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

According to GMGN market data, the meme stock FATCOIN on Robinhood Chain has hit a new all-time high, with its market cap exceeding $7.5 million, a 24-hour price surge of over 4.5 times, and a 24-hour trading volume of $6.3 million. FATCOIN (nicknamed "Fat Coin") is paired with Lilly (LLY), the tokenized U.S. stock of leading weight-loss drugmaker Eli Lilly. BlockBeats Note: Stock Meme is an emerging concept that combines traditional meme coins with tokenized U.S. stocks: instead of pairing with USDT or ETH, meme coins are directly matched with on-chain U.S. stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.). This model retains meme coins’ high volatility and community-driven speculative traits while leveraging the popularity and narrative of real stocks. A portion of transaction fees often flows back to the community treasury to accumulate corresponding U.S. stock tokens, forming a dual-driven model of "sentiment hype + real asset anchoring". Caution: This asset has high price volatility; investors should exercise caution.

According to Bitget's market data, spot gold has broken through $4,500 per ounce, rising 2.57% intraday.

Beating AI News Flash: Several major overseas AI services suffered consecutive outages tonight. Claude has encountered two rounds of failures this evening. Sonnet 5 began showing errors at 20:37 Beijing Time, and was announced restored at 20:56; half an hour later, Anthropic reported a larger multi-model error spike affecting Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, Opus 5, 4.8, and 4.6. Claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork remain partially unavailable. Shortly after, Grok also went down. xAI marked the Grok Web as an "outage" at 21:30 Beijing Time, with no restoration announcement made as of press time. OpenAI has now joined the outage list. At 22:58 Beijing Time, OpenAI’s status page added an incident entry noting "increased error rates for ChatGPT and Codex", and stated it is investigating the issue.

In a post, Trump said: "For those treasonous individuals who refuse to accurately report on our military operations in Iran, we have nearly unlimited quantities of medium and high-grade ammunition—far exceeding the amount that could be used in this or any other war (which is extremely unlikely to occur!). Additionally, we are producing ammunition at an unprecedented rate. We are stockpiling supplies and preparing for any possible contingency. We will keep these for ourselves and the United States, rather than selling them to other countries, but sales to allies will resume soon. Furthermore, let everyone know that the Biden administration sent far more ammunition to Ukraine than we would deploy in Iran, and it was completely free. Hundreds of billions of dollars were given away for free to Ukraine and NATO—money that Europe could have covered if only they had been required to pay. But we will recoup this money, albeit a bit late!"

Per HTX market data, Ethereum has surged past $2,500, with a 4.1% gain over the past 24 hours.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has surged past $80,000, with a 3.5% gain in the last 24 hours.