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According to reports, Meta has reached a multi-billion dollar agreement with Amazon to use tens of millions of AWS Graviton chip cores in the coming years to support its AI agents and related initiatives, with a contract term of 3–5 years, mostly deploying cores in the United States.

ME News Report, April 13 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that "Nuggets vs. Spurs" had a trading volume of $5.6M in the past 24 hours, with market participation significantly increasing.

StarkWare announces layoffs and restructuring, with CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stating the company needs to return to a startup model to improve market fit. After the restructuring, it will be divided into two independent business units, with plans to control the complete blockchain proof technology stack. COO Oren Katz will leave at the end of the month.

The AI industry is experiencing a comprehensive computing power crisis, with rising GPU cloud rental prices and frequent outages. Anthropic is the most affected, with Claude API having a 98.95% uptime over 90 days. OpenAI is also prioritizing preserving computing resources and making trade-offs. The surge in demand coexists with supply shortages, leading cloud providers to raise prices and increase long-term contract signing, while companies like CoreWeave are tightening resource allocation.

Data from April 13 shows that Ethereum’s market capitalization reached $168.91 billion, TRON was $85.06 billion, and more. Amid market developments, the “Clarity Act” entered a critical stage, Circle updated interoperability details, Ripple expanded its pilot program, and the stablecoin market’s total capitalization saw a slight increase, laying a foundation for subsequent institutional inflows.

Iran-U.S. negotiations broke down over the weekend, triggering geopolitical tensions, with oil prices surpassing $100, and the market shifting to safe-haven assets; Bitcoin approached the $74,000 resistance level, while Ethereum retreated from $2,330 to $2,180. Trump threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz to cut off Iranian oil, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Mandeb, escalating the situation. China, due to large-scale imports of Iranian crude oil, has become a core player; if the blockade escalates, China-U.S. relations could become tense. The implied volatility and risk reversal in the crypto market have fallen back to pre-conflict levels, easing panic, with significant institutional fund inflows, as BlackRock IBIT saw a net inflow of $612.1 million last week. Trump plans to initiate enforcement actions at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, with market focus on policy credibility.

ME News report, April 24 (UTC+8). Government sources have confirmed that the talks between the U.S. and Iran in Islamabad are “very likely to achieve a breakthrough.” A delegation led by Iran’s Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian is expected to arrive in Pakistan’s capital tonight. Earlier today, Iran’s foreign minister held a phone call with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and both sides confirmed the news. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that both parties exchanged views on developments in the region, a ceasefire, and the ongoing diplomatic efforts amid contacts between the U.S. and Iran. (Source: ChainCatcher)

ME News Report, April 13 (UTC+8), according to CoinFound data, currently 206 publicly listed companies hold a total of 1,236,251 BTC, accounting for 6.21% of the total Bitcoin supply. Among them, Strategy Inc (MSTR) holds 766,970 BTC, representing 62.03% of the total holdings by listed companies. (Source: CoinFound)

ME News Announcement, April 13 (UTC+8), Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis will no longer support cross-chain swaps on the Polygon zkEVM network starting May 16. Symbiosis advises users holding liquidity on this network to withdraw their funds before the network is fully shut down; the liquidity withdrawal feature will remain available until the network is completely disabled. (Source: Foresight News)

Private placement credit, corporate bonds, and government bonds have market values of 39.65B, 27.45 billion, and 13.54B USD respectively. If Bitcoin's growth rate exceeds 2.05%, it can pay dividends indefinitely; market sentiment adjusts, but the long-term outlook remains positive, laying the foundation for institutional capital inflows.

According to Bloomberg, in recent weeks Beijing has required several AI companies, during fundraising, to reject U.S. capital unless approved by the government—an arrangement involving The Dark Side of the Moon, which is currently preparing an IPO, and Stepping Star. ByteDance is also not allowed to introduce new U.S. investors through transfers of existing shares. This measure is seen as a continuation of Beijing’s strengthened regulation after Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus. The founder of Manus has been restricted from leaving the country, and whether the transaction violates technology export controls and outbound investment is now under review.

ME News Report, April 7 (UTC+8), recently, LangChain reposted a tweet pointing out that long-running agents (such as deepagents) suffer from context inflation issues due to tool calls. The tweet mentioned langchain-collapse developed by @johanbonilla, describing it as a positive context compression middleware that can compress long tool call sequences, thereby reducing summarization overhead. (Source: InFoQ)

ME News, message: On April 7 (UTC+8), U.S. Vice President Vance said: (The) attack on the Harkel does not mean a strategic shift. He reiterated that the deadline for Iran is 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening Eastern Time. We will get Iran’s response before 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The United States is confident that Iran will respond. Iran has never been the fastest in negotiations, and it still isn’t. (Source: ChainCatcher)

Gartner predicts that by 2030, spending on supply chain management software with intelligent agent AI capabilities will reach $53 billion. This growth stems from companies' need to address complex supply chain challenges, with intelligent agent AI optimizing key areas such as inventory management and demand forecasting, driving the supply chain toward greater intelligence.

As the demand for AI computing power explodes and global low Earth orbit satellite deployment accelerates, space is becoming a new scene for computing power investment. Guo Zebang, Director of the Information Technology Industry Bureau of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, stated that they will initiate the establishment of the Beijing Space Computing Power Innovation Center, bringing together industry, academia, and research forces to verify full-star development, overcome key challenges such as radiation-resistant chips and onboard cooling, and gradually build a space-ground collaborative computing network.

ME News update. On April 24 (UTC+8), government sources confirmed that the talks between the US and Iran in Islamabad are “highly likely to achieve a breakthrough.” A delegation led by Iranian Foreign Minister Alaragchi is expected to arrive in Pakistan’s capital tonight. Earlier today, Iran’s foreign minister held a phone call with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and both sides confirmed the news. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the two sides exchanged views on developments in the region, ceasefire efforts, and the ongoing diplomatic efforts amid contacts between the US and Iran. (Source: ChainCatcher)

ME News Report, April 24 (UTC+8), the U.S. Central Command posted on social media that for the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are simultaneously operating in the Middle East. The post stated that the carriers Abraham Lincoln, Gerald R. Ford, and George H.W. Bush, along with their carrier air wings, are carrying over 200 aircraft of various types and 15k Navy and Marine Corps personnel. (Source: PANews)

Exa announces a model layer upgrade for Highlights, capable of generating webpage summaries in real-time based on queries, completed within 100ms. The accuracy of 500-word highlights for an 8,000-word full text has significantly improved, with token count reduced by 16 times; 4k-word highlights outperform 32k-word full texts. In long-form scenarios, the accuracy with a 500-word budget reaches 60%, compared to only 6% for the full text. /answer, Deep, and Websets endpoints use Highlights as the underlying retrieval method, without reading the original page. This upgrade is a model layer change; simply enable enableHighlights to automatically benefit, no code modifications needed.

According to AIMPACT, Cursor sought billions of dollars in funding weeks before SpaceX announced a potential acquisition valued at up to $60 billion, but was rejected by several major investment banks. The reason was that a deep reliance on Anthropic's models could increase training and operating costs. SpaceX's ability to offer a high price stems from an urgent need for AI coding tools and ample computing resources.

ME News report, April 13 (UTC+8): HSBC’s Global Payments Solutions (GPS) business has successfully completed a tokenized deposit service (TDS) pilot on the regulated public blockchain Canton Network, simulating the full process of issuing tokenized deposits, transferring them, and atomically settling them with other digital assets end to end. This is HSBC TDS’s first issuance and usage on a public blockchain. HSBC TDS supports major currencies such as USD, GBP, EUR, HKD, and SGD. It can convert fiat deposits into digital tokens at a 1:1 ratio, enable instant transfers on the HSBC ledger, and support 7×24 real-time settlement and programmable payments. HSBC Global Payments Solutions Head Manish