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More →Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>said</a> Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund. On Monday, Elon Musk answered by promising one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year. “The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations,” Anthropic said. The company has already committed $200 million to studying that. Americans are uneasy about how fast AI is moving: an AP-NORC poll in late September found that 64% of U.S. adults say the technology is developing too fast, and 8% say too slow. Anthropic is preparing an IPO, meaning it would sell its shares to the public on the stock market, as soon as November at a reported valuation of around $2 trillion. At that price, 5% of the company would be worth about $100 billion on paper, though that is the value of the shares, not cash sitting in an account. The fund is set up as a wholly owned LLC rather than a nonprofit, which Anthropic says gives it room to switch between types of giving. The board can add another 2% of shares each time the company's value rises 50% above a baseline that has not been disclosed, and none of the fund's equity can be used for lobbying or political donations. The co-founders' pledge to donate 80% of their equity and a matching program for employee donations, and Anthropic says roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the public good. The company has not said how the fund will be taxed or what it will disclose publicly, as a traditional charity must. Musk, never one to leave the spotlight to someone else, <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112093799694372952?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>pushed</a> for Universal High Income (as opposed to Universal Basic Income) writing on X that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "This will be the first of many," he added. His first reply to Anthropic, recommending "giving the shares directly to the public" instead of routing them through a fund, came Sunday night, and the pledge for kids followed early Monday, less than a day after Anthropic's announcement. Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112089556615123114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" rel="nofollow external noopener" target="_blank">October 19, 2026</a> With roughly 72 million children in the country, the pledge comes to about $10.5 billion at SpaceX's price of roughly $147 a share. That is just over 1% of the 6.42 billion shares Musk held as of June 30, p
Revolut is experiencing a widespread service outage, with users unable to log in or transfer funds.
According to a report by The Independent, UK fintech company Revolut has experienced a widespread service outage, with some users unable to log in to the app, transfer funds, or even use their bank cards to pay in physical stores. Users in the UK, France, Spain, and several other countries have reported service abnormalities. Revolut has acknowledged that multiple functions are affected and said its engineering team is working urgently on a fix. Revolut is one of Europe's major digital banks and fintech platforms, with more than 80 million individual users worldwide, and at the same time.
DeFi total value locked daily snapshot reports 88.94 billion USD
CoinWorld data: The daily snapshot for 2026-10-20 shows that total DeFi TVL was $88.94 billion, a decrease of 0.25% compared with the previous statistical period on the same basis.
US ETF options open interest stands at 202,441,000 contracts.
BiJie Network US stock market data: US ETF options open interest stands at 202,441,000 contracts, of which 99,377,588 are calls and 103,063,412 are puts.
BTC spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $527 million on October 19.
CoinWorld data: According to Cointelegraph, on October 19, spot BTC ETFs recorded net inflows of $527 million, while spot ETH and SOL ETFs saw net outflows of $103 million and $672,000, respectively.
JPMorgan: CoreWeave debt selloff poses limited risk to global banks
JPMorgan said on Tuesday that most banks globally have limited exposure to CoreWeave (CRWV.O). This follows a sharp decline last week in the share price and bonds of the Nvidia-backed cloud computing company amid investor concerns over its debt financing issues. JPMorgan estimates that the potential exposure of major U.S. investment banks and Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to CoreWeave could range between $1 billion and $3 billion, while most European and Asian participants have exposure of less than $500 million, mainly through delayed draw term loans. JPMorgan believes that banks' exposure to CoreWeave is well managed and adequately collateralized.
The put/call ratio for single-stock options is reported at 0.55.
CoinWorld US stock data: The Put/Call ratio for single-stock options is 0.55, with call option trading volume higher than put option volume on the day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it decreased by 0.07.
BTC liquidations totaled 44.7763 million USD over the past 24 hours.
CoinWorld data: BTC's rolling 24-hour liquidation amount is approximately $44.7763 million, involving about 3,389 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 31.99%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is down 76.7%.
Nvidia invests in four German AI startups, advancing a $10 billion European investment plan.
According to CoinWorld news, Nvidia (NVDA.US) is increasing its investment in Europe's AI sector, announcing plans to support four German startups: Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo, and Reflex Aerospace. Nvidia did not disclose the specific investment amount for each company.
Kevin O'Leary: Stablecoins are the safest crypto asset.
Kevin O'Leary, a well-known American investor and Shark Tank star, said that stablecoins are the safest assets in the crypto space. He explained that stablecoins carry less risk than Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies because the U.S. Treasury provides clearer regulation and safeguards. He divided crypto assets into three categories and noted that stablecoins are currently the least volatile crypto assets. O'Leary also mentioned that the safety of stablecoins depends on the quality of reserves, the issuer, and redemption terms. Although stablecoin prices are relatively stable, they are not entirely without risk. He placed Bitcoin in a separate category, arguing that its volatility is far higher than that of other crypto assets, and emphasized that Bitcoin remains a speculative asset whose institutional adoption is constrained by regulatory concerns.