The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

On June 22nd, healthcare AI startup Prosper AI closed a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from investors including Base10 Partners, Emergence Capital, and Y Combinator. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to approximately $36.6 million. Prosper AI developed an AI voice assistant to streamline the full patient visit workflow, covering everything from appointment scheduling and insurance verification to payer communications and billing. To date, its platform has served over 150,000 healthcare providers nationwide. The firm points out that the U.S. healthcare system wastes more than $450 billion annually due to administrative inefficiencies. Prosper AI’s AI system centralizes key processes from appointments to payments on a single platform, reducing the costs providers incur when switching between disparate tools. Since its previous funding round last September, Prosper AI has seen revenue grow roughly fivefold and

June 22: Axios reports that MoonPay has acquired AI company Entendre to expand its artificial intelligence accounting business.

June 22, per market sources, Micron Technology has inked a memory and storage supply agreement with Anthropic to power the next generation of AI at scale.

June 22 — Bank of America now projects the Fed will raise interest rates three times this year, a fresh signal Wall Street is gearing up for more aggressive Fed policy tightening. The bank’s economists had previously anticipated the Fed would leave rates unchanged all year. They updated their outlook on the back of stronger-than-expected economic data and the Fed’s hawkish communications, which suggest a more proactive stance on curbing inflation. Bank of America’s forecast of three rate hikes remains a minority call: only 19% of market participants are currently betting on three hikes, up from just 3% a week earlier. Investors still see two rate hikes this year as the most probable outcome. (FXStreet)

On June 22, Bitget market data shows Micron Technology was up 5.51% in pre-market trading. In related news, Micron Technology has struck a memory and storage supply deal with Anthropic to advance the next generation of AI at scale.

**NVIDIA Announces Europe’s 35 Supercomputer Expansion, a Year’s Largest** June 22 (Report) — NVIDIA announced on Wednesday that Europe is building or deploying 35 artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputers across 23 countries and research institutions, marking the region’s largest supercomputer expansion project in the past 12 months. The systems leverage NVIDIA’s Blackwell and Hopper architectures, paired with the CUDA-X, NVIDIA NIM, and AI Enterprise software stacks, to support fields including climate science, medical research, clean energy, and quantum computing. Official statistics show the infrastructure will serve more than 3 million researchers. NVIDIA noted its AI infrastructure has powered over 90% of AI factory deployments in Europe, with cumulative planned or deployed AI computing power totaling roughly 800 exaflops. Key participating institutions include Spain’s Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Germany’s HLRS, Italy’s CINEC