🇭🇰 The Scaling Summit HK 2026 | Co-hosts Host: @499_DAO × City University of Hong Kong Co-host: @0G_labs × OpenSchool x IDM of CityU Special Partner: @BAI_AGI x @hetu_protoco A huge thank you to our Co-host @0G_labs for their incredible support! Together with @499DAO, we’ve built a comprehensive loop of interaction that bridges infrastructure and innovation. 0G Co-founder Michael (@michaelh_0g) shared visionary insights during our session on "The Hyper-Scale Pipeline," discussing the essential decentralized infrastructure needed to support the massive scale of future AI agents. Beyond the stage, the 0G team led a focused closed-door workshop with 30 core developers, detailing how to build on their network and highlighting the 0G Grant Program to empower early-stage builders. Furthermore, 0G Head of APAC Jt (@Jtsong2) served as a key judge for our Demo Day, evaluating 8 exceptional AI projects and helping select the top 3 winners. From high-level strategy to hands-on developer support, we are grateful for 0G’s deep commitment to the ecosystem. We look forward to a long and successful partnership between 499 and 0G! #Web3# #AI# #0GLabs# #HouseofAI#

Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee: If U.S. attacks continue over the next two to three days, the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will move beyond the stage of deterrence and retaliation and enter the phase of “offense and complete destruction,” such that U.S. bases and soldiers beyond political borders will be pursued and directly targeted. The United States should know that the attritional strategy of “war and negotiation” has reached a dead end, and in the coming days, the intensity of Iran’s attacks will increase.

We built something new on QwenCloud: QwenCloud Arena — an Arena for agents solving real-industry challenges We're taking Agents into industries and business problems. Every task comes from real business scenarios, because the Agents worth building are the ones that deliver genuine productivity. Our very first task, Task No.1 — with Aidge: cross-border e-commerce sellers have to launch the same product across multiple markets, in different languages, with different visuals. Your challenge is to build an Agent that takes this on end to end, in a single run. The strongest submissions go before expert judges who answer one question: would this actually work in production? The top 5 walk away with rewards: 🥇 $10,000 in token credits 🥈 $5,000 ×2 🥉 $3,000 ×2 Beyond the prizes, standout solutions get a real path to commercialization, a chance to join the Alibaba Cloud AI ecosystem, and the stage at Apsara Conference 2026. Open to developers worldwide. Explore QwenCloud Arena： See Task No.1： Not about benchmarks. About who actually gets the job done. Show us. #QwenCloudArena# #AIAgent# #AIdge#

We built something new on QwenCloud: QwenCloud Arena — an Arena for agents solving real-industry challenges We're taking Agents into industries and business problems. Every task comes from real business scenarios, because the Agents worth building are the ones that deliver genuine productivity. Our very first task, Task No.1 — with Aidge: cross-border e-commerce sellers have to launch the same product across multiple markets, in different languages, with different visuals. Your challenge is to build an Agent that takes this on end to end, in a single run. The strongest submissions go before expert judges who answer one question: would this actually work in production? The top 5 walk away with rewards: 🥇 $10,000 in token credits 🥈 $5,000 ×2 🥉 $3,000 ×2 Beyond the prizes, standout solutions get a real path to commercialization, a chance to join the Alibaba Cloud AI ecosystem, and the stage at Apsara Conference 2026. Open to developers worldwide. Explore QwenCloud Arena： See Task No.1： Not about benchmarks. About who actually gets the job done. Show us. #QwenCloudArena# #AIAgent# #AIdge#

I’ve said it before the World Cup, and I’ll say it again: Ibrahim Maza is special. With 12 successful dribbles, he finished the group stage as the player with the most completed dribbles. But what impresses me even more is everything beyond the stats. He’s still very young, yet his understanding of positioning, link-up play, receiving with his back to goal, carrying the ball through tight spaces, and connecting the lines is exceptional. He can play as a classic No. 10, as an interior midfielder helping build attacks, or as an inverted winger drifting inside. That kind of versatility and football IQ at his age is incredibly rare. If you asked me which player I’d bring to Barcelona if they ever decided to move on from Dani Olmo, my answer used to be only Rayan Cherki. Now there are two names on that list. I have a feeling Bayern Munich will try to sign him sooner rather than later. And if Barcelona ever parts ways with Olmo, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ibrahim Maza becomes one of their top targets.

Sheraz Ahmed @CryptoSherazo has spent years at the intersection of Web3, institutional adoption, and policy. As Managing Partner of STORM Partners @STORM_Partners and founder of Decentral House, Geneva's innovation centre for emerging technologies, he has built one of the most active professional services operations in the space. At the Louvre, he brought that perspective to the TaoStats Stage, moderating a panel on How Tokenised Markets Create New Opportunities for Investors. Where tokenised markets are creating real opportunities beyond the pilot phase. What demand looks like today. And what separates durable tokenised markets from experiments. The legal design, the liquidity, the infrastructure, the regulatory conditions. The full picture, from someone who has been building toward this moment for years. Thank you Sheraz for bringing that conversation to the Louvre.

$IONQ EC (2) IonQ recognized $4.3M(Q2) and $11.3M(1H) from Chicago Uni. The 256-qubit system has now moved beyond the design stage and reached the fully integrated QPU prototype stage. The 10,000-qubit chip is already being developed in parallel, with tape-out work underway. SkyWater will remain a merchant foundry serving other quantum companies, rather than becoming a fab dedicated exclusively to IonQ. An upgrade pipeline is beginning to emerge in the field, with Tempo customers potentially progressing to 256-qubit and eventually 10,000-qubit systems.

🚨🇨🇳 CHINA’S DF-26 BALLISTIC MISSILE JUST GOT MORE DANGEROUS FOR U.S. CARRIERS China’s latest missile upgrade appears designed for the hardest target in the Pacific: a moving U.S. aircraft carrier. New CCTV footage shows a previously unseen DF-26 variant with a flattened nose section, potentially allowing a more manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle or a larger terminal seeker capable of tracking warships during the final stage of flight. 🔸 LESS HEAT, MORE MANOEUVRING: A blunter nose creates a cushion of compressed air during hypersonic re-entry, reducing peak thermal stress and potentially allowing the warhead to survive more aggressive terminal manoeuvres. 🔸 A SMARTER SEEKER? The larger nose section could house an active radar seeker or multi-mode guidance system capable of updating the missile’s aim against a moving carrier. The footage does not confirm the sensor, but the new shape is consistent with that possibility. 🔸 NEW PANELS, UNKNOWN PURPOSE: Previously unseen light-coloured panels or apertures are visible beneath the warhead section. Their function remains unclear, but they indicate that the changes may extend beyond the flattened nose. 🔸 4,000 KM OF REACH: The road-mobile, solid-fuel DF-26 can strike land targets and warships across much of the Western Pacific. It is dual-capable, carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads that are reportedly designed to be swapped in the field. 🔸 THE ANTI-SHIP ROLE IS ALREADY REAL: China fired a DF-26B into a South China Sea test area in 2020, while U.S. assessments credit the missile with the ability to conduct conventional precision strikes against naval targets. The new variant may be intended to make that mission more accurate and harder to defeat. The DF-26 already threatens carriers and military bases thousands of kilometres from the Chinese mainland. A more manoeuvrable warhead or smarter seeker could push that danger zone deeper into the Pacific — potentially threatening U.S. naval operations as far as the approaches to Guam. Do you think U.S. carrier strike groups can survive inside the DF-26’s 4,000-km reach?