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According to official news, YZi Labs announced the launch of the first phase of the Atlas Scout program, recruiting four students from Stanford University, Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, to participate in early investment projects in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.The program aims to allow outstanding university students to gain early exposure to venture capital, participate in project discovery, preliminary research, due diligence, and investment judgment, and encourage them to organize entrepreneurial communities on campus and explore investment opportunities. YZi Labs will provide a maximum of $1 million in intended investment for related investment opportunities in this program and open its ecosystem network composed of over 300 portfolio companies.YZi Labs stated that many potential entrepreneurs often begin their explorations in laboratories, open-source projects, campus entrepreneurial organizations, and technology communities before entering traditional financing channels, and their peers who learn and work with them usually discover their potential earlier. The Atlas Scout program hopes to leverage students' own campus networks to help these early entrepreneurs obtain capital, mentorship, and industry resources. Eligible entrepreneurial teams will also have the opportunity to connect with YZi Labs' EASY Residency program or further discuss investment collaboration.The Atlas Scout program not only expands financing and resource channels for early entrepreneurs but also allows participating students to accumulate venture capital experience through practical projects, enhancing their project evaluation, founder communication, and investment judgment skills.YZi Labs stated that Scouts can independently carry out campus activities based on their interests, such as organizing technical exchanges, gathering entrepreneurial teams, or discovering potential investment projects, while receiving guidance and ecosystem resource support from YZi Labs in the process. The program aims to establish connections before entrepreneurial projects gain widespread attention, allowing initial ideas on campus to have the opportunity to develop into actual projects, while cultivating a new generation of investors who can identify technological trends and entrepreneurial potential earlier.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated, "I am often asked whether my entrepreneurial ideas are feasible, as if my opinion is that important. As long as the team's execution ability is strong enough, 99% of ideas are good.The problem is that 98% of teams cannot execute effectively. Therefore, there is no need to promote entrepreneurial ideas; just demonstrate execution ability."

Financial Associated Press, October 20 - Amazon launched the open-source tool TorchNeuron on the 19th local time, aiming to lower the barrier for developers to transition from NVIDIA chips to its self-developed chips, challenging NVIDIA's software barrier built on CUDA. According to reports, this tool allows AI code written in PyTorch to run on Amazon's self-developed AI chips without the need for rewriting. PyTorch is maintained primarily by Meta and is described as an open-source framework used by most AI developers.Amazon's chip design department, Annapurna Labs, introduced that with TorchNeuron, developers only need to modify one configuration to run the same code on the self-developed Trainium chip. Amazon announced the launch of this tool on the 19th local time and plans to publicly release it in a free open-source format at the PyTorch conference in San Jose, California on the 20th.Colin Brace, Vice President of Software at Annapurna Labs, stated in an interview that the launch of TorchNeuron is intended to reduce the steps required for developers to try Amazon's self-developed chips, starting from the customers' existing workflows. He revealed that over 30 early customers are already using it, covering fields such as robotics, world models, and voice AI, and mentioned that switching to Amazon chips can save costs.

Neura posted on platform X that it will take down the v1 test network and Neuraverse and enter the next phase. The team has completed a full snapshot of the points balance, leaderboard, task completion status, and activity history to ensure that no data is lost.

Crypto KOL Kuai Dong (@_FORAB) posted that Fox has released the list of American entrepreneurs for the China-U.S. banquet, which is scheduled to be held this Thursday at the White House.The list includes Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell, Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook, Citigroup Chair Jane Fraser, and Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon.

Decentralized Scientific Finance Layer Bio Protocol announced that NeuroLab AI, developed by NootropicsDAO, will launch its Ignition Sale on September 16 at 14:00 (UTC) on Bio Protocol. The token for sale is NDT, lasting for two weeks, and participation requires staking USDC, with the option to pair with BioXP. Bio Protocol stated that NeuroLab AI is used to predict the potential effects of compounds on the brain and associates molecular interactions with cognitive effects, aiming to assist researchers in deciding the next laboratory test subjects. The project claims its knowledge graph has compiled over 150,000 entries and over 8 million associations.The initial fundraising scale is $200,000, with a starting fully diluted valuation of $3 million and initial project funds of $100,000. Participant shares are 100% unlocked upon receipt, with no lock-up period and no linear release. veBIO holders are allocated 20%, which can be claimed at any time; any unreleased portion becomes void upon claiming, with 20% released at TGE, and the remainder released linearly over 6 months; the ignition sale allocation is 6.67%. Users without BioXP can obtain it by staking BIO or ecosystem tokens, or by consuming BIO for instant minting.

According to GMGN data, the market value of the Meme coin SLINK on the Robinhood Chain briefly plummeted to 1.6 million USD and is currently reported at about 1.5 million USD.It is understood that the narrative of SLINK originates from the Neuralink-supported social experiment ShivoLink. This project connects multiple Neuralink implant recipients to the same X account, allowing them to publish content through a brain-machine interface. Neuralink co-founder Shıvon Zilis publicly expressed support for the project, after which Elon Musk responded to related tweets, attracting community attention. According to market news, the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and the official relationship between SLINK and the ShivoLink project has not yet been confirmed. Users are advised to pay attention to asset safety and participate with caution.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Entrepreneurship Support Plan for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Artificial Intelligence (2026-2028)." Over three years, it aims to cultivate a large number of innovative and dynamic artificial intelligence startups with significant growth potential in key areas such as industry applications, data services, and intelligent computing power. More than 10,000 new technology and innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises will be nurtured, with over 2,000 "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" small giant enterprises emerging, along with a number of gazelle and unicorn companies.Focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, the plan will establish 10 high-standard technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms (bases) for small and medium-sized enterprises. It will also cultivate 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters for small and medium-sized enterprises. The entrepreneurial and innovative vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises in artificial intelligence will continue to surge, and a preliminary pattern of high-quality development for small and medium-sized enterprises empowered by artificial intelligence will take shape.

MSX official announcement states that the platform has opened the Pre-IPO Phase III projects Neuralink and Anduril for subscription today at 18:00 (UTC+8), with subscriptions continuing until September 6, 2026, 00:00 (UTC+8). This phase features Elon Musk's brain-machine interface company Neuralink and AI defense technology company Anduril.User subscription limits will be allocated based on the effective holdings of $MSX, with specific rules subject to the platform's announcement. Previously, the MSX Pre-IPO Phase II project Polymarket has opened for redemption.

Neko Health is collaborating with the brain-machine interface company Neuralink, and Neko will assist in screening candidates for Neuralink's next round of trials.

Leading RWA trading platform MSX announced that the platform will open subscriptions for the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 3 project on August 31, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8). This phase will exclusively feature two globally high-profile AI unicorns—Neuralink, the brain-computer interface leader under Elon Musk, and Anduril Industries, a top AI defense technology unicorn in the United States.Previously, the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 2 project Polymarket has opened for redemption, with subscriptions yielding high returns. The introduction of Neuralink and Anduril in this third phase further expands the range of cutting-edge technology assets in the platform's Pre-IPO projects. Users participating in this subscription must hold $MSX, and the subscription amount will be allocated based on the user's effective holdings. Specific allocation tiers and participation rules will be subject to the information published by the MSX official platform.

According to Cointelegraph, Cathie Wood of Ark Invest stated that AI is likely to trigger an entrepreneurial explosion, and she encourages recent graduates to use AI as their sole employee to start their own companies.

MEXC Chief Strategy Officer Cecilia Hsueh posted on X that July 30 is her last day at MEXC. She stated that this does not mean leaving the crypto industry; the simple narratives have ended, and many no longer believe in crypto, which instead signifies that speculators are exiting, and some larger opportunities are forming. Blockchain is more meaningful than ever in solving real problems. She mentioned that she will return to an entrepreneurial mode next.According to RootData, Cecilia Hsueh previously served as CEO of Phemex and co-founder and CEO of Morph, and will take on the role of Chief Strategy Officer at MEXC in June 2025.

Jeff Yan, co-founder of Hyperliquid, recently stated in the VALR podcast that one of the biggest challenges currently facing the cryptocurrency and fintech sectors is the failure to attract enough top entrepreneurial talent.Jeff Yan believes that, influenced by factors such as the AI boom and social prestige, many of the best young people are unclear about which fields they should engage in to create the most value, resulting in very few choosing to enter the cryptocurrency industry.He stated that reconstructing the financial system from first principles and transforming academic theories into scalable market designs is a highly meaningful endeavor, and he urged young entrepreneurs not to focus solely on the surface value of things but to concentrate on the real problems facing the world and participate in the development and innovation of on-chain finance.

The Hurun Research Institute released the "2025 Hurun U35 China Entrepreneur Pioneers," and TRON founder Justin Sun was selected. The list shows that TRON's enterprise value has reached 227.5 billion RMB, ranking first among U35 founded companies, accounting for nearly half of the total value of all listed U35 generation entrepreneurial companies, demonstrating its scale advantage and infrastructure value in the global blockchain industry.Currently, the issuance of TRC20 - USDT on the TRON blockchain has surpassed 90 billion USD, continuously consolidating its important position in the global stablecoin issuance and settlement network. Justin Sun previously stated in an exclusive interview with Hurun that truly innovative solutions that can transcend cycles must be supported by real demand. This selection further reflects his long-term entrepreneurial practice, global vision, and TRON's leading influence in the Web3 ecosystem.

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb released a series of investigations about the origins and ambitions of Polymarket.She stated that the claim in Polymarket's official narrative that "Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and started it in a bathroom" is not true; the origins of Polymarket can be traced back to the earlier company TokenBnk and has connections to Israeli-related crypto projects.Webb said that the first part of the series will outline Polymarket's early history and discuss its potential connections with Peter Thiel-related forces and DARPA's early prediction market projects.

According to PR Newswire, AI infrastructure company Neurometric AI announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with participation from Betaworks, ex-Ante, Everywhere.vc, and others.The company disclosed that it has officially launched an automated Token engineering platform to optimize the cost and performance management of AI Agent workloads, and the new funds will be used to expand the engineering and AI research teams.