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PANews reported on May 26th that, according to The New York Times, AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter announced the completion of a $113 million Series B funding round. The round was led by CapitalG, the growth fund of Google's parent company, with participation from a16z, Menlo Ventures, NVIDIA's NVentures, and venture capital firms such as ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks. The company's valuation exceeds $1 billion. OpenRouter stated that its weekly platform usage has increased from 5 trillion tokens to 25 trillion tokens in the past six months, reflecting the accelerated transition of AI applications from the experimental stage to production environments. PANews reported on May 27 that, according to The Block, US President Trump publicly supported his appointed Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig's efforts to expand jurisdiction over prediction markets, calling the issue "crucial." Trump stated that maintaining the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets is essential, and that prediction markets should thrive. For the past year, Selig has been advocating for the CFTC's "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets and has filed lawsuits against five states: Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut, and New York. Trump also used this opportunity to emphasize his support for the crypto industry, calling the US "the capital of crypto assets like Bitcoin."