According to BlockBeats, on August 27th, HTX market data showed that Bitcoin broke through $80,000 again, currently priced at $80,175.72, with a 24-hour increase of 2.84%.

In addition, a whale posted "Set 10 Big Targets First" and said "Bull Return Quickly," implying that it has already taken a long position in Bitcoin.

Beating AI News Flash: IBM has open-sourced its next-generation language model, Granite 4.2, offering three weight levels: 3B, 8B, and 30B. All three models incorporate native reasoning, allowing users to choose between full thought, low-intensity thought, or direct response, and all support tool-based invocation. The model weights are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

The key upgrade this time is in the Agent. Models 8B and 30B specifically incorporate Agent reinforcement learning, moving beyond simply solving problems in datasets to directly executing tasks in real-world code repositories, terminals, and web search environments. The model is evaluated based on whether the code passes tests and whether the tasks are actually completed during terminal operations, with rewards given to the model based on the results. Model 3B did not undergo this stage.

The smaller models actually performed the best independently. Artificial Analysis gave Granite 4.2 3B an Intelligence Index score of 14, ranking second among 46 open-weight models in the same category, while the median for the same category was only 4. 8B scored 20, also significantly higher than the median of 9 for the same category.

In IBM's self-testing, 30B achieved 57% on SWE-Bench Verified and 89.17% on AIME25. Compared to Granite 4.1, the most significant new feature of this generation is not the continued accumulation of basic capabilities, but rather enabling small models to formally possess inference capabilities and allowing 8B and 30B to directly learn how to act as agents in real-world environments.