The International Monetary Fund said it has reached a staff-level agreement with El Salvador on the second and third combined reviews of its 40-month Extended Fund Facility arrangement. If approved by the Executive Board and after prior actions are completed, El Salvador could receive about $140 million, or 101.96 million special drawing rights. According to Foresight News, the IMF said public participation in El Salvador's Chivo digital wallet has been sharply reduced, with most equity and operational control transferred to a private operator while the government retains a minority stake. The statement added that Bitcoin purchases since the first review were documented as coming from private donations and did not use public resources. The two sides also signed a memorandum of understanding on modernizing the legal and regulatory framework for digital assets and strengthening public-sector governance and risk management for crypto assets. The IMF said El Salvador is expected not to add more Bitcoin beyond recorded donations and is increasing transparency over wallet holdings.

Cathay Pacific said passenger flights to and from Dubai and Riyadh will remain cancelled until November 30, 2026, as it responds to the latest developments in the Middle East, according to ETNet. Affected passengers may rebook, change destinations or request refunds. Cathay Cargo will also continue to review when it can resume freighter services to Dubai and Riyadh. The airline said it will keep closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East.

MiniMax (00100) rose 6.5% to HK$378, extending its gains to a third straight session for a cumulative advance of 12.2%, according to ETNet. Saudi Arabia government-backed AI company Humain said it used MiniMax's open-source M3 model to build Humain-M3, a national-level Arabic AI platform. Humain-M3 uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 428 billion parameters, and Humain further pre-trained the model on more than 1 trillion Arabic native corpus tokens. Humain said Humain-M3 achieved the highest average score among all frontier models in a combined assessment across seven public Arabic benchmarks. Separately, the Hang Seng Index was up 2% at 25,710, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index rose 2.3% and the Hang Seng Tech Index gained 2.7%.

Morgan Stanley has broadly lowered its target prices for China stock indices as deteriorating macro data, tighter liquidity and fund-flow prospects, and concerns over stronger government oversight of capital flows and wealth management weigh on sentiment, Bloomberg reported. The move reflects the bank's view that the outlook for liquidity and capital inflows has tightened, while investors are also worried about regulatory pressure on fund flows and wealth management.

According to Axios, U.S. Central Command is conducting an internal review of reports that a civilian casualty incident at a wedding in Iran last Tuesday may have been linked to U.S. strikes. U.S. officials said the review was ordered Wednesday by CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper, and that investigators are examining drone footage from the area, target-identification procedures, and whether munitions fired by the U.S. hit the home where the wedding was taking place. The Iranian Red Crescent said five people were killed and 67 were wounded in the blast, while Iranian officials accused the U.S. of striking the building. CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said the military was looking into reports that originated from Iranian state media and said the U.S. military does not target civilians. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday at a White House briefing that the military was investigating the incident fully. U.S. officials also said the strike in the area targeted a communication tower used for both civilian and military communications, and that investigators will also consider whether an errant Iranian munition fell near the home.

Prediction market data startup Oddpool said it has joined Kalshi after graduating from Y Combinator this spring and closing a $3 million seed round. According to ChainCatcher, the company said it has been building tools for institutional adoption of prediction markets and treating them as a real asset class. Oddpool said it chose prediction markets because they aggregate information by matching buyers and sellers and setting prices through open bidding. The company said traditional derivatives markets already provide price discovery for key economic inputs such as commodities, energy, and interest rates, while prediction markets extend that process to politics, sports, climate, and culture. Oddpool added that it has been building a data layer to help institutions, economists, policymakers, and business owners interpret data and support decision-making.

OpenAI正式发布新一代前沿模型GPT-6 Astra，总裁Greg Brockman更是毫不掩饰对Astra的评价。在发布前的媒体简报会上，他直言自己认为“我们已经到了AGI”。

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