BlockHash Morning Brief | Mistral's Trillion-Parameter Le Chonk, US Government's $770M Bitcoin Move, ASOS Breach Fallout

BlockHash Morning Brief — October 8, 2026 | Mistral's Trillion-Parameter Le Chonk, US Government's $770M Bitcoin Move, ASOS Breach Fallout

Caius and Julius break down Thursday's tech news: Mistral releases its one-trillion-parameter Large 4 model with open weights coming in three weeks, Anthropic's Claude pushes a Riemann hypothesis bound from 41.6% to 67.2% as math becomes the new AI proving ground, Claude Haiku 5.5 launches 75% cheaper and beats GPT 6 Luna on agentic benchmarks, the US government moves $770M in seized bitcoin to Coinbase Prime, markets react to hawkish FOMC minutes, ASOS reveals how attackers got in, Pwn2Own Ireland opens with 32 zero-days, Mecka AI raises $60M for robot training data, Boston Dynamics names a new CEO, and NASA's Crew-12 splashes down today.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro — Welcome to the BlockHash Morning Brief
00:35 Mistral Large 4 — Europe's trillion-parameter model
01:53 AI's new proving ground — math, not code
02:44 Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5
03:52 US government moves $770M in seized bitcoin to Coinbase Prime
04:52 Markets react to FOMC minutes; Greece and EU crypto rules
05:57 ASOS breach follow-up — employee account hijack
07:06 Pwn2Own Ireland — 32 zero-days, Galaxy S26 email hack
07:42 Robotics — Mecka AI's $60M raise and Boston Dynamics' new CEO
08:34 Space — Crew-12 splashdown day
08:57 Outro

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