The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

According to HTX market data, Backpack platform’s token BP briefly surged above $0.9 this morning to hit a new all-time high, and has since pulled back to $0.8293. The token has gained 29.2% in the past 24 hours and 68.7% over the past seven days, with its market capitalization rising to $207.3 million.

Beating AI News Flash: Chinese large language model enterprise Zhipu (HKEX: 2513.HK) is set to officially open-source its AI programming tool ZCode. According to Zhipu, this open-sourcing marks the first step in addressing external concerns over ZCode's data processing. Going forward, the company will also advance more thorough community-driven development for ZCode, inviting external parties to download, review the code, and collaborate on its improvements.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea's KOSPI index touched 7,000 points, rising 1.57% intraday. Samsung Electronics' stock price climbed 3%, while SK Hynix gained 1.4%.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, the Official Trump Meme team’s allocation wallet has transferred 8.73 million TRUMP tokens to BitGo for custody, valued at approximately $17.99 million. Over the past two weeks, the team has cumulatively transferred around 31 million TRUMP tokens to BitGo, worth roughly $70.64 million.

ZetaChain’s community has passed Proposal 68 with 99.4% support, voting to shut down its Layer 1 blockchain and migrate the ZETA token to Solana. The vote recorded a 58% turnout, exceeding the 40% quorum threshold, with opposition and abstentions each accounting for 0.3%. ZetaChain stated it will shift its focus to Anuma—an AI app launched in February this year—arguing there is no longer a need to maintain its independent Cosmos SDK-based Layer 1. Anuma currently reports over 300,000 users and has processed 1 million requests from 35 AI models. Under the proposal, ZETA will convert 1:1 to native Solana SPL tokens, retaining its original ticker and total supply, with existing unlock schedules unchanged—except for ZETA on Ethereum and BNB Chain. No shutdown timeline was set in the vote; a second vote will be held later to determine the balance snapshot block, shutdown block, and token claim/asset withdrawal plans. The project team will not hold the second vote until exchanges confirm their conversion arrangements, and ZETA staking will remain active during this period.

Beating AI News Brief: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview with CBS that some AI company executives who warn AI could endanger humanity and call for stricter regulation are "not sincere" and "may have ulterior motives." He argued these AI firms are not genuinely pushing for more legislation, but rather seeking to evade existing regulations. Huang called scaring the public with claims that AI could lead to disasters "both irresponsible and unnecessary." He also stated the U.S. AI industry does not need to slow its development, as that would give China an opportunity to catch up; regulatory focus should be on "enforcing existing laws" rather than adding new oversight measures. Earlier, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had called for slowing advanced AI development, advocating for more robust risk prevention measures; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have also expressed concern over related initiatives.