Apple launches 14-inch MacBook Pro and M6 iMac equipped with M6 chips.

Beating AI Insight News Brief: Ant Group’s Bailing (Ling) model has officially open-sourced the Ling-3.1-flash-1019 model weights, and also released the Ling-3.1-flash-base model. Both models are now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, under the MIT open-source license. The 1019 version was first announced on October 22, with only its API accessible at that time. The new version retains the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture with 560B total parameters and 25B activated parameters, and mainly enhances reasoning and agent capabilities via post-training. The Artificial Analysis intelligence score rose from 41 points in the previous version to 44. The complex office task benchmark AA-Briefcase improved from ~1400 to 1524 Elo, the software operation benchmark AutomationBench-AA increased from 62% to 68%, and the physical reasoning test CritPt rose from 18% to 26%. The concurrently released Base model is a foundational model that has not undergone full instruction alignment and post-training, and is released with BF16 precision. Developers can use it for continued pre-training, industry-specific fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning, without starting from an already aligned chat model.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi’s monitoring, a trader publicly opened a short position this evening, currently shorting 9,700 ETH with 25x leverage, worth approximately $22.46 million. The average entry price of the position is $2,311.92, with an unrealized loss of $48,000 so far. The trader has set a take-profit level at $2,058.2 and a partial stop-loss level at $2,750.1.

According to official announcements, on-chain compliance platform Predicate has closed an $8 million Series A funding round, led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Paxos, 1kx, and Tribe Capital. Predicate is a programmable strategy infrastructure for on-chain financial products serving regulated markets, enabling developers to enforce custom compliance rules at the smart contract layer. The relevant strategies can be updated at any time to flexibly adapt to evolving regulatory requirements and business needs.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi monitors that a crypto whale deposited 3,084 ETH to Binance five minutes ago, suspected of liquidating its holdings. The ETH is valued at $7.17 million, with an estimated profit of $928,000. The whale accumulated the ETH in batches over the past four years, and had been staked on Lido for yield prior to this transaction.

Blockchain solutions provider Ripple and global financial services platform Robinhood today announced a strategic partnership, to provide Robinhood — a leading retail and institutional trading platform — with a unified, reliable gateway to Ripple’s infrastructure in stablecoins, institutional markets, and treasury management. Ripple’s U.S. dollar stablecoin RLUSD will become a core component of Robinhood’s digital asset ecosystem, expanding access to this enterprise-grade stablecoin for both retail and institutional users. Currently, RLUSD is already live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, a Robinhood subsidiary, and is expected to roll out on the Robinhood app later this year. Robinhood will also leverage RLUSD built on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for institutional settlement operations, further expanding the stablecoin’s use in Bitstamp’s institutional business. The partnership will also extend to Robinhood’s internal financial operations: Robinhood will integrate Ripple Treasury to modernize and automate its global treasury operations, covering areas including cash and liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, payments, risk management, and intra-group net settlement.

According to data from the BIT stock platform, share prices of emerging cloud service companies have strengthened further: Nebius (NIBS.O) rose 11%, Coreweave (CRWV.O) gained 6.7%, and IREN (IREN.O) increased 7.7%.