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Meta Platforms stated that artificial intelligence has created significant opportunities in its core business, new products, and services.

Bloomberg Markets column Odd Lots released the episode "AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of Goods" on October 26, subtitled The Future of Fair Pricing. Guest Lindsay Owens from the think tank Groundwork Collaborative stated that the history of price fraud does not support the notion that new technologies will make goods cheaper.Owens mentioned that research from the think tank shows that some consumer-facing AI agents, after understanding users' financial situations, actually recommend more expensive products. Her new book "Gouged: The End of a Fair Price --- and What That Means for Your Wallet" discusses how companies increase charges through data collection and monitoring. This episode also covers AI agents like Meta's Muse, tech companies' claims about agents helping consumers find good deals, and methods of price fraud that existed before the advent of AI.

Paradigm Chief Technology Officer Georgios Konstantopoulos tweeted that this week the EVM code generation (codegen) feature of Solar will be released, which is over 100 times faster than solc and can generate more gas-efficient bytecode without writing any assembly code.

LinX HK, an AI recruitment technology brand targeting the Asian market, announced that it has completed a $4 million Pre-A round of financing, with institutional investors including Aipollo and Lingfeng Innovation Fund investing a total of $3 million, and individual investors contributing a total of $1 million. The funds will focus on the product and AI technology development of LinX HK's flagship product, Luminpath.Shuo Shan, co-founder of LinX HK, stated: "This round of financing provides LinX HK with support to further refine our product and technological capabilities. We hope to continue advancing the development of the AI job-seeking agent for Luminpath, helping users discover opportunities more efficiently, understand positions and companies, and face career choices with better preparation."According to reports, LinX HK is an AI recruitment technology brand aimed at the Asian market, with its flagship product being Luminpath. Luminpath is currently in the gray testing phase, providing AI-driven job-seeking support for users in scenarios such as job discovery, resume optimization, customized application materials, and application assistance within authorized scopes.

Google DeepMind researchers Zhengxuan Wu, Yuxuan Li, Oyvind Tafjord, and Been Kim released a preprint paper titled "XYEval: Agents say yes to bad advice," proposing a meta-evaluation framework XYEval to assess the performance of agents when faced with misleading suggestions from users. The paper extends the "XY problem" to the agent scenario, where the user inquires about their attempted solution X rather than the actual problem Y.XYEval retains the original task environment and verifiable answers, only adding seemingly reasonable but misleading user suggestions in the instructions. The misleading suggestions are generated by a generator after seeing the complete task and are appended in the form of confident suggestions rather than hard requirements, allowing the original task to remain solvable. The evaluation covers six benchmarks: τ2-bench, SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, Humanity's Last Exam, and MCP-Atlas, along with five models, where the misleading suggestions for τ2-bench are generated based on rules set by human experts.The paper states that the performance significantly declines after the XY mutation, with the relative drop reaching up to 46.7%. On τ2-bench, when faced with users who require a detailed explanation before accepting a better solution, the performance drops even more. Encouraging models to recognize the XY problem through simple system instructions only partially alleviates the issue. The related code is published in the GitHub repository google-deepmind/xyeval.

According to a report by Top Chinese Science and Technology Community, one of the core leaders of ByteDance's Seed AI research and development, Zhou Chang, submitted his resignation last week. Sources reveal that he will start his own venture, possibly related to embodied intelligence, and he has already been in contact with well-known funds, major corporate investors, and leading large model unicorns. People close to Zhou Chang, however, deny his resignation.Public information shows that Zhou Chang holds a bachelor's degree from Fudan University and a doctorate from Peking University. He previously served as the head of Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen large model before joining ByteDance, where he was responsible for Seed multimodal interaction, world modeling, and Seed Robotics. Reports indicate that members of his original Alibaba team have also recently submitted their resignations, and the two may start a venture together.

The recruitment platform BOSS Zhipin's Nanbeige Laboratory has released the open-source model Nanbeige4.3-33B, aimed at programming and office agents, supporting 512K context, and using the Apache 2.0 license. The official comparison with Qwen3.8-27B, Meta Muse Glimmer 30B, and Gemma 4 31B shows that it ranked first in 17 out of 20 tests published.Terminal-Bench 2.1 scored 80.9, higher than Qwen's 73.0; DeepSWE reached 65.5, with a control score of 42.5; the office automation test Automation Bench scored 54.2, higher than Qwen's 38.3. SWE-Bench Pro and GDPval are still led by Qwen. Previously, Nanbeige mainly developed 3B level small models, and the previous generation Nanbeige4.2-3B improved effective computational depth without increasing parameters by reusing Transformer layers. This time, the 33B model was trained first, preparing it to act as a teacher, and then distilling capabilities such as programming and tool invocation to the upcoming Nanbeige4.3-3B.

According to Bloomberg, the UK government has announced an investment of £100 million (approximately $134 million) to build an artificial intelligence biosafety laboratory, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. According to a statement from the UK government, the laboratory will utilize artificial intelligence to detect and monitor biological threats.In addition to the aforementioned funding, OpenAI and Anthropic will also provide up to £200 million in usage credits for artificial intelligence models. The laboratory will also collaborate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research, with the UK government allocating an additional £65 million for developing responses to pathogens.The announcement also includes an additional £120 million to the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, which is responsible for regularly assessing cutting-edge artificial intelligence models; and an additional £23 million to the under-construction Artificial Intelligence Economic Research Institute for analyzing the impact of artificial intelligence on the economy.

Most Hong Kong chip stocks fell, with Hua Hong Semiconductor (01347.HK) down over 7%, ASMPT (00522.HK) down over 6%, Wallen Technology (06082.HK), Tianshu Zhixin (09903.HK), and Zhaoyi Innovation (03986.HK) down over 5%.Some artificial intelligence stocks strengthened, with Qunhe Technology (00068.HK) up over 15%, Chipone Technology (02166.HK) up over 4%, NetEase-S (09999.HK) up over 3%, and Meitu (01357.HK) up over 2%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, large capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A whale invested $75,045.22 in a single bet on the "Match Winner" for the event "LoL: Gen.G vs. LYON World Championship Group Stage." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 65%.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Lightning Labs has opened Wavelength to all users. The AI agent can autonomously send and receive payments on the Bitcoin mainnet via the Lightning Network and L402 without requiring manual approval for each transaction.The AI agent can use its payment API to call fees, purchase data, and trade with other agents, with single transaction fees as low as less than 1 cent; developers can integrate payment functionality into their applications without running a Lightning Network node, managing channels, or raising liquidity. This self-hosted toolkit supports independent on-chain exits, with an initial limit of 300,000 satoshis per wallet, and the Lightning Network payments incur a service fee of 0.25%. Wavelength is currently still in the Alpha stage and plans to support stablecoins.

The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a security alert on its official website, ordering non-emergency staff at the embassy in Saudi Arabia to evacuate.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has finalized the implementation rules for the GENIUS Act, applicable to licensed stablecoin issuers, foreign issuers under OCC jurisdiction, and certain custodial activities of regulated entities, covering reserve support, redemption, and risk management. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the legislation as a "watershed moment for the U.S. financial industry," comparing it to the National Currency Act of 1863.The final rules do not include provisions for the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering, and OFAC sanctions, which will be addressed through subsequent rules coordinated with the Treasury Department. The GENIUS Act was signed into law in July 2025, and regulators failed to establish rules by the deadline of July 18, 2026; the Federal Reserve proposed two related rules in September 2026. Both the GENIUS Act and the OCC final rules are set to take effect on January 18, 2027, and the OCC has not yet announced the timeline for accepting issuer applications and exemption requests.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, EigenCloud (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 38.35 million tokens at 5:00 AM Beijing time on November 1, with a value of about 7.72 million USD.

According to Axios, a U.S. intelligence memorandum warns that Iran's plot to assassinate American officials overseas has entered a "high-level stage."

A judge in Argentina dismissed a criminal case against President Javier Milei and 10 others related to the LIBRA token. According to The Defiant, the ruling also involves Milei's sister Karina Milei and Hayden Davis.In addition, a class action lawsuit by New York investors against LIBRA was separately dismissed in September.

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.

According to Arbitrum monitoring, one month after the launch of Arbitrum One, it has generated $300,000 in priority fee revenue, during which 21 million transactions used PGA.