The AI crypto sector shed 1.5% this week, with a market capitalization of $17.7 billion—up 6.5% year-to-date. Bittensor's Targon subnet (SN4) recorded a 40.2% week-over-week improvement following a collaboration with Intel and Manifold to explore confidential workloads across decentralized infrastructure. Anthropic accidentally leaked its upcoming "Claude Mythos" model. BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, positioned Bitcoin and Ethereum as foundational infrastructure for AI’s “computer-native intelligence,” describing crypto as “computer-native money” for autonomous AI agents, while labeling most altcoins “nonsense.”