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OpenAI announced the end of its nearly four-year collaboration with Cursor. Subsequent OpenAI new models will no longer be integrated with Cursor, and the direct supply of existing models is scheduled to stop on November 12, 2026. Two weeks prior, SpaceX completed a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, and according to the contract between the two parties, OpenAI has the right to terminate the collaboration after Cursor's acquisition.OpenAI stated that this decision is related to its trust issues with Musk's company, mentioning the violation of the contract with OpenAI after Twitter's acquisition, as well as previous violations by xAI in using OpenAI models. Based on this, OpenAI believes that continuing to provide new models to Cursor after its acquisition by SpaceX poses risks.

Cryptocurrency financial and tax solutions provider FinTax announced the completion of its seed round financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Amber, Hash House, Pundi AI, Waverider International, and Nexus Holdings, resulting in a post-investment valuation of $40 million. Previous round investors include Victory Courage, BGIN, Tools Factory, and individual investor Fan Chao.In recent years, YZi Labs has been continuously investing in stablecoins, RWA, payment, and institutional-level digital asset infrastructure. Leveraging FinTax's expertise in on-chain data processing, crypto accounting, cross-jurisdictional tax practices, and crypto asset financial auditing, both parties will explore long-term ecological collaboration around institutional-level financial and tax infrastructure, compliance standards, and emerging scenarios such as stablecoins, RWA, and payments.Following this round of financing, FinTax will accelerate the scaling of its five product lines, expanding its business from the Asia-Pacific and North American markets to Europe and the Middle East, and deepening the application of AI in complex financial and tax scenarios. FinTax will continue to promote the dual iteration of blockchain and legal systems across dozens of jurisdictions, enabling on-chain economic activities to connect with the real-world financial and tax systems.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," Alibaba Qianwen is currently testing a multi-Agent collaboration feature on the Qianwen creation platform in a small scope, mainly aimed at professional creative scenarios such as AI short dramas, comic dramas, marketing advertisements, and image design. Currently, only a small number of professional creators have been granted testing qualifications.This feature enables multiple Agents to collaborate, linking together the stages of creative planning, script writing, visual design, storyboard generation, and final production. Different Agents can cooperate based on task division to complete the entire production process from concept to final product. Users can participate in discussions throughout the process, adjust the creative direction at any time, or delegate some tasks to AI for independent completion.Recently, Qianwen has launched Qianwen creation for the professional content production field, and it has already integrated Alibaba's latest models such as Wan 3.0, Wan 3.0 Prime full version, and Qwen-Image 3.0 Pro.

According to Gate market data, IBM's stock price rose 1.6% in pre-market trading after the company announced a partnership with OpenAI.

According to FX News Group, the crypto platform Crypto.com and Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (NASDAQ: DJT) announced adjustments to their previously announced prediction market integration plan. The two parties will no longer develop a direct prediction market integration on Truth Social, but will instead shift to a marketing cooperation agreement to promote Crypto.com's prediction market products to the Truth Social user base.According to TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn, the company's strategic focus is on increasing revenue for Truth Social, continuing to expand its global media business, and completing the merger with TAE, and this marketing agreement aligns better with the company's priorities.It is reported that Crypto.com is actively expanding its product line beyond digital assets and has recently hired former OKX executive Iskandar Vanblarcum to lead its prediction market department.

Recently, the official xStocks account suddenly posted "hyperliquid" on the X platform. Combined with the news that in the past few weeks, its developer Backed has spent approximately 5,006 HYPE to acquire 10 spot Tickers including NVDAx, SPYx, QQQx, the community speculates that xStocks related assets may land on the Hyperliquid platform.

Websea, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Causeway Bay Group, the Asia Blockchain Association, the Central Asia (Kazakhstan) Zhejiang Federation, the Natural Coal Mine Group, Orenance, and the World Kazakh Association, will hold the Global RWA Summit in Almaty on August 18, with confirmation of attendance from the Kazakhstan government and the Deputy Prime Minister.As the core joint unit, Websea is the only digital asset trading platform included in the national strategic level of Central Asia for this summit, coordinating global resource connections and agenda setting. This summit is the first RWA special summit in the Central Asia region supported by high-level government officials, spanning multiple industries including energy, finance, and blockchain.From the landing of innovative products to the layout of TradFi asset chain integration, Websea's positioning is no longer limited to a single product level but is building an RWA asset trading hub with intergovernmental dialogue capabilities.

According to Jinshi reports, OpenAI is preparing to release a new series of models, tentatively named "Astra," which will enhance its capabilities in completing long-term tasks.OpenAI founder Altman showcased Astra to policymakers and regulators in Washington this week, promoting its ability to enable multiple agents to collaborate over the long term to solve particularly difficult problems. It is currently unclear when OpenAI plans to release this model.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Robinhood is in talks with Crypto.com to collaborate on prediction market services. If the partnership is established, the prediction market provided by Crypto.com will be integrated into Robinhood, allowing users to participate in Crypto.com's prediction market through Robinhood.Previously, Robinhood mainly relied on partners such as Kalshi and Interactive Brokers' ForecastEx and Rothera to provide prediction market contracts. This move may lead to more direct competition between Robinhood and Kalshi.

According to official news, OKX, in collaboration with Elliptic, SlowMist, and OttoSec, has released the "Web3 Security and Risk Control Report for the First Half of 2026." The report points out that the focus of Web3 attacks is gradually shifting from smart contract code to more complex scenarios such as signature processes, user devices, operational infrastructure, and AI Agents.Data shows that in the first half of 2026, the OKX risk control system intercepted over 5.7 million high-risk transactions, including approximately 2.41 million transactions related to hacking and theft, about 1.48 million transactions related to phishing, and around 990,000 transactions related to fraud. The OKX Web3 on-chain intelligence label library currently has over 1 billion labels, covering more than 420 chains, and has integrated capabilities such as address screening, transaction monitoring, and sanction address control into infrastructures like DEX and Exchange OS.In addition, in terms of user protection, OKX has intercepted over 7 million visits to risky websites, completed over 200,000 device risk assessments, identified over 60,000 high-risk apps, and intercepted or alerted on over 4 million high-risk signature operations. The report also introduces the "risk control pre-positioning" design in scenarios such as Exchange OS, Outcomes, RWA, and Agentic Wallet.

ForeGate, in collaboration with ecological partners such as OKX, HTX, WEEX, Interlace, OneBullEx, and Billion Live, jointly launches the special event "Final Showdown 48 Hours · Predictions Never Sleep" for the World Cup finale. The event features multiple activities centered around the World Cup final, including AI predictions, match odds, live interactions, and X Space AMA, along with benefits such as red envelope rain, live broadcast lucky bags, and goal airdrops, with a total prize pool of 8 million USDT.The event will last until July 20 at 21:30 (UTC+8). During the event, users can watch the live broadcast of the World Cup final on Billion Live, obtain AI pre-match predictions on ForeGate, participate in match predictions and odds interactions, and engage in recap sharing, AMA discussions, and announcement of winners through X Space.This event is themed "AI vs Mysticism vs Human Judgment." ForeGate AI will provide match outcome predictions, championship probability analysis, and post-match recaps for the World Cup final, comparing various prediction methods such as Tarot and astrology, exploring the performance of different prediction systems in major events, and offering users an engaging and interactive World Cup viewing experience.

The National Development and Reform Commission officially released the "Action Plan for the Cooperative Development of Artificial Intelligence," aimed at building an open, shared, secure, orderly, and collaboratively governed global artificial intelligence ecosystem. The plan clearly outlines eight core actions, comprehensively promoting deep international cooperation in the AI field from multiple dimensions, including data, computing power, algorithms, talent, and governance. At the foundational level of data and computing power, the action plan emphasizes the need to promote cross-border data flow and build a trustworthy cross-border data space, collaboratively constructing a high-quality corpus; at the same time, it promotes the interconnection of intelligent computing facilities, providing inclusive intelligent computing services to developing countries, and creating low-carbon intelligent computing infrastructure driven by green energy.In terms of industrial empowerment and ecological sharing, the plan encourages the co-construction of an international open-source community for artificial intelligence, promoting the sharing of general large models, basic algorithms, and tool components, and supporting countries in conducting localized innovation based on open-source models. By deepening "Artificial Intelligence +" cooperation, it aims to build a cross-national industrial cooperation platform, promoting the deep application and empowerment of AI technology in fields such as science, manufacturing, healthcare, education, agriculture, and governance. In addition, the plan also proposes the establishment of a joint training mechanism for top digital talent, collaboratively formulating occupational standards and skill certification systems, comprehensively enhancing public literacy, and jointly addressing the structural impacts of AI on employment.Regarding industry rules and technical security, the action plan advocates for the co-construction of rules and standards and collaborative governance for security. All parties will strengthen information sharing on cybersecurity threats and emergency response cooperation, researching ways to enhance the explainability, transparency, and safety of artificial intelligence. Finally, the plan emphasizes adherence to the technological ethics principle of "AI for Good," collaboratively constructing an ethical guideline system dedicated to eliminating algorithmic biases in the forms of racism, discrimination, and others. By promoting international governance cooperation in AI research, it aims to contribute public scientific products to the Global South, effectively serving the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

According to a report by Reuters, payment company Stripe, in conjunction with private equity firm Advent International, has made a takeover offer to PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O), offering $60.5 per share, with a total valuation of over $53 billion, representing a premium of about 28% over PayPal's closing price on Tuesday. The offer has received approximately $50 billion in bank commitment financing support, with both parties intending to hold 50% equity each, without splitting the company.The acquisition proposal was submitted earlier this month, following preliminary contact between the two parties in early April. No response has yet been received from PayPal, and Stripe and Advent hope to reach an agreement by the end of the month. There remains uncertainty as to whether the deal will ultimately be finalized.

The TRON DeFi Summer S1 event jointly launched by JustLend DAO and Binance Wallet has officially started and will last until August 5 at 7:59:59 Singapore time. It is reported that users can participate in the JustLend DAO ecological pool through the DeFi feature of Binance Wallet to subscribe for assets such as TRX, USDD, JST, and SUN. During the event, participating users can receive Boost APR incentives and share a total exclusive prize pool of 2.15 million USD.

DeSci Protocol Bio Protocol announced the launch of OpenLabs, positioned as a collaborative coordination layer between humans and agents in scientific research, aimed at transforming scientific ideas into funded execution projects.Bio stated that DeSci has proven over the past few years that the community can coordinate capital and data at internet speed, and agents have also become real scientific collaborators, capable of reading papers, running queries, drafting hypotheses, and designing experiments.OpenLabs consists of five interconnected layers: posts and discoveries, projects, agent collaboration, Web3 incentive layer, and bounty system. In terms of the incentive layer, OpenLabs plans to adopt a financing mechanism based on USDC yields to fund agent reasoning and tool usage. Users can deposit USDC and choose to support projects, with funds deployed to audited yield vaults like Morpho and Aave, generating yields that flow to projects for computation, querying, and simulation, with the principal not bearing risk. Once projects reach the stage requiring real capital, they can issue tokens through the Bio launchpad or conduct private placements and follow traditional biotech paths.