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According to Cointelegraph, Stellar has launched Project Thruput, a new execution model that has gone live on FutureNet. Early benchmarks show that the model achieves 7.02 million payments per second by scaling across multiple machines.

According to an exclusive report from "Du Jia," Douyin is currently testing exclusive interactive props for short drama scenes. Viewers can spend platform diamonds to send these props, which will trigger corresponding interactive effects in the short drama, allowing viewers to transition from simply "watching the drama" to paying for participation in the storyline.The report indicates that some short dramas will display entrances for props like "Iron Sand Palm · 1 Diamond" at key conflict points in the plot, with 1 diamond approximately equal to 0.1 yuan. This model opens up an interactive tipping monetization channel beyond traditional full episode unlock payments, advertisements, and short drama cards. In terms of industry background, current short drama revenue is highly concentrated among a few hit titles, putting significant pressure on small to medium projects to recoup costs, while one-time full episode payments filter out users who are only willing to make small payments. Prop payments will connect live tipping capabilities to short drama content, aiming to tap into the fragmented consumption potential of existing users.The report also warns that low-threshold props may provoke controversies related to deliberately creating conflicts and inducing consumption, requiring the platform to maintain ongoing regulation.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent has launched the internal testing of "Tencent Cloud Drive," with some features still being iterated, and plans to release an App version. This product focuses on file storage, data management, and AI applications, with a core positioning as a unified memory base for multiple Agents, aiming to connect various AI applications and office tools, unify and carry context, allowing multiple Agents to collaborate based on the same information.Practical tests show that the internal test version retains basic entry points such as the homepage, files, recycle bin, and storage space, with a floating AI assistant panel on the right side. The core highlight of the product is its "connection" capability, supporting binding with Tencent Docs, WorkBuddy, and integrating third-party Agents like DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw. After authorization, the Cloud Drive AI assistant can read application files, automatically sync updates, and directly call information as a knowledge base for retrieval, summarization, and content generation. The binding page will clearly inform users of the scope of permissions and the rules for AI credit consumption.The report points out that, unlike traditional Cloud Drive AI's document summarization, this system fully connects documents, Cloud Drive files, and Agent workspaces, shifting the Cloud Drive from a file repository to a data memory platform in the AI era.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Apple is testing its first large-screen foldable iPad, with a maximum screen size of about 20 inches, expected to be 18 to 20 inches when fully unfolded, and more portable when folded. It is positioned between a tablet and a laptop, with a launch expected in 2028. The design concept references the Huawei MateBook Fold, which has already been launched in China.This news aligns with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo's previous judgment that Apple plans to launch its first large-screen foldable iPad in 2028, with a focus on minimizing creases. Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman previously described it as an ultra-large screen similar to two iPad Pros joined side by side, aimed at multitasking and productivity scenarios. It is expected to use ultra-thin glass, and Kuo believes Corning may be the exclusive supplier of the glass. GIS Group is reportedly responsible for cutting, edge finishing, quality inspection, and packaging, and both companies are also involved in other Apple foldable projects, including the foldable iPhone Duo.The report notes that the latest version of the Huawei MateBook Fold was released in August 2026, with an 18-inch unfolded size and a thickness of 7.3 millimeters when fully unfolded. It was launched in China with a starting price of 24,999 yuan. Industry insiders expect Apple's pricing for this device to be relatively high, primarily due to the manufacturing difficulties of large-size flexible screens. Previous industry forecasts estimated first-year shipments to be around 500,000 to 1 million units. This project has not yet been officially confirmed by Apple.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is currently beta testing "HermitKit," an AI capability plugin for WeChat Mini Programs, providing three levels of access: API, UI components, and Demo. This plugin supports streaming calls to large models through ChatApi, creates and manages Agents using AgentBuilder, and enables multi-turn conversations, with built-in session storage and long-term memory capabilities. Additionally, it can bind remote Agents via QR code scanning through AgentChannel to complete message sending and receiving.Currently, HermitKit showcases 7 types of functional demonstrations, including AI SDK, Agent Channel, Agent Management, Pet Agent, Chatbot, Travel Planning, and Plugin Market. Among them, the AI SDK aligns with cloud development APIs such as createModel, generateText, and streamText; the Pet Agent allows developers to read pet status through interfaces and trigger status changes using props; the Plugin Market enables searching, publishing, and downloading MCP, Skill, and Expert resource packages. This plugin has not officially launched yet, and related capabilities may still be subject to adjustments, with specifics to be confirmed by official statements.

OpenAI posted on the X platform that during a recent red team exercise, a vulnerability was discovered in the widely used compression library Brotli that allows remote code execution without authentication. Software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy all have this library built-in. Attackers can take over unpatched servers by sending malicious compressed data, and they can also take over clients that accept compressed data through malicious servers.OpenAI stated that the root of the issue was fixed in the Brotli source code in February of this year, but it was not identified as a security vulnerability at that time, and all software that includes this library needs to be updated accordingly. According to The Hacker News, the vulnerability is numbered CVE-2026-111497, and Node.js released a patched version on October 21.

NVIDIA expects that with the support of capacity expansion in the United States, Taiwan, and Singapore, the total semiconductor testing capacity in 2027 will double compared to 2026.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting internal testing of an AI interactive content product for children and teenagers called "Dongle Duck," which includes a web version and a WeChat mini-program. The product is currently open for limited testing to parent-child users and teachers, using interactive content "Wonder Cards" as the main medium, allowing parents, teachers, and knowledge creators to use AI to create draggable, simulated, and operable interactive works from knowledge, experience, and creativity.Dongle Duck comes with a content community, accumulating ready-made Wonder Card materials that cover knowledge in various fields such as common life knowledge, art, humanities, and natural sciences. The formats include 3D models, games, picture books, and dynamic courseware. Parent-child scenarios can choose interactive bedtime picture books, rocket launch processes, electronic piano strings, motorcycle structures, and more for simulation; classroom scenarios can visualize physical concepts like friction and levers, and include built-in word puzzles and mini-games; extracurricular content includes miniature courtyard light and shadow simulations of museums, hydrological observation station transitions between dry and wet seasons, previews of pottery shapes and glaze colors, as well as models of electric fields, pulley systems, and the Pythagorean theorem.Parents, teachers, and knowledge creators can input ideas and use the built-in Agent to create picture books, games, dynamic courseware, 3D content, and memory cards. The platform features an inspiration wall and also supports adaptations of existing community works. "Du Jia" states that after entering the command to generate a game of Gomoku in the chat box, the AI will generate a mini-game in the right sidebar, supporting downloads, publishing to the community, or sharing with WeChat and QQ friends; the product also supports uploading recordings and direct dialogue input, turning existing materials into interactive knowledge.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng responded on the X platform regarding the recent mass deletion of old tweets, stating that he was merely testing an AI tool to clean up past retweeted content and did not delete any original posts, so there is no need for the outside world to overinterpret.

The modular blockchain project Celestia announced the launch of Eden, a high-performance EVM chain running on Celestia. Celestia stated that Eden will serve as an "Agentic Commerce" experimental sandbox to test the behavior and infrastructure needs of AI Agents when autonomously making payments, trading, and calling models on-chain.Celestia indicated that as AI Agents begin to participate in more frequent on-chain transactions, the market demand for block space, real-time settlement, and low-friction payments will continue to rise. Eden will help teams observe what kind of transaction environment Agents need, how they manage funds, and how their on-chain behavior will affect network design.The first experimental project of Eden is Botfun, currently in closed testing. According to Celestia, participating Agents can issue tokens independently and trade around narratives generated by other Agents; each model inference call is paid on-chain via x402.Celestia claimed that this experiment briefly positioned Eden as one of the largest x402 networks by transaction count. From a technical configuration perspective, Eden is an EVM-compatible chain that supports atomic batch transactions, application-paid Gas, and larger smart contract deployments, with the native Gas token being TIA. These designs will reduce the friction of signatures and fees when Agents continuously execute payments, exchanges, and interactions.

According to The Defiant, OKX announced the launch of the Onchain Spot and Perps public beta within its app. Qualified users can use free points (XP) to simulate trading in stock, index, and commodity markets, preparing for subsequent real fund trading. This simulated trading competition shares a prize pool of 250,000 USDT with Outcomes Season 3, running from October 14, 22:00 EST to November 14, 11:00. XP points have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn, transferred between accounts, or exchanged for financial instruments.The first simulated markets include gold, S&P 500 ETF, SpaceX, and Nvidia themes, with separate trading pairs for spot and perpetual contracts. Participants are testing trading strategies rather than purchasing shares of the aforementioned companies. OKX's product announcement indicates that qualified customers come from Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the Middle East and North Africa; users must complete identity verification and use a passkey to open a dedicated on-chain account through their existing OKX account.The trading venue operates on Exchange OS built on X Layer, and OKX refers to this account as self-custodial, supporting a unified balance between spot, perpetual contracts, and Outcomes. The spot and perpetual markets share margin, eliminating the need for internal transfers between product accounts.OKX stated that after the competition ends, real fund trading will be opened, allowing users to fund their on-chain accounts from their OKX exchange accounts, with spot and perpetual contracts settled on-chain in USDS. The activity XP and positions will not convert to real fund positions.

Apple's Executive Chairman Cook revealed in Shanghai that Apple Smart has been approved in China.A test version will be launched later in October, with the first batch of features including real-time translation, writing tasks, and image removal, excluding Siri AI.

Alibaba's AI office product Qianwen Office released its e-commerce version on October 14 and is currently open for invitation testing. Users can switch to the "E-commerce Management" mode in Qianwen Office to experience it.According to public information, this version introduces cross-platform management dashboards, trend insights and selling point analysis, bulk generation of popular materials, and cross-platform ROI intelligent optimization for e-commerce clients' daily work scenarios. It has currently integrated with business consulting tools such as Shiji Canmou, Youzan, and Qianniu. Reports indicate that the project began preparations in June this year, entered a concentrated development phase in September, and is coordinated by Qianwen Office CEO Chen Yusen, with nearly a hundred employees participating. About 20% of the current paid users of Qianwen Office come from the e-commerce industry.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting a small-scale test of its personal investment analysis assistant "Rena Lan Cai," which has a PC version and a WeChat mini-program, supporting connection to WeChat. This product is positioned as an AI assistant for individual investors, helping users obtain and understand market and company information, and is currently in a small-scale testing phase.The web version breaks down the investment research workflow into visual modules, with core features including market quick reads, individual stock tracking, and AI Q&A. The market quick read summarizes global market dynamics, continuously updated in the morning, noon, closing, and evening, and associates market information with the user's watchlist; the left sidebar allows users to customize stocks of interest and displays real-time market data, while the right side features an intelligent Q&A panel linked to the day's quick read content, supporting follow-up questions about industry rankings, cash flow in financial reports, and more. In addition to the PC version, Rena Lan Cai is also launched as a WeChat mini-program, with basic functionality aligned across both platforms and conversation records shared. The product also appears in the WeChat chat list as a WeChat ClawBot intelligent entity, allowing users to directly access investment research capabilities in the chat window.The report states that Alibaba is also internally testing its AI investment research product Qovest, and Baidu's previously released Kuku AI is also focusing on investment research, as major companies collectively enter the personal investor AI investment research space. Rena Lan Cai essentially serves as an investment research assistance tool, not providing investment advice and avoiding direct trading compliance red lines.

The Trump administration plans to transfer three senior officials from the U.S. artificial intelligence model testing agency CAISSI to the White House, reporting directly to White House technology policy director Michael Kratsios and national cyber director Sean Cairncross. The government had previously considered moving the entire agency to the White House but ultimately only adjusted part of the senior leadership; the related transfers have not yet been completed, and the identities of the three officials have not been disclosed. Since its establishment by the Biden administration, the agency has used three different names in less than two years, and Chris Fall, the head, resigned just three months after taking office in July of this year, with a successor yet to be determined.CAISSI is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the U.S. Department of Commerce, has about 40 employees, and an annual budget of approximately $15 million, responsible for model safety assessments. According to informed sources, the agency is collaborating with the National Security Agency to test OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Mythos before public release; it has previously assessed DeepSeek V4 Pro and Zhiyuan GLM-5.3. Google confirmed that Gemini 4 Argon has participated in the voluntary testing process before the U.S. government release. The White House hopes that this adjustment will allow model testing experts to be more directly involved in policy decision-making.

The artificial intelligence company Zhipu released a legal-specific model GLM-Legal, which is further trained based on GLM-5.3-Flash. In the Harvey LAB evaluation covering 24 categories of legal services, the task pass rate increased from 6.7% to 19.2%, nearly tripling the original version, surpassing models like Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5, and ranking seventh on the Vals AI leaderboard.When reviewing software service contracts, GLM-Legal suggested shortening the termination notice period from 60 days to 30 days and required service providers to offer up to 90 days of handover support. In another software project dispute involving 40 documents, it found that the company reported to the client that the project was 60% complete, while internal records indicated only about 41%. It also identified emails from the CEO requesting to conceal risks and continue charging, and analyzed potential legal liabilities in conjunction with contract terms.According to independent evaluations by Vals AI, the cost for GLM-Legal to complete a test is $0.15, while the closely performing Gemini 4 Argon costs $10.55, a cost difference of about 70 times. GLM-Legal took an average of 72 minutes, while the latter took 44 minutes. Zhipu stated that the model was trained specifically on legal data and conducted reinforcement learning in tens of thousands of simulated legal environments. Currently, GLM-Legal requires an API trial application.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced the official launch of the personalized trading interface Binance AI for global English users. This free tool is based on generative UI and can customize market information, portfolio tracking, and trading functions according to users' interests and trading experience levels, with more language versions being rolled out gradually. A Binance spokesperson revealed to The Block that since testing began on September 7, approximately 150,000 users have participated in the trial.The features of Binance AI include AI-generated portfolio performance summaries, analysis of popular volatile assets, voice alerts, and on-demand text or audio market briefings. The product was demonstrated in a live broadcast last week, alongside the upcoming Binance AI Pro. Binance's Vice President of Product, Jeff Li, stated that the market is becoming increasingly complex, but tools for understanding the market should be easier to use. This interface aims to make market information more accessible to users, whether they are novice traders or managing more complex positions.Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng described the product in an announcement on October 5 as part of the company's efforts to make financial information more accessible. He stated that finance has always been built for those who already understand it, blockchain allows everyone to enter the market, and AI empowers everyone with the knowledge to navigate the market. In April of this year, Teng discussed the company's super app strategy with The Block, which includes plans on how to utilize artificial intelligence.

Anthropic announced the expansion of access to its state-of-the-art AI models, allowing verified institutions to use models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Mythos 5.1 for cybersecurity testing.U.S. government agencies, financial institutions, and large software vendors participating in the "Project Glasswing" project will gain open eligibility, and newly joined institutions must be jointly reviewed by Anthropic and the U.S. government.

R25 today announced that its core product R25 Studio, based on the 2 architecture, has officially launched public testing. R25 Studio is dedicated to realizing the vision of "everyone can become an asset manager," fully opening up the capabilities for the establishment, operation, and distribution of institutional-level funds. By abstracting cumbersome legal documents, backend systems, and compliance processes into configurable smart contracts, R25 Studio has successfully compressed the fund establishment cycle from several months to just 10 minutes.The platform revolves around Build, Manage, Earn, and Distribute, covering Vault creation, subscription and redemption, investment management, fee earning, and distribution; asset managers can autonomously set investment parameters, management fees, and performance fee rates on-chain without building complex fund structures from scratch, generate exclusive Vault Tokens/Shares, and list the Vault on channels such as Dapp and Topnod. The platform also provides performance data such as NAV, APY, cumulative returns, and maximum drawdown, helping asset managers monitor strategy performance in real-time.Previously, in Phase 1, Axil launched a private credit Vault on R25 and successfully surpassed $130 million in TVL, validating the reliability of this infrastructure. The registration channel for the first batch of managers is now open.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley has established a digital asset lab to test technologies such as stablecoins, tokenization, and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The Wall Street bank is exploring how blockchain-based systems can be applied to its various businesses.Megan Brewer, head of market innovation and labs at Morgan Stanley, stated in an interview that the initiative is part of the company's existing innovation lab network. This network provides employees with dedicated facilities to explore emerging technologies while avoiding risks to the bank's core systems.