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AI company Nuance completes $50 million Series A round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
According to Business Insider, Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Nuance has announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, NVIDIA's NVentures, South Park Commons, and Define Ventures. Founded last year by three former Apple researchers, Nuance aims to develop multimodal AI models with enhanced emotional understanding capabilities. The company completed a $10 million seed round led by Accel in July of last year.
AI company Discovery Loop, co-founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, sees valuation surge to $50 billion within weeks
Odaily reports: Sources familiar with the matter say that Discovery Loop, an AI startup co-founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, is in talks for a new funding round, with its valuation having climbed to $50 billion—five times higher than the roughly $10 billion valuation target from just weeks ago.Discovery Loop's other three co-founders are Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The company focuses on using AI to run thousands of experiments in parallel to accelerate the pace of scientific and engineering research. Its first funding round was led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and others. (Business Insider)
The US government has sold the Anthropic shares held by two former FTX executives. The buyer and the use of proceeds remain undisclosed.
According to Business Insider, the federal government previously seized Anthropic shares held by FTX fraud case co-conspirators Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh (valued at $10 million and $40 million, respectively) and sold them in 2025 to existing Anthropic investors. As Anthropic's valuation surged to $96.5 billion, the estimated value of these shares at the time of sale ranged from $250 million to $1.1 billion. However, there has been no record of the proceeds being transferred to the FTX bankruptcy liquidation account, leaving it unclear whether the funds will be used to compensate millions of FTX victims.
Ethena Foundation plans to end monthly investor unlocks; after USDe reaches its milestone, 95% of net revenue will be used to repurchase ENA.
According to Crowdfund Insider, the Ethena Foundation has announced a series of adjustments to mitigate selling pressure from early investor unlocks. The foundation has completed over-the-counter buybacks of the remaining locked ENA tokens held by certain large seed round investors and agreed with major investors to terminate their remaining vesting schedules early. Starting October 5, no investor tokens will remain subject to lock-up, while team tokens will maintain their original lock-up and vesting terms.
Waymo Founder Sebastian Thrun Announces Founding of New Robotics Startup Dulo
According to Business Insider, Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun announced the founding of new robotics startup Dulo at the San Francisco robotics conference Actuate; the company is currently still in stealth mode. According to a webpage hosted by Stanford University, Dulo is dedicated to building a "foundation model for hardware design," with the goal of achieving "hyper-fast manufacturing." The team includes core talent from Waymo, Google Brain, and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Thrun did not disclose funding details, product details, or launch timeline. Notably, in the first quarter of 2026, financing in the physical AI sector reached a record $16.3 billion.
Bitcoin miner MARA pledges 18,750 BTC for $750 million loan to expand AI and energy infrastructure
Odaily News – Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings disclosed in its latest quarterly SEC filing that it has pledged 18,750 BTC as collateral for two Bitcoin-backed loans, totaling $750 million in principal.Among these, financing provided by Coinbase Credit includes a refinancing of the original $150 million credit facility plus an additional $300 million in new funds; Two Prime Lending separately provided a $300 million loan. Both loans have been fully drawn, with a combined financing cost of approximately 7.56%, primarily maturing in August 2028.The pledged 18,750 BTC were valued at approximately $1.2 billion at the time of the transaction. If a decline in Bitcoin's price pushes the collateral ratio below the agreed level, MARA could face margin call requirements; otherwise, the related BTC may be subject to liquidation risk.The new funds will mainly be used for general corporate purposes and to support MARA's acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power. The transaction has an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion. Long Ridge owns a natural gas power plant in Ohio, USA, with an expected installed capacity of 505 MW, along with over 1,600 acres of industrial land. MARA plans to further develop the site into a base for Bitcoin mining, AI, and high-performance computing infrastructure. (Crowdfund Insider)
3 Insider Trading Investigations Approved, CFTC Involves Polymarket Biden Pardon, Iran War, and Google Contracts
Odaily News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has previously secretly approved 3 insider trading investigations into Polymarket trading, involving Biden pardon, Iran war, and Google-related event contracts. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig approved an investigation in May into contracts related to the Biden pardon, after a trader had profited over $300,000 from the related market; in the same month, the CFTC also approved an investigation into Iran war contracts, after a group of suspicious accounts was exposed for profiting $2.4 million with a win rate of approximately 98%. In July, the CFTC further launched an investigation into Google-related Polymarket contracts, focusing on individuals who may have used non-public information about Google's 2025 search rankings to trade. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is also conducting a parallel investigation, and Polymarket stated that it has referred the relevant matters to law enforcement and is cooperating with the investigation.
Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Investigates Huatai Financial Holdings' Hong Kong Office: Case Involves Clients Using Insider Information to Short Futu and Tiger Brokers
According to reports from Caixin, multiple sources revealed that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has visited the offices of Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) located at The Center in Central to conduct an investigation, with some employees questioned. The inquiry stems from the possibility that certain clients' trades at the securities firm may be connected to the insider trading incident involving US stock options at Futu Holdings and Tiger Brokers in May this year. Late yesterday evening, a source close to Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) stated that the SFC's investigation has nothing to do with the company itself and only involves individual clients. Unlike the mainland's securities trading regime, regulators in the Hong Kong market cannot directly see through to the trading activities of brokerage clients from the exchange. Therefore, investigating improper trading practices by broker clients typically requires cooperation from the securities firms. Previously reported, the Futu-Tiger options insider trading case has identified 45 individuals, with combined illicit profits totaling $155 million.
Ondo Finance Appoints Former Global Financial Markets Association Executive Allison Parent as Chief Policy Officer
According to Crowdfund Insider, Ondo Finance has appointed Allison Parent as Chief Policy Officer to engage with policymakers and regulators and advance regulatory and industry standards for tokenized assets. Parent previously served as an Executive Director at the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) for nearly 10 years. Her career also includes roles as Head of Global Policy and Strategy at Barclays, Senior Policy Advisor and Market Legal Counsel at the Bank of England, and General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, where she contributed to landmark post-financial crisis legislation such as the Dodd-Frank Act.
US CFTC Fines Former White House Aides $172,000 in Insider Trading Contract Case
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Gabriel Perez was ordered to disgorge $107,539.02 in illicit profits and pay a $65,000 civil penalty, totaling approximately $172,000, for utilizing material nonpublic information obtained during his federal government tenure to trade presidential mention-type event contracts on prediction market platforms.
Garrett Jin: Bitcoin's $80K-$82.5K Range is a Key Resistance Zone, Short-Squeeze Momentum Hard to Sustain
Odaily News, Garrett Jin, proxy for the "BTC OG Insider Whale," analyzed that Bitcoin's latest breakout above $70,000 was driven by multiple bullish factors, including the U.S. Treasury's expanded bond buybacks, the SEC's proposed crypto asset regulatory framework, and the White House crypto summit. The current price has entered a dense overhead supply zone ranging from the mid-$60,000s to the low $80,000s, with the first resistance layer already showing signs of weakening.Garrett Jin pointed out that the significant accumulation of new cost basis in the mid-$60,000 area over the past two months has provided underlying support for this breakout. While the short-squeeze triggered by short liquidations could temporarily push Bitcoin above $80,000 in the near term, the $80,000 to $82,500 range is a critical resistance zone to watch, and the short-squeeze momentum is unlikely to persist. If the market can effectively absorb supply below $80,000 before a breakout, it would be more conducive to a healthier subsequent trend.On the same day, SK Hynix announced South Korea's largest-ever stock buyback and cancellation plan, committing to return at least 50% of its projected free cash flow through 2027 to shareholders. Its shares surged over 10% at one point, triggering a buy-side circuit breaker on South Korea's KOSPI index. Analysts believe this move could alleviate market concerns over declining risk appetite for Korean semiconductor stocks, but it cannot alter the cyclical trajectory of the memory chip industry itself.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill restricting lawmakers from trading stocks
According to Politico, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday aimed at restricting members of Congress and their families from trading stocks. However, the bill faced division within the Democratic Party, as some Democrats argued it lacked sufficient strength. The legislation, named the "Stop Insider Trading Act," is the first congressional stock trading ban bill to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. It ultimately passed with a vote of 232 to 198, with 13 Democratic lawmakers voting in favor. Among the total 93 lawmakers who co-sponsored the bill, only two were Democrats. Another, more restrictive bill—which would require lawmakers and their families to sell stocks they currently hold—garnered broader bipartisan support but failed to reach a full House vote. Most Democrats believe the passed measure is insufficient because it does not include a mandate to divest existing holdings. The bill will now be sent to the Senate for consideration. (Jinshi)
"1011 Insider Whale" Proxy: Bitcoin Could Face Downside Risk If It Continues to Linger Around $76,500
Garrett Jin, proxy for the "1011 Insider Whale," posted on X that the current situation for Bitcoin bulls is "not very optimistic," and that he does not want BTC to continue staying above $76,500.Garrett Jin believes that the longer the price stays at this level, the greater the likelihood that it will break below this support and seek support at lower levels; if BTC is to show a stronger trend, it needs to reclaim and hold above $78,300.
3 Insider Trading Investigations Approved, CFTC Involves Polymarket Biden Pardon, Iran War, and Google Contracts
Odaily News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has previously secretly approved 3 insider trading investigations into Polymarket trading, involving Biden pardon, Iran war, and Google-related event contracts. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig approved an investigation in May into contracts related to the Biden pardon, after a trader had profited over $300,000 from the related market; in the same month, the CFTC also approved an investigation into Iran war contracts, after a group of suspicious accounts was exposed for profiting $2.4 million with a win rate of approximately 98%. In July, the CFTC further launched an investigation into Google-related Polymarket contracts, focusing on individuals who may have used non-public information about Google's 2025 search rankings to trade. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is also conducting a parallel investigation, and Polymarket stated that it has referred the relevant matters to law enforcement and is cooperating with the investigation.
“1011 Insider Whale” Proxy Closes $107 Million BTC Long Position
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember CN’s monitoring, Garrett Jin, the proxy for the “1011 Insider Whale,” has just closed a $107 million BTC long position, totaling 1,331 BTC.
“1011 Insider Whale” Agent: Most “Traders” Missed This BTC Rally, Near-Term Resistance May Be at $82,500
Odaily News, the agent of the “1011 Insider Whale,” Garrett Jin, stated on the X platform that most “traders” missed this Bitcoin rally. When BTC dropped to $76,000, they advised waiting for $75,000, yet Bitcoin successfully held $76,600 and broke through $79,000, while also exploring higher highs. However, it is currently encountering resistance near the $82,500 level. Garrett Jin also noted that these traders are now suggesting taking profits at $85,000, and joked, “I doubt they are actually trading.”
“1011 Insider Whale” Agent: Bitcoin Holds Key Support at $76.6K, Year-End Outlook Remains Cautiously Optimistic
Odaily News – In the latest weekly report, Garrett Jin, agent for the “1011 Insider Whale,” stated that despite oil prices rising to around $95 this week, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield breaking above 4.8%, and market expectations for a September Fed rate hike climbing to approximately 70%, Bitcoin has held its key support at $76,600 and has since recovered to above $77,000.Garrett noted that the $75,000 to $80,000 range has formed a substantial new cost basis, providing firmer support for the market. If Bitcoin closes above $82,500 on the daily chart and subsequently holds around $80,000 during a pullback, it would signal that the market is absorbing selling pressure and gearing up for further strength. Conversely, if the daily close falls below $76,600—accompanied by weakness in at least two of the following metrics: ETF flows, Coinbase premium, and 7-day net realized profit/loss—it would constitute a clearer downside warning.On the capital front, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of approximately $3.5 billion in August, but September opened with two-way flows, recording net outflows of around $237 million on Tuesday. Garrett believes that Bitcoin holding key support amid heightened macro rate pressures suggests recent spot demand is not entirely driven by short-squeeze dynamics. He maintains a constructive outlook for Bitcoin's performance toward year-end, though he notes that future trajectory will depend on whether U.S. Treasury yields can halt their sustained upward trend.
The US government has sold the Anthropic shares held by two former FTX executives. The buyer and the use of proceeds remain undisclosed.
According to Business Insider, the federal government previously seized Anthropic shares held by FTX fraud case co-conspirators Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh (valued at $10 million and $40 million, respectively) and sold them in 2025 to existing Anthropic investors. As Anthropic's valuation surged to $96.5 billion, the estimated value of these shares at the time of sale ranged from $250 million to $1.1 billion. However, there has been no record of the proceeds being transferred to the FTX bankruptcy liquidation account, leaving it unclear whether the funds will be used to compensate millions of FTX victims.
Waymo Founder Sebastian Thrun Announces Founding of New Robotics Startup Dulo
According to Business Insider, Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun announced the founding of new robotics startup Dulo at the San Francisco robotics conference Actuate; the company is currently still in stealth mode. According to a webpage hosted by Stanford University, Dulo is dedicated to building a "foundation model for hardware design," with the goal of achieving "hyper-fast manufacturing." The team includes core talent from Waymo, Google Brain, and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Thrun did not disclose funding details, product details, or launch timeline. Notably, in the first quarter of 2026, financing in the physical AI sector reached a record $16.3 billion.
Microsoft Excel's COPILOT function will no longer be supported on September 14.
Microsoft Excel's COPILOT function will cease support on September 14. This feature allows users to describe requirements in natural language and invoke Copilot to generate results. It was tested for Frontier and Insider users in August last year and was originally planned to launch in January 2027. Microsoft decided to deprecate it because Copilot already has multiple interaction entry points, such as floating action buttons and sidebars, and does not recommend users use this function for numerical calculations.
Bitcoin miner MARA pledges 18,750 BTC for $750 million loan to expand AI and energy infrastructure
Odaily News – Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings disclosed in its latest quarterly SEC filing that it has pledged 18,750 BTC as collateral for two Bitcoin-backed loans, totaling $750 million in principal.Among these, financing provided by Coinbase Credit includes a refinancing of the original $150 million credit facility plus an additional $300 million in new funds; Two Prime Lending separately provided a $300 million loan. Both loans have been fully drawn, with a combined financing cost of approximately 7.56%, primarily maturing in August 2028.The pledged 18,750 BTC were valued at approximately $1.2 billion at the time of the transaction. If a decline in Bitcoin's price pushes the collateral ratio below the agreed level, MARA could face margin call requirements; otherwise, the related BTC may be subject to liquidation risk.The new funds will mainly be used for general corporate purposes and to support MARA's acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power. The transaction has an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion. Long Ridge owns a natural gas power plant in Ohio, USA, with an expected installed capacity of 505 MW, along with over 1,600 acres of industrial land. MARA plans to further develop the site into a base for Bitcoin mining, AI, and high-performance computing infrastructure. (Crowdfund Insider)
Lovable completes $400 million Series C funding round, valuation doubles to $13.3 billion
Odaily News: AI software development startup Lovable has announced the completion of a $400 million Series C funding round, led by Menlo Ventures, with Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, co-leading. The company's valuation now stands at $13.3 billion, doubling from the $6.6 billion valuation at its December funding round. Lovable co-founder and CEO Anton Osika stated that the company's annual recurring revenue has nearly tripled since December. In March, Lovable disclosed that its annual recurring revenue had reached $400 million, up from $300 million a month earlier and $200 million at the end of 2025. Lovable helps users build software through natural language prompts. The company says that since its launch in November 2024, over 60 million projects have been created on the platform. (Business Insider)
"1011 Insider Whale" Representative: SK Hynix Rebound May Be Short Covering, AI Storage Cycle Enters Return Verification Stage
"1011 Insider Whale" representative Garrett Jin released a weekly analysis stating that while he previously suggested gradually positioning in memory chips and buying on dips, the market did not experience the expected pullback. He has sold half of his previous rebound positions during the surge, not because the investment logic has changed, but due to concerns regarding the capital structure driving the rise, stating, "This looks more like a short squeeze than a final confirmation of fundamentals by the market." Rapid capital covering short positions can create short-term gains for memory chip stocks like SK Hynix, but cannot sustain the trend alone. Risks associated with Korean leveraged ETFs have not been fully released, but the decline in asset size is mainly due to NAV shrinkage rather than investor exit. Currently, cumulative net subscriptions for related financial products remain at historic highs and have not turned negative. Garrett Jin emphasized that the decline in Korean leveraged ETF size does not indicate market bearishness on memory demand. SK Hynix's 2026 capacity is already sold out, and Micron's orders are covered until 2028, with demand remaining strong through the second half of 2027. However, the memory industry is essentially still cyclical. Stock prices have already surged by hundreds of percentage points in advance, and cyclical stocks are typically difficult to sustain long-term growth driven solely by valuation expansion. The current market is entering a new phase of the AI capital expenditure cycle, shifting from "rewarding investment" to "evaluating investment returns." Regarding Bitcoin, Garrett Jin stated it continues to meet the bottoming conditions established since the July lows, and he currently maintains the position view established near $60,000.
AI personal assistant company Pally completes $5.2 million in funding, led by Cyber Fund and Y Combinator
Odaily Odaily News: AI personal assistant startup Pally has announced the completion of a $5.2 million funding round, led by Cyber Fund and Y Combinator, with participation from Pioneer Fund, Founders Inc, 468 Capital, and angel investors. The company is valued at $30 million and primarily provides AI personal assistant services through an SMS interface. Pally was launched in 2025, with its latest version released in June, and can sync with platforms such as Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Granola, and Notion. After user authorization, Pally can book flights, manage inboxes, reply to messages, and reserve restaurant tables. Pally uses Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, as well as open-source models such as Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2. Co-founder Haz Hubble stated that the company will not sell user data or use related data to train models. (Business Insider)
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"The Big Short" Michael Burry: AI Giants' Calls to Slow Development Are "Self-Serving" Moves
According to Business Insider, Michael Burry, the real-life inspiration behind the film The Big Short and a prominent short seller, has heavily criticized the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic for their call to "slow down AI R&D," accusing their approach of being highly self-serving. Burry cited four core reasons: large language models are not true AI, shielding vested interests, generating hype for an IPO, and concealing the dilemma of stagnant growth. He further argued that this so-called "proactive push to slow down" is simply a smokescreen to mask the fact that the sector’s decelerating growth is spiraling out of control and that its IPO timelines have inevitably been delayed.
AI company Nuance completes $50 million Series A round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
According to Business Insider, Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Nuance has announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, NVIDIA's NVentures, South Park Commons, and Define Ventures. Founded last year by three former Apple researchers, Nuance aims to develop multimodal AI models with enhanced emotional understanding capabilities. The company completed a $10 million seed round led by Accel in July of last year.
AI company Discovery Loop, co-founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, sees valuation surge to $50 billion within weeks
Odaily reports: Sources familiar with the matter say that Discovery Loop, an AI startup co-founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, is in talks for a new funding round, with its valuation having climbed to $50 billion—five times higher than the roughly $10 billion valuation target from just weeks ago.Discovery Loop's other three co-founders are Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The company focuses on using AI to run thousands of experiments in parallel to accelerate the pace of scientific and engineering research. Its first funding round was led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and others. (Business Insider)
"1011 Insider Whale" Proxy: Bitcoin Could Face Downside Risk If It Continues to Linger Around $76,500
Garrett Jin, proxy for the "1011 Insider Whale," posted on X that the current situation for Bitcoin bulls is "not very optimistic," and that he does not want BTC to continue staying above $76,500.Garrett Jin believes that the longer the price stays at this level, the greater the likelihood that it will break below this support and seek support at lower levels; if BTC is to show a stronger trend, it needs to reclaim and hold above $78,300.
3 Insider Trading Investigations Approved, CFTC Involves Polymarket Biden Pardon, Iran War, and Google Contracts
Odaily News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has previously secretly approved 3 insider trading investigations into Polymarket trading, involving Biden pardon, Iran war, and Google-related event contracts. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig approved an investigation in May into contracts related to the Biden pardon, after a trader had profited over $300,000 from the related market; in the same month, the CFTC also approved an investigation into Iran war contracts, after a group of suspicious accounts was exposed for profiting $2.4 million with a win rate of approximately 98%. In July, the CFTC further launched an investigation into Google-related Polymarket contracts, focusing on individuals who may have used non-public information about Google's 2025 search rankings to trade. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is also conducting a parallel investigation, and Polymarket stated that it has referred the relevant matters to law enforcement and is cooperating with the investigation.
“1011 Insider Whale” Proxy Closes $107 Million BTC Long Position
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember CN’s monitoring, Garrett Jin, the proxy for the “1011 Insider Whale,” has just closed a $107 million BTC long position, totaling 1,331 BTC.