Bitcoin climbed Monday to $78,280, up nearly 2% since midnight UTC, while AI chip stocks including Nvidia, Intel, AMD and Marvell fell 5% to 7.5% after Anthropic’s CEO called for deliberately slowing AI capability gains for safety reasons. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk both publicly endorsed the slowdown. Ethereum gained 2.1% to around $2,514 and XRP rose 3.3%, pushing total crypto market capitalization up roughly 1.5%. Bitcoin remains about 4.8% below its monthly record of $82,284, supported by progress on U.S. crypto legislation: the Clarity Act now has a 31% chance of passage in 2026 on Polymarket, with a decisive Senate cloture vote scheduled for Tuesday.
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