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ME News Report, May 16 (UTC+8), the head of Iran's Parliament National Security Committee announced: Iran has prepared a set of mechanisms to manage traffic through the Strait of Hormuz along designated routes, with details to be announced soon. During this process, only commercial vessels and parties cooperating with Iran will benefit. Necessary fees will be charged to cover the professional services provided under this mechanism. The channel will remain closed to operators of the "Freedom Plan." (Source: PANews)

ME News Report, May 30 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that "Roland Garros ATP: Francisco Cerundolo vs Zachary Svajda" had a trading volume of $1.9M in the past 24 hours, with market participation significantly increasing.

Mars Finance News: According to Gate Market Data, U.S. stock indices surged rapidly, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average turning positive intraday, and the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite Index rising about 0.3%, hitting intraday highs.

EyesOnOpenAI Alliance submits a joint letter to the California Attorney General, accusing OpenAI executives of engaging in self-dealing and conflicts of interest by personally holding shares in Cerebras while pushing for billion-dollar procurement deals, potentially violating California Charitable Trust Law Section 5233. They demand full disclosure of documents and an audit of the disclosure process. Testimonies reveal that Brockman had lobbied Cerebras and concealed his holdings. Cerebras' valuation skyrocketed before and after going public, sparking controversy over public charitable assets being converted into private wealth.

CryptoWorld News reports that Fitch Ratings indicates that North American companies are facing credit risks from spillover effects of war, tariffs, and artificial intelligence. These factors could negatively impact the financial stability and credit ratings of businesses.

CoinShares' latest weekly report shows that digital asset investment products experienced a net outflow of $1.47 billion last week, marking the second consecutive week of outflows and the third-largest single-week outflow in 2026; over the past two weeks, total outflows reached $2.54 billion, indicating that global risk-averse sentiment is further spreading. The United States remains the main source of outflows, with a weekly outflow of $1.43B, while Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong saw outflows of $16.2 million, $12.5 million, and $12.2 million respectively. Bitcoin saw a weekly outflow of $1.32B, setting the record for the largest single-week BTC outflow in 2026, with net inflows from the beginning of the year decreasing from $3.9 billion the previous week to $2.6 billion; Ethereum experienced outflows of $222.8 million.

Gray Research Director Zach Pandl states that the resurgence of inflation in the United States may lead the Federal Reserve to maintain high interest rates for a long time, with three major impacts on the crypto market: first, high interest rates suppress the attractiveness of interest-free assets like Bitcoin; second, rising real interest rates increase the opportunity cost of dollar assets; third, tokenization of fixed-income assets accelerates, and stablecoin yields rise. Regulatory benefits such as the CLARITY and GENIUS acts may provide some buffer. Market expectations for the first rate cut have been pushed back to September 2027.

ME News reports that xAI has officially launched two standalone audio APIs: Grok STT and Grok TTS. Grok STT features high accuracy, low latency, supports REST batch processing, WebSocket real-time transcription, with word-level timestamps, speaker separation, multi-channel, and intelligent reverse text normalization, covering over 25 languages; batch pricing is $0.10 per hour, streaming is $0.20 per hour, with word error rates better than many competitors. Grok TTS offers fast, natural, and fine-grained controllable speech through tags, priced at $4.20 per million characters. Both are based on the same technology stack, used by Grok Voice, Tesla, and Starlink.

CryptoWorld News reports that according to SlowMist, a new "Trapdoor" virus is threatening Solana, DeFi, and AI developers. The virus injects over 34 malicious packages and 384 related versions into the largest code repositories, targeting creators of Web3 and AI products. This incident occurs against the backdrop of the DeFi industry suffering $635 million in losses in April. SlowMist analysis shows that attackers have shifted their strategy from attacking protected servers to secretly infiltrating engineers' personal devices. The malware aims to fully control developers' workstations, steal crypto wallets, cloud tokens, and access keys, and send them to addresses controlled by the attackers. SlowMist recommends teams immediately remove affected packages, isolate infected systems, and initiate a three-phase recovery protocol.

ME News reports that Xiaomi miclaw has passed the mobile intelligent assistant Claw evaluation conducted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, becoming the first domestically recognized mobile intelligent agent. The evaluation is based on the "Universal Framework for Intelligent Assistant Benchmark Testing," assessing from three dimensions: basic capabilities, on-device applications, and comprehensive abilities. The system is built on the self-developed MiMo large model, featuring four core capabilities: full-ecosystem underlying support, deep memory, cross-domain connectivity, and continuous self-evolution. It can connect devices such as smartphones, PCs, cockpits, and AIoT, autonomously executing complex commands. (Source: BlockBeats)

BlockBeats News, May 24 — On-chain investigator ZachXBT stated that two contracts related to the euro stablecoin issuer StablR have been attacked, with potential losses exceeding 3 million USD.

Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Balchunas pointed out that the spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT under BlackRock has been rising almost daily over the past three weeks, recently increasing by about 3.5%, with a total gain of approximately 19% since the sell-off triggered by the US-Iran conflict. Geopolitical concerns have eased, market sentiment has improved, and this has driven Bitcoin-related ETFs to continue strengthening.

South Korea's People Power Party Digital Asset Special Committee Chairman Kim Sang-hoon expressed concern at an academic conference about restrictions on exchange equity, calling for the prioritization of the second phase legislation of the digital asset basic law related to stablecoins to avoid missing the golden legislative window due to equity regulation disputes. He pointed out that the overseas circulation of Korean won stablecoin KRWQ challenges monetary sovereignty, advocating for laws to provide market predictability, offer clear guidance to operators, and establish user safety mechanisms.