AI sales company Rox secures $100 million in Series B funding, reaching a valuation of $1.3 billion.

Tether has launched the open-weight model QVAC BotPsy, an 800-million-parameter system built on Alibaba’s open-source Qwen 3.5 architecture, which converts user daily requests into local tool calls on personal devices. In internal tests, Tether said the model set a new benchmark for tool call performance among models with fewer than 1 billion parameters, and outperformed all tested models with up to 1.2 billion parameters. Across four key tests—BFCL v4, ACEBench, τ-bench, and ToolSandbox—its results roughly doubled those of the base model Qwen 3.5-0.8B-Think, and outperformed Qwen 3.5-2B-Think, which has 2.5 times more parameters. Specifically, it scored 46.1 points in BFCL’s multi-turn tool call test, nearly double the 23.8 points of the 2B model. Tether added that BotPsy reduces the need to send personal data like emails and calendars to centralized service providers, and can detect when no suitable tool is available to avoid generating false tool calls. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that users should decide for themselves what content the assistant can access and which external services it can connect to. The model’s weights have been published on Hugging Face.

1confirmation founder Nick Tomaino published a post stating that his firm has participated in every previous financing round of Polymarket and will continue to increase its investment in the platform. Tomaino noted that as a seed-stage fund, 1confirmation does not typically invest in later-stage rounds, but this time it chose to break its own rule. His reasoning includes: People have used real money to voice their stances on political, cultural and other issues for over a century. In the AI era, the biggest challenge facing young people is discerning what is real. Products that can turn trading and investment enthusiasm into better information and more truth are unique. Polymarket is far more than a sports prediction platform, nor merely a global product. While the U.S. market currently has high enthusiasm for sports events, better sports predictions are not the most sustainable part of the prediction market; political, geopolitical and cultural information and truth are the core reason for its existence. Most young people who have interacted in real life believe Polymarket stands alone in this regard. Tomaino also stated that the “token is dead” narrative is unfounded. Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan has an extremely strong competitive drive, and is straightforward, transparent and authentic.

According to market sources, Anthropic’s blockbuster IPO is reported to have been oversubscribed several times over. Yesterday, Anthropic officials announced that the company plans to reach a valuation of around $1 trillion in its IPO, and is targeting a fully diluted valuation of $1.4 trillion for the offering. The company is expected to set its IPO price next Wednesday, with trading set to commence the following Thursday.

OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, announced their joint venture OKXICE will officially launch its Tokenized Securities Venue (TSV) on November 23, becoming one of the first projects to roll out under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) five-year "innovation exemption" framework. OKXICE has confirmed 70 tokenized assets, including those from issuers such as Coinbase, Circle, and Robinhood, as well as 59 ETFs. U.S. users must use its CeDeFi wallet and complete onboarding to trade. However, OKXICE is facing strong pushback from traditional industry giants. As of November 5, 67 companies including Meta, Tesla, Netflix, and Costco have exercised their exemption rights, explicitly refusing to tokenize and trade their stocks on OKXICE. Some firms (such as Applied Optoelectronics) worry tokenization will cause investor confusion over their involvement and impact stock prices and liquidity. Additionally, Nasdaq has publicly opposed the exemption framework. Its chief legal officer noted that allowing tokenized securities to trade outside regulated National Market Systems (NMS) would undermine market data and transparency frameworks and could lead to market fragmentation. In response, Nasdaq has decided to exclude its own stocks from the venue.

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