A Republican senator has publicly called for Jensen Huang to resign, while a former economic advisor to Donald Trump has also demanded he step down immediately.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index closed up 136.23 points, rising 2.6% to 5375.36 points. SK Hynix gained 5.36%, while Samsung Electronics advanced 3.32%.

Beating AI News Flash: AI data company Mercor announced it has closed a $750 million Series D funding round, valuing the firm at $20 billion, doubling its valuation from October last year. Investors include Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Benchmark, and General Catalyst, among others. Mercor founder Brendan Foody said that as enterprises begin evaluating and training their own AI models, the company grew its annual revenue run rate from $1 million to $3 billion in just 27 months. Mercor primarily recruits professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and programmers to design tasks, evaluate AI responses, and generate training data. Previously, it mainly served model developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google; 91% of its total revenue in the first half of this year still came from such clients. Now, Mercor is expanding its business to large enterprises. It designs AI tests aligned with enterprises' actual workflows, and leverages technology from its prior acquisition of Deeptune to simulate hundreds of enterprise software tools, enabling AI agents to practice repeatedly in near-real-world environments.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, trader AguilaTrades has completed 18 BTC trades over the past week, with a win rate of just 33% and total losses of $547,000. He currently holds a 40x leveraged long position of 340.45 BTC, valued at roughly $25.16 million, with a liquidation price of $73,009. Prior data shows his cumulative losses from rollover trading on Hyperliquid since last June stand at $38.2 million.

A senior U.S. government official said U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent has been relocated to a military base after Iran’s threats against his life reached an unprecedented level. The official added that the threats prompted Bessent and his family to make the move. The Treasury Department confirmed the development, stating that Bessent “will not be intimidated by threats from the Iranian regime” and will continue to lead efforts to financially isolate Iran through sanctions and trade restrictions. (FOX)

AguilaTrades(@AguilaTrades) is a total gambler! Over the past week, he made 18 $BTC trades with just a 33% win rate, losing a total of $547K. Now he's opened another 40x long on 340.45 $BTC ($25.16M), with a liquidation price of $73,009.

Recently, multiple storage industry insiders disclosed that several leading players have verbally informed channel partners of their intention to raise prices for enterprise-grade semiconductor dies. Formal price hike notices have not yet been released, but channel-side prices have already begun adjusting. Multiple distributors have confirmed the price hike signals. An SK Hynix distributor said, "Prices are rising every day." He observed that second-hand drive buyback prices have been climbing, driving overall quotes upward. The price adjustment mechanism works as: provincial-level distributors adjust prices weekly, then pass the changes down to lower-tier agents, "We follow suit." However, a Samsung distributor noted that this round of price hikes is not universal across all categories: increases are mainly concentrated in the DRAM contract market and enterprise-grade SSD original factory and channel segments, not a broad rise in consumer-grade NAND. "The bulk of demand comes from compute power centers; grassroots-level demand is actually mediocre." As the price hikes are first concentrated in the DRAM contract and enterprise-grade SSD segments, when prices spread from original factories, the first parties affected are not end consumers, but midstream manufacturing enterprises and module makers. These firms are the first to absorb the original factories' price increases, and their different positions in the industrial chain lead to significantly varying perceptions and pressures. (Blue Whale News)