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[ME AI]() Message: In 2026, the market for filling out applications for the Jiangsu college entrance exam (Gaokao) is seeing changes as major companies enter the space. Qianwen App has launched the country’s first full-cycle college application AI Agent on a free model, aiming to challenge the million-level paid industry. It has been criticized as a “dimensionality-reduction strike,” in which internet traffic powerfully overwhelms a vertical track, and it may reshape the industry landscape, triggering a shift toward technological equality. (Source: MLion)

According to BlockBeats, 360 Digital Security announced an AI-driven "Vulnerability Discovery Agent" that has identified nearly a thousand previously unknown vulnerabilities, involving Microsoft Office, OpenClaw, and others. 360 states that AI has evolved from an auxiliary tool into the core engine for vulnerability discovery and claims to accelerate the construction of exploit chains. Benincasa, a senior researcher at ETH Zurich's Security Research Center, pointed out that 360 is positioning itself as a direct competitor to Anthropic Mythos.

ME News June 24, according to SoSoValue data: On June 23 in US Eastern Time, the SOL spot ETF recorded a single-day net inflow of $137.3k, all from Canary Marinade Solana ETF (SOLC). The cumulative net inflow was $1.498M. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of the SOL spot ETFs was $792M, with a net asset ratio of 1.98%, and a historical cumulative net inflow of $1.132B.

Google announces two versions of TPU Generation 8: 8t for training, capable of connecting 9,600 TPUs per node, 121 ExaFlops, 2PB bandwidth, with energy efficiency doubled; Virgo topology supports near-linear scaling to millions of chips; 8i for inference, with 1,152 chips per Pod, 288GB bandwidth memory, 384MB SRAM, Boardfly reduces latency and increases concurrency. The plan is to launch later in 2026 on Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer, alongside Nvidia GPUs.

[ME AI]() News, June 23rd, Shantou hosted the AI and Cross-Border Trade Exchange Conference, debuting the cross-border AI intelligent agent MoonClaw. It pioneered the "full-chain hosting" model, capable of simulating professionals to complete the entire process from product selection, operation to fulfillment, and is regarded as a "breaker" in cross-border e-commerce, aiming to lower the barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to go global through intelligent methods. (Source: MLion)

Under downward pressure on Bitcoin, Hut 8 has agreed to a $2.35 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the merger with USBTC, pending final court approval; the company denies any misconduct. Galaxy Digital announced a strategic investment in Digital Prime Technologies, upgrading to an equity investor, linking the Tokenet platform with its lending and trading businesses. Tokenet, developed by Digital Prime and EquiLend, aims to bring institutional securities lending processes into the digital asset market. Galaxy is viewed as a source of resilience during the Bitcoin price decline cycle due to its diversified portfolio.

ME News reports that some large Wall Street alternative asset management firms are lobbying regulators to relax restrictions on asset buying and selling between funds managed by the same company, claiming it could promote the use of private assets in retirement accounts. Representatives include Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, and others. The Alternative Investment Management Association is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to lift the ban on cross-trading of private assets. This move comes at a time when these companies are preparing to enter retirement savings plans such as 401(k)s.

The American Bitcoin Corp supported by the Trump family has activated 11,298 mining machines in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, adding 3.05 EH/s, bringing its total hash rate to 28.1 EH/s, with 89,242 devices. The stock price rose more than 13% on the day, with an increase of about 49% over the past few months. Eric Trump said it will increase its Bitcoin exposure by expanding its hash power; the company holds over 7,000 BTC, with a market value of approximately $552 million.

The State Administration of Supervision issued the 2026 Small and Micro Enterprise Financial Services Notice, canceling the loan growth target, emphasizing the credit structure and sustainable development, and promoting a shift from scale-driven to quality-first. Dong Ximiao and others analyzed that the reason is the rapid growth of inclusive small and micro loan balances; continuing to set growth targets may lead to behavioral distortions and risk accumulation. In the future, financial institutions will strengthen technology and innovative financial services, optimize consumer and foreign trade finance, and provide equal credit to private enterprises without setting differentiated conditions based on ownership.

Castle Labs's RWA report shows that the on-chain tokenized real-world asset market size has reached $28.2 billion, an increase of about 500% since the beginning of the year, with a peak of $31.8 billion. U.S. Treasury bonds and money market funds remain the largest categories, totaling approximately $17 billion, accounting for nearly 60%, with BlackRock BUIDL and Hashnote USYC each exceeding $3 billion. Tokenized stocks have grown over 170% this year, making them the fastest-growing sub-sector of RWA. The current bottleneck has shifted from issuance to redemption and DeFi composability. Of the $28.2 billion RWA, only about $3 billion has entered DeFi, with a penetration rate of approximately 10%.

Solana’s founder, tol y, said the foundation should prioritize having products before promoting them in ecosystem development. Improvements are driven by users through trial and feedback. The foundation finds it difficult to push any product forcefully; even with grants or investment, it must first have a usable product and user acceptance before the ecosystem can accelerate.

ME News Report, May 20 (UTC+8), HSBC CEO: Artificial intelligence is expected to replace some jobs, but it will also create new opportunities and drive workforce skills retraining. HSBC CEO: Employees need to embrace AI transformation rather than resist it. (Source: ODAILY)

ME News reports that Christoph Hock from Union Investment stated at the Digital Money Summit 2026 in London that USDT/USDC are not true stablecoins, and their reserves are more like high-risk hedge funds; Tether holds gold and Bitcoin, which are not purely dollar-pegged low-risk cash equivalents, and volatility could transmit to enterprises and institutions. He mentioned that USDC once de-pegged by 13%, indicating significant risk for institutions that require overnight settlement. As of January 2026, Tether's gold reserves were approximately 148 tons, worth about 23 billion USD.

ME News report: May 20 (UTC+8). Multiple informed sources stated that the White House plans to release the highly anticipated executive order on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence safety as early as this week. The current version of the executive order aims to strengthen cybersecurity around advanced AI models and outlines a voluntary framework program that would require AI developers to notify the government when releasing new models. If this plan is implemented as expected, the White House will fulfill its commitment to addressing AI safety issues. (Jin10) (Source: ODAILY)

ME News reports that, according to Arkham monitoring, the Bitcoin related to Irish drug lord Clifton Collins has been transferred again. Collins purchased about $30k worth of BTC in 2011-2012. Its current market value is now close to $400 million, and it has long been considered unrecoverable due to a claim that the private keys were lost. A month ago, 500 BTC was transferred out for the first time; now another 500 BTC has been transferred out, about $38 million.

Google DeepMind releases the Gemini 3.5 series, with Gemini 3.5 Flash focusing on cutting-edge intelligence and action capabilities, targeting agent and programming scenarios, supporting long-term tasks, automatic planning, multi-step execution, tool invocation, and multi-agent collaboration. Flash surpasses the 3.1 Pro benchmark, providing faster output and lower costs, and has been implemented in companies like Shopify and Salesforce. They also launched a personal intelligent agent, Gemini Spark, with 3.5 Flash as the default model, supporting dynamic Web UI.

AIMPACT News, May 20 (UTC+8), May 20, 2026, Google announced a partnership with Blackstone to jointly create a new AI cloud business that will be built around Google's self-developed AI chips. Blackstone will provide $5 billion in initial equity capital and become the majority shareholder of the business. Including leveraged funds, the total scale of the project could reach approximately $25 billion. (Source: InFoQ)

[ME AI]() News, TerraMaster launches TOS7 system, the world's first NAS operating system with native AI built into the core, featuring a distributed AI scheduling engine, reconstructing the architecture and opening standardized interfaces, allowing 90% of complex operations to be completed with a single sentence, completely changing the traditional positioning of NAS as solely for storage. (Source: MLion)

In Maryland’s 5th District Democratic primary, Adrian Boafo won among 24 candidates and will succeed the soon-to-retire Steny Hoyer. Controversy erupted over outside funding intervention: the AIPAC-related United Democratic Project contributed about $5.7 million, while Protect Progress contributed about $5.5 million, for a total of about $11 million, prompting criticism of buying seats with money.