According to Alibaba AI, crypto markets have largely priced in earlier war-related fears and could see strong upside into 2026, with fresh highs projected for XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The model points to XRP potentially reaching $12 from around $1.38, Bitcoin climbing toward $150,000, and Ethereum breaking above $5,000 and possibly hitting $6,000 by year's end. It also flags early-stage meme coin Maxi Doge, built on Ethereum, as a high-risk play seeking outsized returns through its ongoing presale and staking incentives.

On March 3, 2026, OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.3 Instant model, making it the new default for ChatGPT with a focus on reliability. Internal tests show hallucination rates decreasing by 26.8% when web search is enabled and by 19.7% without web access in sensitive fields such as medicine, law and finance. The update also aims to be less restrictive in tone and will see the older GPT-5.2 Instant model retired on June 3, 2026.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, Bybit reported that its AI-assisted risk monitoring system disrupted or stopped more than $300 million in suspected scam-related withdrawals. The platform said around $500 million in withdrawals were flagged overall, protecting over 4,000 users, many of whom canceled transfers after receiving real-time alerts.

Core Scientific plans to sell substantially all of its bitcoin holdings in 2026, with most sales expected in the first quarter, to support its expansion into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The company held 2,537 BTC valued at $222 million at the end of 2025 and had already liquidated just over 1,900 BTC for about $175 million in January, leaving fewer than 1,000 BTC on its balance sheet.

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.