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BlockBeats News, June 21st - Ben Goertzel, Chairman of the AGI Association and Chief Scientist of Sophia the Robot, stated that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is "too important to be controlled by venture capital or a few tech companies," and advocated for building an open, decentralized AGI ecosystem through a blockchain network to replace closed-model paths like OpenAI and Anthropic. Goertzel is advancing this initiative through his project SingularityNET and the "Artificial General Intelligence Alliance," which operates on a cryptographic network designed to allow AI capabilities to be collectively owned and maintained by users worldwide. He emphasized that open-source code alone is not sufficient; AGI must run on a distributed infrastructure to avoid control by a few computing powerhouses. He proposed the concept of an "AI Agent Economy," where users can deploy multiple AI agents to collaborate on tasks and execute transactions. The future system will offer paid AI services and maintain a decentralized backend architecture while hiding the blockchain's underlying structure from end-users. Goertzel forecasted that AGI may emerge between 2027 and 2030 and warned that if technological development remains concentrated in a few countries or companies, it could exacerbate global inequality. He stated that his first AI agent product, Omega Claw, will be released soon.

According to Xinhua Finance, Deutsche Bank has raised its US inflation forecast, expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by a total of 50 basis points by 2026, pushing rates up to 4.1%, with a rate hike coming earlier in July.

Golden Ten Data reported on June 21st that, according to the Financial Times, index provider MSCI assigned its lowest level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) rating, “CCC”, to SpaceX ahead of its record-breaking $75 billion public offering this month. According to MSCI, this places SpaceX “behind the industry due to its high risk exposure and failure to manage significant ESG risks.” Frédéric Ducoulombier, Program Director at the EDHEC Business School Climate Research Institute, stated: “The company’s poor controversy assessment, extremely weak governance evaluation, and low overall ESG rating should not come as a surprise to anyone. For public market investors, this is very close to a governance-level horror story.”