German stablecoin startup AllUnity launches US dollar stablecoin USDAU.

According to official announcements, Upbit, South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has listed the PUFFER/KRW trading pair.

According to HTX market data, PUFFER saw a short-term 20% surge following news that Upbit has listed the PUFFER/KRW trading pair, and is currently priced at $0.0285.

US-listed public firm Axe Compute (AGPU) has announced a multi-year strategic cooperation agreement with Penguin Solutions (PENG), integrating the latter’s technologies and services into its partner network to accelerate delivery of its customized AI infrastructure initiative “Axe Compute Build”. To date, Axe Compute’s contracted AI infrastructure projects exceed $3.45 billion in total value, and the company has selected Penguin for multiple sites, with a focus on large GPU cluster deployments designed, owned and operated by Axe Compute itself. Under the deal, Penguin will provide expert deployment and maintenance services for designated GPU cluster sites, including its ClusterWareAI operating system software, plus 24/7 network operation center support in collaboration with Axe Compute. Axe Compute positions itself as an enterprise-focused bare-metal AI infrastructure neocloud, while Penguin states its AI Factory platform combines software, hardware and system integration capabilities to help clients accelerate time-to-launch and meet service level agreements.

According to HTX market data, likely impacted by news that Upbit has listed the PUFFER/KRW trading pair, PUFFER surged 155% in 8 minutes, currently trading at $0.06.

After briefly issuing a rumor-clarification statement titled "Cheung Kong responds to Li Ka-shing’s death: No such thing", mainstream Chinese financial media outlets including The Paper and Jinshi Data have collectively deleted the related news report. As of now, Caixin News Agency still retains the report, but its source is also The Paper. Some media that reposted the content have since re-marked the source as The Paper.

Beating AI News Flash: StepFun has open-sourced the Step 5 Preview model weights, with FP8 and BF16 versions now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, while supporting inference code has also been released simultaneously. The Step 5 Preview model has a total of 600 billion parameters, with only approximately 27 billion activated per generation, and supports a 1-million-token context window. A newly released technical blog reveals the model adopts a 92-layer "narrow and deep" architecture, allowing information to be processed through more layers to support multi-step reasoning in complex tasks. It also introduces Sparse Grouped Query Attention (Sparse GQA), merging indices of 8 adjacent tokens to reduce indexing and Top-k filtering overhead to 1/8 of that of per-token indexing schemes. During the reinforcement learning phase, the team incorporated context compression into training, enabling the agent to organize progress when tasks are too long before resuming execution. The model uses the custom StepFun Model License 1.0, which permits general commercial use, but hardware manufacturers such as mobile phone and automotive companies must sign a separate license agreement if integrating the model’s capabilities into commercial products. Enterprises operating MaaS (Model as a Service) businesses with total revenue exceeding $20 million over 12 consecutive months (including their own and affiliated entities) also need to obtain separate permission for commercial use.