At the close of US stock markets, the Nasdaq and S&P saw an "A-share-style plunge"; Intel fell another 9%, while optical communications leaders Marvell Technology (MRVL) and Lumentum Holdings (LITE) both plummeted sharply.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes noted that U.S. dollar liquidity is picking up, and predicts Bitcoin will remain weak before the Federal Reserve or banks start expanding their balance sheets. Hayes attached a chart showing the 2026 year-to-date trend of the USDLIQ U Index, which is currently quoted at around 32.71 million, having risen by roughly 1.406 million year-to-date (a 4.49% increase), with a high of around 32.9 million and a low of around 31.27 million.

Beating AI News Brief: Grok Bot’s official account announced that it has developed a Team Bot called Data Bot, allowing all employees to access data scientists’ capabilities on demand. Product managers use the tool to audit product usage, marketers to measure campaign performance, and various departments can leverage it to build dashboards and track key metrics. Sally Xu, head of SpaceXSI’s data team, wrote in an article that Data Bot is trained and maintained by the data science team through shared expertise. It can query data warehouses, conduct analysis, and return results in user-preferred formats, and can also integrate with Slack channels for scheduled metric updates. However, complex judgment-based analysis remains a manual process.

According to EmberCN’s monitoring, BitMine purchased 5,000 ETH via Kraken five hours ago, valued at approximately $11.22 million. Since the end of June last year, BitMine has been buying ETH almost weekly; over the past 18 months, it has accumulated around 6.06 million ETH, worth roughly $20.18 billion, with an average cost price of about $3,329.

SBI Holdings announced plans to invest $100 million in digital bank Erebor Bank via its US subsidiary SBI Holdings USA. Erebor supports stablecoin deposits and withdrawals, and SBI will explore broader cooperation with the firm.

According to data from the BIT Stock Platform, Apple closed down 1.83% this morning, and fell an additional 2.5% in after-hours trading. Why was it sold off by the market despite beating earnings expectations? This morning, Apple released its Q4 FY2026 financial results: revenue hit $114.48 billion, up 11.7% year-over-year; EPS stood at $2.10, both metrics exceeded analyst forecasts. iPhone revenue surged 17.5% YoY to around $57.6 billion, and Mac sales rose nearly 24% YoY, delivering strong performance. However, Greater China revenue, while up 21% YoY to approximately $17.5 billion, still missed analyst estimates by around 6.5%. The services segment’s growth slowed to roughly 9.8%, its lowest level in nearly three years, and the company’s guidance for next quarter’s services revenue growth is only 8%-9%, significantly below market expectations. More critically, management guided next quarter’s gross margin to fall to 45%-46%, lower than analysts’ expected ~46.3% and a notable drop from the current quarter’s 47.9%, driven by rising storage costs and AI-related expenses. Although next quarter’s revenue growth guidance of 7%-10% is above expectations, against the backdrop of Apple’s sharp stock rally in recent months and already high valuation, the underperformance in China, slowing services growth, and margin pressure have triggered investor profit-taking.

U.S. officials said the United States carried out an attack on Iran's Qeshm Island on Monday. The strike is the latest in a series of limited covert operations Washington has launched against Iran in recent weeks, while Trump publicly claimed that a diplomatic agreement between the two sides remains possible.