Odaily reported that the Financial Times, citing two sources familiar with the matter, said regulators are preparing to lift exit restrictions on Manus founder and CEO Xiao Hong and others. Xiao Hong has told employees he plans to return to Singapore soon. Xiao Hong and Manus co-founder and chief scientist Ji Yichao were asked to remain in mainland China in March this year, when regulators were investigating whether Meta's acquisition of Manus violated relevant regulations. In April, regulators asked Meta to scrap the approximately $2 billion acquisition.

Manus has officially confirmed this week that it will resume independent operations. The separation plan is also largely taking shape. Original shareholders including Tencent, ZhenFund, and HSG will participate in the buyback, with Tencent also acquiring most of Benchmark's shares to become Manus's largest single shareholder, though its stake will not exceed 50%. Manus will not be merged into Tencent and will continue to operate independently in Singapore. The final plan still requires regulatory approval. Based on the current plan, what regulators are asking to be dismantled is Meta's acquisition relationship with Manus, and there is no requirement for Manus to move its business back to China.

Odaily News Alibaba Group's open-source large model family Qwen has surpassed 3 billion cumulative global downloads over the past six months, exceeding competitors including Meta and Alphabet to become the most-downloaded open-source AI model to date. Alibaba stated that the Qwen series has open-sourced over 460 models, with more than 300,000 derivative models in the ecosystem. According to Hugging Face's "State of Open Models" report, Google models recorded approximately 418 million downloads in 2026, while Meta saw around 227 million. The report noted that Qwen has become one of the "default workflows" for developers when fine-tuning and deploying models, positioning Alibaba as a key foundation in the open AI ecosystem. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News This week, in a rare scene, Jensen Huang joined forces with six Wall Street asset management giants to endorse "establishing AI computing power as an independent asset class." Analysts believe this is Huang putting into practice his proposed "token economics," and it also signals that the AI boom is extending from a technology race to a capital race. However, the latest plan has also raised investor concerns about "circular financing" and debt risks. Facing skepticism, Huang personally stepped forward again to reassure the market. He stated that Nvidia may "provide residual value support mechanisms of up to 25% for individual investment projects" and will prudently evaluate each project. Market sentiment has since eased somewhat. (CCTV Finance)

Odaily News: Darkfost posted on X platform that Bitcoin's apparent demand has improved significantly but remains negative at -32,000 BTC. When Bitcoin entered its latest consolidation range in early June, apparent demand was estimated at -272,000 BTC. Darkfost noted that similar patterns occurred in February and May 2026, followed by weakening demand again. This may be related to declining average mining output, as hash rate has pulled back and production has subsequently decreased.

Odaily News: Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said in an interview with Iranian media today (August 15) that Iran has no intention to extend the ceasefire agreement with the United States and has not yet decided whether to resume negotiations with Washington. Araghchi also stated that Qatar and Pakistan, as mediators, are working on exchanging information and maintaining contact with Iran, but this does not mean that Iran and the U.S. are currently in negotiations. Previously, the U.S. and Iran released the official text of a memorandum of understanding on June 17. According to the document, both sides committed to negotiating and reaching a final agreement within 60 days. (CCTV International News)

Odaily News: According to Bitget's official announcement, the platform has officially launched the Stock+ US stock margin trading service. Users can access this feature by simply opening a Bitget Stock+ account. The initial offering supports margin trading for over 3,800 targets and short selling for over 2,300 targets (currently only supporting short selling of ETBs), with leverage of up to 3x. Among these, the annual interest rate for margin trading is 5%; during the promotional period, the annual interest rate for short selling is as low as 0%.

The launch of this product further enriches the US stock trading scenarios available under Stock+. Users can engage in margin trading by using securities or assets in their accounts as collateral to borrow funds to purchase securities; they can also borrow securities to sell short, and later buy them back to return after the stock price declines, thereby meeting the needs of two-way trading (long and short) and improving capital efficiency.

Odaily News - CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated on platform X that whale inflows of XRP on Binance have recently seen a notable decline, with the 3-month moving average dropping to its lowest level since 2021.

Data shows that current whale inflows of XRP into Binance stand at approximately $61 million, a significant decrease from previous levels. In comparison, this metric reached $456 million in January 2025 and $355 million in October 2025, with current levels roughly 6 to 8 times lower than before.

Although XRP is still striving to hold the key $1 price level in the near term, the inflow behavior of whales who previously preferred conducting large transactions through Binance is diminishing. However, XRP's net inflow remains positive at approximately $18.8 million, indicating that incoming funds still temporarily hold the upper hand.

Darkfost noted that this trend mirrors the broader crypto market, with trading volume and capital inflows declining overall, potentially reflecting that selling pressure is subsiding, though new market demand has yet to show a clear recovery. The cooling of whale trading activity is a positive signal for XRP, but it is still insufficient to confirm a market reversal, and it remains too early to determine whether XRP is entering a new upward cycle.

According to monitoring by PPP Prediction Market Tool, in the Polymarket event "What score will OpenAI's Astra model achieve on its Arena.ai debut?", the probability of scoring at least 1490 currently stands at 32%, down 31% in 24 hours. The probability of scoring at least 140 is currently 32%, down 17% in 24 hours.

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Odaily News: Serenity issued a statement responding to recent rumors of being "wiped out," calling such claims exaggerated. The account screenshot shared by Serenity shows that despite the significant decline in the AI sector in July, its year-to-date total return still stands at 2,411.84%.

Serenity had previously generated substantial returns through concentrated bets on AI and related infrastructure stocks. Recently, however, the company has drawn market attention due to the AI sector correction and certain high-leverage positions.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is conducting an internal review of "mention markets" on prediction platforms. Such markets allow traders to predict whether specific words will appear in speeches, company earnings calls, or television shows.

According to sources, the CFTC notified Kalshi of the review several weeks ago, and Kalshi has since removed sports-related mention markets from its platform. It remains unclear whether the review targets only sports-related contracts or covers all types of mention markets. (CNBC)

Odaily News, GMGN data shows that the BSC Meme coin Niu Lai's market cap briefly rose above $3.4 million, now reporting approximately $3.2 million, with an intraday surge of over 76 times.

Odaily reminds users that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and most lack real-world use cases. Please protect your assets and avoid FOMO.