The University of Hong Kong’s diffusion model team raises nearly 500 million yuan, backed by Huawei and Shunwei Capital.

Binance Alpha airdrop will open for claiming at 17:00 today (UTC+8). This event adopts the updated Binance Alpha Box model, with the airdrop pool including tokens from multiple projects. Users holding at least 245 Alpha points can claim one token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop consumes 15 Alpha points. The airdrop features three reward tiers: Common (accounting for 80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), each with a different Alpha Box value. Upon claiming, users will be automatically assigned to one tier, and rewards will be distributed proportionally based on the tier. If all rewards are not fully distributed, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

Beating AI News: Enterprise AI startup Hone has officially launched its Engines platform and closed a $60 million seed round, led by Benchmark and Index Ventures. Engines is built to long-term execute business goals set by enterprises, such as boosting sales conversion rates or cutting procurement costs. After a goal is defined, the Engine learns the company’s internal systems, historical data and workflows, autonomously creates the required agents and tools, then collaborates with employees to complete tasks. It also adjusts continuously based on feedback, eliminating the need for repeated manual task assignments. Engines can modify its own tools, code and memory, but all changes must pass simulation tests before going live. The system simulates colleague responses and business system shifts, rerunning work that would take weeks to finish in just minutes to verify that existing normal functions are not disrupted. Hone said that across 125 internal test scenarios, the proportion of issues caused by modifications dropped from 33% to 5%. Founder Moritz Stephan previously contributed to developing the core planning and execution system for Devin. Early clients include Cognition and AI inference platform Modal.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated in a post that Bitcoin has fallen below the $82,000 mark, with the next key support level at $79,000. Given the pace of decline over the past two days, he believes this round of correction is not yet complete, and currently expects the price to break below $79,000, at which point he will further monitor market movements around $75,000. Yi Lihua added that while he had anticipated a correction earlier, he did not initiate short positions, as he judges the market remains in a bull trend and the pullback is a normal fluctuation within a bull market. He will stick to the principle of “watch corrections in a bull market but do not go short”, patiently wait for the correction to bottom out before buying the dip, and will not guess the entry price in advance, noting that market conditions and environments are constantly evolving.

According to an official announcement, Binance will add watchlist tags to BICO and CVC on October 9, 2026. Tokens with watchlist tags exhibit higher volatility and risk compared to other listed tokens. Trading these tagged tokens is risky, as they no longer meet the platform’s listing standards and are subject to potential delisting.

Beating AI Express: OpenAI’s research chief has issued a statement responding to an open letter from three former employees—Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek. The company said that following a full investigation, the three violated explicit sensitive information handling policies, and the internal probe uncovered serious breaches of trust that went beyond what was disclosed in the open letter. As a result, OpenAI terminated their employment last week and is standing by this decision. OpenAI emphasized that the decision was not targeted at employees raising safety concerns or expressing opinions publicly. The company added that it holds intense, critical safety and research discussions internally every day, encourages staff to raise questions, is tolerant of good-faith mistakes, and will not fire employees for voicing concerns. Regarding the safety issues covered in the open letter, OpenAI stated it is finalizing a contract with a third-party security assessment firm, expects to release details in the coming weeks, and commits to integrating external assessors into its safety work. The company also acknowledged that maintaining the monitorability of frontier models requires joint efforts from the entire industry, noting that this area has long been a core research focus for OpenAI and it will continue to invest significant resources in this field.

Strategy founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor told Binance in an interview that the period from now through 2035 will be a "gold rush" era for digital assets. The crypto economy, still smaller than other global asset markets, is in a high-growth phase. He noted that 99% of all Bitcoin will have been mined by 2035, which he cited as one key reason the industry remains in its early stages. Saylor positions Bitcoin as "digital capital," identifying four major drivers for its adoption: ETFs and wrapped Bitcoin products, treasury companies, digital credit, and bank-collateralized credit. He emphasized that Strategy has no fixed Bitcoin holding target: "We accumulate Bitcoin as we raise capital." The firm’s holdings have risen to approximately 848,000 BTC. He explained that digital credit products like STRC are designed to offer volatility and cash flow characteristics different from direct Bitcoin holdings, catering to investors who cannot tolerate Bitcoin’s price swings. STRC is a perpetual preferred stock issued by Strategy that pays cash dividends. Additionally, he highlighted focus on Bitcoin’s 200-week moving average and its price premium or discount relative to this metric, adding that funds previously flowing into AI and large private equity deals have started returning to the crypto market.