AI-driven electricity demand has triggered billions of dollars in clean-energy investment, including next-generation geothermal power, advanced nuclear reactors, and long-duration batteries. According to Sina Finance, developers are beginning to deploy long-duration storage systems at data centers, and experts said the move could help scale the technology and support greater use of renewable energy. Crusoe co-founder and President Cully Cavness said long-duration storage is an important part of the supporting technology stack for building AI infrastructure at an unprecedented scale. The company builds and operates AI data centers for technology giants. Long-duration storage refers to technologies that can store and release electricity for hours or even days, unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, which typically provide power for only a few hours. According to estimates, at least 150 gigawatt-hours of new long-duration storage projects in the U.S. have been announced, permitted, or financed since early 2025, more than five times the total planned U.S. capacity at the end of 2024, according to BloombergNEF. In Arizona, Alphabet is working with Italy's Energy Dome on carbon dioxide storage batteries for 10 hours of storage. Crusoe Energy is working with Form Energy to deploy iron-air batteries, while Meta has reached an agreement with California-based Noon Energy to deploy a storage system that can store renewable energy for 100 hours.

A Costa Rican court sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each for money laundering in a case tied to the 2018 kidnapping and killing of U.S. businessman William Sean Creighton Kopko. According to ChainCatcher, the victim's family paid a ransom of about 148 bitcoin at the time, which was valued at about $1 million. The court found that the defendants received part of the ransom and deposited it into wallets they controlled to conceal the origin of the assets.

China will step up scrutiny of malicious price competition, including cost investigations and price inspections of companies that engage in such practices, according to Bloomberg. The State Administration for Market Regulation said at a State Council Information Office briefing on Sunday that it will increase enforcement against companies involved in such pricing behavior.

East Japan Railway Co. warned that the approaching tropical cyclone Dujuan could suspend or delay train lines in the greater Tokyo area from as early as Sunday evening through Tuesday morning, according to Bloomberg. The operator said disruptions are possible on its services as the storm nears Japan.

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CXMT announced at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention that its fifth-generation technology platform has entered mass production. According to ChainCatcher, the company said the platform reduces the active area half-pitch of its memory array to 11.95 nanometers, raises the capacitor aspect ratio to 45:1, and lowers the core kinetic zone height to 6,762 nanometers. The company said the fifth-generation process platform significantly improves memory density and increases wafer output by more than 50% under the same conditions compared with the previous generation. A 24GB LPDDR5X product based on the platform has also entered mass production and is being used in mainstream domestic flagship smartphones.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said privacy is only truly dead if people give up on it, adding that he will not abandon privacy and will instead increase his efforts. According to ChainCatcher, he made the remarks in response to Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos' question about what room remains for privacy development. Buterin previously updated Ethereum's roadmap in August, with quantum security, privacy protection, and native rollups listed as future priorities.

Spanish National Guard and National Police have dismantled two crypto-related crime cases and identified or detained 48 people, according to CriptoNoticias. According to ChainCatcher, one Ponzi scheme left 113 investors with losses of about 327,000 euros, while another network used phishing and fake rental ads to carry out fraud and converted the proceeds into crypto assets to evade tracking, causing losses of more than 430,000 euros.

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SlowMist has confirmed that FomoPeek versions 1.1 and 1.2, disguised as a read-only whale tracking tool, contain an iOS kernel vulnerability framework that can decrypt sensitive credentials such as private keys and mnemonic phrases in the iOS keychain and receive remote commands in real time during investigations.

A Comparison of Compliance Paths for Smart Agent Payments in Hong Kong and Mainland China: The Complementary Logic of Self-Regulatory Conventions and Regulatory Sandboxes.

The SEC has issued the long-awaited "innovation exemption," paving the way for secondary market trading of tokenized stocks. While some provisions may require further adjustments, this is a serious policy development and a significant step towards a viable on-chain capital market.

Predictions: Polymarket, which has been undergoing a major reshuffle, has hired four senior executives in just one month. What is Polymarket worried about? Golden Finance reports that Polymarket's monthly active users have halved since the World Cup.

Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news bulletin, "Jinse 8 AM," issue 3187, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.