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According to Qilu Evening News, a new type of virtual currency "staking mining" scam has recently emerged. Scammers create a perfect persona through long-term friendships on social platforms, chatting with victims for one to two months to build trust. They then guide victims to switch to overseas private communication software such as WhatsApp and Discord, inducing them to download fake mining platforms and sign contracts for authorization. Using the asset transfer permissions from the contracts, they quietly transfer funds from the victims' accounts in the background.The scammers never mention sensitive words like "investment" or "financial management," packaging the scam as "idle computing power staking mining," claiming zero risk and stable returns, and using small rebates to entice victims to increase their investments. Currently, most victims are young people with side job needs, with known losses exceeding 3 million yuan, and the highest individual loss exceeding 300,000 yuan. Victims are spread across many regions of the country. Lawyers remind that virtual currency transactions are not protected by law, and any strangers on social platforms inducing a switch to overseas software or requesting wallet authorization for unfamiliar contracts should be regarded as scams. Do not make secondary transfers.

Software company Strategy holds nearly 850,000 bitcoins, valued at just over $50 billion, with some recent purchases financed through debt and stock issuance. Michael Saylor's wealth has fluctuated with the price of bitcoin since he shifted the company to a bitcoin accumulation business in 2020. Michael Saylor stated that last year, with the help of an AI chatbot, he earned $15 billion through the company's issued bitcoin-backed preferred stock.The annual dividend yield of STRC issued by Strategy is 12%, and the recent price has rebounded to nearly $100, having dropped to about $75 in late June. Over the past year, the value of Strategy's common stock has decreased by about 80% alongside the price of bitcoin. The company recently sold some bitcoins to manage debt and dividend commitments and has established a $4 billion cash reserve to provide about two years of funding support for future financing. Michael Saylor also mentioned that last May, he used ChatGPT to conduct in-depth research to design the company's convertible preferred stock product.

On August 6, OpenAI first released usage data of ChatGPT across various countries, showing significant differences in usage across different scenarios, ages, and regions. In work scenarios, users utilizing ChatGPT for execution tasks (writing, editing, analyzing, etc.) accounted for over 50%, more than twice that of non-work scenarios; non-work scenarios are still primarily focused on "information retrieval." By age group, the proportion of messages from users over 35 years old globally increased by 5 percentage points year-on-year, with France and the Czech Republic seeing increases of over 10 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of European countries exceeded the global average increase, while some regions in Southeast Asia saw smaller increases.Regionally, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania are narrowing the gap with early adopters, with Peru, Uruguay, and Costa Rica showing the fastest rankings rise. Multimodal (such as image generation and analysis) is the fastest-growing use case, with its global share rising to 7.8%, exceeding 10% in countries like Brazil and Colombia. OpenAI stated that the relevant data has been made public through the OpenAI Signals platform, aimed at helping policymakers and researchers understand the usage trends of over 1 billion users.

According to Fortune magazine, Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, stated that artificial intelligence is changing the way wealth is created, and businesses and individuals should not try to compete with machines but should leverage AI to amplify their own capabilities. In an interview, Saylor mentioned that he used ChatGPT to help Strategy design a preferred stock financing plan based on Bitcoin, ultimately enabling the company to raise about $15 billion through an IPO and related financing. He stated, "AI helped me create $15 billion."Saylor believes that the core advantage of the AI era is not to repeatedly execute tasks that machines can accomplish, but to ask better questions and use AI to explore new opportunities that were previously unattainable. "Don't try to work harder than robots." In recent years, Saylor has pushed Strategy to allocate Bitcoin on a large scale, transforming the company from a traditional software enterprise into a publicly traded company with Bitcoin as its core asset. Although this strategy comes with higher risks, Saylor stated that significant innovations often require enduring volatility and continuously adjusting direction. He noted that the successful entrepreneurs of the future will be those who can combine AI with human creativity, rather than individuals trying to replace AI in completing tasks.

According to monitoring by Bubblemaps, several newly created wallets previously purchased CASCHAT worth millions of dollars, and then the token was listed on Robinhood two days later. Currently, the total paper profit of these wallets is approximately 3 million dollars.

An FBI agent, Patrick Yaroch, was arrested last Friday for allegedly stealing approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency from "hostile crypto accounts." According to the submitted affidavit, Yaroch is suspected of transferring the relevant assets starting from late 2024 or early 2025. Yaroch told investigators that he discovered some keys that allowed him to transfer funds from the digital wallet to himself. He expressed frustration at being unable to further prevent personnel related to "hostile nations" from using cryptocurrency and made about a dozen transfers.Department of Justice documents show that Yaroch admitted to a Department of Justice employee that he had "made some very bad decisions" regarding issues related to crypto wallets. In another interview with federal agents, he also acknowledged that he had "screwed up." Yaroch was previously a supervisory special agent in the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division and had earlier served in the FBI's Boston field office. The FBI terminated him on July 31. The investigation also indicated that Yaroch mixed personal funds with cryptocurrency assets and had used ChatGPT to inquire about how to handle these funds, including how to spend or invest $1 million and whether to leave the United States for a country in Europe.

According to The Block, MoonPay has launched the AI payment tool PayBox, allowing users to integrate it with ChatGPT or Claude, enabling the AI assistant to directly prepare payment transactions for booking flights, restaurants, or online shopping. Users can choose to require a passkey approval for each transaction or set a limit for the AI to complete transactions autonomously.PayBox integrates cryptocurrency wallets with payment cards, supporting cross-chain transactions based on the x402 smart entity payment standard. It initially supports Solana and EVM-compatible chains, including Ethereum, Hyperliquid, Tempo, Base, Robinhood Chain, Arbitrum, and Polygon, with plans to support more AI platforms and DeFi features, such as token exchanges and perpetual contract trading, within the next month.MoonPay states that wallet private keys are protected through multi-party computation (MPC) and trusted execution environments (TEE), ensuring that no single party (including MoonPay or the AI assistant itself) can independently access the complete private key or sign transactions; payment card information is processed and stored, allowing the AI entity to complete purchases without accessing the underlying card details; this system is built on the key management infrastructure acquired by MoonPay earlier this year from Sodot.

On July 29, Tibo, the product lead for OpenAI Codex, announced on X that all usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex users have been reset, and released a statement regarding the issue of rapid consumption of GPT-5.6 Sol usage.In the previous weeks, a large number of users reported that the consumption speed of Codex limits exceeded expectations. OpenAI emphasized that it has not reduced the usage quotas of any subscription plans. After investigation, several reasons were found: Sol is more inclined to work for longer periods, execute more tool calls, and coordinate complex workflows than previous models; it consumes more tokens at the same reasoning level; programmatic tool calls (code mode) allow Sol to execute tool calls in parallel, resulting in more responses and higher usage per round; the distribution of impact is extremely uneven, with median user efficiency being acceptable, but heavy users handling complex tasks consuming far more than expected.OpenAI stated that multiple improvements have been completed, and it is expected that usage endurance will be extended by about 18% in typical usage scenarios. Tomorrow, the five-hour limit that was paused during the investigation will be restored. OpenAI acknowledged that "capabilities and efficiency do not always improve synchronously, and some issues only become apparent after large-scale real-world use; we should have realized this earlier."

According to the official status page of OpenAI, the widespread issues that ChatGPT and Codex experienced have been resolved, with the error rate remaining elevated for over 1 hour.

According to social media reports, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing widespread outages.

Moonshot AI's latest flagship open-source model Kimi K3 is officially launched on B.AI Web Chat. Previously, B.AI had already completed the Kimi K3 API integration, and this Web Chat launch further lowers the usage threshold. Users can now directly experience the powerful capabilities of this world's first open-source 3T level model in long-range programming, complex reasoning, and deep knowledge work on the web.

OpenAI's programming agent Codex and office agent ChatGPT Work have a combined weekly active user count of 10 million. Just 9 days ago, it was 6 million. OpenAI subsequently reset the usage limits for paid users of both products.In March of this year, Codex had only 2 million weekly active users, and now the combined total for both products has expanded to 5 times.OpenAI had previously promised that for every additional 1 million users from 3 million to 10 million, the usage limits would be reset. This is the final milestone of this commitment.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block (formerly Square), announced the launch of the open-source decentralized group chat application Buzz, aimed at challenging team collaboration platforms like Slack. Buzz is built on the decentralized social protocol Nostr and is designed for teams composed of humans and AI agents, supporting chat, project management, coding, and PR collaboration.Block stated that the application is decentralized and open-source, allowing users to have full control over their data, and teams can collaborate with members and dedicated agents in a shared space.

B.AI announced that the entire series of GPT-5.6 models has officially landed on Web Chat. Previously, the B.AI API had already integrated the three models: GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna. Starting today, users no longer need to configure the API; they can log in to directly experience the complete capabilities, including chat Q&A, content creation, code writing, and complex reasoning. This full opening marks the all-scenario implementation of the new generation of models within the B.AI ecosystem, providing "out-of-the-box" intelligent services for developers and ordinary users. In the future, B.AI will continue to lower the barriers to using cutting-edge AI technology, facilitating efficient creation and decision-making.

According to the Financial Times, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that regulation of artificial intelligence in the financial sector is facing an "arms race" and urged for new powers to regulate ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

The chat application XChat under X has been launched on the Google Store, allowing users to directly chat privately with X friends after installation.Previously, XChat was launched on the App Store on April 25.

Global automated broker Interactive Brokers announced the expansion of its Agentic trading feature, adding access to ChatGPT and Grok on top of the existing integration with Claude.It is reported that users can securely connect to the aforementioned AI tools through their existing accounts, using natural language for portfolio exploration, market analysis, and generating trading instructions. At the same time, the platform has expanded the asset classes for generating trading instructions from stocks and ETFs to options, futures, and futures options. To ensure the safety of funds, the system will not share passwords or API keys with AI providers, and all AI-generated trading instructions must undergo final review and approval by the user on a dedicated "AI Instructions" page before being submitted to the market.

Samsung Electronics announced the deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all its employees in South Korea and employees in the global Device Experience (DX) department. This collaboration is one of OpenAI's largest enterprise-level deployments to date.It is reported that Samsung Electronics plans to widely apply these AI tools in core business areas such as software development, product research and development, marketing, and manufacturing, covering both technical and non-technical positions, to enhance employee productivity and problem-solving capabilities. This deployment also marks the expansion of Samsung's partnership with OpenAI from the early stage of AI infrastructure (advanced memory semiconductor supply) to the enterprise-wide AI office application level.