The crypto payment app Lyzi has completed a seed round financing of approximately $1.4 million, built on the Tezos Blockchain, allowing consumers to use Crypto Assets for everyday payments in retail and e-commerce, while merchants accept Crypto Assets payments and automatically convert them into fiat currency deposited into their bank accounts. Astek founders and Dfns founders participated in the investment. (CoinDesk)

Digital asset holding company COSIMO has completed a $25 million financing, involved in multiple encryption fields, and plans to become a competitor of Cryptocurrency management and service provider Galaxy Digital. The company plans to release a series of new announcements, including a new project involving the "creator economy".

Irish technology company Intercom and ChatGPT have chosen to collaborate with Anthropic, a competitor of OpenAI, to achieve rise in the field of AI-driven customer service. They will invest $100 million to create 75 new job positions and expand their machine learning department. The collaboration with Anthropic will provide support for their AI-driven Fin2 customer service robot.

Des Lawrence, senior investment strategist at State Street Global, said the ECB would take a reasonably cautious approach to strike a balance between a clear downward trend in inflation and still-high wage growth. According to the strategist, this week's ECB interest rate decision will be about preparations, and the June meeting will be about the implementation of the first rate cut. "In our view, the ECB is likely to cut interest rates by about 100 basis points this year, as its current restrictive stance is increasingly inappropriate given economic fundamentals," he said. ”