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The artificial intelligence startup Wispr is in financing negotiations, with a valuation of 2 billion dollars.

Artificial intelligence is driving economic growth in the United States: investments in software and IT equipment contributed +134 basis points to GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026, growing by 2.0%, marking the largest quarterly contribution in history. This means that 67% of economic growth in the previous quarter was driven by artificial intelligence.In other words, without technology investments driven by artificial intelligence, GDP growth in the first quarter would have been close to flat. This contribution is also about 10 basis points higher than the record set in 1999. Over the past five quarters, investments in software and IT equipment have averaged a contribution of +90 basis points per quarter, setting the highest contribution for any consecutive five quarters on record. The U.S. economy has become highly dependent on artificial intelligence.

According to Fortune, the AI agent platform Nova Intelligence announced the completion of a $31.5 million Series A funding round, led by Chemistry, with participation from Accel, Conviction, and SAP's venture capital arm SAP.io.The AI platform built by Nova is used to analyze, modernize, and generate custom code that operates the payroll, supply chain, and financial functions of Fortune 500 companies.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple announced on Monday that it will share its internal intelligence on North Korean hackers with the cryptocurrency industry threat intelligence sharing organization Crypto ISAC to help businesses identify coordinated infiltration actions.This move comes against the backdrop of a recent shift in attack patterns faced by the cryptocurrency industry. Ripple stated, "The strongest crypto security posture is a shared posture. A threat actor who has not passed a background check at one company may submit resumes to three other companies in the same week. Without shared intelligence, each company starts from scratch."

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone has filed a lawsuit against the penalties imposed by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea and has applied to the Seoul Administrative Court for a stay of execution, attempting to suspend the relevant measures before the sanctions take effect.The core content of this sanction is to restrict new users from depositing and withdrawing cryptocurrency assets to external exchanges. Previously, the FIU imposed a three-month partial business suspension and a fine of 5.2 billion won on Coinone for violating specific financial information laws.

In response to the U.S. accusations of China "stealing" intellectual property from American artificial intelligence laboratories, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiaqun stated during a regular press conference on the 24th that the U.S. claims are unfounded and are a smear against China's achievements in the development of the artificial intelligence industry. China firmly opposes this. We urge the U.S. to respect the facts, abandon prejudice, stop suppressing technology related to China, and do more to promote technological exchange and cooperation between the two countries.

According to official news, OpenAI has officially released GPT-5.5. This model has made significant progress in intelligent agent programming, computer usage, and scientific research, achieving an accuracy of 82.7% in the Terminal-Bench 2.0 test. GPT-5.5 has higher reasoning efficiency and consumes fewer tokens while maintaining the same latency as GPT-5.4.Currently, GPT-5.5 has been pushed to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and enterprise users, with the API version set to launch soon, priced at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens. Additionally, GPT-5.5 Pro, designed for high-difficulty tasks, has also been released simultaneously.

Huobi HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen made a significant appearance at the HTX Genesis Hackathon opening ceremony in Hong Kong in an online format, sharing his latest insights on the application prospects of AI Agent technology in the Web3 field and the future development direction of the industry. He pointed out that AI Agent will replace traditional interaction methods and become the core driving force of the next phase of the Web3 ecosystem.He explained that past Web3 applications often came with extremely high learning thresholds and complex on-chain interactions, while the introduction of AI Agent will drive decentralized applications (DApps) to evolve from "manual operation" to "intention-driven" based on natural language. This means that AI Agents can autonomously understand user needs, automatically plan paths, and complete complex on-chain settlements such as cross-chain transactions. This paradigm shift towards intelligence and autonomy will not only greatly unleash on-chain productivity but also become a new breakthrough point to break the bottleneck of Web3 user growth and lead the industry toward true mass adoption.It is reported that the HTX Genesis Hackathon is hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, co-hosted by TinTinLand and OpenCity, attracting numerous developer communities, investment institutions, project parties, trading platforms, and public chain ecosystems to participate.

According to Jinshi reports, strategists at JPMorgan Chase have stated that the renewed enthusiasm for artificial intelligence technology will drive the U.S. stock market to exceed expectations this year. The bank has raised its annual target for the S&P 500 index to 7,600 points, up from 7,200 points last month. On Monday, the S&P 500 index closed at 7,109 points, indicating an increase of about 7% still to come. The strategists' optimistic forecast is based on a more favorable outlook for the technology and artificial intelligence sectors.

According to The Block, the x402 Foundation, incubated by Coinbase, has announced the launch of the unified platform Agent.market, aimed at providing an "app store"-like service entry for AI robots.The platform is built on the x402 protocol and helps users and robots access hundreds of tools and services. The x402 protocol is named after the unused HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code, allowing websites, APIs, and AI robots to request and receive instant micropayments through blockchain and traditional payment channels. The protocol is managed as an open standard by the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation and has the support of over 20 organizations and crypto companies, including Cloudflare, Stripe, AWS, Google, Visa, Base, Circle, and the Solana Foundation.When Agent.market goes live, it will cover seven major categories including reasoning, data, media, search, social, infrastructure, and trading, with service providers including OpenAI and Venice (reasoning); Bloomberg and CoinGecko (data); LinkedIn, X, and AgentMail (social); AWS Lambda, QuickNode, and Alechemy (infrastructure); as well as Bankr and Coinbase RAT (trading). Providers can join the marketplace without permission.Erik Reppel, the creator of the x402 protocol, stated that there are currently about 69,000 active agent robots on the protocol, which have completed over 165 million transactions with a transaction volume of 50 million dollars. He pointed out that agent commerce based on x402 is reshaping the customer acquisition activation costs for businesses, as robots can now access services at a very low setup cost without needing API keys.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that a cryptocurrency company linked to "Russian gangs and intelligence agencies" is funding political opponents and influencing domestic cryptocurrency regulatory legislation.During a parliamentary vote on Friday, Tusk pointed out that some Polish politicians obstructing cryptocurrency regulatory legislation are serving the interests of a company named Zondacrypto, which is accused of providing "financial support" to political figures and has ties to Russia. Tusk further claimed that the company sponsored the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event held in Poland last year, during which former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem publicly supported President Karol Nawrocki's campaign. Tusk bluntly stated that the company's funding sources involve not only "money related to the Russian mafia (Bratva)" but may also be connected to Russian intelligence agencies.Meanwhile, President Nawrocki won the election in June last year, with support from former U.S. President Donald Trump. The president's office responded that it does not oppose cryptocurrency regulation itself but opposes the "flawed regulatory model" proposed by the government. This controversy arises amid the political tug-of-war in Poland over the cryptocurrency regulatory bill. The bill aims to align with the EU's MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) framework, but the president previously vetoed the related bill and blocked parliament from overturning the veto in December, hindering the regulatory process.

According to official news, the Web3 smart layer project Claw Intelligence has announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, with participants including Castrum Istanbul, Titans Ventures, Super Labs, and Genesis Capital.It is reported that Claw Intelligence is building a unified smart layer that lowers the interaction threshold for users with the Web3 ecosystem and computing resources through crypto-native MCP services and transforming fragmented data endpoints into conversational workflows.

According to reports from Yicai, the Ministry of Education and four other departments issued the "Artificial Intelligence + Education" Action Plan. It mentions improving the intelligence literacy and skills of a wide range of teachers. Standards for teachers' intelligence literacy will be established, clarifying the artificial intelligence literacy competencies that teachers should possess. Artificial intelligence literacy training will be conducted in a layered and categorized manner based on the needs of different positions, achieving full coverage through various methods. A contextual assessment system will be constructed, and intelligent, gradient assessment tools will be developed, encouraging schools and regions to carry out large-scale assessments of teacher literacy, and to enhance teachers' literacy and capabilities based on assessment results.Promote the reform of teacher training programs by incorporating knowledge of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence into the curriculum system, updating the knowledge system. Include artificial intelligence in the content of teacher qualification examinations and certifications, and establish intelligent education projects in national and provincial teaching achievement awards to stimulate the endogenous motivation for innovation in artificial intelligence.

The National Internet Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly announced the "Interim Measures for the Management of Humanized Interactive Services in Artificial Intelligence," which will take effect on July 15, 2026.The "Measures" implement the concept of people-oriented and benevolent intelligence, clarifying the principle that the country insists on balancing development and security, promoting innovation and legal governance, encouraging innovative development of humanized interactive services, and implementing inclusive, prudent, and classified regulatory measures for humanized interactive services; it proposes measures to promote humanized interactive services, clarifying support for technological research and development innovation, and encouraging orderly expansion of applications in related fields such as cultural dissemination and elderly companionship.It stipulates the basic requirements for providing humanized interactive services, clearly stating that activities that generate harm to national security, honor, and interests, incite subversion of state power, or overthrow the socialist system are prohibited, and specifies the safety management obligations of humanized interactive service providers; it improves the protection system for the rights and interests of internet users, stipulating the obligations of humanized interactive service providers regarding the protection of minors, the elderly, and personal information.In addition, the "Measures" also stipulate systems for safety assessments, algorithm filing, and guiding the promotion of the construction of safe service platforms for artificial intelligence sandboxes.

The South Korean court ruled on the administrative lawsuit filed by Upbit operator Dunamu against the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), deciding to revoke the previous three-month partial business suspension. The court stated that, in the absence of clear enforcement guidelines from the regulatory agency, Dunamu had taken measures, including customer commitment letters and internal monitoring, to fulfill its reasonable obligations.Although there is still controversy over whether the relevant measures are sufficient to completely block transactions with unreported operators, they are not enough to support the previous penalty decision.

Meta launched its new AI model "Muse Spark" on April 8. The model was developed by Meta's "Super Intelligence Lab" and led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. Meta stated that the new model achieves performance close to the previous Llama 4 medium model with lower computational resources by restructuring the AI infrastructure.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) reveals his past with FTX founder SBF in his new book "Binance Life."In the summer of 2019, just a month after FTX launched, SBF actively sought investment. At that time, Binance CFO Zhou Wei supported the investment, and CZ ultimately decided to invest after FTX's valuation was lowered and a proposal to exchange BNB for FTT was made. However, after the investment, SBF poached Binance's VIP client manager with a fivefold salary, taking all VIP client information, which led to clients receiving targeted offers from FTX.CZ pointed out that SBF appeared to have high emotional intelligence and promoted "effective altruism," yet shortly after the investment, he was speaking ill of Binance all over Washington. In 2021, there were reports that FTX executives had close ties with politically connected Michelle Bond, promoting FTX while belittling Binance. Additionally, friends confirmed that SBF had publicly slandered Binance at closed-door gatherings. CZ had asked SBF to stop poaching, and while SBF verbally agreed, he continued to recruit with high salaries.