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Products of the AI Frenzy
The most dramatic reorganization in Google AI’s history: Hassabis steps down as CEO, Jeff Dean and four founding veterans depart to launch a startup, leaving Gemini to strike a difficult balance between commercialization and the AGI vision.
Jeff Dean’s departure wipes 1.34 trillion yuan (approximately $184 billion) off Google’s market cap, triggers a power structure reshuffle at DeepMind, and intensifies the white-hot war for AI talent.
First to Ride the Wave, First to Drown: The Fall of the “Crypto x AI” Pioneer ai16z
The ai16z token crashes to zero and founder Shaw announces the project’s termination. The crypto AI track got up early but arrived late — a heartbreaking narrative collapse.
The “She” Power Behind AI Companies
Female presidents like Zhang Yutong and Yun Yeyi hold up everything beyond the models. From fundraising to organization, they are the invisible engine powering the AGI sprint.
Move Language Father Defects to Anthropic, Crypto Industry Is Losing Gatekeepers in Droves
Move language creator Sam Blackshear leaves Sui to join Anthropic. Core crypto talent is accelerating toward AI, raising serious concerns for the industry’s innovative capacity.
Macro Insights
The Bridgewater founder warns classic AI bubble signals have appeared, as an 80-year super-cycle converges with debt and geopolitical conflict. Cash is the worst long-term bet — will gold or Bitcoin prove to be the real safe haven?
Massive AI infrastructure investment is transforming tech giants from asset-light to asset-heavy. This “cash-burning” model may be approaching its peak — bond market signals are worth heeding.
AI Investment “Halftime”: Compute Stocks Fall Out of Favor, Two Things to Watch in the Second Half
After a rebound, the US AI sector diverges. Capital rotates toward application plays and HALO hard assets. The compute chip tide recedes, turning copper mines and power into the new focal points.
Chinese models have been so successful that global intelligence prices have collapsed. Will AI, like electric vehicles, win the technology battle but lose the investment war?
Glassnode: Stocks and Gold Rally Together, Why Is Bitcoin “Playing Dead”?
Bitcoin misses the global rebound; bottom signals accumulate through boredom. Options pricing is “standing still” but sentiment is hypersensitive. The market quietly awaits direction.
Institutional and Celebrity Brainwaves
Bitwise CIO: If the CLARITY Act Fails to Pass This Week, What Happens to Crypto Markets?
The CLARITY Act hits a roadblock, leaving institutions on the sidelines and the SEC picking up the baton. The bull market window hasn’t shut, but short-term volatility is unavoidable.
Tiger Research: Four Ordinary People’s Stories Reveal Blockchain’s Ultimate Destination in 2036
Stablecoins replace fiat, assets trade around the clock, public chains consolidate violently, and content payments step into the machine economy. The future has already arrived.
When the pace of compute infrastructure buildout slows, a credit crisis will erupt. Benchmarked against the 2008 subprime crisis, Bitcoin could be the biggest winner.
Waterdrip Capital CEO In-Depth Review: What Is Crypto Losing?
Web3 projects are dying in droves, top CEXs are losing influence, and the primary market is retreating. Bitcoin national reserves and on-chain super-apps may offer the only turnaround.
Within two years, a large share of global economic activity will be handled by intelligent agents. Blockchain becomes the sole settlement channel for the machine economy, and value is settling into crypto infrastructure.
Seizing the Edge
When Bottlenecks Migrate — Interconnects, HBM, and the Repricing of the Entire Memory Empire
Interconnects replace HBM as AI’s number one bottleneck. Nvidia voluntarily downgrades configurations, a new HBF standard emerges, and the memory value system is being completely rewritten.
Agents Can Finally Spend Their Own Money — Cloudflare Wallet Ignites a Registration Rush
Cloudflare launches a programmable wallet for AI Agents that supports stablecoin micropayments, triggering an identity registration frenzy. Crypto infrastructure accelerates into the mainstream.
Behind $680 Million in 7 Weeks: RWA Begins to Battle for the Financial Operating System
Binance bStocks surpass xStocks just seven weeks after launching, reshaping the tokenized stock competitive landscape. RWA is entering the financial operating system era.
Goldman Sachs reiterates Buy ratings on Samsung and SK Hynix, expects average HBM prices to double by 2027, and sees current valuations at extremely pessimistic levels.
The Second Half after AI Compute: Why “Optical Interconnect” Is the Core Battlefield of the Future?
AI data center optical interconnect demand explodes. Nvidia’s CPO enters mass production, but indium phosphide laser shortages become a new bottleneck, opening an expectation gap for the optical module sector.
Web3 Happenings
HYPE Cools, RWA Heats Up — Is Hyperliquid’s Counter-Cyclical Expansion Just Beginning?
HYPE price retreats from its highs, but the Hyperliquid ecosystem continues to expand. HIP-3 drives RWA perpetual trading growth, and the platform’s market share keeps rising.
Three-Year Partnership Ruptures: Why Is Binance Claiming $473 Million from RedotPay?
Binance sues former partner RedotPay, accusing it of diverting 470,000 users and claiming $472.8 million in damages. RedotPay is sprinting toward an IPO, drawing attention to the clash of giants.
Ethereum community in uproar! Whose cake did EIP-8363 take?
The EIP-8363 proposal suppresses staking yield through progressive issuance burn; when the staking rate approaches 50%, consensus layer rewards will drop to zero, sparking intense community controversy.
Opinion: EIP-8361 is meaningless “help that hurts”; Ethereum should not cut off its own arms
Ethereum France submits EIP-8361 proposal, aiming to drastically slash ETH staking yield. Experts call it counterproductive; solo stakers dealt a fatal blow.
On L1 value capture from Solana’s two proposals
Solana’s SIMD 550 and 553 proposals are about to go to a vote; disputes over L1 token valuation resurface; revenue quality matters more than quantity.
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