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Microsoft Azure launches the "Quick Start Development Toolkit" in App Advisor, targeting teams with creative ideas but unsure how to implement them, those familiar with Microsoft technology stacks but wanting to accelerate, and teams looking to replicate existing solutions. By interactive wizard recommendations for development models, providing ready-to-use code templates, reference architectures, and operation guides, covering scenarios such as AI/intelligent agents, migration from AWS to Azure, replication, security, and integration, with the goal of reducing early friction and accelerating from idea to implementation.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission, together with eight other ministries, issued a notice regulating the cross-border securities, futures, and fund activities of mainland investors, further clarifying regulatory requirements. Tiger International stated that it will strictly follow industry standards and steadily promote compliance. Since 2023, it has fully ceased opening accounts for mainland users, as well as advertising, marketing, and promotional activities abroad, while also strengthening account review, identity verification, and anti-fraud management. As of the first quarter of 2026, mainland client assets account for approximately 10% of the group's total global assets.

ME News Report, April 18 (UTC+8), according to CoinFound's crypto concept stock data, Next Technology Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTT) is currently trading at $1.86, with an opening price of $2.07 today, down 10.14% intraday. (Source: CoinFound)

AIMPACT reports that a16z partners predict the record-keeping systems dominated by Salesforce and HubSpot will disintegrate, and the value of enterprise software will shift toward intelligent scheduling layers, with CRM receding to serve as the underlying interface for AI Agents. AI will fetch data and make decisions across calendars, emails, Slack, and other platforms, turning the moat into scheduling capabilities. Two counterintuitive points: AI does not reduce human involvement; instead, it enhances sales conversion rates; and CRM usage increases due to AI automatically generating notes. In the future, pure scheduling capabilities may be easily overshadowed by large models, and SaaS could transform into a central hub and execution platform for Agent operations.

CoinWorld News: The Federal Reserve meeting minutes will reveal deep disagreements among policymakers regarding the direction of interest rates and the severity of inflation. An increasing number of officials are cautious, worried that inflation triggered by the Iran war, and are wary of future rate cuts, with fewer leaning towards cutting rates. Deutsche Bank analysts stated that, despite considering the robust employment report and higher-than-expected inflation data in April, which may make the minutes seem somewhat outdated, they still help gauge changes in the size of the camp advocating for a more neutral forward guidance. It is worth noting that three officials voted against the slightly dovish language in the forward guidance in the April meeting statement, and since that meeting, Fed officials' rhetoric has shifted slightly more hawkish.

CryptoWorld News reports that Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahar Gaei stated in an interview with the media that the current focus of negotiations is to end all fronts of war, including Lebanon. He pointed out that media reports regarding nuclear issues, including uranium enrichment or debates over uranium enrichment, are merely speculation and lack credibility. Accurate information about the details of the negotiations will be provided by authorized officials and spokespersons of the negotiation team.

CryptoWorld News reports that Saudi Arabia's oil export revenue in March surged to $24.7 billion, reaching a new high in over three years. Thanks to the Red Sea transit capacity and rising oil prices, Saudi Arabia successfully offset the impact of the Strait of Hormuz closure. Data from the Saudi General Authority for Statistics show that Saudi crude oil and refined product exports increased by 37% year-on-year in March, the highest since October 2022. London benchmark oil prices soared 43% that month, as the near-closure of the strait severely damaged global supply and some Gulf economies. However, Saudi Arabia quickly activated nationwide oil pipelines, and by the end of March, production capacity had recovered to about 70% of pre-war levels. A report from Goldman Sachs at the end of April stated that Saudi weekly oil revenues were 10% higher than pre-war levels.

CoinWorld News, recent departures of several senior executives from the Ethereum Foundation (EF) have sparked heated discussions within the crypto industry. Community members on social media have questioned the foundation's direction, leadership structure, and communication methods, believing that the foundation has failed to clearly explain the reasons for internal changes and shifts in responsibility distribution. As the main administrator of the world's second-largest blockchain, the Ethereum Foundation's loose decentralized structure has raised discussions about centralization of power and transparency within the current ecosystem.

SpaceX has selected Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter for the largest IPO in history, expected to oversee pricing and share allocation, and aims to secure a leading underwriting position in major IPOs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Based on the recent acquisition valuation of $1.25 trillion, underwriting fees could exceed $500 million; Goldman Sachs's underwriting revenue in the last quarter was $535 million.

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BlockBeats reports that Galaxy Digital founder Novogratz and BitGo CEO Belshe are facing off in court this week over a four-year merger dispute. BitGo is demanding that Galaxy pay at least $100 million in damages, stemming from a failed $1.2 billion acquisition proposal in 2021 that fell through due to the crypto market collapse. BitGo accuses Galaxy of not making reasonable efforts to facilitate the deal and concealing details of an investigation by U.S. authorities, which could impact the completion of the merger.

This week, Galaxy Digital founder Novogratz and BitGo CEO Belshe faced off in court over a four-year merger dispute. BitGo demanded that Galaxy pay at least $100 million in breach of contract damages, stemming from Galaxy's 2021 $1.2 billion acquisition proposal — then considered the largest deal in the crypto industry, but it fell through due to a market crash. BitGo accused Galaxy of not making reasonable efforts to facilitate the deal and concealing details of U.S. regulatory investigations that could have significantly impacted the merger.

Canadian publicly listed company Republic Technologies announces the integration of Sign's products into the capital markets and listed company workflows, focusing on verification, identity, programmable capital, and settlement-related listed equity. This move marks the first time Sign's software system has been adopted by a publicly listed company, demonstrating its expansion from on-chain infrastructure to traditional capital markets, with potential future applications in auditing, compliance, and information disclosure processes.

According to Beating Monitoring, the xAI official website's model selection menu shows the Grok 4.3 (beta) option labeled as Early Access. Previously, the main version on the web was the Grok 4.20 series. The core improvements of Grok 4.3 are expected to focus on ultra-long context processing capabilities and native multimodal video understanding.

Mem0 announces the core long-term memory algorithm research: extracting key facts through a two-stage pipeline and updating memory to avoid forgetfulness. Under the LOCOMO benchmark, accuracy is 26% higher than OpenAI's built-in memory, P95 reasoning latency is reduced by 91%, and token consumption is decreased by 90%. The enhanced variant Mem0ᵍ introduces a graph database to capture cross-session entity relationships. From memory retrieval to response in production only takes 0.71 seconds, far better than nearly 10 seconds of full context. The research has been accepted by ECAI, and the code has been open-sourced on GitHub.

CryptoWorld News reports that data shows India’s April crude oil imports fell by 4.3% year-on-year to 20.10 million tons. At the same time, India’s April gasoline exports fell by 27.5% year-on-year to 0.9 million tons, while diesel exports rose by 25.6% year-on-year to 16.0 million tons.