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ME News message: On May 16 (UTC+8), according to a post on X by crypto KOL Ma Siqi, “Here’s a fun fact: In addition to being New Oriental’s ‘Northeast celebrity teacher’—along with the original Bitcoin OG Li Xiaolai—Luo Yonghao has had a lot of private dealings with him. What’s more, as early as 2018, they made over 30 million (RMB) by investing in Bitcoin. That same year, he also advised the company’s young employees: just be at ease and do your job—don’t flip/try to profit from crypto trading.” (Source: ODAILY)

Cboe has obtained SEC approval to extend trading hours starting July 13 for certain listed multi-stock options: pre-market 7:30–9:25 ET, and after-hours 16:00–16:15 ET. The first batch will cover about 20 highly liquid underlying assets, such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Palantir, Broadcom, and AMD. Conditions: average daily trading volume of at least 150,000 contracts over the past six months, underlying market value of at least $50 billion, and average daily trading volume of at least 10,000,000 shares. This measure is intended to better align with extended trading and help investors manage risk during major events.

Fudan University and Meituan LongCat jointly open-sourced the WBench interactive world model benchmark, including 289 test cases, 1,058 rounds of interaction, covering first- and second-person perspectives, navigation control, subject actions, event editing, and viewpoint switching. 22 automatic metrics have a correlation coefficient of ≥0.94 with human blind tests. The results show that interactive control is almost decoupled from model rendering, physics/consistency, with hy-world1.5 leading in navigation control, lingbot-world leading in consistency, and matrix-game3.0 ranking first in action navigation.

In an unsupervised learning podcast, Yang Leikun puts forward an unconventional view on the limitations of large language models, discusses a robotics technology roadmap, explains why he left Meta, and differs from Hinton and Bengio in his perspective on the Turing Award. He also predicts 2027, introduces the new company AMI and its bet on world models, compares OpenAI and Anthropic to Sun Microsystems, and advises PhD students to stop researching LLMs, sharing insights on AI safety, breakthrough research mechanisms, and Meta FAIR’s gains and losses.

ME News message: On April 18 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that “Warriors vs Suns” recorded a trading volume of $5.5M over the past 24 hours, with market participation rising significantly.

Google discloses TPU 8t architecture, implementing rack interconnection through the Virgo network, using high-radix switches and a flat two-layer non-blocking topology, achieving a 4x bandwidth increase, connecting 134k chips with 47 Pb/s non-blocking bandwidth, and nearly linear scaling to 1.7K ExaFlops.
The TPU 8t adopts a 3D torus topology, with a single super pod of 9,600 chips, expandable via JAX/Pathways to over one million chips.
Core technologies include SparseCore, VPU/MXU overlap and balancing, native FP4, and integrated Arm Axion CPUs, targeting evolution from dense large language models to large-scale mixture-of-experts and inference architectures.

ME News message: On May 26 (UTC+8), according to CME “FedWatch”: the probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged through June is 99.9%, with a 0.1% chance of a cumulative 25 basis point rate cut. The probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged through July is 90.3%, with a 9.6% chance of a cumulative 25 basis point rate hike, and a 0.1% chance of a cumulative 25 basis point rate cut. (Source: Jin10)

⬛ FORTUNE AI QUANT | $SUPER
🔲 Directional Bias: Neutral
⚡ Spot Synthesis: Recent price shows upward movement while trading activity is slowing, fundamentals highlight mineable nature and hybrid consensus design.
🩸 Leverage Profile: Open interest indicates notable derivative participation, and the funding rate reflects a bias that favors short positions, suggesting bearish lean in leveraged exposure; no specific long‑short ratio or liquidation data is provided.
📉 Narrative Catalyst: The mineable and hybrid consensus traits align with longer‑term interest, yet the current slowdown in trading volume may limit short‑term catalyst strength.

CryptoWorld News: Blockchain security firm Blockaid has discovered an active vulnerability targeting SquidRouterModule, resulting in the theft of approximately $3 million from 86 Gnosis Safes. The stolen tokens were exchanged for DAI through an Uniswap V3 pool controlled by the attacker. Blockaid noted that the attacker quickly drained multiple Safes within about two hours. The company also listed an attacker address and a funds consolidation wallet, the latter holding about 3.07 million DAI, worth approximately $3.07 million. This incident occurred during a month of heightened activity in the blockchain security community, and Blockaid also tracked other related security events.

Polkadot OpenGov votes on a major adjustment to the network staking architecture, Referendum 1890 requires validators to stake at least 10,000 DOT as a prerequisite for subsequent upgrades. If approved, nominators will no longer bear the risk of slashing, and unbonding time will be shortened to approximately 24–48 hours; validators will bear the risk of slashing for their own bonds, while nominators can continue to earn rewards without exposing their principal, reducing participation risk and speeding up exit.

Crypto World News reports that JPMorgan analysts state that tokenized money market funds currently account for only about 5% of the stablecoin market. Although they have yield advantages and are expected to continue growing, without regulatory changes, it will be difficult to surpass 10% to 15% of the stablecoin market. The analysts say that stablecoins remain the preferred cash tool in the crypto ecosystem. Tokenized money market funds are usually classified as securities, subject to registration, disclosure, reporting obligations, and transfer restrictions, which present "structural regulatory disadvantages."

Mars Finance News, May 24 — According to Iranian sources on the 24th, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Ahmad Vahidi delivered a speech on the same day, stating that Iran's armed forces are currently maintaining a "highest level of combat readiness and deterrence." Vahidi said that Iran's Air Force, Navy, Army, Space, and Cyber domains are maintaining a "highest level of combat readiness and deterrence." If the enemy takes military action against Iran again, they will face a "destructive response on regional and cross-regional scales." (CCTV News)

CoinWorld News reports that the CL short position has increased by 7,599.13 ZEC, approximately $1,031,848.79, with the total position reaching $11,091,310.08. The average price has decreased from $101.64 to $101.43. Currently, the short position is at a profit and loss of +$66,299.57 (+0.95%), with the current price at $100.83 and the liquidation price at $160.45. This address shorted ZEC at $184, previously experiencing an unrealized loss of $21 million, later turning profitable, and recently becoming the largest long position in the S&P 500, with a scale exceeding $70 million.