According to CCTV News, the Federal Reserve Board of the United States released the minutes of its June monetary policy meeting, and Federal Reserve officials have divergent views on the trend of US inflation and the future direction of monetary policy. Some officials believe that the demand for artificial intelligence is causing an increase in the prices of technology products and electricity, while others argue that improving productivity through artificial intelligence will lower costs and increase overall supply. The minutes mentioned that the situation in the Middle East and the impact of artificial intelligence investment on the economy have led to high uncertainty in economic forecasts.

[Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh: Establishing Five Task Forces to Optimize Monetary Policy Tools] The Federal Reserve has announced the establishment of five task forces aimed at evaluating and optimizing monetary policy tools and methods. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh stated that the Fed is committed to price stability and maximizing employment. The task forces will be co-led by external experts, independently assessing analytical tools and policy approaches, and will provide their findings to the Federal Open Market Committee.

The Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Peel, stated that interest rates need to be raised within the next year.

Mike Selig, Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated that new regulations will be introduced to provide clearer regulatory guidance for predicting market participants. （Cointelegraph）

The Ethereum Foundation Protocol Security team deployed an AI agent to test Ethereum software and discovered and fixed a remotely triggered panic issue in libP2P gossipsub, which has been disclosed on Github as CVE-226-34219.