U.S. well-known angel investor Jason Calacanis expressed optimism about Bittensor and its subnet project Ridges AI on the All-In Podcast, saying that this open-source AI assistant reached about 80% of Claude 4’s performance within 45 days, and highlighting the innovative advantages of decentralization and incentive mechanisms. He also founded the Stillcore Capital fund to focus on investing in the Bittensor ecosystem.

Gate News message. On April 11, according to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt monitoring, this morning a bullish whale address 0x0EA...34a54 opened a position at a cost of 72,720.78 USD with $4.7 million worth of WBTC, and has already liquidated and exited about 4 hours ago. At the $72,536 price level, the address sold 64.7 WBTC, incurring a loss of $12,000.

Grayscale updates its list of candidate assets for new products, covering six major crypto sectors including AI, finance, smart contract platforms, and practical tools. The AI sector adds 9 new projects, the finance sector adds 7 DeFi projects, the smart contract platforms sector adds 6 new projects, and the practical tools sector adds multiple tools. The list is updated each quarter and does not yet indicate that related products will definitely be launched.

Gate News update: On April 11, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitoring, an address received 5 million UNI again from the Uni Timelock contract after three months, worth $15.8 million. This address has received a cumulative total of 10 million UNI, which is currently held in custody in a certain CEX.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig announced the formation of an Innovation Working Group, aimed at providing industry rules for innovators. The working group consists of five experts, focusing on advancing regulatory clarity and market integrity in areas such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, and AI.

Multiple senior core executives at OpenAI’s Stargate data center have left the company, signaling a major strategic shift in the company’s AI infrastructure rollout. The project faces issues related to funding, partnerships, and geopolitical risks, and OpenAI is re-evaluating its compute infrastructure build-out strategy.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responds to the Molotov cocktail attack, admits he underestimated the societal impact of AI-related anxiety, calls for democratizing technology, and acknowledges mistakes in corporate governance, reiterating his refusal to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for control of OpenAI to ensure the company develops independently.

Gate News message, April 11, Tesla’s FSD driver-assistance software received regulatory approval in the Netherlands, becoming the first EU country to approve the software for on-road use. Tesla said it hopes other EU member states will take similar action. Widespread adoption of FSD is at the core of Tesla’s growth strategy. A large portion of the company’s current valuation of roughly $1 trillion depends on Musk’s bet that AI-driven self-driving software and robotaxi services will become the company’s primary revenue sources in the future.

Anthropic’s AI product Claude recently rolled out a Word document plugin in beta, supporting drafting, editing, and revisions while automatically preserving the original formatting. The plugin can share context with Excel and PowerPoint, enabling cross-document collaboration. At this stage, it is only available to Team and Enterprise users.

On April 11, DefiLlama data shows that crypto startups raised $76.0 million in funding this week, bringing 2026’s total to nearly $500 million. Major deals include Pharos’s $44.0 million Series A round, Oh’s $7.5 million Series A round, and Kulipa’s $6.2 million seed round, covering blockchain, Web3 AI, and crypto wallet services.