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According to The Information, cloud computing startup Runpod announced the completion of a $100 million financing round and stated that it has rejected multiple acquisition offers, with specific investor information not yet disclosed.The company focuses on providing GPU computing power rental services for developers, supporting the deployment of open-source models and AI applications. Currently, this sector generally relies on NVIDIA GPU servers for computing resources. As AI applications expand, the market demand for low-cost, highly flexible computing infrastructure continues to rise, driving up the valuations and financing enthusiasm for cloud service providers like Runpod.

Amazon announced plans to invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud computing infrastructure in India. Combined with its previously announced $35 billion investment plan in 2025, Amazon's total investment in India will reach $48 billion from 2026 to 2030.It is reported that the new funding will focus on expanding the capacity of AWS data centers located in Mumbai and Hyderabad, providing customized AI chips, AI hosting services, and reliable cloud technology support for local startups, enterprises, and government agencies. In addition, Amazon plans to add more than 20 operational centers and over 100 distribution stations across India this year to deepen its e-commerce and logistics business layout. It is expected that by 2030, Amazon's cumulative total investment in India will exceed $88 billion.

According to The Block, the U.S. Department of Justice has seized a cloud computing account used by Huione Group, which is accused of laundering billions of dollars in cryptocurrency scam proceeds. Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva stated that the account constituted technical support, enabling the transfer and concealment of scam funds through Southeast Asian scam centers. This action is part of "Operation Choke Point," under which the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network had previously identified Huione Group as a primary money laundering concern.The statement claims that Huione's subsidiaries are suspected of assisting criminals in transferring funds from investment scams, cyber theft, and other illegal blockchain activities, ultimately injecting them into the legitimate banking system, with a significant amount of theft reportedly linked to North Korea. Huione's "Huione Guarantee" had previously posted advertisements for stolen credit cards, identity information, malware profits, and human trafficking services on Telegram channels. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic pointed out that Huione launched the stablecoin USDH under financial pressure last year and developed a proprietary product line that includes a decentralized exchange, wallets, and "Huione Chain" (Xone).

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Team Liquid vs. Cloud9 - LCS Playoffs," the "Total Kills Over/Under 27.5 in Game 2?" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 52.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 37.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Sources say that Nvidia has begun marketing its first standalone Central Processing Unit (CPU) product, Vera, to Chinese customers. This chip is designed for Agentic AI systems and has now entered mass production, marking Nvidia's attempt to further expand its presence in the Chinese market through CPU products.Insiders indicate that some Chinese customers have shown interest in Vera. One large Chinese cloud computing company plans to purchase over 300 servers equipped with dual Vera CPUs for testing and will decide whether to scale up purchases after the testing is completed.Vera is built on the Arm Holdings architecture and is Nvidia's first standalone CPU product. Nvidia previously stated that Vera's performance in AI agent-related computing tasks can reach 1.8 times that of competing products, and it is expected that this product will contribute approximately $20 billion in revenue before the end of the current fiscal year (by the end of January next year).Reports point out that as the focus of the AI industry gradually shifts from model training to inference computing, CPUs and custom chips are gaining more attention. Vera also puts Nvidia in direct competition with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which have long dominated the server CPU market.Insiders have noted that due to strict restrictions imposed by the U.S. on high-end GPU exports, CPUs face relatively fewer regulatory hurdles in the Chinese market compared to GPU products. Currently, some Chinese customers plan to first deploy Vera chips in overseas data centers for testing. Meanwhile, software ecosystem compatibility and the existing domestic AI chip deployment system may still affect the subsequent large-scale adoption of Vera.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market event "LoL: Cloud9 vs LYON - LCS Playoffs" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 95% (a fluctuation of 45%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

SlowMist has issued a security alert, detecting an active npm supply chain attack targeting @redhat-cloud-services related packages. Currently, over 31 packages have been confirmed affected, with a weekly download volume of approximately 116,000 times, and stolen credentials exist in more than 300 GitHub repositories. This attack method is highly similar to the previous "Shai-Hulud" npm attack, including credential theft, creation of malicious repositories, and automated secret leakage. New suspicious repositories continue to emerge, indicating that the attack is still ongoing, and developers are still being continuously infected.Potential harms include: theft of GitHub/npm tokens, leakage of AWS/GCP/Azure cloud credentials, collection of SSH keys and Kubernetes secrets, leakage of local environment and wallet data, creation of malicious repositories and persistence operations, and even potentially destructive actions after tokens are revoked. It is recommended to immediately remove or downgrade affected @redhat-cloud-services package versions, conduct a comprehensive audit of CI/CD workflows and dependency installations, rotate all GitHub, npm, cloud service, SSH, and wallet-related keys, retain logs, and rebuild exposed developer machines or Runners from clean images while maintaining a high level of vigilance.

The Huobi HTX VIP private class "AI + Trading from Theory to Practice" was held in Shanghai, where Cloud, the Chief Analyst of HTX Research, shared "New Trading Opportunities in the AI Era."He believes that AI is a huge gold mine waiting to be explored, and trading is the fastest and most efficient way to monetize AI. Ordinary traders face three major challenges: emotional interference, limited energy, and cognitive biases, which form the "impossible triangle" of trading. AI is the key to breaking this dilemma. AI can achieve objective and emotionless decision-making, large-scale parallel monitoring, surpass human pattern recognition capabilities, and multi-modal signal fusion, fundamentally reshaping trading decision logic.

According to Bloomberg, the Dutch government has blocked the proposed acquisition of Dutch cloud service provider Solvinity Group BV by the American company Kyndryl, citing security concerns. Dutch Minister of Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts stated in a letter to Parliament on Tuesday, "The proposed acquisition of Solvinity may pose a risk to the public interest." She also announced a "complete ban" on the transaction, which was already close to completion.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the exchange Kraken redeemed 50,600 ETH (107 million USD) from the restaking project EigenCloud. The total TVL of the restaking sector has dropped from 31 billion USD in August last year to 11 billion USD, and the TVL of the leading EigenCloud (formerly Eigenlayer) has decreased from 22 billion USD to 5.5 billion USD.

a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet pointed out that the financial industry is undergoing a "digital migration" similar to the era of cloud computing, with blockchain becoming the core infrastructure driving this transformation. Wall Street's adoption of blockchain is not driven by the idea of "decentralization," but rather by the practical needs for counterparty risk management, settlement efficiency, and fair ordering mechanisms.The so-called "digital assets" essentially represent the process of migrating the underlying architecture of the financial system onto the blockchain, similar to the transition of enterprise IT systems from on-premises deployment to cloud services. When financial assets operate on programmable shared infrastructure, it brings the core advantage of "composability," allowing assets to be freely combined and expanded like software, significantly reducing development costs and enhancing the overall innovation efficiency of the financial system. This trend will drive traditional finance from a "closed reconciliation system" to an "on-chain coordination network," and blockchain technology will gradually become a standard component of the financial infrastructure layer in this process.

LayerZero Labs released a report on the KelpDAO attack incident, confirming that the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain bridge built on its cross-chain communication protocol was attacked, resulting in the theft of approximately 116,500 rsETH (about $292 million). Several security agencies, including Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and independent researchers, attributed the attack to the North Korean-related hacker group TraderTraitor (UNC4899).The report indicates that the attack began on March 6, 2026, when the attackers used social engineering techniques to compromise a LayerZero developer account, obtain session keys, and infiltrate the RPC cloud environment, further contaminating internal RPC node data and manipulating return results to deceive monitoring systems and the decentralized verification network (DVN).LayerZero Labs officially announced that it will adjust its security strategy, including no longer allowing its DVN to act as the sole signer in a single validation configuration, while also rebuilding the affected cloud infrastructure and introducing short-term credentials, instant permission upgrades, and multi-party approval mechanisms to enhance security.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to jointly create an artificial intelligence cloud company, centered around Google's proprietary chips, directly competing with rivals like CoreWeave. Blackstone will invest $5 billion in equity capital and hold a majority stake in the company. The deal was officially announced on Monday local time, and the name of the new company has not yet been disclosed.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "LoL: Cloud9 vs FlyQuest (BO3) - LCS Regular Season," the "both teams kill a dragon" sub-market's "yes" option win rate has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Globenewswire, NASDAQ-listed company IREN announced its latest financial report and disclosed that it has signed an AI cloud contract with NVIDIA worth $3.4 billion. IREN will deploy air-cooled Blackwell GPU infrastructure for NVIDIA, with a contract duration of 5 years.The financial report also showed that IREN is accelerating its transition from Bitcoin mining to AI cloud business, with the construction of data centers related to the $9.7 billion contract with Microsoft progressing. As of April 30, IREN held $2.6 billion in cash, and its revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 was $144.8 million, down from $184.7 million in the previous quarter, with a net loss of $247.8 million impacted by non-cash impairment related to the elimination of mining machines.

According to a report by Reuters, the American cybersecurity service company Cloudflare announced it will lay off about 20%, or more than 1,100 employees, to reorganize operations around the application of AI tools. CEO Matthew Prince stated that the company is redesigning each team and function to adapt to the era of agent-based AI.Cloudflare stated that its own AI usage has increased more than sixfold over the past three months, and this layoff is a redesign of internal processes and positions, rather than due to employee performance or short-term cost pressures. Cloudflare expects second-quarter revenue to be around $664 million to $665 million, slightly below the analyst expectation of $665.3 million.

According to CNBC, Google's stock price surged significantly after hours, briefly surpassing Nvidia's market value. The driving factor was a report stating that Anthropic has committed to paying $20 billion to Google Cloud over five years. If the deal is true, Anthropic will contribute over 40% of Google's future contract cloud revenue.

Google Cloud and the Solana Foundation have jointly launched a payment system for AI agents called Pay.sh, which supports on-demand payment of API call fees on the Solana chain using stablecoins. This system is based on the x402 protocol incubated by Coinbase, allowing AI agents to discover, invoke, and pay for API resources without the need to register an account or subscribe to services, achieving a "pay-as-you-go" micropayment model.It is reported that AI agents can bind a Solana wallet as an identity identifier and automatically complete payments by recharging their balance with stablecoins or credit cards when invoking cloud services such as data analysis and model inference. Pay.sh operates on top of Google Cloud and connects backend services through an API proxy layer, such as large model calls and container applications. In addition, the system is compatible with the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and connects to over 50 API service providers, covering scenarios such as communication, e-commerce, and on-chain data. Officials state that this model helps promote the development of the "Agentic Economy," enabling AI agents to autonomously consume and invoke internet services.