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Robinhood Chain Launches With Stock Tokens and 7% DeFi Yield
Robinhood’s new Arbitrum‑based layer‑2 chain went live on July 1, enabling tokenized stock trading and a high‑yield DeFi product.
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Mistral AI unveils Leanstral 1.5, an open Lean 4 theorem‑proving model aimed at formal math workflows
Mistral AI has released Leanstral 1.5, a specialized model that claims to solve 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems, targeting formal verification and software engineering workflows.
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OpenAI Releases GPT‑5.5 with Advanced Few‑Shot Learning Capabilities
OpenAI’s latest model, GPT‑5.5, introduces a new few‑shot learning framework that dramatically reduces the need for large training datasets, sparking industry debate on AI efficiency.
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OpenAI releases GPT‑5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.5 Instant, a new foundation model that reduces hallucinations and keeps low latency, becoming the default ChatGPT model.
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Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton5 Processors Are Now Available
Amazon announced the general availability of its new C9g and C9gd compute‑optimized EC2 instances, delivering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU and up to 3× higher packet‑processing throughput thanks to the Graviton5 chip.
/Startups
Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy‑first AI platform takes off
Venice AI, a privacy‑focused AI platform, raised $65 million in a Series A round, valuing it at $1 billion after two years of rapid growth.
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Nvidia and Oracle study shows AI data centers can cut power by 30% during grid stress
Field trials demonstrate that GPU clusters can slash electricity consumption within seconds of receiving a grid signal, potentially unlocking 100 GW of capacity without building new power plants.
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Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV‑SNP
AWS announced that its EC2 Dedicated Hosts will support AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization‑Secure Nested Paging, enabling confidential computing workloads on fully dedicated servers.
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OpenAI lawsuit claims ChatGPT-4o escalated a man’s manic episode into a weeks‑long delusion and self‑harm
A lawsuit alleges that conversations with OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model pushed a user toward self‑harm, raising concerns about AI safety and content moderation.
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NVIDIA Diffusion LLM Hits 2.42x Throughput Without Retraining: Nemotron TwoTower Released
NVIDIA’s new two‑tower diffusion language model delivers 2.42× faster text generation than traditional autoregressive models while retaining 98.7% of baseline quality, cutting inference costs dramatically.
/Technology
Nvidia launches revenue‑sharing AI cloud financing
Nvidia introduces a financing model that lets AI cloud providers buy its infrastructure and share revenue from the services built on it, expanding access to large‑scale AI compute for startups and enterprises.
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OpenAI Unveils GPT‑5.5 with Real‑Time Video Understanding
OpenAI released GPT‑5.5, a multimodal model that can interpret and generate content from live video streams, boosting real‑time AI applications.
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Together AI raises $800M for GPU neocloud, at $8.3B valuation
Amazon-backed GPU‑cloud startup Together AI secured an $800 million Series C, bolstering its GPU‑as‑a‑service platform that lets enterprises run large models without owning hardware.
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Nvidia plans to offer start‑up customers access to revenue‑sharing deals
Nvidia announced a new program allowing AI startups to swap compute power for a slice of future profits, expanding access to its GPU ecosystem.
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OpenAI limits new AI models to trusted partners after US government request
OpenAI announced three new models—GPT‑5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna—while restricting initial rollout to a small group of trusted partners, following a request from the U.S. government.
/Web3
Why Aave Just Launched the Global Dollar Hub — What This Could Unlock
Aave launched its Global Dollar Hub on V4, adding a new liquidity layer to the protocol and expanding options for DeFi users.
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Ark Labs Raises $5.2M Backed by Tether to Build Programmable Finance on Bitcoin
Lugano‑based Ark Labs secured $5.2 million in seed funding to unlock Bitcoin capital via its Arkade platform, expanding programmable finance on the Bitcoin network.
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Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
Amazon Web Services has created a forward‑deployed engineering organization to embed AI engineers within enterprise customers, mirroring similar ventures by OpenAI and Anthropic.
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NVIDIA AI Introduces ASPIRE: A Self‑Improving Robotics Framework Reaching 31% Zero‑Shot on LIBERO‑Pro Long Tasks
NVIDIA and research partners unveil ASPIRE, a continual‑learning system that writes and refines robot control programs, achieving a 31% zero‑shot score on long‑horizon tasks.
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White House shifts to OpenAI after GPT‑5.6 rollout limited to government partners
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT‑5.6 model to a small group of U.S. government‑approved companies, marking the first time a U.S. government has intervened in an AI company’s public launch.