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DUSK surged 15.59% in one hour, reaching a price of $0.098018. The altcoin recorded a 10.20% increase over the past 24 hours, with trading volume at approximately $7,627,554 and market cap at $59,778,417. The price surge follows trader rotation into altcoins amidst mixed signals in the broader

Kakao announced AI assistant services 'Kanana Space' and 'Kanvas' on the 13th at the if(kakao)26 conference held in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The company plans to transform KakaoTalk into an integrated AI platform that handles daily tasks through voice commands, starting with a closed beta test in

US Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds recorded a net outflow of $65.4 million on October 12 (US Eastern Time), marking a return to outflows after a brief inflow period. The outflow was driven entirely by BlackRock's IBIT product, which saw $65.4 million exit, while no other products recorded

OKX announced the launch of its upgraded Smart Portfolio bot, a tool that integrates multiple asset classes including ETFs, tokenized stocks, and stablecoins. The bot enables users to customize their investment allocations, offering a diversified approach to automated portfolio management. This

US Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $85.4 million (approximately 114.1 billion Korean won) on October 12 (US Eastern Time), according to data from Farside. This marks the 10th consecutive trading day of net outflows starting from September 29, with cumulative outflows over the recent 5 t

According to Blockspace on October 12, IREN and Anthropic allegedly signed a multiyear cloud services contract, but both IREN and Anthropic declined to comment on the matter. IREN announced on August 27 of this year that a new customer, a “leading AI lab,” had signed a contract, but did not disclose the customer’s name. It remains impossible to confirm whether the customer is Anthropic. IREN’s Anthropic Contract Remains Unverified According to IREN’s financial data and SEC filings, its key finan

Destructoid reporters recently tested specific links that allow users to play eight well-known games, including Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5), directly in a browser for free, with no download or installation required. The reporters noted that most versions suffered from lag and graphical glitches, while a few ran almost as smoothly as the originals. They added that dozens of other browser-based games of the same kind are available. The technical foundation of this wave of free browser games is a co

Michael Woodford, a Columbia University professor, co-won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics for providing the theoretical foundation for forward guidance, a practice where central banks pre-announce their policy direction. Woodford's research focused on how households and firms make economic

According to a report by Decrypt citing an article published on the 11th in the UK’s The Times, British authorities froze the penthouse apartment of Thet Li (39, Chinese name Li Tian), the alleged financial executive of Cambodia’s Prince Group, on the 13th floor of a building next to St James’s Park in London. The United States has filed for the forfeiture of approximately $14 billion in Bitcoin linked to Prince Group. Prince Group denied last year that the group or Chen Zhi had engaged in any i

Google Labs released the experimental AI game development platform “Playground” on October 12. Users do not need any programming experience to generate 3D and 2D browser-based games in real time by entering prompts. Playground is currently available only to users aged 18 or older in the United States. The platform uses an interactive conversational interface and supports customizable single-player and multiplayer modes. Playground’s Core Features: Real-Time Game Prototype Generation via Prompts,

According to an Oct. 12 report, Alibaba’s Qwen team launched QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning (RL) framework for training agents with ultra-long horizons. Its core ideas are switching idle GPUs between deployment and training and converting branching agent histories into bounded training samples. As of the report’s publication, QwenGyre’s code had not been released, and the GPU models had not been disclosed. Problems QwenGyre Solves: Long-Tail Effects and Branching-Trajectory Overhead

China-based television and home appliance brand Skyworth Group is internally developing a wearable exoskeleton to help older adults walk, stand up from a seated position, and go up and down stairs; IT Home reported on Oct. 12, citing Leidian, that the product was incubated by the Innovation Research Institute of Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co., Ltd. and will not be sold under the Skyworth brand. Development has been underway for about a year, and the product is still in the testing phas

The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that government bond yields could rise in a disorderly fashion, driven by mounting inflation pressures, escalating debt levels, and competition from AI-related borrowings in sovereign bond markets. The warning came as government bond yields in several a

According to IT Home, Baidu announced on October 12 that Baidu World Conference 2026 will be held on November 12 at Phase II of the China National Convention Center in Beijing, under the theme “The Next Act: Intelligent Organizations.” Tickets are now on sale through the conference’s official website. The official preview promises an event featuring 12 subforums focused on intelligent organizations, more than 30 public courses offering hands-on experience with AI technologies, and a 6,000-square

Tencent (00700.HK) launched demand testing on October 13 for approximately $5 billion in U.S. dollar and offshore Yuan bonds. Initial pricing guidance for the 10-year and 20-year U.S. dollar bonds was approximately 115 and 140 bps, respectively, above U.S. Treasury yields. According to people familiar with the matter, the proceeds will be used primarily for AI-related capital expenditures, with a considerable portion allocated to chip purchases. Four-Bond Structure and Pricing Guidance The bond

According to QbitAI, a model called GLM-5.3-Highspeed has begun appearing in Zhipu AI’s coding tool, ZCode. It was first discovered in ZCode version 3.15.1. The model is being randomly rolled out to some subscribers as a gray version and is not accessible to all paid users. A user who discovered the model shared a screenshot showing a token generation speed of approximately 490 tokens per second. User-measured speed of approximately 490 tokens/s According to a user screenshot cited by QbitAI, GL

On October 12, on X, on-chain investigator ZachXBT publicly criticized the XRP Ledger (XRPL) bug bounty mechanism: Veria Labs reported a critical integer overflow vulnerability that could mint approximately 18.45 trillion XRP in a single transaction—184 times the total supply—exposing $94 billion in risk, yet received only the program’s maximum bounty of $250,000. Vulnerability Background and Timeline: AI Found a 2015 Integer Overflow Capable of Minting 18.45 Trillion XRP According to Veria Labs

According to Microsoft's announcement on Oct. 12, its third-generation in-house AI chip, Maia 300, uses a chiplet design: the chiplets responsible for key computations use TSMC's N2P (2nm) process, while the chiplets responsible for data transfer use the lower-cost 3nm process; compute, memory controllers, and I/O functions are designed separately, and each chip is equipped with 8 HBM4 stacks, delivering peak memory bandwidth of 18.0TB per second. Chip Specifications: TSMC's N2P 2nm Process, 8 H