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Du Jun retorted to Li Bojie: Entrepreneurs and job seekers alike need to understand their place; no one is going to pay for your success.
According to Beating's monitoring, Du Jun, co-founder of ABCDE Capital, issued another clarification in response to Li Bojie's accusations of insufficient investment funds. Du Jun stated that the agreed-upon $1.5 million was originally intended as an initial payment of $500,000, with subsequent payments depending on project progress. However, the Metagent team not only fell short of expectations but also failed to provide investors with financial statements for 10 months. Furthermore, Li Bojie stopped responding to inquiries in July 2024 and deleted his Telegram account, becoming unreachable. Du Jun emphasized that his statement was not a legal action, but rather an expression of the belief that everyone should fulfill their current role: when starting a business, one should be responsible to investors; when seeking employment, one should respect interview rules and not expect everyone to pay for their past achievements and accolades.
OpenAI Open Source Plant Talk: Connect your potted plant to your microphone and sensors for real-time chat.
According to Beating's monitoring, the OpenAI open-source educational project Plant Talk combines Realtime API, multimodal vision models, and Arduino microcontrollers to enable indoor plants to have environmental perception and voice dialogue capabilities. The project supports low-latency, full-duplex voice dialogue with plants via a computer camera and microphone, and can connect to a capacitive soil moisture sensor and an LM393 photosensor via Arduino. The plant's AI character (such as the default character George) obtains hardware data through function calling. When a user asks if the plant needs water or light, the AI calls tools to read real-time physical indicators, combines this with images captured by the camera to estimate the plant's dryness, number of branches, and maximum span (supporting the use of a 25-cent coin as a size comparison), and responds in a human-like plant voice. In terms of security and interface design, the backend Express server securely delegates WebRTC connection security to the frontend by requesting a temporary client key (Ephemeral Token), preventing the leakage of the API master key on the client side. Visual recognition and timed observation use the Responses API combined with Zod mode to achieve structured output. The codebase also includes a built-in operation guide for AI agents AGENTS.md, which guides the AI assistant step by step to help users complete the software environment configuration and hardware assembly.
The Payment & Clearing Association of China issued a warning to prevent cross-border gambling fraud involving virtual currency top-ups.
Odaily Odaily reports that the Payment & Clearing Association of China has issued a warning about preventing cross-border gambling scams involving virtual currency top-ups. The aim is to help the public raise their awareness of fraud prevention and gambling resistance, and improve their ability to identify and combat scams. The Association reminds the public that cross-border gambling is a losing proposition, and participating in gambling through virtual currencies is more concealed and risky. Participating in gambling or providing fund settlement services for gambling activities are illegal and violate regulations. Do not participate in virtual currency gambling transactions and safeguard your financial security.
CZ liked a tweet about donating MEME coin TCC, briefly pushing TCC's market capitalization above $72 million.
BlockBeats reported on July 6th that crypto community user ddotaek posted that he had switched from the Solana chain's MEME coin market, where he had been repeatedly scammed, to the BNB chain. He believes the BNB ecosystem "truly supports builders and long-term projects," citing advantages such as "no rugs, no Sybil manipulation, and a clean launch (I have verified the pre-launch situation)." He also mentioned that the project team @TCryptochicks donated 10 million TCC tokens to GiggleAcademy (an educational charity project founded by CZ). CZ subsequently replied and liked the tweet, boosting market sentiment and briefly pushing TCC's market capitalization above $72 million before it has since fallen back to around $54 million. Previously, the "Giggle" token received public approval and a share from CZ in September 2025 through a donation to GiggleAcademy, causing its market value to surge to over $100 million. CZ himself stated that "this completely changed my view on MEME coins." However, he subsequently clarified multiple times that the tokens were not officially issued by GiggleAcademy, warning holders to be wary of subsequent selling pressure. BlockBeats reminds users: Most MEME coins lack real-world use cases and experience significant price volatility. Please protect your assets and avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).