Low funding rates and the absence of overly euphoric investor sentiment accompanied Bitcoin’s rally to new all-time highs, suggesting that much higher prices are in store. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s rally to new price highs happened as funding rates and trading sentiment remained unusually subdued. Rising stablecoin supply and global M2 growth indicate untapped liquidity and the potential for further price increases. Read more
DeLorean is launching an onchain reservation system and marketplace on Sui, giving users priority access to its upcoming electric vehicle. DeLorean launched an onchain reservation system and non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for its upcoming electric vehicle launch, introducing a new blockchain-based approach for reserving and reselling cars. According to DeLorean, its Build Slot NFT collection grants holders priority access to purchase DeLorean’s upcoming electric car, Alpha 5 EV. The model is the carmaker’s first vehicle in over 40 years, inspired by the iconic flux capacitor from the movie Back to the Future. The company created an exclusive marketplace for its NFT holders, in which users can buy or trade the NFTs using the USDC (USDC) stablecoin on the Sui network and will be able to earn rewards. Read more
Semiconductor exemptions from recent US tariffs are largely illusory. Most enter via finished products like servers, GPUs, laptops and phones. The supposed benefits of semiconductor exemptions are erased. Opinion by: Ahmad Shadid of O.xyz Semiconductors scored a rare exemption from US President Donald Trump’s aggressive reciprocal tariffs, but the relief is symbolic at best. Most semiconductors enter the US embedded in servers, GPUs, laptops, and smartphones. The finished goods remain heavily tariffed, some with duties reaching up to 49%. The exemption looks good politically but delivers little practical benefit. Nvidia’s DGX systems, crucial for training advanced AI models, do not fall under the exempted HTS codes. Nvidia could pay effective tariffs nearing 40% on these vital components. Such costs threaten to stall critical AI infrastructure projects across the country. Read more
OpenAI’s doomsday bunker plan, the “potential benefits” of propaganda bots, plus the best fake books you can’t read this summer. AI Eye.. In the last AI Eye, we reported that scientists from the four leading AI companies believe theres at least a 10% chance of AI killing around 50% of humanity in the next decade one scientist was buying farmland in the US Midwest so he could ride out the AI apocalypse. This week, it emerged that another doomsday prepper is OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. According to Empire of AI author Karen Hao, he told key scientists in mid-2023 that “we’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI.” Artificial General Intelligence is the vaguely defined idea for a sentient intelligence smarter than humans. The underground compound would protect the scientists from geopolitical chaos or violent competition between world powers once AGI was released. Read more