According to ChainCatcher news reported by Tech in Asia, the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Muratic, has raised $2 billion in its latest funding round at a valuation of $10 billion. This funding will be used to drive the company's further development and expansion in the field of AI.

Phoenix Group plans to increase its global data center capacity to over 1,000 MW in the next two years, expand into the artificial intelligence sector, consider relocating part of its business to the United States, and plans to divest its Mining and data center operations for a dual listing to raise funds.

Gate News bot reports that, according to Decrypt, BlockMesh has officially merged into Perceptron Network, aiming to build a fully decentralized data pipeline designed specifically for AI. This strategic integration combines BlockMesh's data infrastructure with Perceptron Network's next-generation AI framework to create a vertically integrated system that fundamentally changes the way AI models collect, label, and utilize real-world data.

According to the Gate News bot, monitored by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, UPTOP will have its TGE at five o'clock today, and the first address to successfully purchase UPTOP is 0xE6e...d9697. Its vesting owner had already been allocated 4,996 Holdings of 20 USD1 in the "ammunition address" 23 hours ago, and the successful purchase transaction cost 1.5 USD in Gas.

Gate News bot, according to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, Trend Research, a well-known ETH bull, raised 1197 ETH from CEX again 3 hours ago, and currently holds a total of 140701 ETH on the chain, with a total value of $356 million. In 2015, IC0 1 million ETH Ancient Whale sold 1,000 WETH on the chain again 2 hours ago, worth $1.05 million, and still holds 32,864 ETH, worth $83 million; Its cost is as low as $0.31.

Gate news, against the backdrop of the fluctuations in the crypto market, Memecoin trading remains one of the most active and favored crypto activities among Gen Z. How to provide users with a friendly and fast experience of "getting ahead" in the complex trading world has become a new opportunity for the project party to explore. Positioned as a "one-stop Memecoin trading platform for the TON ecosystem," Blum is following this trend, leveraging Telegram's enormous traffic entrance to create a fast track to the Memecoin world. With the native Token $BLUM about to launch its token generation event (TGE), Blum's business logic, tokenomics, and future potential are gradually coming to light.

According to Gate News bot, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored that the new address 0x746...D4561 has withdrawn a total of 4026.47 ETH (approximately 10.46 million USD) from CEX since 06.10, with an average withdrawal price of 2598 USD. The most recent withdrawal was made half an hour ago, and there are currently unrealized losses of 231,000 USD.

In an interview with Y Combinator, Musk predicted that digital superintelligence will arrive this year or next, and despite the risks, he remains optimistic about the prospects of artificial intelligence. He emphasized the importance of truth and empathy, and encouraged young engineers to focus on solving real-world problems.

According to the Gate News bot, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored that the "bearish traders" shorting 16 alts have accumulated profits of 9.68 million USD. Compared to the unrealized gains of 3.56 million USD updated last week, the current performance is as follows: 15 out of 16 positions in Hyperliquid are in unrealized gains status, and the only one with unrealized losses, HYPE, has also narrowed its loss to 1.92 million USD, with a total position value of 53.3 million USD.

Gate News bot reports that, according to Decrypt, Gradient Network has completed a $10 million seed funding round aimed at building its Decentralization AI infrastructure stack. This round of funding was co-led by venture capital firms Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital along with HSG (formerly Sequoia Capital China).

Gate News bot reports that according to Cointelegraph, tech giant Apple is considering using artificial intelligence to accelerate the design of custom chips used in its devices.

According to Bloomberg, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said it had received enough takeover bids to acquire NTT Data Group Corp. The deal, which is worth 2.37 trillion yen ($16.3 billion), is expected to strengthen its ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence and simplify the company's structure. The Japanese company said in a statement on Friday that settlement would begin on June 26. NTT, which owns about 58% of NTT Data, offered to acquire its unowned shares in NTT Data for 4,000 yen per share last month and planned to take them private.

PANews June 20 news, according to the Financial Times: the BBC has threatened to take legal action against the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity for its content scraping activities.

The DePIN project SparkChain AI has completed a $10.8 million financing round to expand its decentralized AI Computing Power network and accelerate its launch on Solana. This infrastructure will convert idle bandwidth and computing resources into AI Computing Power, reconstructing and monetizing global unstructured data.

ChainCatcher message, research teams from MIT, Wellesley College, and the Massachusetts College of Art have recently discovered that long-term reliance on large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT may impair cognitive abilities. The study shows that participants who used AI for writing had only half the number of Alpha wave connections in their brains compared to independent thinkers (42 vs. 79), and 83.3% were unable to accurately cite the content of their own articles. Researchers refer to this phenomenon as cognitive debt—reducing the mental load in the short term but leading to a decline in critical thinking and creativity in the long term.

According to Gate News bot, as reported by Venture Beat, GenLayer is a startup dedicated to building decentralized legal infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machine agents, and it has launched its first incentivized Testnet, named Asimov. With the company's Mainnet deployment approaching, this marks the first rollout of its multi-phase validators login and technical validation program.

The blockchain startup Units.Network has completed a $10 million financing round, led by Nimbus Capital. The funds will be used for infrastructure development, AI product development, and expanding validators' capabilities to enhance cross-chain Liquidity.

According to the Gate News bot, on-chain analyst Ai Yi has monitored that the BSC Foundation spent 100,000 USDT each to purchase LISTA and CAKE in the past half hour, making them the TOP2 assets in the foundation's multi-sig addresses holdings.

Gate News bot message, Dawn Wallet founder Tom Waite and Isaac Rodriguez have now joined Tools for Humanity to help bring advanced financial capabilities to the World Network.

Gate News bot message, Fetch AI CEO Humayun Sheikh posted on X: "As the usage of ASI1 and Fetch AI's agency platform continues to rise, the team has seen the utility of FET steadily increasing. I believe FET is undervalued, and I am pleased to announce that with the support of Fetch AI market makers, the Fetch Foundation will repurchase 50 million dollars worth of FET from multiple trading platforms."

According to Gate News bot, monitored by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the WLFI advisor Ogle (@cryptogle) who is shorting TRUMP has accumulated a loss of 472,000 USD on TRUMP, and the 1,350,000 USDC in the account has now only 866,000 USD left.

Odailyplanet日报讯 Sahara AI 官方账号Today在社交平台发布"The ticker is SAHARA", Sahara AI 或将已进入 TGE 倒计时阶段。 As a decentralized AI infrastructure project, Sahara has previously completed the community distribution phase, attracting over $74 million in committed funding. More official information is yet to be announced.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a "Whale" that has continuously shorted BTC since 2025.03 for a profit of 2.05 million USD closed a position of 105.26 BTC during today's early morning BTC dip, realizing a profit of 449,000 USD. Currently, there remains a short order position of 116 million USD that is still showing unrealized gains of 4.1 million USD, with a funding fee earned of 1.27 million USD. It is worth mentioning that he placed a take profit limit order in the range of 93493 USD - 94616 USD.

According to ChainCatcher news and SoSoValue data, influenced by factors such as the controlled risk of escalating tensions in the Middle East, the crypto market zone continues its pullback trend, but the decline has significantly narrowed. Among them, the AI and Decentralized Finance zones are relatively strong, rising by 1.15% and 0.37%, respectively. Within the AI zone, Bittensor (TAO), Worldcoin (WLD), and KAI have risen by 2.59%, 2.73%, and 3.25%, respectively. Within the Decentralized Finance zone, Uniswap (UNI), Jupiter (JUP), Ondo.

Against the backdrop of easing tensions in the Middle East, the crypto market continues to pull back but the decline has narrowed, with the AI and Decentralized Finance zones rising by 1.15% and 0.37%, respectively. BTC fell by 0.20% to $104,000, while ETH dropped by 0.34% to remain above $2,500, with most other zones declining.

Golden Finance reported that the official account of SaharaAI announced on social media today "The ticker is $SAHARA", indicating that SaharaAI may have entered the TGE countdown stage. As a Decentralization AI infrastructure project, Sahara previously completed the community distribution phase, attracting over $74 million in committed funding. More official information is yet to be released.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the ETH Whale 0xF89...8AEfe purchased 1501 ETH on-chain 5 hours ago, worth 3.797 million USD, with an average cost of 2530 USD.

According to Bloomberg, just days after Meta Platforms Inc. invested billions of dollars in Scale AI and hired its founder, OpenAI announced the termination of its partnership with the data labeling startup Scale AI.

PANews June 18 news, DWF Labs partner Andrei Grachev stated on the X platform: "We have just completed the largest investment in the field of artificial intelligence to date." However, he did not disclose the specific project.

Gate News bot reported that Compute Labs and enterprise AI cloud company NexGen Cloud announced on Wednesday that they have teamed up to begin distributing ownership of a $1 million "public treasury." Compute Labs is dedicated to transforming the industrial-grade GPUs that power AI data centers into tokens that can be spun off. The functionality and profitability of AI infrastructure is largely centralized, often limited to hyperscalers like AWS or large venture-backed companies. However, Compute Labs is trying to give its token holders direct access to the monetization potential of enterprise-grade hardware, such as NVIDIA H200 GPUs, which retail for around $30,000 each. "For investors, this pilot program represents the first opportunity to earn stablecoin yields directly from real-time AI computations, without having to manage hardware or rely on overvalued public stocks," Compute Labs said in a press release. ”

BlockBeats News: On June 18, according to official news, INFINIT, an AI-powered DeFi intelligence platform, announced that it has reached three important milestones: · 244,000+ user conversations· 233,000+ transactions· Issuing 346,000+ badges, INFINIT is making it easier than ever for both novice and experienced users to discover, execute, and participate in DeFi through natural language interaction and personalized AI Agents.

Gate News bot reports that according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Hyperliquid gambler (known as insider brother) has a BTC 40x short order currently valued at 116 million dollars, with unrealized gains of 3.366 million dollars, entry price of 107,766.3 dollars, liquidation price of 110,950 dollars, and has not performed any other operations since entering the position on 06.13.

Jin10 data reported on June 18th that Juchip Technology announced the launch of its new edge AI audio chip series based on in-storage computing technology, including the ATS323X, ATS286X, and ATS362X product lines. Among them, the ATS323X series chips achieved rapid volume after the client's first terminal product went into mass production in a short period, marking a phased success in the promotion of edge AI new products.

Golden Ten Data on June 18, according to the Financial Times, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused Zuckerberg's Meta, saying that in order to catch up in the artificial intelligence competition, it tried to poach developers from OpenAI with a signing bonus of $100 million and higher salaries. Altman said Meta, which has a market capitalization of $1.8 trillion, has started making "huge offers" to employees on his team after its current AI push lagged behind. He added: "I think it's reasonable for them to keep trying. Their current efforts in AI are not working as expected, and I respect their continued proactive attitude3. But none of his "best talents" accepted Zuckerberg's offer. According to a person familiar with the matter, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hand-picking talent and calling them as part of the plan to advance superintelligence.

Gate News bot news, the developer of the AI code editor Cursor, Anysphere, is in discussions with investors for a new round of financing, with the company's valuation expected to be between $18 billion and $20 billion. Previously, Anysphere completed a round of financing of $900 million earlier this month, reaching a valuation of $9.9 billion. This round of financing was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel, and DST Global.

According to Gate News bot, The Block reported that Antalpha, a Singapore fintech company focused on the Bitcoin mining ecosystem, had a net income rise of 423% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, reaching $1.46 million.

Gate News bot message, with the US's intervention in the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Crypto Assets market is generally in a state of loss. As of the time of publication, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $105,000, while meme coins like SPX6900 (SPX) and Dogwifhat (WIF) are leading the market pullback along with Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL).

PANews June 18 news, according to SoSoValue data, the crypto market experienced a comprehensive pullback today due to rumors of the U.S. getting involved and the escalating situation in the Middle East. The AI zone saw a 24-hour fall of 5.32%, with RENDER and VIRTUAL dropping 6.01% and 7.66% respectively. BTC fell 2.26%, losing the $105,000 mark, while ETH dropped 2.49%, hovering around $2,500. Other underperforming zones include Decentralized Finance (-4.20%), Layer2 (-4.39%), and NFT (-4.84%). Some counter-trend assets such as BCH (+5.32%) and TON (+0.07%) showed strong performance.

According to ChainCatcher news and SoSoValue data, influenced by escalating tensions in the Middle East and the fermentation of risks surrounding U.S. involvement, all zones in the crypto market have experienced a decline, with an average drop of about 2% to 5%. Among them, the AI zone fell 5.32% in 24 hours, with Render (REN) and Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) dropping 6.01% and 7.66% respectively. Additionally, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2.26%, dropping below $105,000. Ethereum (ETH) decreased by 2.49%, maintaining a narrow fluctuation around $2,500. In other zones, the CeFi zone has fallen by 1.71% in the last 24 hours.

Gate News bot message, Belarus has launched a study using Bitcoin Mining Farm to absorb excess energy. Pakistan has reserved 2000 megawatts of electricity for Bitcoin (BTC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers. Texas, which has a large amount of wind power generation, even sees Mining as a way to alleviate severe Fluctuation in electricity supply.

Gate News bot message, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that Meta is seeking to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and is offering its employees $100 million in bonuses to recruit them.

PANews, June 18 - According to Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in a podcast that Meta is offering up to $100 million in signing bonuses and higher annual salaries to recruit its employees, but "no core employees have accepted the invitation so far." Meta is forming a "superintelligence" team and has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, appointing its CEO Alexandr Wang to join the team. Altman pointed out that while Meta has ambitions, there is still a gap in innovation capability and culture compared to OpenAI.

Anysphere is negotiating with investors for a new round of financing, with a valuation expected to double to between $18 billion and $20 billion. The company was founded in 2023, has annual revenue exceeding $500 million, and recently completed a $900 million financing round, achieving a valuation of $9.9 billion.

According to Gradient Network's official Twitter, the project has completed a $10 million seed round of financing, led by Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital, with participation from well-known partners such as HSG Capital and top angel investors in the AI and crypto fields. Gradient Network is building the world's first fully decentralized AI facility, aimed at addressing issues such as privacy erosion, barriers to entry, and intelligence monopolies brought about by the centralization of AI systems. The project will launch two foundational protocols: Lattica as a universal data transmission engine and the World Reasoning Engine.

Odaily News According to the official announcement, JuCoin Launchpad will launch the IEO project OCEAN on June 20, 2025. According to the official introduction, BlueX (OCEAN) is dedicated to building a decentralized super network that transcends borders and links the real economy, deeply integrating AI governance mechanisms, RWA, and Web3 underlying technologies. Total supply of OCEAN Launchpad: 1,428,571 OCEAN Public Offering Price: 0.0526 AIC Issuing unit: USDT Minimum purchase quantity: 100 AIC Maximum purchase quantity: 200 AIC IEO subscription time: June 20, 2025 15:00 (UTC+8) IEO end time: June 2025

The DPIN Foundation has reached a strategic cooperation with Nanyang Biotechnology to utilize its stable and efficient GPU Computing Power network to support the research projects of Nanyang Biotechnology, promoting the integration of AI and DePIN technology, with the aim of building a global open computing network.

Golden Finance reported that Eigen Labs announced the completion of a $70 million financing for its Ethereum re-staking protocol EigenCloud, led by a16z. This is a platform aimed at extending blockchain-level trust guarantees to any Web2 or Web3 applications, and the use of EigenCloud will create new fee streams to support stake rewards.

Former OpenAI employee Joey Bertschler announced the establishment of the crypto assets salary distribution platform Volante Chain in Germany, securing $2 million in investment. The platform utilizes Blockchain technology to achieve instant salary Settlement and is currently being tested in Vietnam and Japan. Bertschler pointed out that non-U.S. employees face restrictions at OpenAI and criticized the company for deviating from Open Source principles.

According to ChainCatcher news and Wall Street reports, negotiations between OpenAI and Microsoft have stalled, and their relationship is on the brink of collapse. OpenAI hopes to weaken Microsoft's control over its AI technology and Computing Power, and is seeking Microsoft's agreement to transform into a for-profit company to facilitate financing and an IPO. As tensions escalate in the AI collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft, OpenAI is considering filing an antitrust complaint with regulators.

Gate News bot news, according to the on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, the SPK on-chain airdrop TOP1 address is 0xAaf... 8a45B, a total of 20.45 million SPKs were claimed, about $1.485 million. This address once opened a position of 19,992 ETH at an average price of $2,550 on 2024.01.