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Phoenix Technology reported on October 22 that the latest "Refused Operation Application List" from ByteDance's Doubao Mobile Assistant has increased from 151 to 166 applications, with 22 new applications added.The newly added applications cover categories such as travel and business travel, recruitment and workplace, tools and health, and entertainment, including Didi, Didi Enterprise Edition, Air China, Huazhu Club, Lantu Automobile, related apps from Autohome, 58 City, Zhilian Recruitment, Zhiwukong, Keep, Roborock, Tides, Hikvision, Hupu, Mango TV, WiFi Universal Key, Scan All-in-One, Himalaya, and WorkBuddy within the Tencent ecosystem.This adjustment merges financial-related applications under a unified name and will no longer list them separately. Unlike before, where third-party application authorization was required, Doubao Mobile Assistant has changed to directly restrict operations for financial applications, covering areas such as banking, trust services, payments, internet finance, and credit. When this list was first published last week, it included a total of 151 apps.

The blockchain security research organization Asymmetric Research disclosed that there was a vulnerability in the governance program svmgov on the Solana chain: when validators did not participate in voting, independent votes submitted early by their delegators might not be counted in the final results. This vulnerability was reported to the Solana Foundation on July 10 and was fixed on the mainnet on August 3, ahead of the governance vote on August 24.Asymmetric Research estimated based on on-chain data that if the vulnerability had not been fixed, the approval rate of the SGP-0002 proposal, which aims to accelerate the decline of SOL inflation, could have dropped from the actual 67% to 66.65%, below the passing threshold of 66.67%. This vulnerability was fixed before the voting, and did not actually change the outcome of the proposal.

Google DeepMind released the first comprehensive empirical assessment of automation in machine learning research and development in the Gemini 4 Argon security report. The conclusion is that AI has not accelerated the R&D of AI itself, despite the fact that AI has written most of the code delivered by the lab's engineers. Researcher Haydn Belfield, who participated in the assessment, stated on X that there is currently no significant end-to-end ML R&D acceleration, so the risks of AI-driven ML R&D are currently low.The team built an internal index, GCI v1, which synthesizes the scores of 123 AI models across 92 benchmarks into a single value. The cutting-edge Gemini capabilities are improving at a stable rate of about 0.1 GCI points per month, with Gemini 1.5 Pro approaching 0.5 points by the end of 2024, Gemini 3.8 Flash slightly above 2.9 points by September 2026, and Argon about 3.3 points above the trend line. However, Belfield noted that this is due to increased computing power and organizational investment, rather than AI-driven acceleration.Over 75% of the code produced by DeepMind is written by AI, and the proportion of fully delegated code merge requests increased from 7.5% to 11.9% between April and September, but about 88% of requests still require multiple rounds of human guidance or manual writing. A survey of 12 senior researchers showed that automation is highest in clearly defined, verifiable execution tasks and lowest in areas such as open science concepts, new experimental designs, and unstable diagnostic training.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that Michael Saylor explained that Strategy intends to have investors accept selling Bitcoin as part of its overall financial strategy. When Strategy initially sold 32 Bitcoins, the market reacted excessively; subsequently, the market absorbed the sale of thousands of Bitcoins without a negative impact on the price.Saylor stated that when it aligns with the interests of shareholders and credit investors, Strategy must be able to buy and sell Bitcoin.

According to Hongxing News, Hong Kong actor and singer Anthony Wong recently revealed his investment losses. He stated that he lost a lot of money from buying NFTs. "I dare not tell my family about the money I've lost. My wife asks me every day how much I've lost, how many digits. I haven't said anything; I've lost more than I did when I was trading stocks." He also warned everyone not to follow his example in stock trading, as he was always thinking about getting rich overnight, which led to such significant losses.Anthony Wong was born on February 26, 1980, in Hong Kong, China. He was originally a swimmer and entered the entertainment industry in 2001.

With only 22 days left until the U.S. midterm elections, Fairshake, aligned with the stance of the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, and its affiliated Political Action Committee (PAC) have ramped up advertising to support their identified "crypto-friendly" candidates. According to documents disclosed by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Saturday, the PACs Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress have collectively spent $2.7 million on media and direct mail production to support Democratic and Republican candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. Fairshake's funding primarily comes from donations from investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, and Ripple Labs.Specific expenditures include: over $76,000 for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, $73,000 for House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson, $512,000 for California Congressman Pete Aguilar, and $500,000 for New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer. A few days earlier, Fairshake announced it would additionally support 32 House candidates in 2026, with 6 of them each receiving $1 million in media support.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the prediction market platform Kalshi is investigating betting activity related to "Trump's press secretary candidate" on its platform. Three bets, amounting to approximately $19, $74, and $80, appeared before the reports of Katie Zacharia being selected were published.The report states that the contract ultimately settled at "yes," but it remains unclear whether the related accounts are subject to withdrawal restrictions.

Bitfinex stated that Bitcoin typically transfers to trading platforms before being sold, but during the drop of BTC from $87,000, there was almost no behavior of Bitcoin held for 6 months or more.Data shows that nearly all Bitcoin flowing into trading platforms recently has only been transferred in the past week. Bitfinex pointed out that true market capitulation usually requires long-term holders to start transferring and selling their chips, but there are currently no signs of this.

According to the official public account of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the smart agent identification and identity network has officially launched its trial operation and is open for access to the public.This network relies on trusted interconnection centers for smart agents in Beijing, Xiamen, and other locations, providing services such as identity registration, identity verification, addressing resolution, and capability discovery. It adopts a "Blockchain + DID + Super Smart Agent" technical route, compatible with various DID methods, and adapts to mainstream interconnection protocols such as A2A and ANP.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is establishing a presidential candidate outreach program, forming an internal team to collaborate with bipartisan presidential candidates on AI issues ahead of the 2028 U.S. election, assisting leadership in developing political strategies and operating political funding projects. The company is hiring a political program manager responsible for establishing and operating related programs for the 2028 election cycle, identifying potential candidates from both parties, providing AI policy education to candidates and their advisors on equal terms, preparing executives for dialogues, and planning party platforms, conventions, and transitions in advance. The position requires over 12 years of experience in campaigns, party committees, or political organizations, along with a record of credible bipartisan collaboration, with a salary ranging from $295,000 to $345,000.Fortune reports that the program is taking shape ahead of the November midterm elections and the company's potential initial public offering, which could be valued at up to $2 trillion. Bruce F. Freed, chairman of the Center for Political Accountability, stated that it is not uncommon for businesses to maintain relationships with presidential campaign teams, but he has not seen such a formal presidential election outreach arrangement. California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla noted that this hiring indicates that cutting-edge model companies are also establishing political operations beyond their products, emphasizing that education and influence are not the same, and urged Anthropic to disclose more details. Katie Harbath, founder and CEO of Anchor Change, believes the unusual aspect is that this role is also responsible for political action committee funding. Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

According to market news, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Biden, announced the results of an independent investigation into the launch of the LAPTOP token, stating that he has commissioned the forensic company Groom Lake to verify all transactions on the day of the launch. He denied that the team cashed out, stating that the founder's tokens remain concentrated in the same wallet and have not been transferred since the launch; his personal tokens have been locked for six months and will be released over two years.He cited the investigation, stating that Market Maker 1 had $500,000 in startup capital but only invested about $5,200 and less than 30,000 tokens into the liquidity pool, which accounted for only 0.003% of the total supply. The extremely low liquidity caused the price to rise from $0.05 to about $317 in less than two minutes, followed by a 98% drop within the next hour. After the price peaked 84 seconds later, Market Maker 1 withdrew funds during the sell-off, causing the available funds to support sell orders to drop from $16,200 to zero, close to the current price.He stated that Market Maker 1's DEX position made a profit of about $686,000, while Market Maker 2's related DEX transactions netted over $2.1 million, and he believes that the market maker responsible for the launch issues should buy back and destroy the tokens. He stated that he takes ultimate responsibility, will not exit the project, and plans to destroy most of the unclaimed tokens from the first airdrop next week; this airdrop accounts for 10% of the total supply.

The 14-day public announcement period for the Sun Yuchen Award regarding question numbers 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001 has officially ended. The official confirmation states that there were no unresolved objections during the announcement period, and the qualifications of the relevant awardees have been finally confirmed, entering the written confirmation and prize distribution process for the first batch of awardees.According to the previous announcement information, the awardees for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, while the awardees for questions 866 and 1001 are problem solvers. Question 526 received rewards for both roles. Additionally, candidates for problem-solving for questions 239 and 327 have been under public announcement since September 30 and are still ongoing.The Sun Yuchen Award was established by Sun Yuchen, the founder of TRON, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million USD. The prize pool on-chain address has already deposited 10 million USD. The confirmation of this first batch of awardees also signifies that the Sun Yuchen Award has completed its first complete public announcement loop and initiated substantial prize redemption.

According to CNBC, U.S. Democratic Congressman Don Davis proposed the "No Betting on Your Own Race Act," which aims to prohibit federal office candidates from trading prediction market contracts related to their own election results.Under the bill, violators will be fined at least $10,000 or three times the net profits from the related trades, whichever is higher. Before this proposal was introduced, Davis's Republican opponent in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District, Laurie Buckhout, was fined nearly $2,600 for trading Kalshi contracts related to her candidacy and was suspended from trading on Kalshi for three years.

According to Cointelegraph, the crypto political action committee (PAC) Fairshake, supported by institutions such as Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and A16z, announced that it will support 32 incumbent members of Congress in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, including 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats.Fairshake plans to initially invest $6 million, providing $1 million in campaign support expenditures for 3 Republican and 3 Democratic candidates. Spokesperson Geoff Vetter stated, "We support pro-crypto candidates from both parties who advocate for American innovation." All 32 candidates voted in favor of advancing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) in 2025, but the bill failed to pass a key Senate vote, and its future remains uncertain.Fairshake expects to invest over $100 million this year to support House and Senate candidates through advertising, with at least $30 million allocated for the Ohio Senate race, backing Republican candidate Jon Husted against Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown.Vetter previously stated that as of August, Fairshake held $122 million in cash, aiming to help establish the largest pro-crypto coalition of lawmakers in U.S. history.

EntropyLab has released the first candidate version of its self-contained Bitcoin key and wallet calculator v1.0rc1. The application runs as a single HTML file, requiring no internet connection and does not generate entropy on its own; users can provide their own entropy to calculate keys and wallets in a completely offline environment.The tool supports multi-signature, PSBT, BIP-85, Silent Payments, vanity addresses, watch-only wallet exports, and random number analysis. This version is reproducible and can be verified through the signatures of four independent signers; the team recommends that users download and verify the file before transferring it to an isolated network computer. The official version v1.0 will be released after the candidate version testing is completed.

According to The Block, the crypto advocacy organization supported by Coinbase, Stand With Crypto, has announced its first round of Senate candidate endorsements.The organization stated that it will endorse Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted, whose opponent is the crypto-skeptical former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. Additionally, it will endorse Ashley Hinson from Iowa and Chris Pappas from New Hampshire.This endorsement comes after the Senate's procedural vote on September 15 failed to pass the Clarity Act, which aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for the industry.Senate Democrats stated that they could not vote for a bill that would allow President Trump to profit personally from the crypto industry. Stand With Crypto's Executive Director Mason Lynaugh mentioned that after the Senate's recent failure to advance the Clarity Act, the organization’s more than 3 million advocates are fully shifting their focus to ensuring the election of candidates who support crypto.In addition to the Senate endorsements, Stand With Crypto also stated that it will increase advertising spending in six House campaigns, including those of Democratic Congressman Don Davis and Republican Congressman Bryan Steil.These newly endorsed House candidates all voted in favor of the Clarity Act when it passed the House last year. The organization has also endorsed more House candidates, including Congressmen Shomari Figures and Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

On September 27, Doubao Mobile Assistant released a statement in the official community regarding the abnormal usage of the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone in Honor of Kings, stating that starting from the evening of September 24, they have received feedback from users that the Nubia NaviX Ultra equipped with Doubao Mobile Assistant displays an abnormal device environment prompt when logging into Honor of Kings or during matchmaking, and users are forcibly kicked offline.Doubao Mobile Assistant stated: Upon confirmation, they have not made any operations on the Tencent game system throughout the process, and there are no violations such as unauthorized clicks, cheats, or simulation behaviors by the AI. The team is still in communication with relevant parties at Tencent, and as of now, they have not received a clear response, for which they apologize. The assistant also advises users not to repeatedly attempt to log into Honor of Kings on this model. If the account has been banned, users can appeal through the official game customer service channels.Tencent has not publicly responded. On September 28, a reporter learned from informed sources that Honor of Kings ensures game fairness through various security risk strategies, and these strategies have been consistently used over the past period without targeted adjustments.