According to Huoxun Finance, the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Center Task Force announced a series of coordinated enforcement actions against Southeast Asian criminal organizations: Indicting two Chinese managers, Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wenjie, who worked at the Shunda Fraud Center in Myanmar, for allegedly forcing trafficked laborers into cryptocurrency investment scams; both have been arrested in Thailand. A Telegram channel with over 6,000 followers was shut down; this channel was used to lure people to Cambodian fraud centers for forced labor. Simultaneously, 503 fraudulent domain names masquerading as legitimate investment platforms were seized. Financially, the task force has frozen over $701 million in cryptocurrencies suspected of being related to fraud and money laundering, and notified 8,935 victims through Operation Level Up, estimating potential losses of approximately $563 million. Furthermore, the U.S. State Department announced a reward of up to $10 million for information related to the Taichang Fraud Center in Myanmar; the Treasury Department is simultaneously imposing sanctions on relevant individuals and entities in Cambodia. According to FBI data, losses from cryptocurrency investment fraud in the U.S. have risen to $7.2 billion by 2025, a 24% increase from 2024.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that DeepSeek has released a preview version of its V4 series of open-source models, licensed under the MIT license. Weights are already available for Hugging Face and ModelScope. The series includes two MoE models: V4-Pro with approximately 1.6 trillion parameters and 49 billion parameters activated per token, and V4-Flash with 284 billion parameters and 13 billion activated parameters. Both support contexts of up to 1 million tokens. The official statement indicates that compared to version V3.2, memory usage and computational overhead are significantly reduced in long text inference.

According to Huoxun Finance, U.S. stocks fell in volatile trading on Thursday as hopes for a swift end to the conflict with Iran faded. Analyst Jay Hatfield said investors are struggling to digest mixed earnings reports, and concerns have resurfaced about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on the software industry. He pointed out that the market had already risen sharply, and some investors were looking to reduce their positions; using war as a pretext is not a bad thing.

According to Huoxun Finance, Metaplanet, a Japanese Bitcoin treasury company, announced the issuance of 8 billion yen worth of zero-coupon ordinary bonds to further purchase Bitcoin.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet announced the issuance of 8 billion yen worth of zero-coupon ordinary bonds to further purchase Bitcoin.