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NVIDIA and Meta are deepening their AI partnership, with NVIDIA committing three billion dollars in investment and expanding collaboration on the Muse family of AI models. That's a significant capital commitment from Jensen Huang's shop, signaling that the hyperscaler relationship between chipmakers and social platforms is becoming a structural feature of the AI buildout, not just a vendor arrangement.
Shifting to crypto infrastructure, Mizuho is flagging a meaningful revenue risk for Circle, the issuer behind USDC. The bank sees ten to twenty percent medium-term downside to Circle's reserve revenue as AI agents increasingly route stablecoin holders toward higher-yielding fiat alternatives. It's a subtle but important warning — the rise of autonomous financial agents could quietly erode the captive yield advantage that stablecoin issuers have relied on.
And macro watchers are circling October twenty-eighth on the calendar, with the Federal Reserve widely expected to hold rates steady at this week's meeting. Markets aren't pricing in a move, but the tone of the statement and any shift in forward guidance will be closely parsed, particularly against a backdrop of resilient labor data and still-sticky inflation in select categories.
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