Odaily Planet Daily reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Araqchi, in a phone call with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar, stated that the United States has an obligation and responsibility to end the fighting on all fronts, including Lebanon, and that the US should be held accountable for any violations of the Memorandum of Understanding. (Jinshi)

According to data analysis released by The Kobeissi Letter on the X platform, the semiconductor sector's weighting in the US stock market continues to rise, currently accounting for approximately 18.8% of the S&P 500's total market capitalization, a record high. This figure has more than tripled since 2022, while the SOX semiconductor index has risen by approximately 546% during the same period, demonstrating the industry's significant leading position in this technology cycle. Historically, the current weighting of semiconductors in the S&P 500 is more than half of the peak level during the dot-com bubble of 2000, indicating a significant increase in their structural proportion. The US equity market is continuously concentrating on the AI and semiconductor supply chains, and the influence of technology stocks on the overall index has reached historical extremes.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that OpenAI has released a new benchmark, LifeSciBench, designed to measure the capabilities of AI systems in real-world research scenarios. LifeSciBench is based on 750 expert-written tasks covering seven research workflows and seven biological fields. The tasks were developed by 173 researchers with doctoral backgrounds and experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries. This benchmark emphasizes the assessment of complex research capabilities, including evidence integration, experimental design, data analysis, scientific reasoning, and research communication, rather than simple factual questions. Over 79% of the tasks involve multi-step reasoning, with an average of about four reasoning steps per question, and include 1,062 real-world research-related data attachments (such as papers, figures, sequence data, and structured files).

Amazon has decided to pull the Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," which was originally slated for distribution by Amazon MGM Studios and was nearing completion. However, executives at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, after viewing the final cut, decided against proceeding with the release and instead handed the film over to other studios for distribution. Reportedly, early scripts portrayed Sam Altman negatively, depicting him as highly competitive and manipulative in certain scenes. Sources say that as production progressed, the final version's overall tone became darker than initially envisioned, a key reason for Amazon's decision to halt distribution. Furthermore, this move comes after Amazon's approximately $50 billion investment in OpenAI, and the commercial partnership and strategic relationship between the two companies in the AI field have placed this film, which deals with internal power struggles within OpenAI, in a more sensitive position. (Decrypt)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced on the X platform that the number of self-custodied wallets created using the WDK open-source technology has surpassed 100,000. This milestone demonstrates that open-source wallet development tools are being rapidly applied to real-world crypto infrastructure, and the user base and developer adoption rate of the self-custodied ecosystem continue to grow. WDK is an open-source wallet development kit supported by Tether that can be integrated into any device, from embedded systems to mobile, desktop, or server operating systems.