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PANews January 22 – According to Decrypt, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated at the Davos Forum that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with superhuman capabilities may emerge between 2026 and 2027, and entry-level white-collar jobs may disappear on a large scale. He pointed out that AI development has entered a self-accelerating phase, with most programmers at his company only responsible for editing code generated by models. Meanwhile, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes that scientific creativity remains difficult for AI to replicate, estimating a 50% probability of achieving AGI before 2030. Both AI leaders warned that governments around the world are underestimating the impact of AI on the labor market and social structure, emphasizing that the time to prepare existing systems is running out.

Foresight News reported that FHE cryptography company Zama is conducting a public auction for the ZAMA token. As of now, more than 18 million USDT have been encrypted into cUSDT for bidding participation, with a total of 2,411 bids placed. The supply of ZAMA for this auction is 880 million tokens, with a starting price of $0.005, corresponding to a minimum FDV of $55 million. The auction adopts a top-down clearing mechanism, where the lowest successful bid after filling the 880 million tokens will be the final clearing price. Each user can bid up to 10 times, with a maximum of 88 million ZAMA per bid. This event will end on January 24.

BlockBeats News, January 22, the decentralized social protocol Farcaster has been acquired by its core infrastructure service provider Neynar, sparking widespread discussion in the crypto community. Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero confirmed that in the coming weeks, the protocol contracts, code repositories, official applications, and the Clanker project will all be handed over to Neynar for operation and maintenance. He himself and some members of the Merkle team will withdraw from daily management to start new projects. Supporters believe that this acquisition is a "handover within the ecosystem." Several developers pointed out that Neynar has long served as Farcaster's de facto backend, supporting a large number of clients and developer tools, with a deep understanding of ecosystem needs. Neynar is seen as the most suitable successor and is expected to bring "new oxygen" and a clearer development direction to Farcaster. However, there are also strong opposing voices. Some comments directly pointed out that Farcaster, with the backing of Paradigm and a16z, raised over $150 million at a $1 billion valuation, but has never validated its PMF or revenue model. Now being acquired by a much smaller company is essentially a "high-valuation exit" for the founding team, raising doubts about the gap between its decentralization narrative and capital operations. Overall, the change of ownership of Farcaster is seen on one hand as an important turning point for decentralized social infrastructure towards a "pragmatic execution" approach, and on the other hand, it has once again ignited the long-standing debate in the market over VC pricing, founder responsibility, and the authenticity of decentralized governance.