YZi Labs announced on March 24th the launch of the Atlas Scout program, aiming to recruit 5 to 10 students from top universities worldwide to manage investment projects. The program offers up to $1 million in funding support for early-stage projects in the Web3, AI, and biotechnology sectors, including institutions such as Stanford and Harvard. Participating students will receive rights such as investment decision-making authority, travel support, and access to resources.

AI video editing application Captions' parent company Mirage has completed a $75 million funding round and will transform into a lab focused on developing proprietary AI models for the advertising industry, with plans to implement a freemium model in 2025. The funding will be used for business expansion and market entry into Asia.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has established an "Innovation Task Force" aimed at developing regulatory rules for new products and technologies in the derivatives market, with a focus on crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets, led by the Chairman's senior advisor.

The Solana Foundation launched the Solana Developer Platform (SDP) on March 24 for the AI era, designed to help enterprises and financial institutions rapidly build financial products through APIs. The platform integrates multiple core functionalities, with issuance and payment modules currently live, and the trading module expected to launch in 2026.

Beam CEO Alex Stephany responded to Palantir CEO's views on AI weakening the economic status of humanistic workers, arguing that this is a subjective choice rather than an inevitable outcome. He emphasized that technological progress does not equate to social progress, and called for AI to prioritize serving shortage areas and promoting collaborative development with frontline workers.

Gate News: On March 24, Japan's AI startup Sakana AI launched its first consumer-grade chatbot. Previously, the company completed a $214 million financing round with support from NVIDIA, with institutional investors including Nomura Holdings participating in the investment.

Gate News report: On March 24, Chinese internet giants including Alibaba and Tencent plan to expand their combined investment in AI infrastructure (including data centers) to $84 billion by 2027, representing approximately 60% growth compared to 2025. Meanwhile, market concerns persist regarding how massive upfront investments may squeeze profit margins.

RootData has mapped out Stripe's partnership network in the crypto sector, forming a closed-loop architecture of "three layers of in-house development + external ecosystem." With Tempo mainnet launching and introducing an AI payment protocol, this marks the evolution of Stripe's crypto strategy. RootData will continue tracking project relationships to enhance transparency and market trust.

Gate News reported that on March 24, Oracle (ticker: ORCL.N) released an "Agentic" AI database innovation for enterprise data. This technology aims to enhance enterprise data management and processing capabilities through intelligent agent mechanisms.

Gate News report: On March 24th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address is holding a 40x leverage short position of 650 BTC worth $46.09 million. The order opened at a price of $70,520 and is currently showing an unrealized loss of $246,000. If the price rises to $71,711, it will trigger liquidation. The address has set take-profit and stop-loss orders, with stop-loss beginning above $71,300 and gradual take-profit starting at $69,500.