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The Bitcoin Technology Conference Series bitcoin++ has announced the launch of "Antarctica: Cold Storage Edition," scheduled from January 24 to February 5, 2028, with only 22 spots available. This event combines a technology conference with polar exploration, bringing discussions to a colder place in line with Bitcoin's "cold storage" (the practice of keeping private keys offline). Since its launch in Austin in 2022, bitcoin++ has held about 20 events in cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires, Taipei, and Seoul, each with a specific theme, with the next event scheduled for November 5 to 6, 2026, in Seoul focusing on privacy.Participants will depart from Ushuaia, Argentina, cross the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, and return, with a total duration of 13 days and 12 nights. Possible stops include Neko Harbour, Paradise Bay, Port Lockroy, and Lemaire Channel. Activities include kayaking, camping, hiking, snowshoeing, and Zodiac landings, with specific landing points depending on weather, ice conditions, and the expedition team's decisions. The conference will take a non-conference format, allowing participants to propose their own talks, presentations, and discussions, with Starlink available on board and independent rooms for temporary hackathons and workshops.Reservations are currently open, with ticket prices quoted in US dollars: a four-person cabin costs $14,900, and a double cabin costs $16,700, with the option to pay in five equal installments or pay in full at the time of registration; paying in full with Bitcoin offers a 5% discount. The ticket price includes a cold-weather jacket. The final payment must be completed by October 1, 2027, and medical, evacuation, and repatriation insurance must be purchased separately. Sponsors can print their brands on the expedition jackets, with sponsorship amounts ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, each covering approximately 22 jackets. The itinerary covers the Antarctic Peninsula, not the geographic South Pole.

According to TechCrunch, the AI meeting tool Otter.ai has secured $320 million in funding from Customer Value Fund (CVF) under General Catalyst. This funding will not dilute the company's equity, and CVF will earn returns through the performance generated by Otter.ai's marketing investments.Otter.ai plans to use the funds for business growth, market expansion, international expansion, and product innovation.

According to Jiemian News, the NVIDIA GTC conference will be held in Berlin, Germany from October 20 to 22 local time, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivering a keynote speech on the 21st.This year's GTC features over 100 specialized sessions focusing on accelerated computing, intelligent agents AI, physics AI, robotics, open-source models, AI infrastructure, and more. The conference's focus has shifted from "selling GPUs" to "selling AI factories."

According to Beijing Daily, the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference will be held from October 19 to 22 on Financial Street in Beijing, with over 400 guests from more than 40 countries and regions attending. This is the fifteenth session, approved by the State Council, with the theme "Openness · Cooperation · Inclusiveness ------ Building a New Ecosystem for Global Financial Development Together."The annual conference plans to hold a main forum and parallel forums with a total of 21 topic activities and 3 special conferences. Among them, the Insurance Conference will be hosted for the first time by the National Financial Regulatory Administration, and the Investment Conference will make its debut, forming a matrix of special conferences with the Financial Technology Conference. More than a hundred achievements, including credit risk control strategy sandbox agents and quantum fusion algorithm intelligent evolution platforms, will be launched for the first time. The annual conference will expand its African sub-venue for the first time, initiate a three-city connection between Beijing, Hong Kong, and London, and hold 7 events in 5 overseas sub-venues in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Toronto, and Nairobi.The Financial Technology Conference in 2026 will further innovate its format and expand its scale, setting up 13 topic activities around cutting-edge issues such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and smart finance. The People's Bank of China will host the Chengfang Financial Technology Forum within the framework of the conference and hold a seminar on artificial intelligence financial applications and risk prevention and control, continuing to organize a series of activities such as the Financial Technology Application Scenario Competition, and plans to release relevant achievements such as the central bank's digital renminbi system and digital renminbi smart contract ecological service framework.

On October 12, Huawei held a Kirin chip technology exchange meeting in Shanghai, marking the first chip-level technical communication meeting in six years, and systematically introduced the mass production progress of logic folding. Xu Songyu, head of the semiconductor business wireless terminal chip product management department, introduced that the Kirin chip has entered the testing phase in 2027, and the test results meet expectations; since 2023, the cumulative shipment of terminal products based on the Kirin chip has exceeded 100 million.The Kirin 9050 series is the first Kirin chip built on logic folding technology. Xu Songyu explained that logic folding is not simply stacking multiple chips, but rather a systematic design from a three-dimensional perspective at the beginning of the design, treating multiple dies as a complete chip for collaborative design. This series features over 50 million hybrid bonds, with effective signal interconnections exceeding 5 million, and a transistor density increase of 53.5%. The CPU large core efficiency of the Kirin 9050 Pro has improved by 41%, and the NPU computing power has increased by 140%; the current hybrid bonding pitch is 1.5 microns, and Huawei plans to further reduce it to 1 micron by 2027.The architecture of the Kirin 9050 Pro announced at the meeting includes the new generation Lingxi CPU, Maliang GPU, and Da Vinci architecture NPU, among others. This series is aimed at Mobile Agent, adopting a collaborative architecture of a large brain and a small brain on the edge, supporting the operation of a 30B MoE large model on the edge. The new generation Lingxi CPU features a 9-core 16-thread design, with a 23% improvement in multi-core performance, and the new generation Maliang GPU has a 40% performance increase.

From October 7 to 8, the decentralized stablecoin USDD participated in the TOKEN2049 Singapore conference, and its booth attracted a large number of attendees for interaction and communication. During the conference, USDD announced that it would reveal more important ecological partners and strategies.In addition, USDD's supply and TVL both reached new highs during the event, reaching $1.68 billion and $2.39 billion, respectively. TOKEN2049 is one of the largest events in the global cryptocurrency industry, bringing together top projects, platforms, and practitioners from around the world. This TOKEN2049 Singapore conference attracted 25,000 attendees from 160 countries.

U.S. President Trump will attend the AI Science Conference on Thursday to announce that companies such as AMD, OpenAI, and Anthropic have made investment commitments exceeding $1 billion for the "Genesis Project."Ten states in the southeastern United States will establish computing power hubs, with Georgia investing $1 billion. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy will invest over $100 million to develop AI scientific research tools.

TOKEN2049 Singapore Conference officially opens today, with the event taking place from the 7th to the 8th. This year's event features 6 venues and has attracted 25,000 participants from 160 countries. The speakers include Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, Hyperliquid Labs CEO Jeff Yan, Eric Trum, Nasdaq Chairman Adena Friedman, Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee, and Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, along with hundreds of top founders, corporate executives, investors, and project builders from around the world.

Binance co-founder He Yi stated in an AMA, "During this year's event in Hong Kong, I was actually pregnant, but I was too tired at the time, so I couldn't keep that baby.And then, I think maybe this little one, he/she said I want this mom, so now I just happen to be pregnant again. So recently, I really haven't reduced my work at all; I'm just sitting in that little cubicle you see in the photos chatting with everyone."

According to sources, NVIDIA (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang is expected to attend a meeting at the White House on Tuesday local time.

Insiders reveal that OpenAI President Greg Brockman will attend the White House's artificial intelligence conference.

According to Axios, U.S. President Trump, House Speaker Johnson, and CEOs of technology companies will hold a meeting on artificial intelligence on September 29.

Crypto KOL Kuai Dong (@_FORAB) posted that the DeepSeek investor meeting has once again experienced information leakage. Since the leak of internal speech recordings in May, the company has required attendees to fly to the Beijing or Hangzhou office, where they must hand over their phones, electronic devices, and backpacks in order to hear CEO Liang Wenfeng speak.Information leaked again just one day after last Sunday’s new meeting. Sources obtained by the information report reveal that DeepSeek's current important priority is to use more domestic chips and mentioned the earliest delivery time for Huawei chips.