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AIMPACT reports that the AI wave is triggering wealth polarization and psychological rifts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past five years, approximately 10k core employees and founders from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and NVIDIA have accumulated more than $20 million in wealth, making the career prospects for traditional software engineers increasingly bleak. Four types of mindset shifts have emerged in Silicon Valley: promotion pathways failing, young people feeling career nihilism, middle managers becoming paralyzed, and the ultra-rich losing their sense of purpose. Das believes that the anxiety over the AI gold rush is tormenting industry practitioners, driving more people to develop AI products that can generate wealth.

Last week, energy prices rose due to the Iran conflict, and inflation hit new highs.
The market largely rules out rate cuts this year, and expectations for rate hikes have increased.
Next week’s focus is on the Federal Reserve minutes and geopolitical risks, with attention to the G7 finance ministers' meeting, employment and housing data, and Michigan sentiment.
Gold remains under pressure, and the bond market is boiling over with rate hike expectations.
The AI boom and consumer spending are the two main themes in the stock market, with Nvidia, Walmart, and others set to release earnings gradually.

ME News Report, April 19 (UTC+8), Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group (berkeley_ai) quoted Dawn Song's statement, announcing that her team has successfully broken through 8 major agent evaluation benchmarks. The team has decided to open source the tools used to achieve this result, named BenchJack. The tool is described as "penetration testing for evaluations," aimed at helping other developers proactively test and identify potential weaknesses in their evaluation systems. (Source: InFoQ)

CryptoWorld News reports that, according to Whale Alert monitoring, Coinbase Institutional has just transferred 703 BTC to an unknown wallet, which is approximately $51.82 million based on the current price.

ME News reported on May 28 that the Trump administration is implementing a "phased accelerated pressure" on Cuba by strengthening economic sanctions and imposing secondary sanctions on GAESA, forcing companies like Sherritt, CMA CGM, and Hapag-Lloyd to suspend operations in Cuba to weaken the island's economic lifeline. The U.S. Southern Command also held a cross-department tabletop exercise to discuss response options in the event of protests and crackdowns during the summer heat, power outages, and shortages of supplies. Currently, Trump has not approved an invasion plan but has instructed the military to remain on standby.

Crypto reports that after HYPE first hit a new high, Hyperliquid's cross-chain bridge experienced a total net outflow of $110 million.
Despite HYPE continuing to reach new peaks, cross-chain funds have shifted to net outflows, with a recent UTC trading day net outflow of $91 million, totaling $149 million in outflows.
Earlier, on the first day, $173 million of USDC entered via the Hyperliquid-Arbitrum bridge, and approximately $63.3 million remains on the chain.

Resolv Foundation Announces Recovery Framework: After the security incident on 3/22, USR/wstUSR are exchanged for USDC at a 1:1 ratio, and USR purchased after the attack are exchanged at 1:0.5 USDC; RLP recovers 60%+ and distributes some RESOLV, with a three-month compensation window. Additionally, Vault Street is launched, targeting institutional RWA distribution and structured yields, with the first product, primeUSD, currently in private testing, allowing leveraged US bond yields through stablecoins. Staking/unstaking and rewards resumed on May 26, and in the future, Vault Street and institutional-grade assets will be expanded onto the blockchain.

Hong Kong plans to introduce licensing rules for virtual asset advisory and management services, requiring companies that provide virtual asset investment advice or manage investment portfolios to obtain official licenses.
The rules are based on the principle of "same business, same risk, same rules," designating virtual asset advisory services as regulated activities under Category 4 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance, and virtual asset management services as Category 9 regulated activities.
The legislation is scheduled to be submitted to the Legislative Council in 2026. SFC Chief Executive Officer Julia Leung described this as the final step in Hong Kong's digital asset regulatory framework.

Alibaba Tongyi Laboratory announces AgentScope 2.0, a multi-agent framework focused on high availability and security in production environments. New retry and backup models are added to prevent single-time timeouts from interrupting; the messaging module is changed to Content Block, supporting multimodal streaming data and human-in-the-loop. An access control system is introduced to statically/dynamically intercept high-risk commands and sensitive files. The Workspace abstraction is launched, decoupling business logic from the execution environment, allowing the same agent to run locally, in Docker, or in cloud sandboxes, combined with pre-warming pools to reduce overhead. The Python version has been upgraded, TypeScript has been released, and the Java version is coming soon.

BlockBeats News, May 25 — U.S. Secretary of State Blinken stated that as negotiations continue, the potential agreement with Iran could still be signed as early as Monday. (Jin10)

Microsoft Azure launches the "Quick Start Development Toolkit" in App Advisor, targeting teams with creative ideas but unsure how to implement them, those familiar with Microsoft technology stacks but wanting to accelerate, and teams looking to replicate existing solutions. By interactive wizard recommendations for development models, providing ready-to-use code templates, reference architectures, and operation guides, covering scenarios such as AI/intelligent agents, migration from AWS to Azure, replication, security, and integration, with the goal of reducing early friction and accelerating from idea to implementation.