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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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Crypto · lede

Bitcoin tops $60K amid Fed inflation talks: Is bull trap or $65K next?

Bitcoin rallied above $60,000 despite Federal Reserve rate hike fears and steady outflows from the BTC spot ETFs. Is the rally a bull trap?

CoinTelegraph · about 1 hour ago

AI · lede

I extended Gemma4-31B to 44B (88 layers) — since Google won't give us anything bigger than 31B

I've been just sit on this thread for a while now, both as a reader and occasional poster, so I figured it was finally time to share something I've been working on last weekends. Google hasn't shippe

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 14 minutes ago

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Real production service that uses LLM to earn money my team had made and now we are so happy that it will die. Here are some of my final "experiences".CryptoCircle CEO says Open USD must break USDC’s network effect before its 140 backers matterCryptoBitcoin bounces off 21-month low, but leverage data signals caution: Was $57K the bottom?AIZCode: New Agentic Code Editor from the Makers of GLMCryptoLongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All AlongCryptoHere’s what happened in crypto todayCryptoAI’s Bitcoin Moment: Why the Open-Source Fight Looks Like Crypto Back in 2014CryptoBitcoin starts H2 in a bear market as ETFs, Fed and Strategy set $100K-or-$50K testCryptoXapo Bank Review: Premium Bitcoin Banking for Global USD UsersAIAnyone using TensTorrent gpus for your local ai? 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June 2026AIgemma-4-31B on Cerebras is better than ChatGPT voice modeCryptoCantor says bitcoin bear market may be entering final stretchCryptoForward Industries Shares Spike as Leading Solana Treasury Adds $38 Million in SOLCryptoGoliath Ventures CEO pleads guilty in $400 million crypto Ponzi caseCryptoSEC and CFTC crypto plans face new risk from Supreme Court rulingCryptoSEC’s Peirce Sees Clarity Act Passing This Summer as Crypto Rules Take ShapeAISWE-rebench leaderboard update: GLM-5.2, Qwen3.6-27B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Gemma 4 31B and more + improved UICryptoBitcoin breaks above $60,000 after Fed Chair Warsh said inflation risks has come downCryptoFrench banking giant Crédit Agricole launches EURXT euro stablecoinAII mapped which local LLMs actually fit each RAM tier, 8 to 128GB (open dataset)CryptoEthLabs launches as Ethereum undergoes its biggest leadership transition in years CryptoTaiwan Passes Crucial Crypto Law With Licensing Rules, Stablecoin FrameworkCryptoEurope's MiCA rollout sparks debate over who wins under new crypto rulesCryptoEurope is closing the door on offshore crypto, but it’s leaving the riskiest window openCryptoFrench banking giant Crédit Agricole rolls out euro stablecoin, EURXTCryptoMorpho poised to scale as DeFi infrastructure play, Standard Chartered saysAIDeepseek V4 Flash 2, 3 and 4 bits GGUFsCryptoEthereum gets a new nonprofit focused on institutional adoptionCryptoCiti slashes 12-month bitcoin, ether targets as ETF flows dry upCryptoBank of Korea governor outlines tokenized bond vision, unified ledger planCryptoTokenized Google stock inflated 7,700% in rare DeFi lending exploitCryptoMiCA’s July 1 deadline is Europe’s first crypto user-migration test – OKX interviewCrypto‘We are bullish on Morpho’: Standard Chartered sees token at $60 by 2030, outperforming bitcoin and etherCryptoPanther Hollow launches multi-strategy merchant bank focused on compliant RWA and yield strategiesCryptoBernstein sees 203% upside for Circle even as new stablecoin rival OUSD debutsCryptoThe Cross-Asset Frontier: Tokenized Equities and Stock Trading on Crypto PlatformsAINon Us Ally should be afraid.CryptoCircle CEO touts USDC's network advantage as OUSD emergesCryptoMorning Minute: Major New Stablecoin Launch Shakes IncumbentsCryptoLast-minute MiCA approvals mark end of EU transition periodCryptoAustralia’s new crypto transfer rules to make exchange withdrawals pass through identity checksCryptoTaiwan Passes Sweeping Crypto Law With Licensing, Stablecoin RulesCryptoSymbiotic officially pivots to collateral markets with Core V2 launchCryptoCrypto hack theft falls 7% in June to $76 million as Humanity Protocol tops list: PeckShieldCryptoBitcoin’s $57K slide puts my $49K cycle-low thesis in play unless bulls reclaim $60KCryptoEurope’s MiCA crypto regime is fully in force: Here’s who wins and losesCryptoRipple, Coinbase among top donors in crypto’s $189 million election spending: reportCryptoGoliath Ventures CEO Pleads Guilty to $250M Crypto Ponzi SchemeAIHugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AIAIQuoting AnthropicCryptoTrump Discloses Over $1.2 Billion in Crypto Earnings, $50M in Bitcoin HoldingsAINano Banana 2 LiteAIWhat's new in Claude Sonnet 5AIScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework MigrationAIThe AI CompassAIHave your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper videoAIshot-scraper 1.10AIWhy Specialization Is InevitableAIFeaturing Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model PagesAIHTML table extractorAICount the number of Safari tabsAIDiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributionsAIOrnith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic CodingAIImport AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human eraAIQuoting Jon UdellAIHack Your SummerAILatest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystemAIUsing Local Coding AgentsAIQuoting Dean W. 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