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Nous Research completed at least $75 million in financing

Nus Research, a start-up company behind the open-source AI smarts project Hermes, is completing a new round of financing of at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from Union Square Ventures (USV) and other well-known investment institutions, valued at $1.5 billion. Currently, Hermes has obtained approximately 214,000 Stars and nearly 40,000 Fork in GitHub, which can be deployed by developers on personal computers or virtual servers。

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Nebias sells over $1 billion to AI Startup Reflection AI

According to Bloomberg, Nebius Group, a cloud computing service provider, announced that an agreement had been reached with Reflecting AI, an artificial intelligence model development company, to sell it over $1 billion in computing capacity. According to the declarations of the parties, the agreement will remain in force until 2029 and Reflect AI will be provided with the arithmetical resources to use the NVIDIAGB300 AI chip to support the development of its artificial intelligence model。

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Nous Research raised $75 million for a $1.5 billion valuation

According to TechCrunch, citing three informed sources, Nus Research, the original company behind the open source AI angent Hermes, is raising at least $75 million from an estimated $1.5 billion valuation. The current round of financing was co-sponsored by Robert Leshner, founder of Compund, and Tarun Chitra, co-founder of Gautlet, with the participation of investors such as the United Square Ventures (USV), the encryption industry. The funds are intended to expand Hermes ' products and business models。

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Oil importers in Asia have shifted to supply in the United States because of risks in the Strait of Hormuz

WITH INCREASED RISK IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ASIAN BUYERS RESTARTED SPOT TRADING WITH UNITED STATES CRUDE OIL. AS TENSIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN HAVE ESCALATED AGAIN, HOPES FOR A RETURN TO THE FLOW OF CRUDE OIL THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ HAVE COME TO A HALT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK. AT LEAST THREE EXECUTIVES AND TRADERS INVOLVED IN UNITED STATES OIL SALES AND PROCUREMENT INDICATED TO BLOOMBERG THAT THEY HAD RELAUNCHED NEGOTIATIONS ON UNITED STATES SPOT CARGO. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE IRANIAN WAR, ASIAN REFINERIES HAVE SOUGHT TO DIVERSIFY THE SOURCES OF CRUDE OIL IMPORTS AND REDUCE THEIR DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EASTERN OIL. UNITED STATES CRUDE OIL EXPORTS HAVE REACHED RECORD HIGH LEVELS SINCE MARCH, WITH THE LATEST EIA DATA SHOWING A 15 PER CENT INCREASE IN UNITED STATES OIL EXPORTS IN APRIL OVER MARCH。

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IBM DROPPED OVER 13%

ON 14 JULY, IBM FELL ABOVE 13 PER CENT. THE COMPANY RECEIVED LESS THAN EXPECTED INITIALLY IN THE SECOND QUARTER. IBM COLLECTED PRELIMINARY DATA OF $17.2 BILLION FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, AN INCREASE OF 1 PER CENT AND AN ESTIMATE OF $17.86 BILLION; OF THIS, SOFTWARE REVENUES INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT; AND INFRASTRUCTURE REVENUES DECREASED BY 7 PER CENT. DILUTION OF $2.27 PER SHARE, A 2 PER CENT DECREASE OVER THE SAME PERIOD; AND OPERATING (NON-GAAP) $2.93, A 5 PER CENT INCREASE OVER THE SAME PERIOD。

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Kimura II: Amendments to the Financial Commodity Transactions Act will facilitate the transformation of the regulation of encrypted assets

At the Webx 2026 Forum, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan and Finance Member of the Partido Democrático Democrático de la Liberación de Saguía el-Hamra y de Liberación de Saguía el-Hamra y de Saguía el-Hamra y de Río Democracia (LDP), Jakuhara, stated that the amendments to the Financial Commodity Transactions Act, currently under consideration in Congress, would facilitate a further shift in the targeting of encrypted assets from means of payment to investment commodity regulation and lay the institutional foundation for the entry of block chains into the traditional financial system. Other participants, such as Kimura, said that the encryption asset ETF, the separation of proceeds from encrypted assets from other income and taxing them at about 20 per cent of the tax rate, and the possibility of allowing trade losses to be used to offset future profits, had helped to attract traditional financial institutions and institutional investors to markets, and had also discussed liability reserve requirements and the relaxation of the existing two-fold leverage limit。

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The capital expenditure of the five cloud plants next year is $1.2 trillion

On 14 July, Morgan Stanley released the latest research, which resulted in an overall 9/10 per cent increase in capital expenditure projections for 2027/2028 for five super-large cloud manufacturers, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google-C and SpaceX, to approximately $1.2 trillion and $1.4 trillion, respectively. The main drivers of the increase in capital expenditure include the increase in the cost of GPU by about 20 per cent, the extension of the data centre construction cycle to three years, which will increase from about 30 GW in 2025 to about 120 GW in 2028, while potential income spaces such as Meta and Amazon are far from being market-pricing。

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United States dollar and silver survey: a large number of global equities should consider the appropriate reduction to make most of the conductor's most crowded trade

On 14 July, the latest United States Bank fund manager survey showed that global investors who had recently acquired stocks on a large scale should consider reducing their holdings as appropriate. The United States bank strategist stated that the optimism of asset configurors had risen to a very high level, which was usually seen as a warning signal to the market. The survey showed that the cash holding ratio had fallen from 4.1 per cent of assets in the previous month to 3.6 per cent of the "very low level" and that the United States share had risen to a peak of 24 per cent since December 2024. In his report, the team, headed by Michael Harnett, wrote that “the U.S. Bank's ox and bear indicator rises to a very high level of 9.4, meaning that investors should lower the allocation of stocks and high-Beta assets”. The values for this indicator range from 1 to 10. According to the report, "the space for further increases in risk assets this summer may be limited by the already optimistic position of the market. * I'm sorry *

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DeepSeek's first round of finance is only one month after completion to consider launching a new round of finance

On 14 July, according to the British Financial Times, three informed sources revealed that DeepSeek was considering raising funds only one month after completion of the first round of financing to accelerate the expansion of its infrastructure. According to the source, the company completed its first round of financing around the end of May, amounting to approximately $7 billion, with a post-financing valuation of approximately $52 billion (including new fund-raising). Two of them said that DeepSeek had begun initial contacts with new investors this week to discuss the opening of a new round of financing, with a pre-trading valuation of approximately $71 billion, which meant that its valuation would be about 37 per cent higher than the previous round, although the details of the new round had not yet been finalized. According to informed sources, DeepSeek ' s rapid pace of financing stems mainly from the market ' s expectation of a significant increase in its capital expenditures, including the construction of its own data centre and the purchase of additional AI chips. In addition, the company is actively deploying the AI Agent (AI Agent), which is able to carry out its tasks on its own, which also contributes to a significant increase in the demand for computing power。

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QCP RELEASE 2026 Q3 DIGITAL ASSET OUTLOOK: WAITING FOR LIQUIDITY RATHER THAN NARRATIVE

On 14 July, according to the 2026 Q3 Digital Asset Outlook, published by QCP, the core of the Q3 encryption market was not a deterioration of fundamentals, but a lack of new liquidity-driven. BTC expects to maintain an inter-zone shock of between $60,000 and $75,000. Federal Reserve policy uncertainty, high real interest rates and weak ETF funding will continue to stifle; the AI block continues to attract institutional funds, and the BTC remains a high Beta liquidity asset. The BTC reserve needs of enterprises continue to provide long-term support, but the market is more concerned with financing capacity than with the size of the hold. QCP proposes to maintain the BTC core position, leverage and focus on ETF flows, stable currency supply and changes in real interest rates。

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How do you understand the Holway test? The 1946 rules determine which currencies are securities

The Holway test is a standard established by the United States Supreme Court in 1946 to determine which encrypted tokens are considered securities. The core of the test is to assess whether investors expect to earn profits through the efforts of others. With the development of the encryption market, attention has been paid to the applicability of the Howay test, in particular the possible replacement of this criterion by the Clarity Act。

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