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Doubao Work announced the opening of third-party large model services to enterprise clients, with the first batch including models such as Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moon's Dark Side, Zhipu GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Enterprise users can directly switch models in the Doubao Work dialogue interface, no longer limited to Doubao's own models.Previously, Doubao Work supported users to access third-party models independently, and custom access required users to settle fees separately with the model vendors. The tool invocation and product costs of Doubao Work are still consumed separately. This time, third-party models are directly included in the product's model selection menu, lowering the switching and usage threshold.

According to The Defiant, Australian bank Westpac announced that starting in December, it will set a monthly limit of 10,000 Australian dollars on payments involving cryptocurrency for its customers, and it will not provide exemptions or arrangements for higher limits.Westpac also stated that withdrawals from cryptocurrency exchanges to Westpac accounts are not affected by this adjustment and will continue to be processed as before.

According to a notice from the global securities financing technology company EquiLend, Goldman Sachs has begun using its distributed ledger platform 1Source built on the Canton Network, joining the ranks of Bank of New York Mellon and National Bank of Canada.The platform aims to reduce issues such as duplicate reconciliation, inconsistent transaction records, and settlement failures between traditional financial institutions by synchronizing securities lending transactions and subsequent changes through a shared ledger. Bank of New York Mellon and National Bank of Canada started transmitting real transaction data to the platform in October 2025.

Dominion Securities expects the U.S. GDP growth rate in the third quarter to accelerate from 2.2% to 2.5%, indicating that the economic fundamentals remain strong. Although net exports and inventories may weigh down, consumption and investment remain robust. The core PCE price index is expected to rise year-on-year from 3% to 3.1%.

On October 29, Sony Group announced the launch of the global Sony Onchain Entertainment Incubation Program, aimed at global creators and startups, supporting the development of entertainment-related products and services based on Sony's blockchain Soneium, and exploring new forms of interaction, community building, and value creation between creators and fans.Selected projects will receive support from Soneium's technological infrastructure, opportunities for collaboration with Sony Group companies, as well as support for business expansion, marketing, community operations, and financing. Sony stated that since 2024, the company has selected and supported 43 projects from around the world through the previous two rounds of incubation programs, and the new plan will further focus on on-chain entertainment, promoting projects from technical validation to commercial application.The application period is from October to December 2026, with project selection expected to continue until March 2027. Applicants must have launched or plan to launch on Soneium, and evaluation criteria include the originality of the entertainment experience, intellectual property applications, community building, business expansion capabilities, and market competition conditions, among others.

According to The Block citing local media reports, South Korea's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Korea, will meet on Friday with representatives from the country's five major cryptocurrency exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax, to discuss whether to postpone the cryptocurrency tax originally scheduled to take effect in January 2027.The party has proposed a bill to delay the implementation until 2029, citing insufficient infrastructure and difficulties in obtaining transaction data.

According to CNN, a letter shows that the U.S. Department of Defense's oversight agency rejected a bipartisan request to investigate the slowdown of SpaceX's military-grade Starlink system operations in Ukraine.

According to TechCrunch, a hacker claiming to be from the "Department of Peace" has reportedly obtained a large amount of employee data from the Okta single sign-on system used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was publicly released on Wednesday by the data transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) as the "Icepick" dataset. The leaked records exceed 40,000, accounting for about one-fifth of DHS's approximately 220,000 employees, involving names, positions, work emails, phone numbers, and office locations, along with information related to internal system permissions. Among these, approximately 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, while about 10,000 records involve the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with nearly 1,000 related to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).TechCrunch stated that it has verified the authenticity of some of the data, with timestamps indicating that the data was exported around mid-August. The hacker also provided the data to journalist and hacker maia arson crimew, who then forwarded it to DDoSecrets. Okta responded that its systems and data were not breached; a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to requests for comment. The report indicates that this is the third incident of data leakage from the U.S. government that has drawn attention in the past month, following the theft of Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel files and Pentagon personnel data.

According to CoinDesk, APX Lending, a lending institution in Toronto, Canada, announced on Wednesday that it plans to launch Bitcoin-backed mortgages in the first quarter of 2027, allowing homebuyers to raise down payments or full home payments without selling their Bitcoin.The company has opened a waiting list and claims it will become Canada's first regulated Bitcoin mortgage provider, but has not yet disclosed mortgage rates, repayment terms, loan-to-value ratio limits, or the trigger conditions for additional collateral or liquidation.

Advanced packaging company Shenghe Jingwei released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026. The operating revenue for the first three quarters was 5.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.45%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 636 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 18.48%. The operating revenue for the third quarter was 1.71 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 8.33%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 186 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 45.96%, a decrease of 27% compared to the 258 million yuan in the second quarter.The company stated that the changes in profit were mainly due to tight supply of core materials, a year-on-year decrease in revenue, and ongoing capacity expansion, along with an increase in depreciation costs year-on-year. The announcement on the same day showed that for the first three quarters of 2026, a total of 265 million yuan was provisioned for credit impairment losses and asset impairment losses. The net cash flow from operating activities for the first three quarters was 2.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 30.60%. The company stated that this was mainly due to a year-on-year decrease in government subsidies, the return of customer credit deposits during the period, and increases in material procurement and employee compensation.As of the end of September 2026, the balance of monetary funds was 8.558 billion yuan, total assets were 28.144 billion yuan, an increase of 24.51% compared to the end of the previous year; the equity attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 19.294 billion yuan, an increase of 33.73% compared to the end of the previous year. At the end of the period, fixed assets were 12.172 billion yuan, an increase of over 20% compared to the end of the previous year, and construction in progress was 1.558 billion yuan. In the company's 2.5D business, SmartPoser-Si has been mass-produced, and SmartPoser-BD has completed full-process verification.

According to Bitcoin News, the UAE company Standard Asset Company (abbreviated as SAC) has established its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and announced a $1.5 billion investment strategy in Bitcoin and real estate.The company plans to acquire income-generating real estate in the UAE while establishing a Bitcoin reserve exclusively managed by Coinbase Asset Management. This strategy aims to generate income through real estate and obtain additional returns from the managed Bitcoin holdings.

Microsoft expects its Azure cloud business revenue to grow by 49% to 50% in the second fiscal quarter, with total revenue reaching between 96 billion and 97.1 billion dollars.Revenue from the Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure segment is expected to be between 80.1 billion and 80.7 billion dollars, while revenue from the Devices and Consumer segment is projected to be between 15.9 billion and 16.4 billion dollars. Microsoft also anticipates that capital expenditures in the second fiscal quarter will exceed 50 billion dollars.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the new AI model Carbon is being launched first to cybersecurity partners.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated at a press conference that the FOMC will still hold 8 meetings in 2027, including 1 specifically to discuss monetary policy strategy. It is expected that there will be no vote on the federal funds rate and no policy statement will be released, while the remaining 7 will be regular policy decision meetings.Related adjustments will begin in the fall of next year. He anticipates that there will be 2 strategic discussion meetings and 6 policy decision meetings in 2028.

Sources say that the U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing NVIDIA's acquisition of the artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that the GDP for the third quarter may exceed 3%.

According to The Block, as the U.S. midterm elections approach, the digital asset industry may face changes in the congressional political landscape. Over the past two years, the Republican-led Congress passed the stablecoin bill GENIUS Act and advanced the broader Clarity Act; the latter passed the House in 2025 but stalled in the Senate due to controversies over stablecoin rewards and ethical issues raised by former President Trump's crypto wealth. Prediction market Kalshi shows that the probability of the Democrats winning the Senate and the House is 64% and 90%, respectively.The chair of congressional committees holds the power to set the agenda. If the Democrats regain the Senate, Elizabeth Warren will become the chair of the Senate Banking Committee. Ron Hammond, head of policy and advocacy at Wintermute, expects that she will actively use subpoena power and may focus on scrutinizing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's approvals of new bank charters for Ripple, Coinbase, and World Liberty Financial, which is supported by the Trump family.The election situation in Ohio is also under scrutiny, with former Senate Banking Committee chair Sherrod Brown facing pro-crypto Republican Jon Husted. Fairshake PAC has pledged $30 million to support Husted. Hammond stated that if Brown wins, he may become the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which could potentially shelve related crypto legislation. In the House Financial Services Committee, regardless of whether Maxine Waters, Sean Casten, or Bill Foster leads, the Clarity Act is unlikely to advance. Lindsay Fraser, chief policy officer of the Blockchain Association, stated that while congressional control may change, the demand for clear crypto regulations will not.