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Iranian military leaders claim a historic victory in this round of conflict, announcing the shaping of a new global power structure centered around Iran, entering the third defense phase, and calling on the nation to remain vigilant under the leadership of Supreme Leader Khamenei, safeguarding national interests and ethnic rights. At the same time, they stated they will ensure the security of the Persian Gulf, end external interference, and emphasized that the governance of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz will determine regional order, warning that any aggression will be met with a strong and destructive response.

AIMPACT news, May 15 (UTC+8), Anthropic has open-sourced on GitHub the AI model "Claude for Legal," specially optimized for the legal field. This model can more accurately handle legal texts, contracts, and case summaries, aiming to improve the efficiency of legal professionals. This news was on Hacker

According to BlockBeats, xAI will provide Cursor with large-scale computing power, mobilizing tens of thousands of GPUs at the Colossus data center to help train Composer 2.5, marking xAI's transition from a model development company to a cloud service provider. MFU is only 11%, well below the industry standard of 35–45%, and President Nicolls has requested it be increased to 50% within a few months. Opening up computing power helps share costs and gather feedback; Cursor is discussing funding at a valuation of $50 billion.

May 22nd, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and seven other ministries issued a notice regulating the cross-border securities, futures, and fund activities of mainland investors, clarifying regulatory requirements. Tiger International stated that it will strictly implement the new regulations and steadily promote compliance. Since 2023, the company has stopped opening accounts for mainland users, suspended external advertising and marketing, and strengthened account review, identity verification, and anti-fraud measures. As of the first quarter of 2026, mainland client assets account for approximately 10% of the group's global assets.

OpenClaw v2026.5.20 reconstructed authorization, removed the cat whitelist, changed to loading the Skill via read, and only allows verified executable files. Added Discord real-time voice following and multi-user switching, injected portrait context files to enhance realism, with an optional ability to disable it. Added a Policy plugin, device code login, a single Agent local model switch, and OpenRouter routing override. Codex upgraded to 0.132.0, fixing related issues.

Germany’s May PMI remains below 50, with a composite reading of 48.6, services at 47.8, and manufacturing at 49.9, indicating the economy has contracted for two consecutive months and is expected to shrink either this year or in the second quarter of 2026. The reasons include the drag from the Iran war, weakening demand, and rising prices, with the services sector leading the decline and manufacturing inventory adjustments slowing down.

CryptoWorld News: Spot gold drops $20 in the short term, falling below $4,510 per ounce.

CryptoWorld News: The Federal Reserve proposes to establish limited "payment accounts" for certain institutions. The agency is encouraging all Federal Reserve Banks to pause decisions on granting non-traditional accounts until their new policy development is complete.

BlockBeats May 21, according to Ember Monitoring, HYPE's largest contract short loracle.hl is not a naked short, but a hedge for the 2.1 million HYPE tokens he holds (approximately $127 million). After HYPE reached a new high, he started selling spot holdings: 20 minutes ago, transferred 557k HYPE from HyperEVM to Hyperliquid (about $33.35 million), and is currently selling. Additionally, he still holds about 557k HYPE tokens (approximately $105 million) in HyperEVM.

Crypto界网消息，交易员yixie在链上华尔街快报中表示，已减持MU多单1,368.91枚，约合1,021,410.42美元，当前持仓规模为9,382,263.02美元，均价为749.82美元，当前盈亏为-150,069.11美元（-4.96%），当前价格为738.02美元，清算价为526.33美元。yixie自四月起在HyperLiquid平台建立MU及SNDK多单，在五月上涨中成为链上半导体板块最大受益者，月盈利7M美元，AMD最大多头。

Wu Shuo learned that AllianceDAO co-founder Wang Qiao stated that ZEC's conservative goal is to reach 3%-5% of BTC's market value, because BTC holders will allocate part of their assets to ZEC as a hedging tool; a more aggressive goal is to reach 15%-20% of BTC, which is the exchange rate level of silver relative to gold. It is worth mentioning that Wang Qiao also believes that if a catastrophic event occurs to BTC, such as Saylor selling off a large amount or quantum attacks, ZEC has the chance to flip BTC. ZEC has increased over 25% in the past month, with a market cap surpassing $10 billion.

CryptoWorld News: The petition to abolish cryptocurrency taxes in South Korea has received over 52,000 signatures and has been submitted to the National Assembly.

BlockBeats reports on May 21, that Hyperinsight states that the largest long whale of HYPE in the past 24 hours withdrew about $8.4 million after their floating profit expanded, with the liquidation price rising from $37.9 to $41.3. This address took a 5x leverage long position on 1.38 million HYPE tokens, with a market value of approximately $78.3 million, an entry price of $38.67, and a floating profit of about $24.8 million (+158%). Since rebounding from the February low of $20.4, they have realized over $20 million in total, and the liquidation price has moved upward accordingly.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, multiple whales and institutions are buying HYPE, including a wallet associated with Galaxy Digital (0xBED9) which purchased 158,100 HYPE tokens in the past two hours, worth approximately $8.8 million; another newly created wallet (0x4CBB) withdrew 536,247 HYPE tokens from Coinbase in the past two days, valued at about $29.87 million.

SpaceX disclosed in an S-1 filing submitted to the SEC that it holds 18,712 bitcoins, with a cost basis of approximately $661 million, averaging about $35k per bitcoin. As of December 31 last year, SpaceX became the seventh-largest Bitcoin holding entity, behind Strategy, 21 Capital, Metaplanet, MARA Holdings, Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company, and Bullish.

AIMPACT Message, May 15 (UTC+8), practical tip to reduce API long prompt initial token generation time: pre-warming prompt cache. Send system prompts before user prompts. Claude will write it into the cache but skip generating any output. When a real user request arrives, it will directly hit the pre-warmed cache. (Source: AiHot)

AIMPACT News, May 15 (UTC+8), OpenAI may take legal action against Apple due to the company's previous promise to integrate ChatGPT into Apple software but failing to fully deliver. Recently, OpenAI is also facing multiple difficulties: the Sora project was forced to shut down, and Elon Musk launched a fierce attack against it in court. This series of events poses significant challenges to its corporate image and business prospects. Industry analysts believe that OpenAI needs to resolve related legal and operational issues as soon as possible, or it may impact future funding and partnerships.

CryptoWorld News reports that U.S. Senator Kennedy stated that the Senate did not receive enough support to pass Trump's ballroom funding proposal.