AI startup Sapien has closed a new funding round at a $180 million valuation, led by Ali Partovi.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.7%, the S&P 500 index slipping 0.1%, and the Nasdaq rising 0.08%. Qualcomm (QCOM.O) gained 5% after it struck a multi-generational product cooperation deal with Amazon (AMZN.O). Intel (INTC.O) climbed 6% amid reports that its CPUs will see another 10% price hike. ASML (ASML.O) added 3.8%, while TSMC (TSM.N) rose 2.4% as the two companies launched a high-numerical-aperture EUV photomask partnership.

According to Yuqing Monitoring, Robinhood Chain has been live on its mainnet for 70 days, with total chain revenue reaching $42.58 million (17,171 ETH), averaging $608,000 per day. Robinhood takes 90% of the revenue, equivalent to 15,454 ETH (approximately $38.32 million). As the technical provider, Arbitrum collects a 10% cut, amounting to 1,716 ETH (roughly $4.26 million).

Dongcha Beating AI Express: A frontline institutional investor revealed that AI firm DeepSeek targets expanding its team to around 1,000 people this year. DeepSeek has not publicly confirmed the figure, but the expansion has already begun. In June, the company announced all departments would at least double in size, and this week, it opened roughly 150 backend and Agent infrastructure job positions at once. This round of expansion is no longer focused solely on model research; the latest recruitment covers large model research platforms, Agent frameworks, APIs, online services, data engineering, and elastic computing. Cui Tianyi, head of the Harness team, noted that data, computing resources, training and evaluation tasks, Agent environments, and user requests are growing rapidly, requiring continuous upgrades or even full rewrites of the original backend systems.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) saw its pre-market shares jump nearly 10% after the chipmaker today announced a multi-generational collaboration agreement with Amazon, aimed at mass-producing customized chips for large-scale AI data centers. The two parties will jointly advance AI inference technology. Qualcomm is offering Amazon warrants for up to 25 million shares. Additionally, Qualcomm and Amazon are developing optical interconnect solutions with a transmission rate of up to 1.6T.

Qualcomm (QCOM.O) announced today a multi-generational partnership with Amazon (AMZN.O) to provide customized chips for large-scale AI data centers and jointly advance AI inference. The two sides are also collaborating on developing optical interconnect solutions with speeds up to 1.6T and for future generations. Qualcomm plans to deepen its use of AWS AI infrastructure (including Amazon Bedrock) for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, with the goal of shortening chip design cycles. Cristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, stated that amid accelerating AI demand, data center infrastructure needs breakthroughs in both computing and connectivity, adding that Qualcomm is pleased to partner with AWS on customized chips and connectivity solutions. Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of AWS, said the collaboration builds on a strong partnership, with both sides working together to deliver more efficient and cost-effective infrastructure for customers.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (Twitter handle @ai_9684xtpa), a whale that went long 20,000 ETH with 4x leverage ahead of a sharp price rally has closed out its BTC short position, cutting losses at just under $114,000 after holding the position for less than seven hours. The address has previously closed two prior BTC short positions at a loss, bringing total losses across three BTC shorts to $547,000. Its ETH long position currently holds an unrealized profit of $10.71 million.