Bitcoin’s slide below $77,000 sets up a Monday tech test as AI leaders sound warning

Bitcoin traded below $77,000 on Sunday as a weak week extended into the weekend, leaving traders facing fresh AI uncertainty and an approaching Federal Reserve meeting.

Bitcoin traded at $76,695 near press time, down 0.80% over 24 hours and 4.08% over seven days. The retreat puts the cryptocurrency back near a price area it visited before the weekend, with a Federal Reserve meeting also approaching.

The price area is also familiar. CryptoSlate’s Sept. 11 coverage reported an intraday low of $76,676 on Sept. 10, ahead of the Saturday AI statements. That chronology makes the weekend’s move an extension of existing weakness rather than the beginning of a sell-off that can be attributed entirely to the new warnings.

The scale and timing of the move matter. Bitcoin was still up 22.34% over 30 days, putting the latest losses within a broader monthly recovery.

Reported 24-hour trading volume was about $13.44 billion, down 49.98%. That describes how much trading occurred; it does not measure available buy orders or show which news prompted investors to sell. The price decline and lower turnover are separate measurements: neither reveals a single explanation for the day’s trading.

The fresh uncertainty is how investors will interpret calls to change the pace of AI development. NPR reported Saturday that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged slower development and independent evaluators, and that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed and said his company would follow suit.