The three major U.S. stock index futures climbed across the board, with Nasdaq futures up 1.67% and Intel rising 5% in pre-market trading.

According to data from the BIT Stock Platform, US stocks rose broadly in pre-market trading, with Neocloud, optical communication, semiconductor, and storage stocks all surging. The three major stock index futures were all up: S&P 500 futures gained 0.67%, Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.54%, and Dow Jones futures increased 0.17%. SpaceX (SPCX) climbed 2.53% in pre-market trading. Optical communication-related stocks all advanced: Coherent (COHR) up 9.01%, Lumentum (LITE) up 8.61%, Credo (CRDO) up 8.32%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) up 7.88%, Ciena (CIEN) up 6.58%. The Neocloud sector saw broad gains: CoreWeave (CRWV) up 16.13%, Nebius (NBIS) up 11.94%, IREN up 7.96%, Cipher Digital (CIFR) up 7.81%, Astera Labs (ALAB) up 7.31%, AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) up 3.80%. Semiconductor stocks all rose: Marvell Technology (MRVL) up 6.55%, Arm (ARM) up 6.14%, AMD up 5.28%, Micron Technology (MU) up 5.14%, Intel (INTC) up 4.82%, TSMC (TSM) up 4.34%, ASML up 3.80%, Broadcom (AVGO) up 3.62%, NVIDIA (NVDA) up 3.32%. Storage stocks all climbed: SanDisk (SNDK) up 6.78%, Seagate Technology (STX) up 6.00%, Western Digital (WDC) up 5.12%. Crypto-related stocks were higher: MARA Holdings (MARA) up 3.41%, Robinhood (HOOD) up 1.86%, Coinbase (COIN) up 1.45%, Strategy (MSTR) up 1.34%, Circle (CRCL) up 1.22%, Bitmine (BMNR) up 1.16%, BNB Standard (BNC) up 0.66%.

Beating AI Insight News Flash: Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview. This is the first post-training version of the 5.5 Flash Base, which was open-sourced last week, focusing on enhancing programming, agent, and complex task execution capabilities. The model has a total of 280 billion parameters, with 14 billion activated per inference, and supports a 1 million-token context window. Baidu showcased a 3D wuxia game *Yunxiu Xing* developed by the model. In an 11-hour task, the model used C++ to build a Unreal Engine 5.8 game, and also integrated assets from different engine versions. Notably, ERNIE 5.5 Flash is a pure text model with no access to game visuals; it converted playtest issues—such as character floating, incorrect movement direction, and camera misalignment—into executable code tests, then iteratively revised based on test results. Scenes and characters used pre-built asset packs. Baidu also conducted specialized training for professional software including Blender and CAD. In an official demo, two agents were assigned to develop an airport and an aircraft respectively, then unified the scene, camera, and rendered the animation. The model also created editable W16 engines and lunar rovers in FreeCAD via Python scripts, and can call external tools like Seedance to produce videos. In official released benchmarks, Terminal-Bench 4.0 scored 46.5 points, outperforming comparable domestic models including Hy4 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, but still lags behind top-tier models like Claude Opus 5.5. The API is now available on Baidu’s Qianfan platform. During the limited-time 50% discount period, per million tokens cost approximately 1 yuan for input and 4 yuan for output during peak hours, and 0.5 yuan and 2 yuan respectively during off-peak hours. Baidu also pledged to release the Preview model weights under the Apache 2.0 license in the future.

JPYC Inc. CEO Noritaka Okabe stated that demand for the JPYC stablecoin will rise as more banks face service disruptions. Okabe’s remarks came shortly after Japan’s GMO Aozora Net Bank suspended some of its banking API services following the detection of unauthorized communications. The firm’s parent company, GMO Internet Group, suffered a major cybersecurity incident last month involving unauthorized server access and subsequent ransom demands. Blockbeats Note: JPYC is a regulated yen-pegged stablecoin; the company was registered as a funds transfer service provider with Japanese authorities in October 2025.

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According to Bitget market data, the Hang Seng Index (HSI) and Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH) opened lower and trended downward today. They attempted to rally in the morning session but lacked upward momentum, with losses widening in the afternoon. By the close, the HSI fell 0.98% to 24,315.92 points, while the HSTECH dropped 1.41% to 4,027.06 points. Trading volume on the HSI market reached HK$180.749 billion, compared with HK$178.175 billion in the previous trading session. In terms of individual stocks, MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) rose 4.04%, and Zhipu (02513.HK) gained 3.73%.