Crypto News: OpenClaw opens door to China AI

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SpaceX IPO nears: Elon Musk's rocket company, which includes his AI lab and social media service, X, has filed confidentially to go public, moving the company closer to the biggest listing ever.

TikTok's computing plans: ByteDance's global TikTok unit has abandoned plans to develop a second data center in Ireland, turning to other locations to store data from European users.

Advocates press YouTube: Child-safety groups are pushing Google's YouTube to prevent videos created with AI from reaching kids.

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Anthropic Rushes to Limit Leak of Claude Code Source Code

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company.

OpenAI signage displayed outside the venue for their news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Sept, 10, 2025. OpenAI established its third Asian office in South Korea, its largest market in the Asia Pacific region based on paid subscription. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg

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OpenAI Secondary Market Demand Sinks as Anthropic Runs Hot

OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload — as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic, its biggest competitor.

Intel's Fab 34 manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Co Kildare, Ireland.

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Intel to Pay $14 Billion to Buy Back Apollo Stake in Ireland Plant

Intel Corp., the chipmaker aiming to restore its manufacturing prowess, agreed to pay $14.2 billion to buy back half of a plant in Ireland that it had previously sold to Apollo Global Management.

Revalued

Also, an electric bike startup spun out of Rivian, reached a $1 billion valuation in a $200 million funding round. The company in October unveiled its first products, including a premium e-bike for consumers and a four-wheeled model for commercial uses. Existing investor Greenoaks Capital led the round for the Palo Alto, California-based startup.

Must Read

The OpenClaw frenzy in China has reached a feverish level, but Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens finds another interesting dimension to this open source AI agent platform. It's also helping "export" Chinese AI tokens, as many users outside of the leviathan Asian economy are opting for Chinese AI models in OpenClaw because of their superior value for money. Read his Tech In Depth essay today for the details.

This Week in Cyber Bulletin

The government in Iran remains in tight control over the internet, including allowing access to regime-backer hackers, after a month of blacking out the general population, Patrick Howell O'Neill reports in this week's Cyber Bulletin.