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Offshore RMB is at 6.8258, with an intraday range of 6.8213-6.8344
The trend of the RMB this year is completely different from the past few years.
The main theme from 2022 to 2024 is "Dollar strong + China weak = RMB depreciation". Now the main theme has changed—dollar peaks and falls back + China's economy stabilizes + capital flows back to emerging markets.
The 6.8 level is a key node.
Looking downward (RMB continues to appreciate), the driving forces come from: dollar weakening, China's export data consistently exceeding expectations, and northbound capital inflows.
Looking upward

Friends are long-term investors in U.S. stocks, and this year they increased their international allocation to 25-30%.
He says U.S. stock valuations are too high, the dollar has peaked, and some sectors in Europe and Asia have better growth prospects.
Since the beginning of the year, the trend of funds flowing out of U.S. stocks and into international markets has become very clear.
The market share of U.S. stocks in the global stock market has started to decline from its high point in 2024.
The MSCI EAFE (developed markets excluding the U.S.) has begun to outperform the S&P this year.

A battery recycling company that processed $1.1 billion has filed for bankruptcy.
Ascend Elements, one of the largest lithium battery recycling companies in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 9. Liabilities exceed $192 million.
Founded in 2015, with more than $1.1 billion in funding (equity + government grants), it has a plant in Georgia that specializes in dismantling old batteries and reprocessing them into cathode materials.
Because
The Trump administration canceled a $316 million government grant. This funding was originally earmarked to build a

Not just the United States
The Bank of Canada is also discussing AI cybersecurity risks with banks.
In the U.S., Bessent and Powell convened CEOs of major Wall Street firms. Almost simultaneously, the Bank of Canada held discussions with its leading banks about AI threats.
When these two signals are combined, it indicates
Global central banks are evaluating the same risk: the speed at which an AI model can discover zero-day vulnerabilities has surpassed the patching speed of human security teams.
Mythos has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities within weeks, affecting all

Anthropic says Mythos is too powerful to be made public. As a result, small models can also reproduce most of the achievements.
A security company called Aisle conducted an experiment: using small open-source models to reproduce the vulnerability discoveries publicly demonstrated in Mythos.
Anthropic's main reason for not releasing Mythos is "too dangerous, hackers could cause disasters if they get it." But if small models can do similar things, then the strategy of "not releasing" itself becomes untenable.
Aisle's exact words: models are just engines; the real attack/defense capabilitie

Gemma 4 is finally stable on llama.cpp
On April 2nd, Google released Gemma 4, and on the first day, llama.cpp support was available but with many bugs. Now all issues are fixed
E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense
31B ranks third in Arena AI leaderboard, 26B ranks sixth
The strongest tier of open-source models
Use --chat-template-file to load interleaved templates
It is recommended to enable --cache-ram 2048
Context length depends on VRAM
Last year, the best local model was Llama 3.1 70B quantized version, barely usable
Now, Gemma 4 31B Q5 runs smoothly on Mac Studio, approaching GPT

Stop arguing. The Jiangsu Alliance has been formed.
Only trusted acquaintances are being invited in.
"Jiangsu is a concept."

A startup company aims to break China's rare earth monopoly with a plasma reactor.
Radify Metals has raised less than $3 million, using plasma to process metal oxides to produce pure metals, with water vapor as the only waste.
Traditional rare earth processing requires大量化学试剂，污染严重，产线巨大。中国控制了全球70%以上的稀土加工产能，这是地缘政治里最硬的卡脖子
Radify's method: heat hydrogen to a plasma state, blow in metal oxide powder, strip away oxygen, and pure metal comes out the other end. The reactor is small in size and can be deployed in a distributed manner.
Currently working on samarium and dysprosium—two key rare ear

A 23-year-old German kid raised $15 million in seed funding with a valuation of $200k.
He integrated an AI agent into iMessage.
The logic behind Poke is actually very simple — you don’t need to download any app, learn any new interface, just send a message in iMessage, and the AI will do the work for you. Reply to emails, pay bills, reschedule meetings, book flights.
Led by General Catalyst, with investments from Stripe, Dropbox, and OpenAI team members.
6,000 beta users within Silicon Valley VC circles, sending 200k messages per month.
A truly useful AI product doesn’t need to educa

In the future, please ask the local model to handle these token-consuming tasks.
Especially for something like autoresearch—only through multiple-iteration loops can it produce results.
1. As long as you have a spec and a clear goal
2. A complete structural framework + backtesting
Then you can use qwen 3.5 locally, running it 24/7 endlessly to churn out a strategy that satisfies me—feel what “capitalist exploitation” really means.