France announces investment of over 100 billion euros in artificial intelligence
On the eve of the AI Action Summit on February 9, local time, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that 109 billion euros will be invested in the field of AI in the next few years. Macron expressed the hope that France can seize the opportunities brought by this new era and said that 100,000 young people will be trained in this project. He stressed that Europe should avoid regulation first and innovation later when facing the challenges of AI, otherwise it will be off the track of innovation and fall behind in the competition in this field. The AI Action Summit is scheduled to be held in Paris, France from February 9 to 12.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a blog post that AGI (artificial general intelligence) is gradually emerging and its impact may surpass all previous technological changes. He made three key observations about the economics of AI:
1. The intelligence of AI models is logarithmically related to computing resources - the investment in training computing, data and inference computing can be increased infinitely and obtain continuous and predictable returns.
2. The cost of using AI decreases by about 10 times every year - for example, the cost of a word of GPT-4 in early 2023 is about 150 times lower than the cost of GPT-4o in mid-2024, far exceeding the growth rate of Moore's Law.
3. Linearly growing intelligence brings super-exponential socioeconomic value - this drives ever-increasing investment, and it won’t stop any time soon.
Altman expects AI agents (such as software engineering assistants) to become "virtual colleagues" and to penetrate industries. He believes that the economic impact of AI may be similar to that of the transistor, changing the world in subtle but profound ways. At the same time, the popularity of AI may lead to a sharp drop in the cost of some goods, while the price of scarce resources such as land will rise.
He stressed that policies and social consensus are crucial to the future of AGI. In order to ensure that the benefits of AGI are widely distributed, new economic models may be needed, such as providing a "computing budget" to everyone in the world. He believes that by 2035, everyone should be able to mobilize intellectual resources equivalent to the global wisdom in 2025, which will greatly unleash human creativity.
According to a message released by the President of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadéra on the X platform, he announced the launch of the Meme coin CAR, calling it an "experiment aimed at uniting people, supporting national development and putting the Central African Republic on the world stage." He emphasized that as the second president in the world to use Bitcoin as legal tender, he has always recognized the global potential of cryptocurrencies.
In addition, he stated that he was working with Platform X to restore @CARMeme_News (the account had been frozen), and confirmed that the CAR token supply had been securely locked by @streamflow_fi, in accordance with the distribution plan and release schedule.
On-chain data shows that CAR briefly broke through $0.48 and is now trading at $0.28, with a total market value of approximately $280 million. It is not clear whether Touadéra's account has been hacked.
ChatGPT website traffic hits a new high, ranking sixth in the world
According to Similarweb data, in the ranking of the most visited websites in the world in January 2025, ChatGPT (chatgpt.com) climbed to sixth place for the first time, with a traffic share of 2.33%, a monthly increase of 5.91%. Google ranked first with a traffic share of 29.21%, and YouTube ranked second. Sam Altman retweeted this and said: "There is still a long way to go to catch up with Google."
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is becoming the world's reserve capital network
A trader turned $5K into $12M in 3 hours, earning 2450 times the return
According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader used 25 SOL ($5K) to buy 46.57M $CAR within 1 second after Faustin-Archange Touadéra announced the $CAR contract address. Subsequently, the trader sold 22.65M $CAR and received 8,395 SOL (about $1.67M), still holding 23.92M $CAR (about $10.5M).
In just 3 hours, the trader’s initial investment skyrocketed 2,450 times, and the current total value of his holdings exceeds US$12 million.
Michael Saylor releases Bitcoin Tracker information again
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor once again released information related to Bitcoin Tracker. He said: "The blue line is dead. Long live the green dot." (Note: Every time MicroStrategy bought BTC, the website would mark a green dot on the corresponding date, and the BTC price trend line would be blue.) According to previous rules, MicroStrategy always increased its holdings of Bitcoin the day after the relevant news was released.
CZ: I am not sure whether TST will be listed on Binance and I am not involved in the listing process
Circle minted $250 million in new USDC on Solana this morning
According to Onchain Lens, Circle minted $250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain early this morning. Since 2025, Circle has minted a total of $7 billion USDC on Solana.
According to Token Unlocks data, CHEEL, CONX, SAND and other tokens will be unlocked in large amounts next week, including:
Cheelee (CHEEL) will unlock approximately 20.8 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 13, worth approximately $169 million;
Connex (CONX) will unlock approximately 4.33 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 15, accounting for 376.3% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$87.8 million;
The Sandbox (SAND) will unlock approximately 205.59 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 14, accounting for 8.41% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$80.2 million;
Berachain (BERA) will unlock approximately 12.98 million tokens at 9:00 pm Beijing time on February 10, accounting for 12.08% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$75.9 million;
Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 11.31 million tokens at 8:00 pm Beijing time on February 10, accounting for 1.97% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$66.7 million;
Avalanche (AVAX) will unlock approximately 1.67 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 16, accounting for 0.40% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$41.7 million;
Polyhedra Network (ZKJ) will unlock approximately 17.22 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on February 12, accounting for 28.52% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$35.1 million;
Aethir (ATH) will unlock about 630 million tokens at 6:00 pm Beijing time on February 12, accounting for 10.21% of the current circulation, with a value of about US$24.5 million;
Starknet (STRK) will unlock approximately 64 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 15, accounting for 2.48% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$15.7 million.
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