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Trump plans to restart negotiations before the U.S.-Iran conflict escalates further. Contact between both sides is progressing, but the specific details are still unclear. Trump said Iran wants to reach an agreement, but he will not tolerate it having nuclear weapons. The market response is steady, and crypto stocks are generally up.

The latest survey shows that the AI industry is facing a computing power supply crisis, with Blackwell GPU rental prices up 48% within two months. Anthropic’s Claude API has a normal operating success rate below corporate standards, causing customers like Retool to switch to OpenAI. As demand for computing power surges, data centers are facing a power bottleneck, and the ongoing shortage situation will continue to affect the market.

HSBC Bank for the first time issued tokenized deposits (TDS) on the Canton Network and conducted atomic settlement, supporting multiple fiat currencies and providing real-time clearing 24/7. This marks the tokenization of bank deposits entering a publicly interoperable environment, and it has attracted institutions including JPMorgan and DTCC to join, highlighting the importance of the Canton Network as financial infrastructure.

The founder of Muddy Waters, Carson Block, after trying the AI tool Claude, shifted his view of the economic outlook from optimistic to pessimistic. He warned that AI replacing knowledge work will trigger a severe economic crisis, and has already started shorting ETFs in the credit market. He noted that 15% of knowledge work is about to disappear, and predicted it will lead to a contraction in consumption and a systemic crash. His move to restart the short-selling setup has drawn attention in the current market.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman was attacked twice over the weekend, and the Wyoming bunker built a decade ago became the last line of defense.
(Previous recap: Suspicion of Sam Altman sexually abusing his younger sister as a child; the judge allowed the case to continue under the child abuse statute.)
(Background add-on: A University of California study on the “AI brain fog” phenomenon: 14% of office workers are driven crazy by Agents and automation, and their likelihood of quitting is 40% higher.)
In 2016, Sam Altman built a bunker underground in Wyoming. 1,200 square meters, a three-story structure, 500 kilograms of gold, 5,000 tablets of potassium iodide, 5 tons of freeze-dried food, 100k rounds of ammunition. That year, OpenAI had just been founded for one week.
A decade later, the head of the most powerful AI company in the world was attacked on two consecutive weekends—first Molotov cocktails, then a shooting. In his own blog, he said he had seriously underestimated the “

Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced that the “Aave Will Win” proposal has passed, consolidating all application product revenues into the DAO, and positioning $AAVE as the single core asset. The goal is to expand the agreement’s scale to $1 trillion. This proposal ended Aave’s governance crisis, establishing new revenue streams and governance principles aimed at strengthening community trust and value.

Sun Yuchen publicly accused World Liberty Financial (WLFI) of embedding a backdoor in its smart contract, claiming that its wallet was unlawfully frozen in 2025, and pointing out four categories of misconduct by the WLFI team: charging unreasonable fees, controlling the backdoor, freezing funds, and manipulating governance. He emphasized that this conduct violates basic investor rights and called on WLFI to restore transparency.

Research from the cybersecurity startup AISLE shows that although Anthropic’s security system Mythos has powerful capabilities, a small open-source model with only 3.6B parameters can achieve similar vulnerability-detection results at low cost. AISLE notes that the development of AI cybersecurity capabilities is “uneven,” and emphasizes that the moat lies in the design of the system architecture rather than the strength of any single model.

A loan-shark smart contract scam case led by Chiou Zhihau raised over 50 billion yuan, and 14 people have already been detained. The platform lured victims with high returns of 3% to 7% monthly interest, but in reality it was a carefully designed con, using DeFi concepts to lower their guard. During the period when Chiou Zhihau was released on bail, he committed fraud again, reflecting regulatory loopholes; prosecutors are currently continuing to investigate.

Trump posted on Truth Social that many large tankers are delivering low-sulfur, high-quality crude oil to the United States, reflecting that geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran have led to rising demand in the market for alternative supplies. The United States has currently become the world’s largest crude oil producer, and its sweet crude oil has advantages in refining costs and efficiency. This kind of situation could reduce reliance on Middle Eastern oil, stabilize oil prices, and affect global risk assets, including the Bitcoin market.

Anthropic has launched Claude for Word, which supports tracked changes and file review, and integrates with the Microsoft Office suite. Its four core capabilities cover reading comments, drafting content from templates, consistency checks, and rewriting selected sections. Still in the testing phase, it’s suited to specific users and is not recommended for legal documents; it’s clearly designed to meet market needs within the Office ecosystem.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol unveiled two AI systems at the Dreamforce conference: “Green Dot” and “Smart Q.” The former acts as a real-time assistant for store employees, while the latter solves order mix-up issues to improve service efficiency. In the future, the Starbucks app will be able to predict what customers order, enabling more convenient drink preparation. This series of AI deployments is intended to strengthen Starbucks’ role as a social space for people.

On April 11, the U.S. and Iran began 20 hours of negotiations in Pakistan. The core issue was freedom of passage through the Strait of Hormuz. After Bitcoin briefly rose to $73,800, it quickly fell back to $71,557. The U.S. side took a hardline stance, demanding that Iran open the strait, while Iran insisted that easing restrictions must wait until a comprehensive agreement is reached. The two sides have not yet reached a consensus.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has open-sourced his personal AI memory system, “GBrain,” aiming to solve AI’s memory problem. GBrain helps AI achieve global recall through a distinctive “dream cycle” mechanism and hybrid search techniques. The system combines Markdown documents and Postgres, enabling developers to build a mini-AGI, and it’s a practical knowledge management tool.