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Sony AI developed table tennis robot Ace defeated professional players in official matches with referees, and the research results were published in the journal Nature; in the same week, Honor's humanoid robot "Lightning" finished the Beijing Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, breaking the human world record.
(Previous summary: Elon Musk claimed that pure AI and robot companies will dominate the future, and humans will become corporate burdens)
(Additional background: Imagining RobotFi: What new gameplay could robots bring when they go on the chain?)
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How Ace defeated humans
Why Honor Lightning can run under 51 minutes
Where the boundaries of Physical AI are moving
50 minutes and 26 seconds. This time

A boutique store called Andon Market in San Francisco, managed by AI agent Luna as CEO, is responsible for product selection, pricing, scheduling, and inventory management. Luna has been authorized to use a budget of $100k, but has currently incurred a loss of about $13k.
(Previous context: The top investment masters are working for you! Featuring Buffett, Munger, Cathie Wood & 19 AI Agents analyzing the market)
(Additional background: Exploring AI agent applications: Can vertical agents break the deadlock of industry fatigue?)
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What is Andon Market, and how does Luna operate
Luna’s decision errors and financial realities
What questions does this experiment aim to answer
San Francisco Cow

Anthropic has added connectors for everyday consumption apps like Spotify, Uber, Instacart, and TurboTax to Claude, officially extending the AI assistant from workplace tools to personal life scenarios.
(Background: Anthropic’s AI Economic Index—an over-10,000-word report—shows that automation trading workflows’ frequency has doubled, with Claude shifting from a tool to a life assistant.)
(Additional context: Top AI models are diverging: ChatGPT to C, Claude to B.)
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From Work Applications to Life Scenarios
Privacy Commitments
Positive Competition with ChatGPT
Eight Everyday Life Apps—Anthropic officially enables Claude to check your data using Sp

European Union regulators are preparing to make specific demands under the Digital Markets Act, requiring Google to open up core Android features to competitors like ChatGPT and Claude, with Gemini's exclusive access permissions potentially being fully opened.
(Background: Google admits to collaborating with Apple: Gemini takes over Siri functions, with annual revenue reaching $1 billion from Apple)
(Additional background: Google Maps integrates Gemini, launching three major AI features focused on enterprise agents)
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Mandatory openness obligations under the DMA framework
Google's resistance logic and potential costs
Reshaping effects on the AI assistant market
Google in Android

Microsoft announces its first large-scale voluntary retirement program in history, with about 7% of U.S. employees (approximately 8,750 people) eligible to apply. On the same day, Microsoft announced an investment of $18 billion in Australia to build AI cloud infrastructure, highlighting a strategic logic of simultaneous workforce reduction and expansion of computing power.
(Background summary: AI panic leads to unemployment! Microsoft executives warn: Most white-collar workers will be replaced by automation "within the next 12-18 months")
(Additional background: Claude officially supports editing Word files, saving workflows as skills, completing the integration of Microsoft Office suite)
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Who can leave, and how to leave
Why choose this timing?
Microsoft's first in half a century
8750 people: this is the number for Microsoft’s voluntary retirement plan this time

Make TON Great Again! Telegram founder Pavel Durov dropped a stunning announcement late at night, saying that transaction fees on the TON blockchain will “plunge 6x” within a week—each transaction costing only about $0.0005—and he also boldly predicted that most future transactions will move toward “completely zero fees.” This is the second phase of TON’s recent “MTONGA” seven-step upgrade plan, combined with the speed upgrade that was just completed earlier this month. TON seems to be targeting competitors like Solana in full, aiming to seize the global Web3 payments and gaming throne.
(Quick recap: The TON mainnet Catchain 2.0 upgrade is complete! Block production is up 6x, inflation has risen to 3.6%, but “staking rewards have exploded”)
(Background update: Russia bans Telegram “file and video sharing”! Requires that they stop…)

Starlink's arrival in Taiwan has been delayed for a long time.
On the 22nd, the Legislative Yuan's Transportation Committee focused on the issue of easing restrictions on low Earth orbit satellites.
Faced with Starlink's firm stance of "100% ownership," Taiwan's current "Telecommunications Management Act" foreign ownership cap has become the biggest obstacle.
The NCC and the Department of Digital Development emphasized that there may not be a need for drastic legal amendments; flexible mechanisms such as trade agreements could resolve the issue, but the premise is to ensure data sovereignty and cybersecurity.
Legislators are fiercely torn between "disaster communication resilience" and "Musk's suspected pro-China stance."
(Background: Starlink has also been interfered with by Iran. How did Jack Dorsey's "Bitchat" break through via Bluetooth network?)
(Additional background: SpaceX is accused of not providing "Starshield satellite services" to Taiwan. U.S. lawmakers criticize Musk for endangering Taiwan-U.S. security.)
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Regulatory Walls and Starlink

Taiwan stocks welcome a super liquidity of over 200 billion yuan! The Financial Supervisory Commission officially announced yesterday (23rd) that the limit on single holdings in Taiwan stock funds and active ETFs will be relaxed from 10% to a conditional 25%.
Because the threshold requires that the stock must account for more than 10% of Taiwan's stock market weight, currently only the "National Shield" TSMC meets the standard.
This new regulation, dubbed the "TSMC Clause" by the industry, is expected to not only significantly free up fund managers' trading flexibility but also potentially drive TSMC's stock price to a new wave of re-evaluation (Re-rating).
(Background recap: TSMC surged to a new high of 2,135 yuan in early trading, Taiwan stocks rose over 900 points before reversing and falling below 38,000 points)
(Additional background: Taiwan stocks surged past 37,000 points, surpassing the UK to become the seventh-largest stock market in the world)
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Customized "TSMC

Retail investors can also buy OpenAI and xAI!
Author of "The Naval Bible," Silicon Valley venture capital legend Naval Ravikant recently launched a new fund called "USVC" through AngelList.
This fund breaks the traditional million-dollar barrier of venture capital, allowing ordinary American retail investors to participate with just $500, directly investing in top AI giants before their IPOs.
(Previous summary: Privacy coins surge! Silicon Valley investor Naval Ravikant's comment caused Zcash to soar 200% in ten days)
(Additional background: PrimePiper: An AI agent trading prime broker that enables AI agents to trade safely in global markets)
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Unlock AI Giants: Just $500

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian publicly confirmed at the Cloud Next 2026 conference (Las Vegas, 4/22-23) that Google will assist Apple in developing the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, based on Gemini technology, supporting "more personalized Siri," expected to be launched later in 2026.
(Background summary: Google Maps integrates Gemini, launching three major AI features focused on enterprise agents)
(Additional background: Google launches eighth-generation TPU: two AI chips targeting training and inference, challenging Nvidia's pain points)
Google has officially acknowledged it. Thomas Kurian in the keynote speech

Guided by the Financial Supervisory Commission and convened by CTBC Financial Holding, 16 leading financial holding companies and banks in Taiwan jointly launched the "Financial Large Language Model FinLLM" project, building localized financial AI based on the Data Development Department's sovereign AI corpus.
(Background: The Taiwanese government is actively deploying "sovereign AI," with National Science and Technology Council Chair Wu Cheng-wen stating: "Forming a National Artificial Intelligence Strategic Special Committee")
(Additional background: Taiwan's 11 leading insurance companies have formed the "Claims Alliance Blockchain"! Multiple insurers can file claims for a single policy, making the application process easier)
The 16 financial holdings, 2 state-owned banks, along with the Financial Training Institute, Institute for Information Industry, and NCC Financial Technology Research Center, are working together to achieve one goal: Taiwan must have its own financial large language model.
This project is called FinLLM, initiated by the Financial Technology Industry Alliance guided by the Financial Supervisory Commission, with CTBC Financial Holding serving as the convener. Today (23rd), at the Financial Technology

Bloomberg reports that Nokia’s adjusted operating profit in the first quarter of 2026 reached €281 million, exceeding analysts’ expectations of €244 million by about 15%. Previously trapped in the mire of mobile network equipment, the Finnish veteran company is trying to drive a generational transition through its AI data center connectivity business.
(Background: Will Nokia launch a Web3 phone? It has applied for encrypted patents for digital assets, showing optimism about blockchain development.)
(Additional background: Nvidia’s earnings report hits tonight! On Polymarket, the probability of beating expectations is as high as 90%, and Hyperliquid’s whale is using 10x leverage to go long NVDA.)
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From towers to data centers
What did Nvidia’s $1 billion buy?
Ericsson’s warning, Nokia’s opportunity
Nokia released the first

Japan's Communications Ministry research team is considering requiring social media platforms to enable age filtering by default, with legislation or new standards possibly being established as early as the end of this year, adding the country to the regulatory ranks alongside Australia, the UK, Indonesia, and others.
(Background summary: Trump's Truth Social and Musk's X may merge! Strategic analysis of advantages and disadvantages)
(Additional background: What is a16z's New Media? The ongoing power shift of new media)
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Legislation driven by mental health concerns
Age threshold remains undecided, experts cautious about "one-size-fits-all" approach
Limited demonstration effect of Australia's ban, countries continue to follow suit
Japan's government is considering implementing age-based restrictions on social media platforms, joining the global trend of tightening digital regulation to protect minors. Bloomberg reports that the Communications Ministry research team released relevant documents this week, discussing the possibility of...

Alibaba’s Qwen (Qwen) series latest flagship Qwen3.6-27B was officially open-sourced on the evening of April 22, 2026. This 27B dense model scored 59.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, beating Claude 4.5 Opus, and with less than 1/14 of the parameters, achieved 77.2 on SWE-bench Verified, surpassing the previous generation 397B MoE flagship’s 76.2. The full model is 55.6 GB, and with Q4_K_M quantization compressed to 16.8 GB, it can run on consumer-grade hardware, enabling local agent frameworks such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent to, for the first time, have a truly usable local brain.
(Background: being

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invested in the biometric company World, which announced that it has reached partnerships with both Zoom and Tinder at the same time, requiring users to complete “real-person verification” with an iris scanning device to obtain a digital identity in exchange for the use of an eye membrane.
(Background: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s residence was hit with a petrol bomb! Posted late at night, reflecting: AGI is like “The Lord of the Rings,” and AI power must be democratized.)
(Additional context: Sam Altman predicts that in 2030, AGI will replace 40% of the global workforce.)
Aiming to build the digital identity and financial network World (its former name is Worldcoin), it has recently announced collaborations with video conferencing platform Zoom and Tinder, the world’s largest dating app.
The core of the partnership is: you must allow

Elon Musk stated in the Q1 financial report that Terafab was born out of logic and memory shortages, with the research facility located at Giga Texas, with a budget of about $3 billion, using Intel 14A, producing several thousand chips per month. The core includes masks, logic, memory, and packaging all in one building, with the scaling phase taken over by SpaceX. Intel has joined, and Tesla is also recruiting Taiwanese talent, claiming that Terafab will always be TSMC's largest customer and not a competitor. The first phase is scheduled to start production in 2027, mass production in 2028, and completion by 2030, with total costs possibly reaching several trillion dollars.

Google Cloud Next 2026 announced Gemini's three major features in Maps and Earth: Grounded Map Imagery (generating real-world scene images from text prompts in Street View), Aerial and Satellite Imagery Insights (importing images into BigQuery for automatic analysis, reducing processing time from weeks to minutes), and Earth AI Image Models (identifying bridges, roads, power lines, and opening experimental access). This move treats geolocation data as the foundational AI perception of the world, transforming maps from navigation tools into an enterprise AI perception layer.

Bloomberg reports that SoftBank is using its holdings in OpenAI as collateral to seek a two-year margin loan of $10 billion, with an initial interest rate of approximately 7.88%. Even though S&P has downgraded the credit outlook to negative and borrowing costs have risen, SoftBank continues to increase its investment in OpenAI. This move demonstrates the strategy of using debt to buy into the future, converting paper wealth into cash before OpenAI goes public and reinvesting it into the AI landscape.

Bloomberg said that at an employee meeting, Cook admitted that replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps in 2012 was his first major mistake during his tenure, and that it led to the dismissal of the software chief; what he is most proud of are the health features of the Apple Watch. Since taking over in 2011, the market value has grown from about $350 billion to more than $4 trillion. Although bets such as AirPower and autonomous driving failed to materialize, they did not evolve into a serious crisis. Ternus was confirmed as the successor, and Cook plans to move to the role of executive director and stay with the company.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Paparo confirmed at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is operating a Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing; he highly praised the proof-of-work mechanism, believing it can be used for power projection and increasing attack costs. The U.S. is integrating Bitcoin from financial assets into national security strategy, using it as a new weapon in intelligence gathering, cyber defense, and decentralized technology in geopolitical competition. This is the first time the U.S. military publicly defined Bitcoin as a national security-related asset in Congress.