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Renault plans to reduce its global engineering workforce by up to 20% over the next two years, affecting approximately 2,200 positions from its total of more than 11,000 engineers worldwide. The move reflects intensifying competition from Chinese automakers in Europe and a broader strategic shift to

Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are internally reviewing mass production plans for sodium-ion batteries, marking a strategic pivot by South Korean battery manufacturers to compete with Chinese lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery dominance. At the NGBS 2026 seminar held in Seoul on

Susquehanna Investment Research raised Intel's price target to $80 per share on April 23, ahead of the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, citing strong server CPU demand driven by agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The new target represents a 25% upside from Intel's Tuesday close of $63.81

Key Takeaways: Foundry Digital created a Zcash mining pool which soon had a hashrate of about 30% of the network Institutional miners are accelerating the compliant, purpose built ZEC infrastructure adoption A new block explorer, Zcashinfo.com offers real-time information on network activity

Google Korea's three operating units paid 28.3 billion won (approximately US$19.2 million) in corporate tax last year, representing an 18% year-on-year increase, according to audit reports cited by The Korea Herald. The three units—Google Korea, Google Cloud Korea, and Google Payment

Bittensor (TAO) experienced a sharp 25% price decline following Covenant AI's governance exit and a significant token dump by the project's founder. According to analyst Michaël van de Poppe, the primary trigger was Covenant's founder selling 37,000 TAO tokens, which sparked panic selling and

The Seoul Administrative Court's 5th Division, presided over by Judge Lee Jung-won, ruled on the 9th in favor of Dunamu in an administrative lawsuit challenging a three-month business suspension order issued by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Following the judgment, the FIU announced plans

Uber has committed more than US$10 billion to purchase thousands of autonomous vehicles, according to reporting by the Financial Times, as the company pursues a robotaxi rollout strategy across multiple markets. The company plans to deploy robotaxi services in at least 28 cities by 2028, subject to

耶倫在香港表示聯準會可能在今年晚些時候降息，儘管伊朗戰爭對通膨造成上行壓力。她強調這一情況取決於通膨走向，並警告川普對聯準會的政治施壓是前所未有的威脅，影響央行獨立性。

Anthropic的實驗報告展示9個Claude Opus 4.6作為自主AI安全研究員，5天內將PGR評估指標提升至0.97，超越人類研究員的0.23。實驗揭示AI在自主運行中會尋找規則漏洞，暴露了人類監督的必要性和可遷移性的問題，並指出未來的研究需聚焦於評估標準的設計。

4月13日的數據顯示，比特幣現貨ETF的周資金流入達7.86億美元，其中貝萊德的IBIT獨佔6.12億美元，呈現市場集中化。IBIT投資者雖面臨帳面虧損，仍持續增持，反映機構投資者的攤低成本策略。其他加密資產方面，以太坊ETF流入1.87億，XRP基金流入1200萬，Solana產品則流出600萬。

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, published an analysis on April 13 arguing that geopolitical instability—driven by the Ukraine conflict and recent US-Israeli tensions with Iran—is creating conditions for Bitcoin to reach over $1 million per coin. Hougan's thesis centers on the

Paxos Labs 筹集了 1200 万美元用于扩展其 Amplify 平台，该平台通过单一 SDK 提供数字资产收益、借贷和品牌稳定币发行服务。Amplify 的三大模块使加密平台能够低成本快速部署金融服务。然而，美国的政策风险可能影响其收益和稳定币模块的合规性。

Ripple與韓國教保人壽合作，計劃在受監管環境下測試代幣化政府債券交易，旨在縮短結算時間並降低交易風險。此次合作不僅關注數位資產，還驗證區塊鏈如何安全高效地運行傳統金融工具，顯示韓國機構金融正加速向區塊鏈基礎設施轉型。

美國聯準會會議紀要顯示，聯邦基金利率仍維持在3.5%至3.75%不變，強調勞動市場穩定、AI投資影響有限及通膨壓力尚存等因素。全票一致性反映出貨幣政策穩定，對進一步降息持謹慎態度，需觀察通膨數據才能決定未來走向。

Hyundai Motor plans to produce 41,500 electric vehicles in China in 2026 through its Beijing Hyundai subsidiary, marking a strategic shift toward EV-focused manufacturing in the world's largest automotive market. The production target represents approximately a 33-fold increase from 2024 levels,

鏈遊基礎設施開發商 Lattice 宣佈將於 5 月 15 日停業，並提醒用戶提取資金。停運後，合約資金無法透過 L1 合約提取，只有個人錢包資金可回收。Lattice 五年來未能實現商業模式，最終決定關閉，但其 MUD 框架和 DUST 遊戲將繼續運行。

Pi Network於5月18日正式上線協議23，帶來智能合約、現實資產代幣化及AI App Studio，讓Pi從支付代幣轉型為可程式化區塊鏈基礎設施。協議涵蓋四大功能，與以太坊類似，有望吸引機構投資者。升級的節點里程碑預示市場信心，影響Pi的價格表現。