Core Scientific plans to liquidate around 2,500 BTC from its treasury, with most of the sales expected in the first quarter of 2026, to fund capital expenditures for AI data centers. The miner, which reported a 57% drop in BTC production and lower revenue in Q4 2025, will also sell current block rewards and does not intend to rebuild its Bitcoin reserve.

Blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin reported that OpenAI's EVMbench benchmark suffers from training data contamination and methodological issues in classifying smart contract vulnerabilities. The audit found that several AI models may have been pre-exposed to the underlying vulnerability reports and identified at least four cases labeled as high-severity that are not practically exploitable.

Venice's VVV token, tied to the Venice AI privacy-focused platform founded by Erik Voorhees, has surged by more than 100% over the past week, with the price currently around $7–$8 and a market capitalization near $330 million. The rally accelerated after Venice became the recommended model provider for OpenClaw and followed earlier steps in February 2026 to cut annual VVV emissions by 25% while expanding DeFi integrations and AI model upgrades.

According to Vitalik Buterin in an X post on Saturday, an AI-led experiment “vibe coding” a reference implementation mapped Ethereum’s roadmap to 2030 within weeks after a February bet. He said AI is accelerating development but carries massive caveats, and urged teams to channel gains into security through testing, formal verification, and multiple implementations.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has pushed back against a United States Defense Department move that designates the company as a "supply chain risk," barring military contractors from using its AI products. Amodei said his firm opposes applications such as mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons but supports other U.S. government use cases, while rival OpenAI has accepted a Defense Department contract to deploy its models on military networks.

On 28 February 2026, Tether co-founder Reeve Collins argued in an interview that artificial intelligence could be the missing layer needed to make crypto usable for mainstream audiences. He highlighted intent-based wallets, stablecoins such as USDT and STBL, and AI-powered micropayments as core pieces of an emerging AI-native financial ecosystem.

On February 28, 2026, Sam Altman said on X that OpenAI will deploy its models inside a classified Pentagon network under an agreement emphasizing safety constraints. The announcement came as defense leaders labeled Anthropic a national security supply chain risk and the president ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic, while a prior $200 million Pentagon contract signed in July collapsed over use‑case guarantees.

Paradigm is seeking to raise a new 1.5 billion dollar fund to invest in AI, robotics and other frontier technologies, according to the Wall Street Journal. The San Francisco firm, which reports 12.7 billion dollars in assets under management, will keep backing crypto while its technical team evaluates frontier‑tech deals; earlier vehicles include a 2.5 billion dollar flagship launched in November 2021 and an 850 million dollar early‑stage fund announced in 2024.