Anthropic revealed a multi-million dollar investment from Amazon to advance the development of Artificial Intelligence. This and more news in this practical daily summary so that you are always informed with the most recent events that occur within the crypto world.
Amazon invests in Artificial Intelligence
📍Anthropic receives multimillion-dollar investment from Amazon. Anthropic, a US artificial intelligence research and development startup founded by former OpenAI members, has received an investment of up to $4.000 billion from Amazon, the Washington-based e-commerce and cloud services corporation.
Via X (formerly Twitter), Anthropic reported that Amazon has agreed to invest the multi-million dollar sum to support the development of new reliable, high-performance foundation models that will enable Amazon to improve existing applications and create new experiences for its customers.
Anthropic highlighted that Amazon will also provide its computing infrastructure to drive the development of Artificial Intelligence and advance towards the next frontier of AI security and research. In addition to this, Anthropic noted that Amazon will take a minority stake in the startup, ensuring that its corporate governance structure will remain unchanged.
For the benefit of Amazon, Anthropic will provide support and enhancements to Bedrock, the fully managed service for Amazon's entry-level models.
Celsius restructuring plan approved
📍Celsius Network's creditors supported the restructuring plan with more than 95% of the votes. According to the presentation The plan, carried out by bankruptcy firm Stretto, calls for the repayment of $2.000 billion in cryptocurrency to creditors of the platform, which filed for bankruptcy in the middle of last year.
Is interest in NFTs returning?
📍Ethereum and Solana accumulate $6,8 million in NFT sales. According to data from Cryptoslam, the Ethereum and Solana networks have seen the largest NFT sales in the past 24 hours, totaling $6,8 million across all sales.
Data on the platform also shows that sales of non-fungible tokens on these two blockchains have increased by 36% and 54%, respectively.
The third-largest blockchain by NFT sales volume is Mythos Chain, with nearly $1 million at the time of writing. Polygon Network and Immutable are in fourth and fifth place, respectively, with sales volumes of $800.000 and $600.000.
Source: Cryptoslam
Virtual asset trading platform DMarket, built on the Mythos network, has also surpassed several of the market’s top non-fungible token projects in terms of sales volume recorded in the past few hours.
Women dominate cryptocurrency investing
📍Vietnam has the highest proportion of female cryptocurrency holders in the world. According to a study conducted by Forex Suggest, women are dominating cryptocurrency investment in several parts of the world. In fact, according to the study's data, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, Venezuela, and South Africa have the highest proportion of female cryptocurrency and token owners, relative to their overall populations.
Data collected by the platform indicates that in Vietnam, more than 12 million women invest in cryptocurrencies, representing 24,4% of the country's population. In the Philippines, about 5,5 million women own cryptocurrencies, representing 9,6% of its population.
In India, the number of women investing in cryptocurrencies is over 63 million, but considering the size of the population, this number only represents 9,1% of the population.
On the other hand, in Venezuela and South Africa, which are ranked fourth and fifth on the Forex Suggest list, the number of women investing in cryptocurrencies is 1,1 million and 2,3 million, representing 8,4% and 7,6% of their populations, respectively.
The digital euro is at least two years away
📍Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, says the digital euro is another two years away. According to the ECB president, the central bank's governing council will make a decision on continuing with the development of the digital euro in October and, if this decision is positive, the CBDC pilot will take at least another two years. Based on these comments, it is estimated that the issuance of a digital euro currency will not occur until 2025.
Lagarde's recent comments came at a meeting of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, where several issues related to the CBDC digital currency were discussed.
According to the president of the bank, the digital euro must be easy to use, free and universal. However, she also reaffirmed that the digital euro must offer a certain degree of privacy to users, but cannot be completely anonymous.
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