A small sale by Strategy raised questions about Michael Saylor’s long-held “never-sell” stance on its bitcoin holdings as risk assets recovered. In broader markets, easing fears around Iran and a strong SpaceX debut helped lift sentiment, according to CoinDesk, supporting a rebound across risk assets.

Madis Muller, who just ended a seven-year term as governor of Estonia’s central bank, is preparing to volunteer in the police’s criminal-investigations unit. According to Bloomberg, the move would mark a shift from leading the central bank to working in law enforcement.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, published a lengthy satirical post on X discussing AI regulation through two opposing narratives. According to Odaily, the post contrasts arguments against AI regulation with arguments supporting it, using exaggerated language and irony. In the narrative opposing AI regulation, Andreessen portrays regulation as a force that suppresses innovation, potentially stifling garage startups, weakening Silicon Valley’s ecosystem, increasing compliance burdens, and limiting the development of AI and computing infrastructure. He also mocks the idea by suggesting that if U.S. AI regulators had constrained previous generations, they would have banned horse-drawn carriages. In the narrative supporting AI regulation, Andreessen uses irony to describe how regulatory systems could bring order, safety, and an expanded industrial compliance framework, including a large-scale compliance industry, strengthened government oversight frameworks, and social redistribution mechanisms. Odaily reported that Andreessen did not present a single conclusion in the post, instead emphasizing a long-term structural conflict between “innovation freedom” and “safety governance.” Separately, Anthropic said the U.S. government issued an export control directive on national security grounds requiring the suspension of all access by any foreign entity to the AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, regardless of whether the person is in the United States, including Anthropic employees who are foreign citizens.

Market sources reported that India’s pollution regulator found groundwater near farmland had been polluted by an iPhone components factory operated by Tata Group for Apple. According to Jin10, the report did not provide further details on the location, timing, or the scope of the alleged contamination.

Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said prices are likely to stay elevated for longer even if the war in Iran were to end soon. According to Bloomberg, he made the comments in an interview with Deutschlandfunk.

Zhipu said GLM-5.2 will be opened to all GLM Coding Plan users at 5:21 p.m. today, covering the Lite, Pro, Max, and Team versions. According to Odaily, Zhipu shared the update via its official WeChat account. Zhipu said the GLM-5.2 API will go live next week. The company also said the model will be officially open-sourced next week under the MIT license.

Mystiko's $XZK token faced a steep decline in value following its exchange debut, despite strong initial community support and a successful funding round.