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According to TechCrunch, AI computing startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures. The company's post-investment valuation has reached $800 million, a significant increase from $60 million after the seed round in May this year.Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference computing, using specialized chips from competitors of NVIDIA, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova. Other suppliers include Positron and Cerebras.

According to a report by the Korea Economic Daily, KB Securities expects that the combined operating profit of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will reach 157.1 trillion won from 2026 to 2027, which is 2.1 times the cumulative operating profit of 74.8 trillion won for both companies from 2000 to 2025. It is estimated that in 2027, the operating profits of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will be 55.5 trillion won and 38.9 trillion won, respectively, representing year-on-year growth of 51% and 50%.KB Securities stated that the demand for AI chips is driving a tightening of memory supply, and about 70% to 80% of the memory that both companies plan to produce in 2027 has been secured through long-term supply agreements signed with major global technology companies for five years. The price-to-earnings ratios of both companies have fallen to about 3 times, and the proportion of foreign ownership has dropped to its lowest level since the global financial crisis in 2008. KB Securities believes that the market may be underestimating the long-term profit growth potential.

According to on-chain analysts, a certain whale that started accumulating 80,157.67 ETH on March 11 has reportedly sold 75.03 WBTC and KBTC four hours ago, valued at 6.2 million dollars, with an average price of 78,068.55 dollars for the related tokens. If sold, it would yield a profit of 346,000 dollars.The whale's previously accumulated 80,000 ETH currently has an unrealized profit of 30.79 million dollars and has not yet reduced its position.

Elon Musk stated that as GrokBot continues to improve, user adoption is increasing. SpaceX will deploy GrokBot on a large scale to businesses within weeks.

Elon Musk stated that GrokBot is the fastest-growing product he has ever seen.

The Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy teams released a notice regarding "Explanation of DeepSeek Model Service Abnormalities and Compensation Announcement." In response to the previous abnormalities in the DeepSeek model service, the team will fully refund the points consumed by affected users during the period from October 8 to 14.The announcement also offers an additional 500 points to all users of the domestic versions of WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy. Previously, DeepSeek apologized for the service system failure and announced a compensation plan, stating that the consumption amount of affected user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to 14) will be fully refunded in the form of bonus points.

The liquid staking token bOSMO issued by Backbone Labs nearly exhausted its contract support after a large redemption in the Osmosis community pool. A disclosure on the Osmosis forum on October 15 revealed that approximately 40,508 OSMO were designated for compensation to 1,037 accounts. The disclosure author Johnny Wyles stated that the staking contract has overpaid for each redemption since at least April 2026, settling at approximately 1.676 OSMO per bOSMO, while the declared exchange rate of the contract was about 1.117 OSMO.The vulnerability repeatedly counted the OSMO staked on Backbone's own validators, allowing redeemers to receive about 50% more assets, at the cost of diluting the support for remaining holders. The defect was exposed when preparing to liquidate the community pool position, and the passed governance proposal 1049 authorized the withdrawal of the Margined managed treasury position and the destruction of the reclaimed OSMO when it ceased managing liquidity operations. The pool's bOSMO treasury holds approximately 1.137 million bOSMO, accounting for about 97% of the total supply of the token; the redemption transaction executed on October 9 at 21:59 ET destroyed 776,000 bOSMO and began unbinding approximately 1.3 million OSMO.Compensation is based on the qualified balance at block 72,237,940, calculated at 1.1174 OSMO per bOSMO. bOSMO purchased after the snapshot is not included in the compensation, and underlying holders in the liquidity pool and other contracts are also included;

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced a deep integration of WeChat Work and WorkBuddy. In the new version of WeChat Work 5.0.12, WorkBuddy enters the corporate address book, allowing employees to chat with it, assign tasks, or pull it into work groups just like they would with colleagues, for summarizing group chats, organizing meeting to-dos, drafting emails, and returning results directly upon completion.WorkBuddy 5.8.0 supports logging in with a WeChat Work account. Within the scope of corporate authorization, it can access 10 office capabilities including chat messages, documents, meetings, and WeChat Cloud. Employees do not need to repeatedly upload materials, as they can handle tasks by combining previous discussions and project files, with results saved to WeChat Cloud with one click. The WorkBuddy bot can also connect to WeChat Work's built-in AI assistant "DaYuan" to collaboratively handle more complex tasks.Administrators can assign WorkBuddy accounts, set data access permissions, and through the "Observability Center," which will begin public testing on October 13, view the points consumption of various departments, model usage, task duration, and track which specific execution steps encountered issues. The new interoperability features are open to certified WeChat Work enterprises and offer a limited free trial quota.

Binance will launch bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs: BBB/USDT, MDBB/USDT, PENGB/USDT, and UVXYB/USDT on October 14 at 20:00, and will enable spot algorithm trading bots and smart position trading bot services.Within one hour of the bStocks launch, users can exchange for BTC, USDT, or other tokens without any fees, and the zero maker fee promotion will last until November 1 at 07:59.

According to market data, OKB briefly surpassed 140 USD, currently reported at 139.48 USD, with a 24-hour increase of over 10%.

From September 29 to October 1, the stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace made its debut at the 2026 Korea Blockchain Week (KBW), deeply participating in events such as The Next Onchain Economy and HSC Conference Seoul, engaging with global Web3 partners and financial industry practitioners to discuss stablecoin payments and next-generation financial infrastructure.Cat Lucci, the business leader of Interlace, stated that the key to the implementation of stablecoin payments lies in the deep integration of stablecoin channels with bank cards and local clearing systems. Interlace provides efficient and secure capital flow experiences for exchanges, wallets, and B2B trade scenarios through modular capabilities such as cards, accounts, and clearing.During KBW, Interlace also set up a product experience session where attendees could receive Stablecoin Card gift cards to experience the convenient payment of on-chain assets in real-world consumption scenarios, attracting the attention and engagement of many participants.It is reported that Interlace's next stop will be at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, participating in events such as Stablecoin Happy Hour and AI & Emerging Onchain Assets, continuing to share innovative achievements in on-chain financial infrastructure on the core stage of Web3.

According to the official announcement, the Gate contract Meme section has launched real-time trading of the GSTOCKBSC perpetual contract (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage. Gate has also added the GSTOCKBSC trading bot and copy trading.GSTOCKBSC is a community token on the BSC Stock-Meme launch platform Genius.Fun, newly launched by Genius Foundation.

KB Securities released a report on September 11, indicating that Samsung Electronics' HBM market share is expected to increase from 33% in the second quarter to 40% in the fourth quarter, mainly due to HBM4 sales in the third quarter growing more than three times quarter-on-quarter, and HBM4 is expected to account for over 60% of its total HBM sales in the second half of the year.Samsung Electronics has established comprehensive mass production of HBM4, supplied HBM4E samples to core customers, adopted the HBM5 architecture with 1c core bare chips and 2-nanometer base bare chips, and outlined the roadmap for the next-generation ZHBM. In terms of its foundry business, the 4-nanometer yield has stabilized above 80%, and the 2-nanometer GAA yield has rapidly increased to over 70%. KB Securities analyst Kim Dong-Won stated that the foundry business is expected to turn profitable starting in the third quarter, and the 2-nanometer yield may help it secure orders from major U.S. clients within the year.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs is 120 million dollars. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day is the Morgan Stanley ETF MSBT, with a single-day net inflow of 4.4906 million dollars. Currently, the historical total net inflow of MSBT has reached 521 million dollars.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net outflow in a single day is the Ark Invest and 21Shares ETF ARKB, with a single-day net outflow of 77.9815 million dollars. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ARKB has reached 1.387 billion dollars. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is 99.327 billion dollars, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value compared to the total market value of Bitcoin) is 6.31%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached 55.451 billion dollars.

Tencent WorkBuddy announced the official launch of its open platform, introducing over a hundred ecological partners in the first batch, aimed at opening underlying Agent capabilities for smart hardware, industry applications, and developers.At the press conference, 9 co-branded smart hardware products made their debut, with partners including Plaud, Rokid, Yingshi, iFlytek, Anker, Mengma, and Jingdong Jingzao; over 30 industry applications were simultaneously integrated, covering more than 20 fields including finance, law, healthcare, education, and public welfare. Previously, WorkBuddy collaborated with Li Weike Technology to launch the X-AI memory glasses and reached an ecological linkage for AI glasses with Rokid.

Tencent Hunyuan stated that since the Hunyuan Hy4 preview was first launched on WorkBuddy on August 28, 2026, it has received positive experiences and enthusiastic feedback from a wide range of users and developers due to the significant enhancement of its Agent capabilities. On the first day of launch, there were queuing situations in the WorkBuddy task queue, for which we sincerely apologize.To ensure everyone's user experience, the company has conducted emergency scaling of the Hy4 preview inference cluster and will continue to dynamically allocate resources. However, due to the limitations of high-end computing power and peak concurrent usage, it cannot be ruled out that queuing situations may continue to occur during certain periods.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $131 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF BTC, with a single-day net inflow of $38.9268 million, and the total historical net inflow of BTC has reached $2.739 billion. The second is Morgan Stanley ETF MSBT, with a single-day net inflow of $7.0806 million, and the total historical net inflow of MSBT has reached $436 million.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was the ETF ARKB from Ark Invest and 21Shares, with a single-day net outflow of $58.8155 million, and the total historical net inflow of ARKB has reached $1.277 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $77.271 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value compared to total Bitcoin market value) is 6.07%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $51.846 billion.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. ONE has increased by 13.69% in 24 hours, and NOKB has increased by 9.83%, reaching a new high today.In addition, CRV, NIL, MUBARAK, and STORJ have all shown a "high and then low" state, with CRV decreasing by 8.59% in 24 hours, NIL decreasing by 6%, MUBARAK decreasing by 5.04%, and STORJ decreasing by 37.79%. Meanwhile, HEI, ALLO, and ID have also shown a "bottoming out and then rising" state, with HEI increasing by 5.13%, ALLO increasing by 5.17%, and ID increasing by 5.69%.