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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," supporting high-quality technology enterprises to go public for financing, optimizing systems for mergers and acquisitions, equity incentives, and more for technology enterprises. The opinions also mentioned increasing the supply of financial innovation products, encouraging the development of angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment, and improving long-term capital support policies.

According to the official public account of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the smart agent identification and identity network has officially launched its trial operation and is open for access to the public.This network relies on trusted interconnection centers for smart agents in Beijing, Xiamen, and other locations, providing services such as identity registration, identity verification, addressing resolution, and capability discovery. It adopts a "Blockchain + DID + Super Smart Agent" technical route, compatible with various DID methods, and adapts to mainstream interconnection protocols such as A2A and ANP.

According to Bloomberg, Shanghai Birun Technology (Hong Kong stock code 6082) plans to raise approximately HKD 4.04 billion (USD 515 million) to support its artificial intelligence business. The company intends to place 130 million new shares at a price of HKD 31.08 per share, with the related arrangements based on documents from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.The placement price represents a discount of nearly 10% compared to Wednesday's closing price. Bloomberg reports that Birun is one of the GPU developers receiving support from Beijing, and this financing is part of a wave of fundraising for Chinese artificial intelligence companies.

According to reports from Lei Feng Network·Whale Rhino, AI hardware company Loke Technology NOOKLAB has completed several rounds of financing, with investors including Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and others, accumulating a total amount of several hundred million RMB, with a current valuation close to 100 million USD. The two rounds of financing were concentrated at the beginning of this year.Loke Technology's founder Raymond was born in 1996 and has previously worked at OPPO, OnePlus, Anker, and ByteDance, where he was responsible for the second-generation AI glasses in the Byte Ocean team. Its first product, Moonphase Flip, weighs 54 grams and attaches to the back of the phone via MagSafe magnetic suction. The company defines it as a low-disruption AI portable screen, primarily targeting overseas markets. The team currently consists of about 30 people.

According to a report by Reuters, reprinted by Nikkei Asia, the union representing employees at Micron Technology's Taoyuan plant in Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it has obtained authorization for a strike, with the focus of the dispute being the company's bonus plan. The union stated that 1,994 members voted in favor of the strike, accounting for 99% of the voters, while details such as the timing of the strike are still under discussion. Micron has approximately 15,000 employees in Taiwan, with independent unions in Taoyuan and Taichung, and the two unions together represent over 80% of Micron's employees in Taiwan. Micron Taiwan is the company's largest manufacturing base.Taiwan is a key production site for Micron's DRAM and high-bandwidth memory, with related chips being important components for AI servers. Mediation with the Taoyuan union did not reach an agreement in September, and the Taichung union is still in negotiations. In September, Micron announced that it would distribute bonuses for the fiscal year 2026 to over 60,000 employees worldwide, stating that the company had experienced an "extraordinary year," with Taiwanese employees receiving a cash bonus of 1 million New Taiwan Dollars, approximately 31,400 US dollars. The Taoyuan union stated that the plan did not address the request for a permanent profit-sharing mechanism and criticized Micron for announcing the bonuses without first reaching an agreement with the union during the mediation period.

According to the Financial Times, the European Union is considering implementing a universal tax measure targeting large enterprises to tax major American technology companies. This move aims to increase revenue for the EU while avoiding a strong backlash from the Trump administration.

According to Gate market data, Marvell Technology Group (MRVL.O) stock price rose by 10.4% as the company held an investor day event.

American AI fintech company Valon completed a $150 million Series D funding round with a valuation of $2.3 billion, supported by existing investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Ribbit Capital participating as a new investor.

According to Bloomberg, the AI company DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new round of financing, expected to reach at least 80 billion yuan (approximately 12 billion USD), significantly exceeding the company's previous financing target of about 50 billion yuan. Insiders revealed that Tencent Holdings and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) have committed to investing a substantial amount in this round of financing, with the related financing deal expected to be finalized soon.Due to the significant increase in market demand and investment interest following the release of DeepSeek's latest AI model, the scale of this financing has exceeded expectations, and the final amount may even approach 100 billion yuan. Previously, DeepSeek sought financing of about 50 billion yuan, while investor interest in its AI technology advancements has driven the financing scale further upward. DeepSeek has previously attracted attention from institutions such as Tencent and CATL, and is expanding its computing power infrastructure, AI model research and development, and team building through this financing.Bloomberg Línea reported that DeepSeek plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) in early 2027, and this large-scale financing will provide funding support for its development before going public. DeepSeek has gained global attention with its low-cost, high-performance AI models and is currently increasing its investment in next-generation AI technology and computing resources.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Products and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), OKX founder Star delivered a keynote speech, elaborating on OKX's strategic positioning.He stated that OKX started with spot trading and has since expanded into derivatives, Web3 wallets, payments, and tokenized stocks, "it is no longer accurate to view OKX merely as a cryptocurrency exchange."He proposed that OKX's long-term direction is to provide four types of services for the younger generation: supporting users in choosing between custodial accounts or self-custody wallets for fund holding; low-cost, instant payments; a unified entry for investing in various assets; and AI-driven wealth management tools.

According to Gate market data, some U.S. storage chip stocks fell before the market opened, with Seagate Technology down 11.4% and Western Digital down 7.1%.

Micron Technology Chairman and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra stated that, in addition to data centers, physical AI will be the next huge incremental market. Autonomous vehicles are the first major deployment of physical AI, with memory capacities for Level 4 and above autonomous vehicles typically exceeding 200GB and storage capacities reaching several TB. Micron believes that physical AI will become an important driver of storage demand.

Micron Technology (MU.O) Chief Financial Officer Mark Murphy stated during the earnings call that revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 will reach $61.5 billion, with earnings per share of $38.15, continuing to rise quarter-over-quarter, and clearly pointed out that this quarter will be the low point for gross margin for the entire fiscal year 2027, after which gross margins are expected to gradually recover in subsequent quarters.Micron has currently signed 26 long-term agreements, locking in approximately $150 billion in long-term orders. The supply and demand in the storage market for 2027 and 2028 will be tighter than in 2026, and "there is no end in sight for the restoration of supply and demand balance."Micron Technology (MU.O) expects capital expenditures for the first half of fiscal year 2027 to be around $25 billion, with higher spending in the second half, and most of the incremental spending will be for new wafer fabrication plants (construction expenditures) rather than purely for equipment procurement. Micron Technology CFO Mark Murphy explained that this is entirely because long-term contracts provide sufficient demand visibility, and new greenfield factories require a very long lead time.Additionally, Micron Technology Chief Financial Officer Mark Murphy also mentioned during the earnings call that in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, Micron Technology generated an impressive $44 billion in operating cash flow and $33.2 billion in free cash flow.As time goes on, we expect to return 100% of excess cash to shareholders. We plan to begin increasing capital returns starting December 9, 2026 (the second anniversary of our signing of the final agreement for the CHIPS Act), primarily through stock buybacks.

Micron Technology expects its adjusted revenue for Q1 of the next fiscal year to be between 60 billion and 63 billion dollars, higher than the market expectation of 56.77 billion dollars.

Micron Technology will announce its earnings report after the US stock market closes.

Jacobs Engineering Consulting will deploy data center digital twin technology for the NVIDIA Research Center.