ChainCatcher reported that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are scheduled to speak next week at a G20 technology conference in North Carolina. The event is being organized by Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, together with U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick. According to the report, the conference is part of a warm-up effort ahead of the G20 summit in December. The brief update did not disclose further details about the agenda or the exact speaking schedule.

SemiAnalysis said OpenAI’s in-house inference chip, Jalapeño, delivered higher token throughput per megawatt than Nvidia’s Blackwell in lab testing, and in some comparisons even came in ahead of the next-generation Rubin lineup. The report says the chip went from design to tape-out in about 16 months after development began in mid-2024, with OpenAI and Broadcom building the first-generation ASIC from scratch. According to the published results, SemiAnalysis ran the benchmarks with the InferenceX suite and found Jalapeño leading on token throughput per megawatt without using multi-token prediction, while the other chips in the chart had MTP enabled. The report lists more than 700 tokens per second per user on DeepSeek R1 at concurrency 1, about 1,400 tokens per second per user on Kimi-K2.5 and GPT-OSS, and GSM8k scores in line with Nvidia chips. The piece argues that Rubin, not Blackwell, is the more relevant comparison because both Jalapeño and Rubin use HBM4. It also says OpenAI is optimizing for performance per watt because data center power, rather than budget or floor space, is the current constraint. The architecture described in the report allows up to 2,048 Jalapeño XPUs within a single scale-out network, with OpenAI’s next target set at 100MW.

A Foresight article has mapped out four Hong Kong government-backed programs that tech startups may use to secure funding, R&D hiring support, and talent visas. The list covers Cyberport’s 24-month incubation program, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) incubation program, the Research Talent Hub (RTH), and the Technology Talent Admission Scheme (TechTAS). Together, the programs span direct cash grants, market-expansion subsidies, rent support, monthly salary subsidies for STEM researchers, and immigration pathways for overseas and mainland tech hires. According to the article, Cyberport’s program is positioned for AI, Web3, and software startups, while HKSTP’s incubation track is aimed at deeper-tech companies with stronger research capacity. RTH focuses on subsidizing STEM research talent, and TechTAS is presented as a hiring and visa route rather than a funding scheme. The article also breaks down each program’s eligibility rules, application timelines, strengths, and drawbacks, including milestone-based disbursement, SAFE requirements in some cases, and long approval timelines for talent subsidies. The piece concludes with a practical ranking: Cyberport first for most AI, Web3, and software teams, RTH as an early application for qualified firms, HKSTP for research-heavy hard-tech startups, and TechTAS once international hiring becomes a priority.

The White House OSTP said Chinese AI firms are conducting industrial-scale distillation attacks on leading U.S. model providers and outlined a four-part response focused on intelligence sharing, defense coordination, stronger safeguards, and potential penalties.

A new White House executive order accelerates the U.S. federal transition to post-quantum cryptography to December 2031, with NIST pilot migrations due by 2027. Analysts warn that roughly 7 million BTC could be at risk from future quantum attacks.

SWIFT has officially completed its transition to the ISO 20022 MX format, enhancing precision and automation in global payments. The shift drives interest in compatible DLT networks like Ripple and Stellar. XLM rose 2.77% and XRP added 0.93%.

This article explores the Standard Tokenization Protocol (STPT) and its Verse Network, which uses PoS consensus to provide censorship-resistant and front-running-proof DAO governance. The current circulating supply stands at 1.94 billion, with an all-time high of $0.20.

STP's Verse Network introduces PoS-based DAO governance with censorship and front-running resistance. STPT trades at $0.098 (down 51% from ATH) with 1.94B tokens in circulation. Despite price weakness, its modular DAO tools attract developers; market eyes potential rebound as DAO adoption grows.