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The total investment in Meta Louisiana data centre will exceed $250 billion

On 13 July, Meta Platforms pledged an additional $40 billion to its large data centre campus in Louisiana, United States, and the project ' s projected total investment will exceed $250 billion as the company continues to expand its artificial intelligence computing layout. Meta announced on Monday that the data centre project in rural areas of Louisiana would be expanded to at least 5 GW, with a total investment of $50 billion. Previously, the company had announced that it would invest $10 billion to build the data centre and surrounding communities. In May this year, it was reported that Meta planned to invest an additional $200 billion in the project, mainly for the purchase of high-cost chips to be installed in the nearly 4,000 acres of the site. According to an informed source, this would bring the project ' s projected total investment to at least $250 billion. To date, Meta has not disclosed any specific expenditure for the project other than the $50 billion。

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QCP Capital: The situation in the United States and Iraq is intertwined with macro events, and markets are wary of continuing encryption fluctuations litres Wen

On 13 July, according to QCP Capital, 12 days after the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iraq, the prospects for a second round of negotiations were stymied by renewed military clashes between the two sides over the weekend and mutual accusations of violations of the 60-day ceasefire agreement. Oil prices remained close to $70, but were to recover slower than expected, they would remain at risk of upwards. With regard to the encryption market, the implicit volatility of the BTC, ETH, increased demand for the $55,000-58,000 BTC, due in July, continued net outflows of spot ETFs, Strategy-related concerns and US shareholdings have slowed market sentiment. However, the market also saw a large buyout of $64,000 on the 17-day maturity of the BTC to raise options. This week, the market will focus on Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s address at the ECB Forum, as well as data on ISM manufacturing PMI and non-farm employment in the United States, which are expected to remain high in the context of low pre-leave mobility。

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Grok, 4.5 on the Agent Endurance List, over 60% without a model

Grok 4.5 took the top of Agent's endurance list and performed 13 tasks, but more than 60 per cent of them were not performed by any model. The LHTB benchmarking test, issued by the team of telecommunication hybrids, comprises 46 tasks covering areas such as software engineering, experimental recurrence, scientific computing and multi-modular analysis. Each mission runs for a maximum of 90 minutes and usually requires hundreds of steps of continuous operation. LHTB is concerned not only with the ultimate success or failure, but also with the actual progress in part of the completion of the task. Hiding the certifier will check the file, test results and program output, and angent claims that it does not count. Fifteen models were tested in the first edition of the paper, of which GPT-5.5 completed 7 and ranked first. The current public results have been extended to 20 models, with Grok 4.5 peaking at an average score of 0.505. Of the 46 missions, 29 still did not have any models that met completion standards. Most agents have been able to complete some of the steps, but often spend 90 minutes or close early when they have not completed their tasks and cannot actually complete complex tasks。

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CHEON-ANN WILL BE DOWN ON JULY 17, 2026 FOR MORE THAN ONE BOND DEAL, INCLUDING 1 INCH/USDC

ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT, ON 17 JULY 2026, AT 14:00 (UTC+8), THE FOLLOWING BOND TRANSACTIONS WILL BE MADE: FULL-TIME TRANSACTIONS: 1 INCH/USDC, LPT/USDC, MAGIC/USDC, MASK/USDC, SUSHI/USDC; AND WAREHOUSE-TO-WARE TRANSACTIONS: USDP/USDT. SINCE 14 JULY 2026 AT 14:00 (UTC + 8), THE AFOREMENTIONED WAREHOUSE-TO-WARE LENDING SERVICES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. USERS ARE REQUIRED TO FLATTEN OR TRANSFER ASSETS MANUALLY BY 14:00 (UTC+8) ON JULY 17, 2026, WHEN THE SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY SETTLE AND CANCEL ALL SHEETS。

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QCP Capital: The situation in the United States of America and the United States of America and the effects of macro-factors, and the increased volatility of the encrypted market

According to QCP Capital, as a result of the situation in the Americas and the macro-level factors, there has been an increase in the volatility of the encrypted market, a continued high rate of implicit volatility of the BTC and ETH, and a combination of falling demand and rising buyouts in the BTC options market。

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Analyst: Dropped by $1,800 at the inn price, still targeting $2140

After the military escalation between the United States and Iran, the far-flung prices fell to a critical level of $1,800, with the current transaction price at approximately $1775, a decline of about 3.6 per cent over the daily high of $1837. As oil prices rose, investors withdrew from risky assets. Despite this, the buyer is still defending the US$ 1750 support. According to analyst Ali Martinez, a new rise in space would be opened if US$ 1850 were to be exceeded by the Taifaf。

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Cursor proposes to push General Work Agent “Sand”, against Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work

On 13 July, according to PYMNTS, Cursor, AI Encoding Tool, is developing a generic AI agent, code-named Sand, whose functions include responding to mail and text messages, organizing forms and processing engineering-related work, and positioning it as an office and business assistant for non-developers. According to the report, Cursor was intended to enrich the product line and was expected to support SpaceX AI ' s business; SpaceX had previously announced that it would acquire Cursor with a full share of approximately $60 billion, and that delivery was expected to be completed in three quarters, but Cursor had not yet made a final decision on whether to go on-line with the agent, route or be affected by the merger and acquisition process。

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K3 Capital Link Address and Abraxas Capital extracted more than 16,900 ETH from the exchange

On 13 July, according to the Lookonchain monitoring, the K3 Capital associated address extracted 10,000 ETH (approximately $17.85 million) from the currency an hour earlier; and Abrahams Capital extracted 6948 ETH (approximately $12.42 million) from the currency and Bitfinex during the same period. Together, they extracted more than 16,948 ETH, valued at approximately US$ 30,027 million。

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Goldman Sachs secretly controls American retirement funds

Goldman Sachs confirmed that on 9 July he had won a commission to manage retirement assets totalling $70 billion, involving two leading United States companies: Verizon and Lockheed Martin. The transaction consisted of approximately $30 billion in pension assets and about $40 billion in Willison ' s defined contribution to retirement assets (usually 401 (k) schemes). Goldman Sachs ' outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) operations managed approximately $48 billion in assets as at 31 March. This strategy of Goldman Sachs reflects the trend of outsourcing by United States enterprises in the management of retirement investments, especially in the face of complex portfolio management and growing demand for alternative assets。

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The YC partner Tom Blomfield announced his departure from Y Combinator to join Anthropic

On 13 July, the YC partner, Tom Blomfield, a former co-founder of Monzo, announced that he would take a temporary leave from Y Combinator to join Anthropic, a large model company, to work with Tom Brown in the computational team. He indicated that, as AI moved into the early phase of “retro-self-upgrading”, computing power was becoming one of the key issues, and that the transfer would focus on addressing challenges related to the availability of AI computing resources。

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Robinhood will introduce encryption AI Agent to U.S. users

On July 13th, Robinwood will launch the encryption AIAgent transaction to U.S. users. Eligible U.S. users will soon be able to connect their AI Agent to a dedicated Robinhood account, where AI Agent conducts encrypted transactions on behalf of the user and supports real-time profit and loss tracking and dispatch notifications. This function will support Agent, a third-party AI company such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Grok, and will be the next open-ended subject for British users。

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