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According to GMGN, Artificial Inu (AI), a meme token in the Robinhood ecosystem, rebounded past $120 million in market cap today (October 14), with 24-hour gains expanding to 44%.

According to Jin10, China's residual fuel oil prices edged higher as of October 13. Low-sulfur residual crude in Shandong climbed to 6,495 yuan per ton, up 50 yuan or 0.78% from October 8; medium-sulfur residual crude reached 6,260 yuan per ton, gaining 85 yuan or 1.38% over the same period. The gains were driven by concentrated domestic supply, steady downstream demand from coking and blending operations, and cost support from elevated crude oil prices.

According to Bloomberg Intelligence, the high-bandwidth memory market is projected to reach $641 billion by 2030, significantly higher than the previous forecast of $260 billion. The research firm also expects HBM3E and HBM4 chip prices to rise 30 to 45 percent by 2027, while average HBM prices are forecast to climb from $15.46 in 2026 to $34.94 by 2030.

According to regulatory filings submitted by Microsoft on Wednesday (October 14), the company committed to over $130 billion in data center leases in a single quarter and plans to increase global data center capacity from approximately 12 gigawatts to over 38 gigawatts by 2032. The company's total unfunded lease commitments reached $329.1 billion as of June 30, 2026, up 67% from the prior quarter and marking a record increase. Microsoft investor relations officer Jonathan Neilson stated the comm

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's KORIBOR (Korea Inter-bank Offered Rates) as of October 14 at 11:00 AM showed the 12-month tenor at 3.99%, down 0.02% from the previous day. The 6-month rate stood at 3.74%, while the 1-week, 1-month, 2-month, and 3-month rates were at 3.00%, 3.13%, 3.25%, and 3.37%, respectively.

According to Beating, Tencent has launched a deep integration between WeChat Work and WorkBuddy starting October 13. In the new WeChat Work version 5.0.12, employees can interact with WorkBuddy like a colleague—chatting, assigning tasks, or adding it to group chats for message summarization, meeting notes, and email drafting. WorkBuddy 5.8.0 now supports WeChat Work account login and can access 10 office capabilities including chat messages, documents, meetings, and cloud storage within enterpri

According to ChoiceWealth, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 0.16% to 24,384 points early today, while the Hang Seng Tech Index climbed 1.61%. Morning trading volume reached 86.7 billion Hong Kong dollars. Xiaomi Corporation (01810) surged over 5%, leading blue-chip gainers. The company's new vehicle brand Pengcheng received over 70,000 pre-orders in its first month, signaling strong market reception for its integrated ecosystem spanning automotive, consumer, and smart home sectors.

According to ChainCatcher, Box CEO Aaron Levie predicts that enterprise autonomous agent clusters could drive approximately 100-fold increase in AI token and computing power consumption. Levie noted that while personal assistants face usage caps per user, the major growth will come from back-end agent clusters deployed at scale, executing tasks fully decoupled from human initiation. Current knowledge work remains limited by human-driven task generation, with existing agents only compressing 3-5

According to ChainCatcher, Pump.fun's BOOST mode has injected $106 million into its ecosystem over three months since launch. The mode redirects liquidity that would otherwise remain idle during token migration processes back into graduated tokens.

According to Bloomberg citing Castlelight Securities data, US retail traders on the platform net purchased $9.1 billion in US stocks last week, marking the highest weekly inflow in 15 weeks. Semiconductors led the buying, with $2.6 billion in net inflows, the third-highest weekly level in the past year, while AI infrastructure stocks attracted approximately $2.4 billion in purchases.

According to ChainCatcher, citing order book intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Ethereum traded at $2,511.42 on October 14. Binance perpetual futures showed the thickest buy-side demand at $62.74 million in buy orders versus $52.07 million in sell orders, favoring buyers by $10.67 million.

According to SoSoValue data reported by ChainCatcher, Ethereum spot ETFs saw net inflows of $24.84 million yesterday (October 13). Grayscale's ETH Mini Trust ETF led inflows at $16.73 million, followed by Fidelity's FETH at $8.11 million. The combined Ethereum spot ETF market now holds $15.83 billion in total assets, representing 5.16% of Ethereum's total market capitalization, with cumulative net inflows reaching $13.20 billion.

According to ChainCatcher, citing Nuveen fixed income strategy chief Tony Rodriguez, energy price increases have not yet transmitted to core inflation as of September. However, if the trend persists for two consecutive quarters, it could begin affecting food and commodity prices. Economists project U.S. September core CPI to rise 0.2% month-over-month and 2.5% year-over-year.

According to PPP, a prediction market tool, Polymarket's odds for Fable model release before October 17 have risen to 70%, up 36% in the past 24 hours. The market will settle as "Yes" if Anthropic makes Fable 5.2 or a higher version publicly available by the specified date; otherwise, it settles as "No".

According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw net inflows of $176 million yesterday (Oct 13, U.S. Eastern Time). Fidelity's FBTC led the day with $103 million in net inflows, bringing its historical cumulative net inflow to $10.618 billion. BlackRock's IBIT followed with $65.8854 million in inflows, reaching a historical total of $6.5734 billion.

According to AMD CEO Su Zifeng in remarks on Monday, AI inference will drive a new growth wave, with the data center AI accelerator market expected to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030. Su noted that AI agents capable of autonomous task execution with minimal human intervention are driving a surge in CPU demand. She expects the CPU market to see a compound annual growth rate of approximately 50% over the next four to five years, with the potential market size reaching $200 billion by 2030.

The Philippine stock index declined 1% during intraday trading on October 14.

According to BlockBeats, on October 14, Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins stated that the Fed may need to raise rates further before year-end to ensure inflation returns to its 2% target in a timely and sustained manner. Collins noted that decisions on further policy tightening and timing will largely depend on upcoming economic data and how it affects her assessment of the economic outlook.

According to ChainCatcher, Interlace launched a white paper on October 14 with OSL, AllScale, Stable, Hetu, Cregis, WIDTH, KEM, and KTX, examining how stablecoin payments can scale from on-chain settlement to real-world commerce. Stablecoin transaction volumes reached $28 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, while B2B payment flows totaled $226 billion in 2025, up 733% year-over-year. The white paper will address infrastructure coverage, end-to-end costs, compliance frameworks, and enterprise

According to bond market sources reported by Yonhap Infomax on October 14, South Korea's financial markets are closely watching for potential shifts in the Bank of Korea's monetary policy stance ahead of the October Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, expected about a week away. While a rate hold is widely anticipated, recent sharp declines in semiconductor stock prices have intensified market focus on whether the BOK's assessment of economic conditions may evolve. Market participants are p