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According to TechRepublic, Elon Musk recently acquired the mobile power generation company APR Energy, with the deal valued at least around $1 billion. According to regulatory documents, Duos Technologies sold its 5% non-voting shares in New APR Energy, gaining a net profit of $50.4 million, which implies the company's overall valuation exceeds $1 billion.APR Energy is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, and specializes in rapidly deployable gas and diesel generator sets, providing temporary or supplemental power for scenarios such as data centers. Its total power generation capacity exceeds 1 GW and can complete some project deployments within 15 to 30 days. Analysts suggest that this move may provide options for xAI to expand its computing power infrastructure and reduce reliance on local power grids, but it will also bring trade-offs in emissions, compliance, and costs.

According to Xinhua News Agency, as the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence are about to be held, the new generation model Kimi K3 was released on the 16th, with a parameter scale of 28 trillion. This is currently the largest open-source model in the world by parameters, marking a new step in the development of artificial intelligence models in our country.Beijing Moon's Dark Side Technology Co., Ltd., which released the model, introduced that Kimi K3 natively supports visual understanding, has a context window of 1 million tokens, and is optimized for complex task scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep research, and multimodal understanding, further enhancing the processing capability of large models for complex tasks. It is understood that in evaluations, Kimi K3's comprehensive intelligence level is close to that of the world's leading closed-source models. A relevant person in charge of Moon's Dark Side stated that in the process of training the new generation foundational model Kimi K3, they used a self-developed underlying model architecture and accumulated a complete set of scientific model training methods.

Global stablecoin payment infrastructure service provider WasabiCard today announced its participation as an official sponsor at WebX 2026, the top Web3 event in Asia, to be held on July 13-14 at the Prince Park Tower Hotel in Tokyo. As an industry flagship summit hosted by Japan's largest crypto media CoinPost, this year's WebX is expected to attract over 15,000 attendees to discuss the deep integration of Web3 and traditional finance.With the explosive growth of stablecoin applications in global commerce, WasabiCard is committed to connecting stablecoin liquidity with the traditional financial system, providing efficient and compliant cross-border payment channels for global enterprises. At booth S26, WasabiCard will focus on showcasing its core B2B solutions for enterprise-level scenarios, covering global corporate card issuance, real-time settlement of stablecoins and fiat currencies, as well as cross-border issuance capabilities that span over 200 countries and regions and support more than 30 fiat currencies.During the exhibition, WasabiCard's core executive team will be stationed at the booth to discuss customized white-label card issuance and global expansion plans with partners worldwide.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff posted on platform X that VALR, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Africa, will directly utilize Hyperliquid's on-chain liquidity to support its core perpetual contract products. This is a significant milestone that will redefine the way the next generation of financial applications are built.The breakthrough in cloud computing lies in the ability for any startup to quickly test its ideas and rest assured that the infrastructure will scale as the business grows. As the most liquid global venue for assets like BTC, Hyperliquid will play the same role in the global economy. By leveraging the deepest on-chain liquidity, builders can shift their focus back to their products and users. Heartfelt congratulations to the VALR team. We are honored that they chose to build on Hyperliquid. Looking forward to expanding together.

According to official news, the perpetual contract trading platform Drift announced today that it has officially changed its name to Velocity, stating that this brand upgrade aims to reflect the new generation trading platform architecture it is building.The team pointed out that in the perpetual contract market, execution speed and directional judgment are crucial. The name "Velocity" aims to embody trading speed and market momentum, while marking the platform's entry into a reboot phase.The official statement indicated that this renaming also represents a clear boundary in the product roadmap: the new platform will adopt a clearer system architecture, stronger security infrastructure, and a more defined product positioning. Currently, Velocity is advancing its reconstruction work and plans to open a private testing version to some partners and traders in the coming days to validate the stability and performance of the new generation Solana-based perpetual contract trading system.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly solicited opinions on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest in new asset classes or adopt new investment strategies, to assess whether existing regulatory rules are still applicable and whether adjustments to the registration process for new products are necessary. The public comment period will be open for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.The SEC pointed out that in recent years, the global ETF assets under management have surged from $4 trillion in 2019 to over $12 trillion by the end of 2025. Meanwhile, ETF issuers in the crypto space are moving beyond simple spot tracking to launch increasingly complex strategy products, including those involving crypto asset staking (such as Grayscale's recently launched Hyperliquid Staking ETP), stablecoin reserves, Bitcoin yield products that combine covered call options (such as proposals from BlackRock and Goldman Sachs), and hybrid funds that combine traditional stock dividend reinvestment with Bitcoin exposure. The SEC aims to explore how to effectively regulate such emerging and highly specialized ETF structures through this consultation.

According to official news, OpenAI has officially launched the preview version of the next-generation GPT-5.6 series models, including the flagship model Sol, the balanced model Terra, and the fast low-cost model Luna. GPT-5.6 introduces a brand new maximum reasoning effort and features a super strong mode that accelerates complex tasks through sub-agents.The flagship model Sol introduces the Ultra mode, which combines maximum reasoning intensity with sub-agent collaboration. In the Terminal-Bench 2.1 command line workflow test, Sol achieved a score of 88.8%, which increased to 91.9% in Ultra mode, surpassing GPT-5.5's 83.4% and Claude Fable 5's 88.0%. The mid-range model Terra performs close to GPT-5.5 while being priced at half, and the lightest model Luna is designed specifically for everyday automation tasks. Sol is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $30 for output, and it supports reducing secondary call costs by utilizing prompt caching.In terms of security, the security assessment confirmed that Sol did not exceed the critical thresholds of the Preparedness Framework cybersecurity. OpenAI has invested over 700,000 A100 equivalent GPU hours in automated red team exercises, equipping the entire series of models with a defense stack that includes rejection mechanisms, real-time abuse classifiers, and account-level audits. Although the current limited release follows the U.S. government's security framework, OpenAI emphasizes that it does not want a government-led access mechanism to become the long-term default model, as it would limit defenders' access to cutting-edge tools.

According to reports from Blue Whale Technology, the next-generation Doubao AI phone, jointly promoted by ZTE and ByteDance, may be delayed from its originally expected release in the second quarter due to issues with the filing and certification process. Sources reveal that the phone needs to pass both the large model filing with the Cyberspace Administration and the network access certification with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; currently, the product is still in the second application filing stage. If the approval goes smoothly, the new device is expected to be launched as early as July to August this year.In terms of the supply chain, the screen supplier for the next-generation Doubao phone has been changed from Shentianma to BOE, the battery will use Desay battery and ATL cells, and the manufacturing will be handled by Zhongnuo Communications, a subsidiary of Furui Electronics. Additionally, reports indicate that this product mainly adopts a technical route that deeply integrates large models into the underlying operating system, but it currently faces ecological barriers due to the lack of data access permissions from leading platforms like Tencent and Alibaba when implementing system-level agent cross-application calls.

According to Andrew Curran, the next-generation Mythos model from Anthropic, which has stronger capabilities (named either Mythos 5.1 or Mythos 6), has completed training. It is currently uncertain whether this model will be publicly released or kept for internal use only to accelerate the development of subsequent technologies.Analysis indicates that although some cutting-edge models like Fable 5 or Mythos 5 face restrictions or scrutiny regarding public release, this has not slowed down the research and development pace of top AI laboratories. In the face of fierce competition from open-source models represented by GLM-5.2, leading AI companies still need to continuously invest in and train more powerful systems to maintain their commercial and technological leadership.

According to CoinPost, SBI Holdings completed a strategic investment in the global stablecoin payment and cryptocurrency trading platform Fasset in May 2026, and announced that its international remittance subsidiary SBI Remit signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Fasset. Both parties will jointly build a next-generation international remittance infrastructure based on stablecoin technology.Fasset is a digital bank focused on the Asian, Middle Eastern, and African markets, providing stablecoin settlement, remittance, and investment services through its own payment network "Own Network." It currently covers 125 countries and regions and has over 2 million users. The company completed a $51 million Series B financing in the same month, with investors including SBI Group, Bahrain asset management company Investcorp, and Turkey's Arz Portföy, among others.

According to official news, online brokerage Robinhood announced that it will hold an online launch event at the Old Royal Naval College in London at 19:00 UK time on July 1, 2026 (2:00 AM Beijing time on July 2).Robinhood stated that this event will kick off the "Borderless Market Journey" and showcase its latest vision for the future of financial markets. At that time, Robinhood's Chairman and CEO Vlad Tenev will personally launch several new products.The company claims that these products are designed to promote further integration of crypto assets with traditional finance and reshape the global financial services landscape. Robinhood stated that the launch event will focus on the development direction of the new era in the crypto industry and new opportunities for cross-border connectivity in financial markets.

Wu Jihan stated on platform X that the current solar energy issue in Europe is no longer just about increasing power generation, but rather the lack of sufficient flexible power demand to absorb excess energy. He cited the latest analysis from the energy research organization Pexapark, which indicates that the phenomenon of "self-cannibalization" in European photovoltaics is rapidly worsening.Wu Jihan pointed out that the speed of solar deployment in Europe has outpaced the construction of grid system flexibility. In addition to energy storage, grid expansion, and demand response, Europe should also pay attention to interruptible loads, including Bitcoin mining and other computational loads. These types of loads can be activated when electricity is abundant and shut down when the grid is tight, thus becoming the "last buyer" of excess renewable energy, reducing curtailment, improving the profitability of photovoltaic projects, and enhancing the profitability and financing feasibility of investments in generation and grid infrastructure.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun talks about why he chose Mars instead of the Moon as the target for SpaceX's first interstellar manned mission. He believes that even without private investment, humanity will still reach the Moon, and likely very soon. As space competition intensifies, governments around the world will establish lunar bases. I am happy to watch all of this happen.On the other hand, I am still uncertain about the progress of Mars exploration within our lifetime, and I feel that something should be done about it. I hope that by purchasing a ticket for a mission to fly by Mars, SpaceX will have another reason not to forget about Mars. Because we really should not delay Mars exploration for the next generation.Yesterday, SpaceX announced that Wang Chun will participate in SpaceX's first interstellar manned mission as the mission commander, executing a flight lasting about two years: first exploring the outer space of the Earth-Moon system, then flying by Mars and returning to Earth. Before this interstellar mission, Wang Chun will participate in a commercial crewed lunar flyby with Dennis and Akiko Tito, with the planned flight being within 200 kilometers of the lunar surface. This is the first commercial crewed interstellar mission of Starship, and Wang Chun previously commanded the Fram2 polar orbit mission in 2025, gaining experience for this flight.

SpaceX has successfully launched the redesigned Starship, completing an important testing mission before the company's IPO. During this test flight, Starship V3 was launched from Texas Starbase and successfully deployed 22 test satellites, marking a key advancement for SpaceX in the development of a new generation heavy-lift launch system. Although there were still some engine failures and uncontrolled landings of the first-stage booster during the flight, SpaceX believes that the overall testing objectives have been largely achieved.Reports indicate that Starship V3 will become the core launch platform for future Starlink expansion, NASA's lunar missions, and Mars plans. Previously disclosed information shows that SpaceX has invested approximately $15 billion in the Starship project, and the market generally views the testing progress of Starship as one of the important valuation support factors for SpaceX's potential IPO.

The new generation Perp DEX PopDEX has announced the completion of a $30 million financing round, led by Foresight Ventures. PopDEX is a trader-centric decentralized perpetual contract trading platform that focuses on capital efficiency, trading experience, and value distribution mechanisms, aiming to build an on-chain derivatives trading platform driven by contributions from real trading.