[Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs Jointly Establish Ode with $1.5 Billion Investment] According to Forbes, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs have jointly established an AI-native enterprise services company called Ode, with an investment of $1.5 billion. Ode is positioned as an AI implementation consulting firm, with core services including identifying business processes, deploying AI engineers, developing customized applications and agents, automating task workflows, and assisting enterprises with regulatory compliance issues. The company focuses on helping client enterprises implement Anthropic's Claude model.

According to Bloomberg, at least 75 data center projects worth approximately $130 billion in the first three months of this year in the United States have been blocked or postponed due to local concerns about resource consumption. OpenAI is recruiting a community engagement manager and investing $40 million to establish the Ohio Community Fund. Meta is recruiting a community engagement manager and advertising for data centers. Microsoft has stated that it will no longer seek local tax incentives for new data centers.

According to The Defiant, on August 20th, Arbitrarum activated the ArbOS 61 Elara upgrade, introducing optional protocol level transaction filtering, priority fee support, and alternative data availability interfaces for dedicated chains, and adjusting the basic fee management and Stylus contract capacity of Arbitrarum One. The compliance screening function requires the chain owner to configure service providers such as TRM Labs or Chainalysis and set rules. The priority fee function needs to be enabled by the chain owner through pre compilation, and the priority fee collection of Arbitrarum One requires a separate DAO vote.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has disclosed that the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York has issued supplemental consent orders to Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, prohibiting them from trading for 5 years. The CFTC did not seek additional recovery payments, return of illegal gains, or civil fines against the two individuals, who jointly bear approximately $11.02 billion in confiscation order liability in related criminal cases.

[Upbit to Launch BICO, BMT, NIL, GWEI Trading Pairs on August 21] According to the official announcement from Upbit, the exchange will launch BTC and USDT trading pairs for the four tokens BICO, BMT, NIL, and GWEI at 21:00 on August 21. Deposit services will be available within 2 hours after the announcement is published.