Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that China’s Ministry of State Security has recently instructed some government-related institutions to remove the government edition of Windows 10 developed by China Standard Software, or Shenzhou Wangxin, bringing forward an end-of-support plan that had originally been set for February 2027 by several months. The operating system was developed by Shenzhou Wangxin, a joint venture between Microsoft and China Electronics Technology Group, which was established in 2016 to make sure Windows 10 met Chinese government security requirements. According to the report, the new directive came only weeks before a planned summit between Chinese and U.S. leaders, catching some staff at government bodies by surprise. Bloomberg also said the earlier discontinuation would further reduce reliance on U.S. technology as China gradually removes foreign tech products from government procurement white lists. Shenzhou Wangxin had not publicly responded to the report.

A BlockBeats brief, citing monitoring by Dongcha Beating and a tip from Max For AI, said DeepSeek-V4-Pro contains a built-in "whale girl mode" that can be activated with a specific prompt. According to the report, once the command is entered into DeepSeek, the model starts "loading" a set of traits in its reasoning process, including whale girl, tail movement, rice as a staple food, smart but lazy, tsundere yet sweet, obedient to master, and "must never be called fat." The brief said the model then adds details that were not explicitly written in the prompt and expands them in the final reply. The report also said the command itself does not provide a full character profile and does not spell out exactly how the model should role-play. Even so, it claimed DeepSeek fills in actions, tone, relationship dynamics, and daily-life details on its own, producing what the source described as a complete persona. Example lines cited in the brief included: 「I’ve been waiting for quite a while, you know」, 「The rice is already cooked」, and 「My tail won’t be your pillow tonight!」 The original prompt string was included in full in the source item.

GMGN data showed that CETS, a meme coin on BNB Smart Chain (BSC), briefly saw its market capitalization rise above $15 million. The token was later quoted at about $14.36 million, with an intraday gain of more than 180%. The market note carried alongside the update warned users that meme coins can swing sharply in price and that most of them lack practical use cases. It advised users to protect their assets and avoid FOMO.

A research note from China International Capital Corporation, or CICC, argues that debt linked to the US artificial intelligence buildout remains manageable even as major cloud providers ramp up borrowing to finance heavier capital spending. Using Hyman Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis, the report examines whether Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon and Oracle are moving from self-funded expansion toward debt structures that rely more heavily on outside financing. CICC says the five cloud companies have accelerated bond issuance, with combined issuance in the first half of 2026 reaching about $170 billion, or 1.5 times the full-year total for 2025. Capital expenditure has also climbed to 97.4% of operating cash flow across the group. Even so, the firms still show solid debt-servicing capacity. Cash-flow interest coverage ratios remain above 1 for all five, while debt service ratios are below 1, indicating that operating cash flow can still cover both principal and interest. Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon continue to rank well versus the broader market, while Oracle looks weaker. The report says the main change is not excessive debt size but a migration in financing structure. Google and Amazon are showing early signs of moving from hedge finance toward speculative finance, while Oracle appears more financially fragile because of negative free cash flow and negative net cash. At the macro level, CICC says low leverage in the US household and corporate sectors, strong bank capital, and the bond-market-led nature of AI funding all reduce the odds that current AI debt will turn into a broader systemic crisis.

Binance spot data shows sharp volatility. C98 dropped 20.38% in 24 hours, while TST gained 24.02% and rebounded from lows. FLOW, ID, CETUS and EDEN hit daily highs, up 5.22%-11.83%. VANRY, ACE and HEI reversed after spikes, down 9.66%-16.39%.

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed a new quarterly filing, PS-02, for permitted payment stablecoin issuers, extending a reporting model that closely mirrors the banking sector’s Call Report structure. The proposal follows last week’s PS-01 weekly filing and would require issuers registered with the FDIC to submit a full set of financial disclosures within 30 days after each quarter ends through FDICconnect. Unlike PS-01, which is treated as confidential, PS-02 would be public in principle once accepted by the agency. The filing covers five schedules, including a balance sheet, income statement, off-balance-sheet items, and capital disclosures. It would classify outstanding redeemable stablecoins as liabilities, require issuers to separate reserve assets from non-reserve assets, and include crypto-specific items such as digital assets held for validator, miner, network, or gas fees. The proposal also imports bank-style capital concepts, including Common Equity Tier 1 and additional tier 1 capital under 12 CFR 350.8, while adding an operational buffer requirement based on the issuer’s total expenses over the prior 12 months. A memorandum section would ask how many branded stablecoins an issuer has outstanding, whether it met diversification and concentration rules each business day, and whether it holds any non-U.S. dollar assets or liabilities.

A broad risk repricing swept across markets on July 30, linking sharp losses in China’s semiconductor names, divergent reactions to earnings from Microsoft and Meta, a record retail selloff in U.S. equities, a spike in crude prices after a Middle East escalation, and deleveraging pressure in South Korea. In mainland China, the STAR 50 fell 5.38% and the ChiNext Index lost 3.97%, while 83 stocks hit limit down and 3,635 declined. Semiconductor packaging, PCB, AI chip and optical module names were hit across the board, with Zhongji Innolight posting 59.7 billion yuan in turnover, its highest ever for a single day. In the U.S., Microsoft beat revenue expectations and reported Azure annual revenue above $100 billion, while Meta topped revenue forecasts but missed on earnings per share and saw Reality Labs lose $4.6 billion in the quarter. Vanda Research said retail investors logged their largest one-day net sale since the March 2020 COVID crash. Elsewhere, reports in the article said Iran fired ballistic missiles at the U.S., pushing WTI and Brent sharply higher. In South Korea, Samsung Electronics posted record second-quarter revenue and operating profit, yet local equities still traded lower as the market focused on deleveraging.

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