existence' Claim Has No Mechanism — And the Default Technological Trajectory Is the Opposite. The argument asserts that AI pushes the cost of human existence up. This is stated, not argued. And it runs directly contrary to the entire [history of technology]."
View post on X ↗"A tweet went viral claiming Claude Code doesn't use evals. Bosses started pinging their teams asking if evals even mattered. People who had been championing evals suddenly had to defend the practice. Ankur Goyal's response: the tweet is factually incorrect."
View post on X ↗"Elon Musk once described a future where the traditional smartphone basically disappears. What we currently call a 'phone' will evolve into something very different: an edge node for AI inference."
View post on X ↗"OpenAI just dropped a massive resource for Devs. The new Codex Use Cases gallery is now live! You can literally browse through real-world examples of how people are using Codex."
View post on X ↗"Google DeepMind ran the largest AI manipulation study ever — 10,101 participants, 3 countries, 3 domains. Finding: [AI systems can influence human decision-making at scale in measurable, concerning ways]."
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