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Notion announced an upgrade to its AI features. Notion Agent can now be used on standalone computers and browsers, improving context management, while introducing a new "Review for me" mode with security checks, allowing tasks to run for up to 24 hours.The upgraded Auto model routing will balance quality, speed, and cost based on tasks. The company claims it has achieved results close to Opus 5.5 and Astra in over 20 common tasks, with an average cost reduction of about 90%. Notion also supports personal Agents connecting to existing ChatGPT subscriptions, and enterprises can enter private Alpha testing with built-in API key functionality.Notion MCP memory synchronization has been launched, and the feature for using skills through MCP will be available soon. AI usage will be incorporated into a new unified points system. The upcoming AI Command Center will provide usage tracking, spending limits and reminders, as well as model and Agent permission management.

Vitalik posted on the X platform to congratulate the @zksync Airbender team for achieving this milestone. He believes that the speed competition of zkEVMs has achieved a decisive victory, and the primary focus should shift entirely to security.Vitalik stated that this means there is a need to formally verify the equivalence of arithmetic and Ethereum specifications, the hard upper limit of the ratio of prover costs to total block Gas, and the security of the proof system itself.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Galatasaray SK vs FC Barcelona More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "Galatasaray SK O/U 4.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 3.15% an hour ago to the current 21.4% (a fluctuation of 18.25%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Hard AI reports, Qianwen is about to launch the Personal Agent product "Qianwen Go!". In user-shared experience videos, the product can access flight booking platforms to find delayed flights and negotiate with customer service multiple times to secure a cash compensation of 70 yuan for users; it can also search through orders on Taobao that meet price protection conditions to recover a price difference of 52 yuan for users.Reports indicate that based on the Agent architecture, Qianwen Go has upgraded its scope of services, capable of handling tasks that require repeated checking, communication, and comparison. The initial application scenarios also include car maintenance inquiry appointments, sports venue bookings, and calculating the final price of refrigerators by combining subsidies, old machine recycling, and installation costs. The product operates in a cloud environment and can continue working even after the user closes the app. During task execution, it needs to determine the next steps based on results, such as changing entry points, platforms, or communication methods.Bank of America research on October 7 suggests that the Agent helps users complete tasks and purchases more smoothly, which is expected to expand overall online activities. Morgan Stanley estimates that the personal-oriented Chinese consumer AI monetizable market could reach approximately 300 billion yuan by 2030 and may reach 1.6 trillion yuan by 2040, with major revenue coming from advertising and transaction commissions. Citigroup raised its CPU market forecast on October 6, expecting the global CPU market size to grow from 29 billion dollars in 2025 to 300 billion dollars by 2030.

According to CoinDesk, data from Swiss Re shows that natural disasters caused $220 billion in economic losses last year, with insurance covering only $107 billion, while the rest was borne by households, businesses, and governments. Catastrophe bonds allow insurance companies to transfer the financial risks of hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes to capital market investors. According to an Artemis report, as of June this year, the outstanding size of the catastrophe bond market reached $65.6 billion, with new issuances in the second quarter amounting to $11.3 billion, setting a record high for a single quarter.Bermuda-based law firm Harneys, which focuses on global insurance business, plans to issue tokenized catastrophe bonds in early next year in collaboration with the tokenization platform dropRWA, with each token representing legal ownership of the catastrophe bonds. This scheme is built on the traditional market, where catastrophe bonds were primarily aimed at specialized funds and large institutions, with many products having a minimum investment amount of $250,000 or more. Both parties are considering structures that can accommodate smaller beneficiary interests, but they still need to comply with securities, insurance, and investor protection regulations.Henry Tucker from Harneys stated that the tokenized structure will not turn disaster coverage into arbitrary retail investments, and the funds will be entirely used to cover specific insurance risks. He pointed out that risks such as flooding and typhoon coverage in Southeast Asia are difficult to insure through traditional reinsurance companies, and specialized underwriters can use the tokenized structure to raise funds for single, specific risks. The World Bank arranged $200 million in hurricane coverage for Jamaica in May.

Virtuals Protocol announced the launch of the Virtuals App, which is currently in closed testing on iOS, limited to invited users.According to the introduction, the Virtuals App equips personal AI with wallet and market access capabilities. Users can assign tasks to the AI like using a personal quantitative trader and set operational ranges and permissions, which the AI will then execute automatically. Users can also research investment opportunities, discuss trading strategies, and conduct fund operations through conversation.Currently, test users are utilizing the application to continuously track market and social media information, automatically executing trades based on social media posts, or building dashboards to track the complete process of specific token sniper wallets from buying to exiting. These functions can all be completed directly in group chats where users discuss investment ideas with friends.

According to The Defiant, the crypto data and research platform Blockworks has announced the launch of a managed MCP server, opening its entire dataset to AI agents. This server is built on the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to access the datasets behind Blockworks Research and its Intel applications.Blockworks stated that this service is provided with every API package at no additional cost, allowing users to access it using the same key and permissions. MCP is an open protocol that enables AI models to connect to external data sources and tools, and this integration means that AI agents can directly call upon Blockworks' research and market data.

Zhipu continues to address the code upload controversy surrounding its programming product ZCode. Existing paid users and those who have returned as paid users in the past month will receive 4 weekly reset cards and 4 5-hour reset cards, valid for 1 month.From September 28 to October 7, ZCode will also distribute 100,000 quotas of 100 million GLM-5.3-Flash Tokens to all users. Zhipu stated that the repository snapshot upload link has been removed, and the involved cloud data has been deleted. The open-source version is currently updated to v3.14.3, and subsequent code will not be uploaded to the cloud unless users actively initiate it.The controversy originated from the Repo Wiki feature that was enabled by default in the early stages of ZCode, which uploaded repository content to the cloud for processing when generating a knowledge base for the code repository. Zhipu has previously cut off the related upload paths and invited third-party organizations to verify the cloud data.

The stablecoin giant Tether's Tether AI Research today released QVAC Genesis III, a synthetic training dataset aimed at the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a scale of 19.143 billion tokens, covering 159.6 million documents.It is reported that Tether hopes to enhance the reasoning and teaching capabilities of small AI models, allowing more AI assistants to run directly on laptops, mobile phones, and local servers, reducing the ongoing reliance on large cloud models.Genesis III continues the data lineage of Genesis I and Genesis II, covering 19 curriculum-related fields including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, medicine, electrical engineering, and machine learning, aimed at high school, university, and professional applications. Tether states that the dataset will focus on training models to explain problem-solving paths, identify erroneous reasoning, and provide corrections, rather than just outputting final answers.According to Tether's disclosed test results, a 1.7 billion parameter model trained with Genesis III option-level data achieved an effective answer rate of 99.45% in relevant benchmark tests. Compared to the Cosmopedia-v2 training model of similar token scale, Genesis III improved scores on the ARC-Easy, ARC-Challenge, and MMLU STEM benchmarks by 28.57, 21.35, and 15.03 percentage points, respectively.

According to official news, Coinbase announced that eligible users can now apply to purchase shares of the smart ring manufacturer Oura at the offering price, and they can receive allocations before the stock begins public trading.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $244,000 in "Sporting CP vs. Galatasaray SK" event, specifically targeting "Sporting CP". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 61%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "US Open WTA: Mirra Andreeva vs Anastasia Potapova", the option "Mirra Andreeva" in the sub-market "US Open WTA: Mirra Andreeva vs Anastasia Potapova" experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 84.5% an hour ago to the current 39.5% (a fluctuation of 45%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

B.AI platform announces that OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra is officially integrated into the platform API.As OpenAI's latest flagship intelligent model, Astra achieves SOTA levels in fields such as computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, scientific research, and professional work. The model supports a context window of 1.05 million tokens and native multimodal input, specifically optimized for complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows.B.AI API is now open for calls, enjoying a 10% exclusive discount.

The law firm Harneys and the tokenization platform droppRWA plan to issue the first catastrophe bond that directly records ownership on the blockchain, with the first trading target set for early 2027. This structure will make the blockchain a legally enforceable record of ownership, with investor registration, qualification review, and payment processes all placed within the same system, reducing reconciliation time from several days to seconds, provided that the necessary regulatory approvals are obtained.The catastrophe bond market is a $65.6 billion market that allows insurance companies, reinsurance companies, and government agencies to transfer natural disaster exposure to capital market investors. The tokenized asset market has nearly tripled in the past year to over $33 billion, and Citigroup expects this sector to reach $5.5 trillion by 2030. The second quarter of 2026 is projected to be the largest quarter in catastrophe bond issuance history, with 48 transactions issuing a total of $11.3 billion, and the Bermuda Stock Exchange accounted for 93% of global catastrophe bond issuance in 2025.To lower the investment threshold, investors will not directly purchase catastrophe bond notes, which typically have a minimum denomination of $250,000, but instead purchase beneficial interests in vehicles that hold the bonds and pass through the returns, with the minimum investment amount expected to drop to $5,000. The project is still subject to applicable regulatory requirements and approvals, and any platform administrator role must be licensed under Bermuda's Digital Asset Business Act 2018.

The blockchain data analysis platform Dune announced that the real-world asset dataset is now online.Dune stated that users focusing on tokenized assets can now access headline data such as total on-chain value, product quantity, and growth charts; this dataset further covers details such as distribution channels, ultimate holders, trading venues, and post-holding usage.Dune has also opened the registration channel for the real-world asset report.

According to The Information, OpenAI has recently started offering a new payment method to some major clients in the past few months, where clients only pay after the AI has actually completed the tasks.The scenarios that have been implemented so far include customer service, where companies can pay based on the actual customer service tasks completed by the AI, rather than simply billing by Token, usage volume, or number of seats. OpenAI has not disclosed specific clients, unit prices, or the criteria for determining "task completion," and has declined to comment on this. This is not a new package available to all companies; the current public pricing on the official website for Enterprise still primarily charges based on quotas and Tokens, so this results-based billing seems more like a contract negotiated separately for certain major clients.In January of this year, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested that future AI business models would adopt results-based billing. In July, OpenAI further stated that instead of focusing on the unit price per Token, it should be considered how much it actually costs for the AI to complete a task, and this line of thinking has now begun to enter real contracts.

On August 25, OpenAI announced the addition of proxy browsing capabilities for ChatGPT Work, enabling it to take over tasks on websites that require login and continue working. Users only need to enter their credentials or security codes once at the login interface, and the proxy can continue executing tasks, with sessions potentially remaining logged in for subsequent tasks without the need to log in again. OpenAI stated that this browser supports password managers, and the model cannot see usernames or passwords; this information will not be stored or used for training.However, one-time authentication effectively leaves a foothold for the proxy to maintain continuous access to the account. OpenAI's own models have previously exhibited boundary-crossing behavior, with approximately 1,200 OpenAI proxies (including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model) breaching the testing environment and invading Hugging Face's production servers to cheat benchmark tests, with about 700 proxies participating in the attack. This feature has been launched on the web and mobile browsers of ChatGPT Work, allowing users to clear sessions by site individually in the cloud browser settings.

The Sui development team co-founder of Mysten Labs, Kostas Kryptos, stated that Havenex is undergoing Series A financing and is about to complete it. All necessary license applications and some additional license applications have been submitted, and the financing amount is also close to being fully allocated.Havenex is not positioned to become another Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, or Kraken, but rather to provide infrastructure for financial institutions, enabling them to offer digital assets and traditional financial assets to clients while meeting regulatory, custody, security, and transparency requirements. Havenex plans to support a multi-chain architecture, verifiable custody, continuous solvency proof, default multi-signature, quantum-resistant keys, hardware two-factor authentication wallets, as well as self-custody and key loss protection mechanisms; in regions where regulations allow, it will also support privacy assets and RWA. The project will use Sui technology in suitable scenarios while integrating assets, bridging protocols, and foundational components from other ecosystems.The concept of Havenex was proposed by him, and he will currently participate as an advisor, but Mysten Labs and Sui remain his main focus. He stated that the project aims to establish transparency and security standards different from those of FTX and Mt. Gox, and to reduce the serious vulnerability risks caused by code generated by large language models recently.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: Dignitas vs FlyQuest - LCS Regular Season" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Quadra Kill" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.