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PANews, August 11 — According to Jin10, NVIDIA has launched the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning open model, which can run locally on NVIDIA RTX PCs, DGX Spark, OEM systems equipped with GB10, and the Jetson platform. NVIDIA has partnered with vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and Unsloth to support the model. NVIDIA also said that Nemo Switchyard can reduce the completion cost of benchmarks to one-third that of Opus 4.8. The Information, citing an NVIDIA employee involved in the project’s development, also reported that NVIDIA is developing Nemotron

PANews, August 11 — According to Bybit market data, spot gold broke above the $4,400 per ounce mark and is now quoted at $4,400.03, up 0.22% on the day.

River AI announced the completion of a $1.1 billion funding round co-led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, and others, as well as Y Combinator and Temasek. The full-stack AI company, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, will build an open AI technology stack and provide tools and APIs for training, fine-tuning, and deploying proprietary models. Its API claims to complete reinforcement learning training within 15–20 minutes at a cost 2–4 times lower than closed-source solutions.

Bitcoin veteran Samson Mow said it is inaccurate to compare BIP-110 with 2017’s BIP-148. BIP-148 involved developers, exchanges, wallets, miners, and large holders, among others, and had economic weight, hash power, and node support; BIP-110 currently has support from only some nodes. Mow also said SegWit was ultimately driven by BIP-91, which led miners to adopt BIP-141, while BIP-148 formed a credible threat but was never actually tested by a chain split. Michael Saylor reposted the post.

PANews reported on August 11 that a16z cited its latest research data, saying that computer-use agents cost approximately $6 to $8 per hour, lower than the hourly cost of about $10 for offshore outsourced workers and significantly lower than the $30 to $45 hourly cost of U.S. workers. a16z said that as inference costs continue to decline and open-source models become capable of handling more and more related workflows, this cost advantage is expected to widen further. It should be noted that the above data compares costs per unit of time and does not directly represent task completion quality or final delivery costs.

Author: Eric, Foresight News
On the road to prosperity, every industry must go through a round of “corpses strewn everywhere” culling, and Web3 is no exception.
Based on a review of public information, Foresight News found that since 2025, at least 78 Web3 projects that raised more than $1.5 million in total funding have announced their shutdowns. Of these, 69 projects had verifiable funding amounts and collectively received more than $900 million in investment. If the small projects that never received institutional funding and died quietly are also counted, the total is well over 300.
This means that over the nearly 600 days, on average, one Web3 project died every two days—whether well-known or obscure.
Among the 75 projects counted by Foresight News

According to the Financial Times, Erebor Bank, founded by Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale, is seeking $1.5 billion in financing at a pre-money valuation of $800 million, double its previous valuation of $435 million. Existing backers include 8VC and Haun Ventures, while the upcoming round is expected to attract participation from institutions such as Lux Capital. The company focuses on financing AI infrastructure, helping AI companies purchase GPUs and build data centers and energy infrastructure. The round has not yet been finalized and is expected to close within weeks.

PANews reported on August 11 that, according to TechCrunch, Anthropic announced it would add watermarks to text and files generated by its large language models to meet relevant European compliance requirements. The measure will be used to mark model-generated content, making it easier to identify AI-generated output in regulatory and provenance scenarios.

PANews hosted the “AI Investment Halftime Break: What to Buy in the Second Half?” discussion on Space tonight, moderated by Jae, with guests including TALK君, Elio Cui, Harry, and Sun engaging in an in-depth discussion on the sustainability of AI capital expenditures, the logic behind AI application implementation, whether the main computing hardware narrative has run its course, HALO asset revaluation, and opportunities in China’s digital infrastructure.

Following the latest downturn in South Korea’s stock market, Upbit and Bithumb significantly accelerated token listings in Q3, adding approximately 34 KRW-denominated assets in July and August. This was more about competing for existing funds and retail attention than attracting new capital. Although the two exchanges’ trading volumes declined year-on-year, their market shares increased, highlighting their core strategy of maintaining platform activity and revenue through high-frequency listings amid competition in an existing market.

PANews, August 11 — CME Group: 24-hour silver trading will launch on September 11.

PANews reported on August 11 that, according to Onchain Lens, Hyperliquid burned approximately $1.07 million worth of HYPE tokens over the past 24 hours, while the platform generated approximately $1.45 million in fees during the same period. Data shows that a total of 47.62 million HYPE tokens have been burned historically, worth approximately $2.63 billion at the current price, accounting for 4.76% of its maximum supply of 1 billion tokens.

eToro announced its Q2 2026 financial results: Crypto trading activity declined, but it continued to expand its on-chain presence through the acquisitions of Zengo and Bit2C, an investment in Extended, and becoming a founding partner of the Open USD Alliance. In July, it recorded 1.35B crypto trades, revenue of $1.346 billion, and net profit of $53.48 million, up 77% year-on-year; crypto assets at period-end stood at $49.95 million, down from the end of 2025.

Author: KarenZ, Foresight News
Just one month ago, 4,444 StonkBrokers pixel brokers made their debut on-chain. Today, each NFT is worth 13 ETH.
If we roughly calculate using a floor price of 13 ETH multiplied by the total supply of 4,444, the “floor valuation” of the entire NFT collection exceeds $100 million. However, this is not the actual market capitalization, because the calculation assumes that all NFTs can be sold at the current floor price. It is more suitable for gauging market sentiment than measuring the actual realizable value.
The STONKBROKER token, which belongs to the same product ecosystem as the NFTs, is also rising. According to GMGN data, its valuation once approached $100 million.
What the market is pricing in is no longer just 4,444 pixel avatars, but also St

Founded in 2025, Corma is a cybersecurity startup that has completed a $60 million seed round, with Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue among its investors. The company deployed its first defensive AI model in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, rolling it out to multiple Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies six weeks ago. It focuses on log and audit data analysis and threat identification, and has reduced customers’ threat response times by approximately 94%.

PANews reported on August 11 that, according to CoinDesk, a British parliamentary group has written to major banks in the country, asking them to explain why crypto businesses are being refused the ability to open or use bank accounts. The group warned that restricted access to banking services could undermine the UK’s upcoming cryptoasset regulatory framework and hinder the development of its digital asset industry.

PANews reported on August 11 that, according to Reuters, Pakistani officials said signals from the US and Iran indicate that the two sides are “close to reaching some kind of arrangement,” and that developments are moving toward peace. Meanwhile, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, Pakistan’s interior minister arrived in Tehran for talks.

PANews, August 11 — Unitree Technology announced the offline preliminary allotment results and online lottery results for its initial public offering and listing on the STAR Market. There are a total of 19,414 winning numbers, and each winning number is eligible to subscribe for only 500 A-shares of Unitree Technology.

OpenAI AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar left last month after less than a year in the role, and no successor has been named. Bakalar joined OpenAI from Meta in August 2025 and had previously taught at universities. During the same period, OpenAI’s safety and alignment teams also saw changes: Safety Systems head Johannes Heidecke and former mission alignment head and chief futurist Joshua Achiam departed in succession, possibly related to team restructuring and personal career plans.

ByteDance has newly established a first-level department, “AI Data and Security,” headed by Wang Yinglei, with the aim of providing cross-modal data services for large models across the company. The department integrates Global Data, DMC, AIDP, the AI data platform of Flow, and other resources, covering the entire process from data standards, sourcing, synthesis and cleaning to quality evaluation, security, and compliance. ByteDance had previously invested tens of millions of dollars in training world models and code models, and divided teams by direction under a horse-race mechanism.