Nomura Holdings is exploring the sale of its crypto subsidiary Laser Digital.

Dongcha Beating AI News Flash: Google has launched its first decision-making model, Gemini Decision 1, which supports mixed inputs of text, images, audio, video, and PDF, with a 256,000-token context window. Compared to Jev and OpenAI’s Decisions API, Google’s model can directly process a wider range of materials. For example, it can take a customer service recording, order details, and product photos together to simultaneously assess a customer’s request, issue severity, and need for human intervention. It can evaluate up to 1,000 queries per run; multiple queries sharing the same input material only incur a single input fee. The official end-to-end response time is 150 to 250 milliseconds. For inputs under 16,000 tokens, the model’s processing time remains nearly unchanged even when the number of queries increases from 1 to 100. In Google’s internal tests, Gemini Decision 1 scored 92.2% on JevBench, outperforming Jev 1.14 (90.0%) and OpenAI’s Decisions API (90.9%). However, it lagged Jev (82.0%) with a 79.9% score on the tool calling benchmark When2Call. In third-party evaluator Artificial Analysis’s Decision Index v2.1, Gemini Decision 1 posted an overall score of 65.98, ranking 9th among 18 models—nearly on par with Jev’s 66.23, but trailing top-ranked Drex Max v1.1’s 72.62. Google charges $0.1 per million input tokens, with free output. Calculated using Artificial Analysis’s standardized task set, completing 1 million tasks costs roughly $345 for Google, $156 for Jev, and about $103 for Drex Max. Google’s average task latency is 211 milliseconds, compared to 92 milliseconds for Jev. Google has deployed the new model for model routing in Gemini Notebook, reducing latency for some daily requests by up to 40%. The API is now available, with a free trial quota offered.

MSCI has announced the results of its November global small-cap index review. Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet (3350.T) has been added to the exclusion list for the MSCI Japan Small Cap Index. This round of adjustments to Japan’s small-cap index includes 14 additions and one removal, with Metaplanet being the excluded component. The changes are based on price cutoff date data as of October 20, and will take effect after market close on November 30.

According to Bitget market data, Hong Kong stocks opened with the Hang Seng Index down 0.8% at 24,121.4 points, while the Hang Seng Tech Index also opened 0.8% lower at 3,995 points. Baidu (09888.HK) fell 1.27% to HK$77.6, and Alibaba (09988.HK) dropped 2.19% to HK$98.4.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, two whales or institutional holders with positions held for over a year transferred 1,929.5 BTC to trading platforms roughly 4 hours ago, valued at approximately $143.6 million. Of this, 1,000 BTC accumulated 5 years ago at a price of $46,700 was moved to Binance around 6 hours ago, booking a profit of about $27.73 million. The remaining 929.5 BTC, accumulated 1 year ago at $107,125, was transferred to Kraken roughly 4 hours ago, incurring a loss of around $30.36 million.

Elon Musk responded on social media to a post from prominent media outlet Zero Hedge titled "Elon please hire Jensen", replying, "That would be an honor."

According to The Block, Solana Company reported third-quarter revenue of $3.4 million, a sharp increase from $700,000 in the year-ago period. The outlet attributes the quarter’s revenue primarily to staking rewards from its holdings of SOL tokens. The report adds that as of September 30, Solana Company held roughly 2.4 million SOL, with a fair value of approximately $288.2 million. The Block notes that staking income from these SOL holdings served as the company’s primary revenue driver for the quarter.