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Microsoft (MSFT.O) reported that for the three months ended September 30, revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI was $10 billion.

Bitget, in collaboration with Reality and Keyring, has released a research report exploring the synergy mechanisms of tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts, and decentralized lending, and evaluating the potential returns and risks of related strategies through simulation calculations. The report points out that the application of tokenized stocks is extending from traditional stock trading to more scenarios such as collateralized lending, asset management, and systematic investment strategies.The research is based on Reality's rToken, combined with stock perpetual contract hedging and on-chain lending mechanisms, to explore stock basis yield strategies. Historical simulation data shows that from December 15, 2025, to October 19, 2026, the annualized net return of the strategy index is approximately 7% and 4% for in-sample and out-of-sample, respectively, with a gross funding cost rate premium of about 11% to 14%. The report also notes that financing costs, transaction execution fees, market liquidity, and risk management are key factors affecting the actual returns of the strategy.It is reported that Bitget and Keyring plan to jointly develop a stock basis index and build an on-chain lending market based on Reality's rToken. Among them, Reality provides exposure to tokenized stock assets, while Keyring is responsible for developing the index methodology and constructing the related lending market. The index aims to capture funding rate and basis yield opportunities by combining rToken holdings with corresponding stock perpetual contract hedging positions, providing new strategic pathways for the application of tokenized stocks in on-chain financial scenarios.

According to Jinshi News, Nvidia will invest 3 billion dollars in equity issuance to Meta, and both parties will also expand their cooperation in AI infrastructure and models.Both sides will consider collaboration around the OpenShell reference architecture and Nvidia Sentry, and will expand the deployment scale of Nvidia's products such as Vera Rubin, Vera CPU, Spectrum-X, and BlueField-4, while further deepening cooperation in MUSE and the MUSE series of models.

Market news indicates that Nvidia and Meta will expand their collaboration on MUSE and the MUSE series models against a backdrop of steady growth.

CrowdStrike and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence agent security, extending security protection from the software level to the chip level.

Global cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay announced that it is advancing strategic cooperation with Dunamu, the parent company of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, to jointly explore new business opportunities. The two parties will collaborate to discover new business directions in areas such as stablecoin cross-border payments and capital flow, corporate finance, and fund management.They also plan to expand the global accessibility of Dunamu's Ethereum Layer 2 network GIWA and enhance the network's global connectivity. Specifically, both parties hope to connect MoonPay's global services and network with Dunamu's blockchain infrastructure to expand the coverage of GIWA-based products and services in overseas markets.Dunamu is the operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit and is currently advancing a stock swap merger with tech giant Naver Financial to launch a joint stablecoin and payment service. Earlier this year, Hana Bank acquired a 6.55% stake in Dunamu for 1 trillion won (approximately 755.6 million USD) to advance its layout in the stablecoin and digital asset fields. South Korea is also formulating a comprehensive cryptocurrency framework called the "Basic Law on Digital Assets," which includes rules for the issuance and distribution of stablecoins pegged to the Korean won.

Fortune Protocol officially announces a collaboration with the AI Agent platform X-Agent. The two parties will jointly explore the combination of prediction markets and proactive Personal Agents, promoting the extension of prediction markets from information inquiry tools to personalized, proactive information service scenarios.In this collaboration, Fortune Protocol will provide prediction market scenarios and related market data capabilities, while X-Agent will leverage its advantages in Personal Agent technology and application design to jointly explore how AI Agents can continuously track events of interest to users, identify changes in market probabilities, provide contextual interpretations, and take further actions with user authorization.The two parties will first advance the design of application scenarios and the development of conceptual prototypes, exploring the application potential of prediction markets in the next generation of personal AI Agents and the Agent Economy.

Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) announced the expansion of their strategic partnership in autonomous driving.

OPPO announced a collaboration with the AI Agent product Manus, integrating Manus's Agent capabilities directly into the mobile system assistant AI Mind Pilot. This marks Manus's first system-level collaboration with a mobile manufacturer.The related features will debut in ColorOS 17, which will be equipped on the Find X10 series. Users can handle multi-step tasks through the system assistant without needing to open Manus separately.

On October 12, Alessandro Savarese, the product head of the collaboration platform Airtable, stated that he joined Bending Spoons after completing the acquisition in early September and is responsible for product development. The team has communicated with customers, builders, account administrators, and partners to identify priorities for the remainder of 2026 and most of 2027. The vision is to place teams, data, workflows, and agents on the same platform, with investment directions including continuous improvement of the core product, enabling AI to collaborate with humans, and strengthening centralized control at the account level.Organizationally, Airtable will part ways with a significant portion of the pre-acquisition team, with relevant personnel leaving by the end of that week and receiving severance compensation. The article states that this does not reflect the quality of their work. Bending Spoons has sent in experienced engineers, product managers, and designers. For customers, the packages, pricing, and service content remain unchanged, and the customer-facing organization is unaffected. Bending Spoons S.p.A. has the NASDAQ ticker BSP and has completed the previously announced acquisition, with Airtable being used by over 500,000 organizations.In terms of products, the Speedy Squad has released over 30 improvements in the past three weeks, including increasing automation limits, automating the addition and deletion of record actions, and more granular editing permissions on list pages; this group will be merged into the Core team led by long-time employee Akshar Patel.

On October 9, with the full launch of the 2026 F1 Singapore Grand Prix, F1 Red Bull Racing's official sponsor and long-term partner Gate officially kicked off an exclusive hospitality event for VIP clients and invited guests. Dozens of VIP clients have arrived in Singapore, and many core partners are deeply involved on-site.The Gate brand logo appears on the car's rear wing, nose, headrest, wheel hub covers, chassis, team racing suits, and four-time champion Max Verstappen's helmet. Gate will create a deeper F1 event experience for invited guests, focusing on race viewing, VIP hospitality, and exclusive brand experiences.Previously, Gate collaborated with the Red Bull Racing team to conduct a series of events during TOKEN2049 in Singapore. On October 7, Max Verstappen and driver Isack Hadjar participated in an exclusive handprint commemorative ceremony and interacted with guests at the Gate Lounge; on October 8, team CEO and principal Laurent Mekies attended the invitation-only private event "RACING THE FUTURE Vol 3," sharing the team's tactical planning and event operation experiences. In the future, Gate will continue to leverage the F1 platform to deepen connections with the Red Bull Racing team and global partners.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood's Robinhood Crypto posted on X that it is exploring the launch of a stock token linked to an actively managed ETF on the Robinhood Chain, in partnership with T. Rowe Price Digital Assets.Robinhood Crypto stated that T. Rowe Price is one of the largest asset management companies in the world, managing $1.9 trillion in assets. If this exploration is successful, the related product will become the first stock token of its kind. The company also mentioned that institutions are entering, and its underlying channel is ready.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW conference roundtable "Next Generation Financial System: Who Will Build It?", Mastercard's Executive Vice President of Blockchain and Digital Assets Raj Dhamodharan looked ahead to the payment landscape ten years from now: the underlying rails will change, new technologies such as stablecoins will be applied more behind the scenes, but the simplicity and trust of user experience will not change. He pointed out that stablecoins' "almost zero-cost transfers" are just the surface; cross-border payments still require a multi-layered combination of local liquidity and compliance systems, "payment rails are just one of the raw materials."Also present, OKX Global Managing Partner and CMO Haider Rafique revealed two sets of industry data: the global stablecoin market size is approximately $250 billion, and there are over 700 million crypto users; he also confirmed that the OKX Card exclusively uses the Mastercard network in markets such as Europe, and both parties are exploring cooperation in payment and AI-driven e-commerce.

The non-small number joint AtlasX Protocol promotes the non-small number × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. AtlasX Protocol will participate as a co-organizer in this forum, which will be held on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on stock tokenization, Web3, and AI leadership summit.AtlasX Protocol will participate in this forum as a co-organizer. The project will introduce AI Agent into the Web3 event information organization and community interaction scenarios, attempting to connect decentralized events, content, and user participation into a sustainable product experience. During the conference, AtlasX Protocol project guest Xiao Qi will also give a speech, serving as the Global Chief Strategy Officer of AtlasX Protocol.The GWDC Korea event is expected to attract 5,000 participants, with guests and institutions such as Sun Yuchen, Microsoft, Bithumb, and Animoca Brands also appearing at the same venue. AtlasX Protocol will leverage this opportunity to bring AI event tracking, content collaboration, and community participation topics into a larger public setting.

According to reporters from the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, sources have revealed that the Doubao Second Generation phone, whether in the previous technical preview version or the current consumer version, adopts an edge-cloud collaborative solution.In principle, the Doubao Phone Assistant always prioritizes edge-side processing, but due to the current limitations of industry technology, for complex tasks that must rely on cloud processing, data processing will follow the principle of minimizing cloud usage. Currently, the overall edge-cloud collaborative solution has not changed.

Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang stated that the collaboration between Base and Ethereum regarding account abstraction around EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 (Frames) has broken down last week, with both parties advancing their respective AA standards.He pointed out that for a long time, the EVM has been a unifying force between L1 and L2, and sharing an AA standard could have ensured a consistent multi-chain experience for smart accounts, including future post-quantum accounts. However, as the industry evolves, L1 and L2 are beginning to differentiate in terms of value and use cases: L1 pursues censorship resistance and capture, open source, privacy, and security, while L2 focuses on scalability, customization, and compliance.Both sides agree on core use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, but there are significant differences in compliance requirements. Chiang believes that a lack of unified standards may not be a bad outcome, as both parties can maximize innovation according to their visions.He proposed two paths: establishing a governance mechanism for shared resources like the EVM that covers more stakeholders, or accepting that a lack of unified standards is inevitable and focusing on building wallets and applications that can mask differences, expressing greater optimism about the second path.

According to Bloomberg, the top executive of Kioxia Holdings denied the possibility of establishing closer cooperation with competitors and shareholder SK Hynix, stating that they will control the rapid rise in storage chip prices to avoid impacting long-term demand in the artificial intelligence sector.Currently, storage chip manufacturers are expanding production capacity to meet the surge in orders from artificial intelligence service providers, leading to a significant increase in related chip prices. Some investors believe that forming manufacturing partnerships may help reduce the risk of large-scale capital expenditures.

UBS announced that it has launched the Swiss Franc stablecoin Sandbox testing phase in collaboration with 8 other institutions: PostFinance, Sygnum, Raiffeisen, Zurich Cantonal Bank, BCV, SIX, TWINT, and Swiss Stablecoin AG, to explore the integration of blockchain applications with the Swiss Franc stablecoin.This test is based on the Swiss Franc stablecoin CHFD, which has been technically launched in the Sandbox environment since the end of June and is pegged to the Swiss Franc at a 1:1 ratio. The testing will focus on exploring application scenarios such as automated inter-institutional transactions, digital asset tokenization settlement, and programmable payments, including reducing online market fraud risks, improving fair access to event tickets, and increasing the efficiency of public fund distribution. The test is expected to continue until the end of 2026. UBS stated that the Sandbox aims to accumulate technical, operational, and regulatory experience and does not represent a decision to officially launch the Swiss Franc stablecoin.

This set of posts seems to be the first public exposure of James's formal relationship with Polymarket. Polymarket, as well as representatives from James and the 76ers, did not immediately respond to The Block's request for comment. Previously, James's free agency decision generated approximately $273 million in related contract trading volume across major prediction platforms, according to Legal Sports Report, surpassing any single basketball game; data from Front Office Sports indicated that the related trading volume on Kalshi was about $226 million, while Polymarket's international platform exceeded $43 million.Most traders bet on the wrong outcome: before the official announcement, the odds of the 76ers winning were only about 9%, while the Heat were around 45%. James subsequently signed a two-year, $8 million contract with the 76ers, which includes a player option. Additionally, James had signed a multi-year talent ambassador agreement with DraftKings in 2024. Some fans expressed criticism of James's collaboration with prediction platforms in social media comments.