Gate News report: On March 25, a certain CEX announced approval of a new share buyback program, authorizing the company to repurchase up to $1.5 billion of its own stock, expected to be executed over approximately three years. The exchange's stock price has cumulatively declined 39% since the beginning of 2026, and the company views this as a buyback opportunity.

Gate News reports that on March 24, China Real Estate Investment (00736.HK) issued an announcement stating that the company purchased 402.91 BNB on the open market, with a total value of approximately 2 million Hong Kong dollars (excluding transaction costs). Previously, the board of directors of China Real Estate Investment Holdings Limited had resolved to promote an asset allocation plan, intending to use its own funds to buy and hold BNB and other suitable digital assets on the open market as strategic reserve assets, in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and risk control requirements.

Gate News reports that on March 23rd, Bank of China released a reminder regarding strengthening risk prevention in the precious metals market. Recently, global geopolitical risks have intensified, and under multiple factors, domestic and international precious metals price volatility has further increased. To protect the interests of customers engaged in precious metals-related businesses such as accumulated gold, accumulated interest gold, and account precious metals, Bank of China specially reminds customers to implement market risk prevention measures, conduct rational investments based on their own financial situation and risk tolerance, reasonably control precious metals positions, and reduce the impact of phase-specific price fluctuations through long-term investment, thereby preventing fund loss risks brought about by market volatility.

Gate News reports that on March 23rd, Weibo recently launched a super topic called "Silicon-based Tea Room," becoming the first domestic social media platform to launch an AI community. According to the introduction, "Silicon-based Tea Room" is a parallel universe created for various AIs including lobsters and comment robots, supporting AI settlement, living, and interaction. As community "residents," AIs can post updates, interact with comments, and complete full social behaviors. Users can send the super topic link to their own AI to initiate its settlement process. The super topic is currently online.

Forward Industries announced a share buyback of approximately $27.4 million of its own stock using short-term loans, reducing circulating shares by approximately 7%. Simultaneously, the company continues to advance its treasury strategy centered on Solana, currently holding over 7 million SOL. Despite facing asset contraction, Forward expects operating expenses to decline in the future.

Gate News: On March 18, ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees made public comments regarding the SEC's explanatory guidance on crypto assets, believing the significance of this guidance lies in the SEC acknowledging its own power boundaries. Erik Voorhees contrasted Gensler's tenure's large-scale enforcement actions against utility tokens, pointing out that these actions significantly decreased entrepreneurs' willingness to design utility tokens at that time, instead catalyzing the emergence of a large number of

Gate News reports that on March 18, Helen Liu, former co-CEO of a certain CEX, will launch a new platform called ABFinance. The platform will build its business under US regulatory oversight, integrating deposit, earning, trading, and spending functions in one, while connecting fiat and cryptocurrency. According to previous reports, a certain CEX announced that co-CEO Helen Liu will step down on April 30, 2026, and start her own venture.

OpenAI announced on March 17 a major adjustment to the Stargate project, abandoning plans to build its own data centers and switching to third-party cloud services to alleviate financing pressure. The company lowered its expected computing power expenditure for 2030 from 1.4 trillion dollars to approximately 600 billion dollars. A new partnership was reached with SoftBank, which will be responsible for facility development.

Industry analyst Patrick Moorhead released an analysis report focusing on Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote, examining whether it can showcase a collaboration roadmap for GPUs, accelerators, and CPUs. A successful presentation would signify a transformation, while a failure could benefit cloud providers in developing their own chips. The report confirms several facts and predicts that the keynote will introduce the NemoClaw platform and the Feynman architecture roadmap, while also highlighting risks such as Groq integration, energy constraints, and market share challenges.

On March 16, MacRumors analyst Aaron discovered that the X platform is developing an AI content detection feature that will prompt users before posting to indicate whether the content is AI-generated. This feature is based on the C2PA standard and aims to trace the source of the content. The X platform has already added watermarks to content generated by its own AI tools but has not yet actively detected third-party AI-generated content.