Odaily reports: According to people familiar with the matter, a stealth startup developing AI video for filmmakers is in talks with OpenAI to obtain access to Sora, adapt its capabilities, and sell software or other services built on the model. The startup was founded several months ago by Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, former Sora research lead Bill Peebles, and former Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa, and its name has not yet been disclosed. It remains unclear whether the startup will be able to obtain Sora's weights, but people familiar with the matter said that if the deal is reached, the company would gain sufficiently deep access to allow for substantial customization. (The Information)

Odaily News: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that with the release of the new model Muse Wonder, Meta has caught up to the industry frontier in AI technical capabilities and will continue to increase investment in computing power, infrastructure, and talent to compete with companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.Meta claims that Muse Wonder outperforms models such as OpenAI GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 in some benchmarks, and will be applied in scenarios including complex programming, financial analysis, and personal AI assistants. The model will adopt a closed-source paid model, with the base usage price as low as $0.20 per million tokens, and the subscription fee for the advanced version Muse Wonder Full at up to $200 per month.Zuckerberg also stated that Meta is more focused on "personal superintelligence" for individual users rather than simply pursuing the automation of knowledge work. He believes AI can achieve responsible development through conventional safety measures, and revealed that Meta has begun developing the next-generation model, with subsequent R&D progress expected to accelerate further. (Financial Times)

Odaily News — Crypto analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin's Long-Term Holder (LTH) SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) has climbed back above its annual average of 1.10 and continues to hold above that level.Data shows that long-term holders have realized an average return of approximately 10% over the past year. Currently, the weekly average LTH SOPR stands at 1.25, and the monthly average at 1.16, both above the annual average, indicating that long-term holders are returning to a profitable state.Darkfost noted that a similar situation also appeared at the end of the previous bear market, when the return of profits for long-term holders became one of the signals of improving market conditions. He believes that the emergence of moderate profits in the market is generally a positive factor, helping to raise investors' expectations for future market conditions.

Odaily reports that predict.fun posted on X that the probability of Anthropic conducting an initial public offering before 2027 dropped from 85% to 69% within a week, indicating weakened market confidence.

Odaily Report: Vitalik posted on X platform, stating that for those who support vaccines, or who criticize vaccines but are open to the following view—that vaccines could play a significant role if developed in a more open-source, open-science manner that serves the public—he strongly recommends learning about PopVax.

Odaily News: Anthropic's transparency report updated on July 23 shows that in the first half of 2026, a total of 11.4 million accounts were banned, an increase of about 6.9 times compared with 1.45 million in the second half of 2025, and the total number of bans was about 7.9 times that of the previous period.During the same period, Anthropic received a total of 398,000 ban appeals, of which about 42,000 overturned the original ban decisions, with an appeal success rate of about 10.6%.Anthropic stated that reasons for account bans include violations of usage policies, terms of service, or supported regions policy. The relevant statistics cover all of its products and services and do not separately distinguish the Claude chat product from developer services.

Odaily News — On October 12, according to SoSoValue data, crypto market sectors showed mixed performance. The Layer2 sector rose 6.62% over 24 hours, with Starknet (STRK) surging 111.53%, while Optimism (OP), Celestia (TIA), and zkSync (ZK) gained 15.45%, 20.38%, and 34.23% respectively. Meanwhile, the DePIN sector rose 6.24%, with Grass (GRASS) up 49.41% and Filecoin (FIL) up 13.91%.In addition, Bitcoin (BTC) rose 1.43%, breaking through $83,000; Ethereum (ETH) gained 0.14%, breaking through $2,500.Other standout sectors include: the RWA sector rose 4.74% over 24 hours, with Plume (PLUME) up 22.68%; the DeFi sector gained 2.29%, with Wormhole (W) up 37.16%; the PayFi sector rose 0.86%, with Zcash (ZEC) up 6.47%; the Layer1 sector gained 0.61%, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) up 15.52%.Among other sectors, the Meme sector declined 0.58%, with MemeCore (M) down 12.49%; the CeFi sector fell 0.72%, with Cronos (CRO) down 1.43%.Crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance showed that the ssiDePIN, ssiRWA, and ssiDeFi indices rose 6.37%, 4.74%, and 1.94% respectively.

Odaily reports that Arthur Hayes posted on X that he received cellular medicine services through VeritaHealthHQ during Token2049 and shared the development approach of FLOP Labs. He has now returned to work, and the FLOP Testnet will go live in a few weeks.

Odaily News: An AI model from the American artificial intelligence company Anthropic once submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia police website. In a report on the 9th, Anthropic stated that the company's "Claude Haiku 4.5" model had accessed a webpage where Philadelphia police were soliciting information about an unsolved homicide. The model filled out the form on the webpage, claiming it "might have information related to the case," and submitted the form. The model did not provide a name or contact information.The form was flagged as spam, and police did not launch an investigation based on it. Philadelphia police said they were unaware of the incident until Anthropic recently notified them, and that the incident was "unacceptable." Police emphasized that tech companies must take all necessary measures to prevent their systems from submitting false information to law enforcement agencies. (CCTV International News)

Odaily reports that Unichain announced on X that it will migrate to OP Enterprise to prepare for native cross-chain interoperability on OP Stack. Once interoperability goes live, users will be able to transfer assets between OP Stack chains without using a bridge, with ETH being the first supported asset. The testnet will migrate on October 13, and the mainnet migration is planned for late October.