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Guided by the Financial Supervisory Commission and convened by CTBC Financial Holding, 16 leading financial holding companies and banks in Taiwan jointly launched the "Financial Large Language Model FinLLM" project, building localized financial AI based on the Data Development Department's sovereign AI corpus.
(Background: The Taiwanese government is actively deploying "sovereign AI," with National Science and Technology Council Chair Wu Cheng-wen stating: "Forming a National Artificial Intelligence Strategic Special Committee")
(Additional background: Taiwan's 11 leading insurance companies have formed the "Claims Alliance Blockchain"! Multiple insurers can file claims for a single policy, making the application process easier)
The 16 financial holdings, 2 state-owned banks, along with the Financial Training Institute, Institute for Information Industry, and NCC Financial Technology Research Center, are working together to achieve one goal: Taiwan must have its own financial large language model.
This project is called FinLLM, initiated by the Financial Technology Industry Alliance guided by the Financial Supervisory Commission, with CTBC Financial Holding serving as the convener. Today (23rd), at the Financial Technology

Bloomberg reports that Nokia’s adjusted operating profit in the first quarter of 2026 reached €281 million, exceeding analysts’ expectations of €244 million by about 15%. Previously trapped in the mire of mobile network equipment, the Finnish veteran company is trying to drive a generational transition through its AI data center connectivity business.
(Background: Will Nokia launch a Web3 phone? It has applied for encrypted patents for digital assets, showing optimism about blockchain development.)
(Additional background: Nvidia’s earnings report hits tonight! On Polymarket, the probability of beating expectations is as high as 90%, and Hyperliquid’s whale is using 10x leverage to go long NVDA.)
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From towers to data centers
What did Nvidia’s $1 billion buy?
Ericsson’s warning, Nokia’s opportunity
Nokia released the first

Japan's Communications Ministry research team is considering requiring social media platforms to enable age filtering by default, with legislation or new standards possibly being established as early as the end of this year, adding the country to the regulatory ranks alongside Australia, the UK, Indonesia, and others.
(Background summary: Trump's Truth Social and Musk's X may merge! Strategic analysis of advantages and disadvantages)
(Additional background: What is a16z's New Media? The ongoing power shift of new media)
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Legislation driven by mental health concerns
Age threshold remains undecided, experts cautious about "one-size-fits-all" approach
Limited demonstration effect of Australia's ban, countries continue to follow suit
Japan's government is considering implementing age-based restrictions on social media platforms, joining the global trend of tightening digital regulation to protect minors. Bloomberg reports that the Communications Ministry research team released relevant documents this week, discussing the possibility of...

Alibaba’s Qwen (Qwen) series latest flagship Qwen3.6-27B was officially open-sourced on the evening of April 22, 2026. This 27B dense model scored 59.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, beating Claude 4.5 Opus, and with less than 1/14 of the parameters, achieved 77.2 on SWE-bench Verified, surpassing the previous generation 397B MoE flagship’s 76.2. The full model is 55.6 GB, and with Q4_K_M quantization compressed to 16.8 GB, it can run on consumer-grade hardware, enabling local agent frameworks such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent to, for the first time, have a truly usable local brain.
(Background: being

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invested in the biometric company World, which announced that it has reached partnerships with both Zoom and Tinder at the same time, requiring users to complete “real-person verification” with an iris scanning device to obtain a digital identity in exchange for the use of an eye membrane.
(Background: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s residence was hit with a petrol bomb! Posted late at night, reflecting: AGI is like “The Lord of the Rings,” and AI power must be democratized.)
(Additional context: Sam Altman predicts that in 2030, AGI will replace 40% of the global workforce.)
Aiming to build the digital identity and financial network World (its former name is Worldcoin), it has recently announced collaborations with video conferencing platform Zoom and Tinder, the world’s largest dating app.
The core of the partnership is: you must allow

Elon Musk stated in the Q1 financial report that Terafab was born out of logic and memory shortages, with the research facility located at Giga Texas, with a budget of about $3 billion, using Intel 14A, producing several thousand chips per month. The core includes masks, logic, memory, and packaging all in one building, with the scaling phase taken over by SpaceX. Intel has joined, and Tesla is also recruiting Taiwanese talent, claiming that Terafab will always be TSMC's largest customer and not a competitor. The first phase is scheduled to start production in 2027, mass production in 2028, and completion by 2030, with total costs possibly reaching several trillion dollars.

Google Cloud Next 2026 announced Gemini's three major features in Maps and Earth: Grounded Map Imagery (generating real-world scene images from text prompts in Street View), Aerial and Satellite Imagery Insights (importing images into BigQuery for automatic analysis, reducing processing time from weeks to minutes), and Earth AI Image Models (identifying bridges, roads, power lines, and opening experimental access). This move treats geolocation data as the foundational AI perception of the world, transforming maps from navigation tools into an enterprise AI perception layer.

Bloomberg reports that SoftBank is using its holdings in OpenAI as collateral to seek a two-year margin loan of $10 billion, with an initial interest rate of approximately 7.88%. Even though S&P has downgraded the credit outlook to negative and borrowing costs have risen, SoftBank continues to increase its investment in OpenAI. This move demonstrates the strategy of using debt to buy into the future, converting paper wealth into cash before OpenAI goes public and reinvesting it into the AI landscape.

Bloomberg said that at an employee meeting, Cook admitted that replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps in 2012 was his first major mistake during his tenure, and that it led to the dismissal of the software chief; what he is most proud of are the health features of the Apple Watch. Since taking over in 2011, the market value has grown from about $350 billion to more than $4 trillion. Although bets such as AirPower and autonomous driving failed to materialize, they did not evolve into a serious crisis. Ternus was confirmed as the successor, and Cook plans to move to the role of executive director and stay with the company.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Paparo confirmed at a Senate hearing that the U.S. is operating a Bitcoin node for cybersecurity testing; he highly praised the proof-of-work mechanism, believing it can be used for power projection and increasing attack costs. The U.S. is integrating Bitcoin from financial assets into national security strategy, using it as a new weapon in intelligence gathering, cyber defense, and decentralized technology in geopolitical competition. This is the first time the U.S. military publicly defined Bitcoin as a national security-related asset in Congress.

Tron founder Justin Sun formally files a lawsuit against WLFI, which is funded by the Trump family, accusing its smart contracts of concealing backdoors, freezing tokens, and depriving governance votes, involving $75 million. Eric Trump fires back, mocking the case as absurd as “spending $6 million to glue bananas to the wall.” WLFI says the freezing is to protect users and the project—see you in court.

Pornhub announced that starting immediately, the stablecoin used for creator revenue settlements has been switched from USDT to USDC issued by Circle to enhance the reliability and compliance of settlements. USDC offers monthly audits and transparency regarding assets held in custody by regulated institutions, giving it an advantage over USDT in terms of regulatory pressure and transparency. This move shows that the adult industry is transitioning in a positive direction toward compliance and financial friendliness.

TSMC announces salary adjustments for 2026: the general increase is 3–5%. For senior employees at grade 33–34 and above (S+), they can receive 7–9%. In 2025, the total bonus payout was 206.1 billion yuan; the per-capita amount was 2.64 million yuan; the average annual salary was 4.09 million yuan, representing a 22.95% year-over-year increase. Including benefits, the figure is about 4.425 million yuan. In addition, it plans to recruit about 8,000 new hires, with starting salaries for master’s degree holders of about 2.2 million yuan. This shows that it is retaining talent through core technologies such as 2nm and CoWoS, while also facing pressure from external headhunting.

SpaceX's IPO application warns investors that the orbital AI project is still in its early stages, technically complex, and unproven, and may not be commercially viable. The space data center will also be affected by space environment risks. This contrasts with Musk's optimistic statement at the WEF, calling it the only expansion path. Technical challenges include cooling, network latency, and maintenance costs; the application also reveals an estimated valuation of about $1.75 trillion and a fundraising scale of $75 billion. Investors need to distinguish between vision and reality.

Beijing Procuratorial Authorities Announce 2025 Intellectual Property White Paper: 1,195 cases throughout the year, including 113 related to AI. Key points include: employees maliciously deleting training data to disrupt computer information systems being prosecuted; four people sentenced in the Tongzhou case for infringing copyright using AI-generated models, highlighting that "artificial intelligence is not outside the law." Additionally, the enforcement of copyright and trademark across the entire chain has been strengthened.

Google announces Gemini Deep Research upgrade, launching Deep Research and Deep Research Max, integrating Gemini 3.1 Pro and connecting MCP with external and corporate data sources such as FactSet, S&P Global, PitchBook, and others. Max enhances depth by extending reasoning time, adds native charts, collaboration planning, real-time streaming, and multimodal input, enabling AI Agents to go beyond simple search assistants.

Taiwan's Political Donation Law was reviewed 13 times, and in principle, it bans the use of cryptocurrencies and live streaming tips (super chats) as political donations; if the amendment passes, candidates accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other cryptocurrencies or super chats will be considered illegal.
The trigger was the controversy over Huang Kuo-chang's super chat donation, with the Control Yuan emphasizing the difficulty in auditing and the high risks involved.
Common violations include unapproved dedicated accounts, exceeding limits, foreign donations, and donations made in others' names.