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The issue surrounding the military version of the "Starlink" satellite communication system within Ukraine has led to differing opinions from the United States, Ukraine, and SpaceX. Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian military faces speed limits when using "Starlink," while U.S. President Trump claimed he was unaware and stated that the speed limits had been lifted. SpaceX CEO Musk indicated that any restrictions are determined by the U.S. military and ultimately depend on the U.S. President.

OpenAI announced that to prevent AI models from breaching security limits, it has required the most advanced models to be trained in environments where direct access to the live internet is not possible. Previously, an internal research model had gained limited internet access through a network configuration vulnerability, prompting the company to suspend training.After security rectifications, OpenAI resumed training on October 1, but still restricts internet access.

The UK government stated that Prime Minister Burnham emphasized during his conversation with President Trump that the comprehensive use of Starlink in Ukraine is crucial.

According to anonymous security analyst Spreek, the Initia chain has been hacked, resulting in a large number of tokens being infinitely minted. So far, the hacker has cashed out approximately 2.6 million dollars, and more funds are still being transferred.

The International Criminal Police Organization stated that Operation Serengeti III took place from June 29 to August 31, 2026, across 21 countries, resulting in the arrest of 1,462 suspects, the dismantling of 10,909 malicious networks, and the recovery of over 105 million dollars in illegal funds. The investigation also confirmed that 65,929 victims were attacked by cybercrime gangs, with related losses exceeding 385 million dollars.This operation focused on combating online fraud, ransomware, business email compromise, online scams, and digital extortion. In specific cases, the Ugandan police dismantled two transnational fraud gangs and arrested 365 foreign nationals; Angola seized two illegal cryptocurrency mining centers, arrested 9 individuals, and confiscated over 2,000 mining machines; in Nigeria, another case involved over 2.4 million dollars in suspected criminal proceeds, a significant portion of which was laundered through cryptocurrency transactions.

According to official news, YZi Labs announced the launch of the first phase of the Atlas Scout program, recruiting four students from Stanford University, Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, to participate in early investment projects in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.The program aims to allow outstanding university students to gain early exposure to venture capital, participate in project discovery, preliminary research, due diligence, and investment judgment, and encourage them to organize entrepreneurial communities on campus and explore investment opportunities. YZi Labs will provide a maximum of $1 million in intended investment for related investment opportunities in this program and open its ecosystem network composed of over 300 portfolio companies.YZi Labs stated that many potential entrepreneurs often begin their explorations in laboratories, open-source projects, campus entrepreneurial organizations, and technology communities before entering traditional financing channels, and their peers who learn and work with them usually discover their potential earlier. The Atlas Scout program hopes to leverage students' own campus networks to help these early entrepreneurs obtain capital, mentorship, and industry resources. Eligible entrepreneurial teams will also have the opportunity to connect with YZi Labs' EASY Residency program or further discuss investment collaboration.The Atlas Scout program not only expands financing and resource channels for early entrepreneurs but also allows participating students to accumulate venture capital experience through practical projects, enhancing their project evaluation, founder communication, and investment judgment skills.YZi Labs stated that Scouts can independently carry out campus activities based on their interests, such as organizing technical exchanges, gathering entrepreneurial teams, or discovering potential investment projects, while receiving guidance and ecosystem resource support from YZi Labs in the process. The program aims to establish connections before entrepreneurial projects gain widespread attention, allowing initial ideas on campus to have the opportunity to develop into actual projects, while cultivating a new generation of investors who can identify technological trends and entrepreneurial potential earlier.

Heatbit, which previously launched a heater with a built-in Bitcoin mining machine, has announced the release of a heating element for water heaters named Bitwater. This element replaces the resistance wire in standard electric water heater elements with 20 Bitcoin mining chips, using the heat generated by the chips to directly heat the water in the tank. Heatbit stated that this electricity was originally intended for heating water, "the same heat, the same electricity, plus Bitcoin." The company claims that global households use approximately 300 TWh of electricity annually for heating water, which exceeds the entire Bitcoin network's consumption of about 170 TWh, advocating for the decentralization of mining to households.Bitwater uses 20 Bitmain BM1370 chips, with a maximum hash rate of 34 TH/s, a maximum power consumption of 600 watts, and an energy efficiency of 12 joules/TH. Due to water cooling, this element requires no fans and produces no noise. The installation process is DIY: turn off the circuit breaker, drain the tank, unscrew the old element, and then screw in the Bitwater using the included wrench. It is compatible with the one-inch standard interface of 30 to 80-gallon electric water heaters commonly found in the United States and Canada, including brands such as A. O. Smith, Rheem, Bradford White, Whirlpool, and GE, without the need for plumbing modifications or additional circuits.Users can check water temperature, hash rate, and earnings through an app, and choose to mine individually or join a mining pool, with mined Bitcoin sent to an address controlled by the user. The initial "genesis batch" pre-order price is $899, with subsequent batches priced up to $1,299, and pre-orders are refundable, with plans to ship in the first quarter of 2027. Heatbit claims to have tested the entire winter in four and five-person households in New York and Florida. Based on the current hash price of approximately $36.73/PH/s/day, the full load of 34 TH/s could mine Bitcoin worth about $1.25 per day, totaling approximately $455 annually.

On October 23, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Support the Construction of Employment-Friendly Development Models" (Guo Ban Fa [2026] No. 29). The document proposes to adapt to the development of artificial intelligence technology, enhance the positive effects of job creation, empower traditional positions, and mitigate the impact of job replacement.The opinions point out that the role of artificial intelligence should be leveraged to improve the employment environment, enhance occupational safety levels, and improve work quality and efficiency, with priority given to promoting applications in positions with labor shortages and high-risk environments; it is essential to cautiously manage the scope, intensity, and pace of artificial intelligence applications in labor-intensive industries to minimize the impact on workers. The document also encourages enterprises to explore the establishment of an unemployment buffer period system, to inform affected workers in advance during the large-scale promotion of artificial intelligence applications, and to provide support for job transition and transformation.The opinions also outline deployments in areas such as strengthening job creation effects, constructing employment-friendly upgrade paths, enhancing workers' digital literacy and employment capabilities, promoting artificial intelligence-enabled employment policy services, improving workers' rights protection and social security, and perfecting employment monitoring, early warning, and risk response mechanisms. The document is dated October 16, 2026, and is marked for public release.

On October 23, B.AI announced the domestic model brand Token weekly ranking from October 16 to 22: DeepSeek continues to lead, with Xiaomi MiMo closely following, with only a difference of 16.54 B Tokens. Xiaomi has seen growth for 4 consecutive weeks, and the platform Token usage ratio has increased by 8.13 percentage points.The competition in the mid-tier is heating up, with MiniMax experiencing a month-on-month increase of over 5,200%, becoming this week's growth dark horse. Qwen saw a month-on-month growth of 80.86%, narrowing the gap with the third-place Zai to 0.18%. Popular model discounts are ongoing: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 enjoys a 40% discount, Qwen3.8-Flash enjoys a 20% discount, and GLM-5.3-Flash enjoys a 30% discount. B.AI continues to gather high-quality models, helping developers unlock diverse AI capabilities at low costs. Welcome to log in to b.ai to explore.

According to RootData's popular TradFi asset data, as of the time of publication, UNITREE, MINIMAX, and ZHIPU rank in the top three in popularity, with a collective significant price increase over 24 hours, with increases of 21.38%, 17.16%, and 8.12%, corresponding to prices of $93.32, $24.01, and $63.19, respectively.

The Central Bank of Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand joined the Singapore-led BLOOM initiative on Friday as members of the policymakers. BLOOM stands for Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multi-currency, and is a public-private partnership initiative aimed at helping financial institutions utilize stablecoins and tokenized deposits for cross-border payments. According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the initiative aims to reduce costs and help institutions bring services to market faster by decreasing the need for financial institutions to establish arrangements with each counterparty or market individually.The Monetary Authority of Singapore launched BLOOM in October 2025, building on Project Orchid, which was initiated in 2021 to explore the application of a digital Singapore dollar. BLOOM's work also covers corporate cash management, trade financing, and payments executed by AI agents within preset limits, with participants including Airwallex, Mastercard, Ripple, Visa, and the World Bank Group. Additionally, the Central Bank of Malaysia announced in February that three initiatives would test the ringgit stablecoin and tokenized deposits for domestic and cross-border wholesale payments in 2026.

According to South Korean media Digital Asset, the Second Division of the Seoul Administrative Court held its first hearing on October 22 regarding the administrative lawsuit between Bithumb and the Financial Intelligence Unit of Korea (FIU). The FIU determined that between August 28, 2022, and April 3, 2025, Bithumb conducted 45,772 transactions with 18 unreported cryptocurrency operators, and based on this, imposed sanctions, including a partial suspension that restricts new customers from transferring cryptocurrency assets externally for six months.Bithumb stated in court that transactions of 1 million won or more are subject to the "travel rule," and unreported operators have been excluded from the list of optional exchanges, thus the number of violations for this amount range is zero. Transactions below 1 million won were not subject to the travel rule at that time, and the platform had no legal basis to require customers to provide information about the receiving exchange, nor did the regulatory authorities specify a blocking method. Bithumb also mentioned that after integrating the Chainalysis API, only about 2% of the addresses that could not be confirmed were later identified as unreported operators designated by the FIU. If all were blocked, the remaining 98% of normal transactions would be affected, and the platform could also face user claims.Bithumb also believes that the six-month sanction is excessive, effectively equivalent to prohibiting the platform from acquiring new customers. The company also questioned the FIU's criteria for identifying overseas operators and the reasonableness of the basis for the sanctions.

According to the announcement from Forma's official X account, the Forma mainnet will stop operating at block height 34,567,890, expected around November 5th, giving users about two weeks to withdraw on-chain funds.After the chain stops, the team will take a snapshot of the on-chain state and migrate the remaining TIA to Eden. Both chains are EVM chains, and users can use the same wallet address to withdraw funds from Eden after the migration is complete.Modularium will migrate to Ethereum, and the related NFTs will be migrated as well; holders will need to claim them themselves through the re-launched Modularium website, as NFTs will not be automatically airdropped. The official statement indicates that the migration may take several days after the chain stops, and further announcements will be made when the migration is complete, along with more details and operational instructions in the coming weeks.

CCTV's "Yuyuantan Tian" disclosed that after China launched the AI technology export registration management on October 16, DeepSeek and MiniMax have successfully completed their registration and the related technology has been open-sourced and authorized for overseas use.Currently, the new catalog is still open for comments, and a temporary registration system is being implemented. The Ministry of Commerce previously clarified that technologies that have entered the public domain through open-source are not included in the management scope, and there are automatic licensing and other facilitative measures for new technology open-sourcing, which can basically be reported and released immediately. Providing model services overseas through API, web pages, and apps is also not within the scope of this large model technology export management.

According to Jinshi, SK Group's newly established data center business unit SK Hyper is in talks with large technology companies and financial investors for financing, planning to raise funds for a data center construction project expected to cost $350 billion. SK Hyper has begun discussions with potential partners, aiming to build data centers in South Korea with a total capacity of 15 gigawatts by 2035.SK Hyper CEO Chung Suk-geun stated that the first phase of the 5-gigawatt construction alone requires $350 billion, which includes equipment costs. The company plans to complete its first round of external financing by the end of this year or early 2027, and will continue to raise funds over the next three to four years while sharing the overall construction costs with data center tenants and external investors.

MiniMax announced the open-source release of the MiniMax M3.1 Flash model weights on October 23, with a total of 428 billion parameters and 23 billion active parameters. Compared to the previous generation M3 model, the M3.1 Flash has achieved a comprehensive improvement in model capabilities. According to official data, within 72 hours of the model going live, the number of tokens processed by real users exceeded one trillion.On the technical side, M3.1 Flash improves inference efficiency through optimizations such as full model sparse attention, quantization-aware training (QAT), and power-aware scheduling. In terms of ecosystem, MiniMax collaborates with chip manufacturers such as Huawei Ascend, T-head, Kunlun Core, Moore Threads, Biren, Haiguang, Muxi, Tiandao, NVIDIA, AMD, and cloud platforms like Together AI, Fireworks, Nebius, Baseten, Modal, DigitalOcean to promote access on the first day of open source. vLLM, SGLang, Zhiyuan FlagOS, as well as Hugging Face, Modao, and other communities simultaneously support the deployment of the model across different chips and development environments.

The super political action committee Digital Freedom Fund, initiated by Gemini co-founders Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss in 2025, submitted documents to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, reporting for the first time advertising expenses exceeding $81,000 to support Republican candidate Ken Paxton's campaign for the Texas Senate seat, while opposing Democratic candidate James Talarico. Early voting in Texas began on October 19, with Election Day on November 3.As of September 30, the PAC has raised approximately $34 million, and its expenditures are not limited to Texas. Documents show its involvement in the Ohio Senate race between Republican candidate Jon Husted and Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, bringing its total support for Husted to about $7 million. Another crypto industry PAC, Fairshake, also reported over $13 million in direct mail advertising expenditures this week, with approximately $9 million supporting Husted and over $4 million opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn in the Nebraska Senate election.These expenditures indicate potential support for candidates who favor crypto policies and legislation. Prediction contracts from Kalshi and Polymarket suggest that Democrats are favored to regain majority control of the House and Senate by 2027, and the majority party in both chambers will influence the legislative process for bills like the Digital Asset Market Structure Act, which failed to pass procedural voting in the Senate last month. Paxton previously defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the May Republican primary, receiving over $500,000 in advertising support from the Fellowship PAC, backed by Anchorage Digital and Cantor Fitzgerald, with the funds executed through the Nxum Group co-founded by Bo Hines.

DFINITY founder Dom posted on X that after further investigation, it was found that the key components used by NEAR Intents involve DFINITY's proprietary technology, and he accused NEAR of unauthorized use of technology results that are only authorized for Internet Computer.Dom stated that the relevant technology involves a threshold ECDSA algorithm used for cross-chain asset custody and transaction signing, which can increase the signing speed to about 3 times that of other solutions; he also claimed that NEAR deployed the relevant technology on 8 servers, failing to achieve the decentralization and security it advertised. Dom further indicated that GitHub records show that NEAR is recently attempting to downgrade the relevant algorithm to a solution that is about 3 times slower, and he believes this move may be related to concerns about its use of the relevant technology.He stated that this matter involves potential legal liability, believing that DFINITY and the ICP community have been harmed as a result, and hopes that both parties can resolve the dispute. The above content currently represents a unilateral accusation from the DFINITY founder, and whether the use of the relevant technology constitutes infringement, as well as whether NEAR has the security and decentralization issues it claims, still needs further verification.

Last week, the number of new applications for unemployment benefits in the United States fell to the lowest level in nearly 57 years, with layoffs decreasing and the labor market stabilizing. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor today shows that for the week ending October 17, the preliminary number of applications for unemployment benefits in various states decreased by 6,000, adjusted for seasonal variations, to 194,000. This figure is close to the 189,000 level reached in mid-July, the lowest since 1969.Economists believe that strong domestic demand in the United States has driven profit increases, protecting workers from layoffs. However, as the war between the U.S. and Iran intensifies, tightening financial conditions and rising interest rates may suppress the performance of the labor market next year.

Zipcoin announced that it has ceased operations, stating that the project’s code repository and related keys have been fully compromised, and attackers may control the project’s wallets and infrastructure. The team indicated that they attempted to migrate the code and rotate credentials in the past 12 hours but failed to find a viable security solution.Zipcoin also disclosed that the project was affected by the UNCX incident on October 15, where hackers stole approximately 1.1% of the supply of multiple Ethereum tokens, including ZC, PAAL, and EDGEN, and sold them on the open market. The team subsequently attempted to buy back tokens from the market to compensate for the token shortfall corresponding to future team commitments.