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According to Mars Finance, Apple will increase its spending on its partnership with Broadcom, an agreement expected to exceed $30 billion and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips. (Cailian Press)
Naver's $9.9 billion stock swap deal with Dunamu has been delayed again until the end of the year, while South Korea's digital asset law remains unresolved.
According to BlockBeats, on July 7, Naver Financial and Dunamu postponed the completion date of their full share swap transaction to December 31, marking the second delay in the deal. The deal to merge Dunamu, the operator of South Korea's largest crypto exchage Upbit, into Naver's financial sector was originally scheduled to close on September 30. Dunamu disclosed a new timeline on the 6th through corrections to its initial filing last November, but incomplete digital asset legislation and pending antitrust reviews remain major uncertainties. The company has postponed its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders from August 18 to November 19, and the shareholder confirmation date has been reset to October 22. Several government approvals are still required before the transaction can be completed, including approval from the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for the merger, approval for the change of Naver Financial's largest shareholder under credit information regulations, and acceptance of the filing for the change of Dunamu's largest shareholder under specific financial transaction information laws. Dunamu stated that progress at any of these stages could further extend the timeline or even cause the transaction to change. Dunamu also pointed out that the Digital Assets Basic Law, currently under consideration in Congress, is a real variable affecting the progress and outcome of transactions. As this bill is being enacted, regulators are also simultaneously considering implementing bank-style no-fault liability rules for exchanges, requiring platforms to compensate users for losses caused by hacker attacks.
AKE dealers continued to sell 9.825 billion AKE tokens, causing AKE to fall 33% today.
According to Odaily Odaily, based on monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, three days ago, AKE market makers transferred 3.944 billion AKE tokens, worth $1.22 million, to Binance Alpha for on-chain selling. AKE fell 40% that day, from $0.0005 to $0.0003. In the past few hours today, AKE market makers continued to transfer 9.825 billion AKE tokens, worth $2.24 million, to Binance Alpha and sold them on-chain, causing AKE to fall another 33%, from $0.0003 to $0.0002.
SpaceX's Colossus data center faces shutdown order, putting a $45 billion deal at risk.
According to Odaily sources, a lawsuit is seeking a court order for SpaceX to shut down the gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center, arguing that they are operating without the necessary permits. This lawsuit could jeopardize parts of SpaceX's $45 billion contract with Anthropic. A lower court will likely order the turbines to be shut down while permits are being obtained, but may also grant SpaceX some time to comply with the regulations.
MIRA, an open-source 5B multiplayer world model, uses DINOv3 representation to mitigate long-term drift and can simulate 2v2 battles in Rocket League in real time.
According to Beating, AI research firm General Intuition, in collaboration with French AI lab Kyutai and Epic Games, has launched MIRA, a multiplayer interactive world model. As a generative game simulator supporting real-time multiplayer interaction, MIRA can simulate 2v2 battles in Rocket League in real time, based solely on historical footage and player button presses, without requiring a physics engine, rendering engine, or explicit 3D representation for inference. Unlike the "decoupling of logic computation and image rendering" approach adopted by companies like Odyssey, MIRA takes a generative simulation approach based on video latent space. MIRA boasts 5 billion parameters, and its core design builds the latent prediction space on a frozen general-purpose visual encoder, DINOv3-L. Leveraging pre-trained visual features, the generated latent states can more stably fall within the effective representation space, significantly mitigating image drift and divergence during long-term prediction. For multi-screen alignment, MIRA stitches the latent images from four player perspectives into a unified grid, enabling spatial attention mechanisms to operate naturally across viewpoints and improving the spatial consistency of vehicles, the soccer ball, and key events across multiple perspectives. The Action Dropout introduced during training also helps the system complete the game behavior of vehicles not controlled by commands when parts of the motion flow are missing. Currently, MIRA can run in real time at 20 frames per second on a single NVIDIA B200 graphics card. The team has open-sourced the training and inference code and released the Rocket Science dataset, which contains 1,000 hours of matches, approximately 4,000 hours of video, motion flow, and physics data from four perspectives; the complete training of the model used approximately 10,000 hours of clean match data.
Data: Strategy currently has a paper loss of $11.341 billion, and Bitmine has a paper loss of $9.406 billion.
According to Mars Finance, on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) sold 3,588 BTC ($216 million) last week at a price of $60,197. They now hold 843,775 BTC ($52.343 billion), with an average cost of $75,476, resulting in a paper loss of $11.341 billion (-17.8%). Ethereum treasury company Bitmine (BMNR) bought 42,197 ETH ($69.03 million) last week at approximately $1,636. They now hold a total of 5,742,237 ETH ($10.037 billion), with an average cost of $3,386, resulting in a paper loss of $9.406 billion (-48.4%).