According to Odaily Planet Daily, Elon Musk posted on the X platform that the newly completed Grok V9 (1.5T parameters) training run "performed very well," and this result does not yet include the supplementary training portion using Cursor data. The current internally developed base model version is V9, with approximately 1.5 trillion parameters. Compared to V8, it has significant improvements in data cleaning, training methods, and model size, and has been optimized for the Blackwell architecture to improve computing power utilization. Musk emphasized that, in contrast, the current publicly released version v4.2 is based on the V8 base model, with approximately 0.5T parameters, running on the Hopper architecture, and still has certain limitations in terms of training data quality and coverage. The performance gap between Grok V8 and V9 is huge; the new generation model represents a leap forward in overall capabilities.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bradley Duke, Head of Europe at Bitwise, revealed that Canaccord Wealth UK, a UK-based wealth management firm managing approximately $70 billion in assets, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Bitwise to offer select clients Bitcoin and Ethereum ETP products, with investments up to 5% of their portfolios. This partnership covers the UK and Channel Islands markets.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the recent sharp fluctuations in the US Treasury market present a significant test for incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh in his early days in office. Subadra Rajappa, head of Americas research at Societe Generale, stated in a Bloomberg TV interview on May 15th that bond yields have shown a markedly abnormal trend due to expectations of accelerating inflation. Rajappa pointed out that the surge in energy prices triggered by the Iran war is exacerbating inflationary pressures in the US, which will limit Warsh's room for pushing for interest rate cuts—a policy direction he previously supported and that President Trump had demanded. She stated bluntly, "I'm starting to get a little worried because bond yields do look somewhat out of control, and we should pay close attention to the signals the bond market is sending." Interest rate market expectations have also shifted rapidly. Bloomberg data shows that traders now expect a near two-thirds probability of a Fed rate hike before December. Just on February 27th, the day before the US and Israel took military action against Iran, the market was widely betting on more than two rate cuts this year. (Jinshi)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bitcoin fell sharply after the US stock market opened, briefly dipping below the $79,000 mark, with a daily drop of about 3%, hovering near its lowest level since May. The market generally believes that this correction is closely related to the sell-off of risk assets triggered by soaring US Treasury yields. Data shows that the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds rose above 4.55%, a near one-year high, raising concerns about tightening liquidity and a revaluation of risk assets. Analysts point out that this level triggered adjustments in US stock and policy expectations last year, and is now again a key pressure signal. The trading firm The Kobeissi Letter stated that the "crisis-like rise" in the US Treasury market is intensifying, with expectations of long-term high interest rates rising. The market has begun to price in the possibility of future or even further interest rate hikes, causing the previous "frenzy" in risk assets to cool rapidly. From a technical perspective, analysts believe that after Bitcoin repeatedly failed to break through resistance above $82,000, the support structure is weakening, and it may retest the $75,000-$77,000 range in the short term, with the market entering a period of range-bound trading and directional choice. (Cointelegraph)

According to a report by Odaily Planet Daily, Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart stated on the X platform that the 2x leveraged Cerebras Systems ETF (ticker symbol: CBRG) has officially begun trading, while its underlying asset, CBRS, only started trading the previous afternoon. This means that the leveraged ETF was launched within hours of each other, setting a record for extremely fast product launches. Seyffart pointed out that this "fast-following" ETF issuance model is accelerating, and similar rapid issuance paths may emerge in the future for leveraged ETFs focusing on unlisted or highly sought-after assets such as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. This reflects a significant increase in the speed of productization in the ETF market regarding new asset exposures.