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According to Jinshi, Fed's Daly stated that artificial intelligence is a mechanism to help us cope with inflation, but at the same time, it is also a restrictive policy.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has completed a $30 billion Series G funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $380 billion. GIC and Coatue led the round, with participation from D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. Accel, Addition, JPMorgan Chase, Sequoia Capital, and Temasek also participated. The funds raised will be used to help deepen research, continue product innovation, and ensure the team has sufficient resources to expand infrastructure.

Coinbase announced an expanded partnership with the U.S. Crypto Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Crypto ISAC) to enhance the security of the financial ecosystem, and will share high-confidence threat intelligence information with the agency to identify, prevent, and mitigate attacks.At the same time, Coinbase stated that it would support appropriate cooperation with law enforcement when investigations are needed, but clarified that the shared data does not include Coinbase customer data, only covering valuable threat intelligence information and indicators. It is reported that current members of Crypto ISAC also include crypto companies such as Circle, Consensys, Phantom, and Fireblocks.

According to the announcement from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Hong Kong listed company Ruihe Smart Technology Holdings Limited disclosed that it has invested approximately 3.81 million USD in Taiji Capital Group, which focuses on security tokens and RWA tokenization business, invested 1.75 million USD in a fund that specializes in licensed virtual asset service providers in Hong Kong, and subscribed 200,000 USD to the Bitcoin Plus SP fund under OSL Digital Securities. The company also disclosed that the virtual cryptocurrency trading platform jointly developed with an independent third party has entered the development and testing phase as planned, and it is expected to apply for relevant intellectual property rights in the first quarter of 2026.

According to PR Newswire, Coinbase announced an expanded collaboration with the U.S. Crypto Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Crypto ISAC) to enhance the security of the entire financial ecosystem.Coinbase will provide Crypto ISAC with validated indicators and patterns to help member organizations more quickly identify, prevent, and mitigate attacks, and support appropriate cooperation with law enforcement when investigations are needed. This data does not include Coinbase customer data, but rather other valuable threat intelligence and indicators.

In the report "2026 Digital Asset Outlook" published by Animoca Brands Research, 0G Labs CEO Michael Heinrich emphasized the importance of "verifiable AI." He pointed out that as the development of autonomous agents surpasses human regulatory capabilities, blind trust will lead to systemic risks; therefore, artificial intelligence must evolve from "black box intelligence" to "verifiable intelligence."Heinrich stated that the future of AI lies not in trust, but in verification. 0G Labs is committed to using blockchain technology as a "layer of truth" to ensure that AI possesses auditability, provability, and outcome orientation. It is reported that the report gathers in-depth insights on the future of digital assets from over 60 industry leaders, including Heinrich.

According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency analysis firm Chainalysis stated in its latest report that losses from cryptocurrency scams and fraud could reach as high as $17 billion in 2025.Among these, impersonation scams have seen a year-on-year increase of 1400%, while AI-assisted scams are 4.5 times more profitable than traditional scams.

Recently, NeuroMesh, focused on embodied intelligence, announced the completion of a $5 million strategic financing round, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. This round of financing was jointly invested by Alpha Capital and Coinvestor Ventures.NeuroMesh is dedicated to providing edge intelligence solutions for robots and smart devices. Through its device-side intelligent stack, it enables robots to achieve real-time perception, planning, and execution without relying on the cloud. Meanwhile, the experiences gained by machines during learning will be synchronized to a decentralized "collective brain," achieving continuous evolution and shared learning through network effects.This model allows the learning outcomes among agents to be verifiable and accumulative, driving the entire network to become increasingly intelligent. NeuroMesh's goal is to build a truly native, verifiable, and shared autonomous intelligent world, making decentralized machine intelligence the infrastructure for the next generation of human-machine collaboration.It is reported that the funds from this round will be used to accelerate technology research and development, expand the team size, and further explore the implementation of applications in industrial automation, service robots, and other scenarios.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Action Plan for Empowering the Integration of Industrial Internet and Artificial Intelligence." The goal is to significantly enhance the level of integration and empowerment of industrial internet and artificial intelligence by 2028. The scale of new industrial networks that meet the communication needs of high throughput, low latency, high reliability, and low jitter for artificial intelligence industrial applications will continue to expand. Key industries such as raw materials, equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, and electronic information will accelerate the deployment and application, promoting the transformation and upgrading of no less than 50,000 enterprises to new industrial networks.The system for gathering, governance, circulation, and sharing of industrial data will be continuously improved, creating a number of high-quality datasets in 20 key industries. Focusing on key links and typical scenarios of important industrial chains, a batch of intelligent solution providers will be cultivated to effectively promote the collaborative upgrading of large, medium, and small enterprises. Key enterprises, technical products, public services, and other resource elements will achieve efficient allocation.

According to Jinshi reports, sources say that ARM, the artificial intelligence chip company under Baidu, plans to raise up to $2 billion in an IPO in Hong Kong.

According to Financefeeds, the latest annual report from the Indian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) shows that 49 cryptocurrency exchanges have successfully registered as reporting entities under the anti-money laundering framework, of which 45 are domestic companies and 4 are overseas platforms. The FIU requires all registered exchanges to monitor and report suspicious transactions, identify the actual owners of wallets, and track the flow of funds.In the fiscal year 2024-25, regulators imposed a total fine of 280 million rupees on non-compliant platforms and blocked 25 unregistered offshore exchanges, including BitMEX, LBank, and Phemex. Meanwhile, five major overseas exchanges, including Binance and Coinbase, have completed registration and continue to serve Indian users. The FIU plans to further strengthen regulation by requiring exchanges to conduct regular risk assessments and sanctions screening, making India one of the markets with the strictest regulations on cryptocurrency asset trading globally.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) announced that the highly anticipated new "Rubin" data center product will be launched this year, allowing customers to trial the technology and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence. NVIDIA stated that six Rubin chips have been delivered from manufacturing partners and have passed several key tests, indicating that customer deployments are progressing as planned. The newly launched Rubin accelerator improves training performance by 3.5 times compared to the previous generation Blackwell, and speeds up the running of AI software by 5 times.The company emphasized that the operating costs of Rubin-based systems will be lower than those of Blackwell-based systems, as they achieve the same results with fewer components. It is reported that Microsoft and other large remote computing service providers will be the first to adopt this new hardware in the second half of this year. (Jin Shi)

El Salvador has officially announced that it will integrate Bitcoin with artificial intelligence as a national policy. As of January 1, 2026, El Salvador's treasury reserves have reached 7,517 Bitcoins, valued at over $660 million.The plan aims to utilize geothermal energy surpluses to build data centers and AI special zones, providing a tax-free environment for the automation industry and decentralized financial services. Additionally, El Salvador has amended legislation to change Bitcoin from mandatory acceptance to voluntary acceptance as legal tender, ensuring that taxes are denominated in U.S. dollars, thereby securing $1.4 billion in funding support from the International Monetary Fund. At the same time, El Salvador is collaborating with technology leaders such as Genius Act and xAI to implement AI-driven educational programs nationwide.

Hangzhou Yunshen Technology Co., Ltd. has completed hundreds of millions of RMB in Pre-IPO financing. This round of financing was led by the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Fund, with participation from a major internet company.

Web3 asset data platform RootData tweeted that its first phase of the Token Unlock Deep Dive Bounty Program will end in just 24 hours.So far, over 150 independent users have submitted more than 860 high-quality token unlock information feedbacks, collectively promoting the Web3 data transparency revolution. The RootData team is rigorously reviewing valid information and deeply verifying with project parties to ensure the accuracy of the platform data.It is reported that RootData launched the first phase of the token unlock bounty program on December 15, with a total prize pool set at 5000 USDT, practicing the core concept of "data is king" to ensure investors' right to know and market fairness. Click to view the detailed rules | event collection.

According to the Financial Times, ByteDance plans to invest $23 billion heavily in artificial intelligence.