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Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos content for advertising, quietly revising its <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US&client_theme=dark" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>privacy policy</a> so that data from those apps can help personalize ads when users connect it to the company’s AI features. The change, which took effect Oct. 16 and was first spotted by <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow external" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Android Authority</a>, adds a conditional clause to a pledge Google has made for years. The updated policy now reads that Google doesn’t show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.” The catch hinges on Personal Intelligence, Google’s push to make its AI tools more useful by letting features like AI Mode in Search and Gemini draw on a user’s own data. Connecting Gmail, Drive or Photos to those tools delivers more tailored answers, such as surfacing a hotel reservation buried in an inbox. But under the revised wording, that same connected data can now also inform which ads a person sees. Google stressed the limits. Content from the three services still isn’t used for ad targeting by default, advertisers don’t get access to the contents of anyone’s Gmail, Drive or Photos, and the company says it won’t share personally identifying details without permission. In practice, that means Google isn’t scanning private emails and photos wholesale to sell ads, but users who opt into its AI conveniences may be trading some ad privacy for them. Users can opt out by disconnecting the apps under Connected Content apps in their Google Account’s Data & privacy settings, or by turning off personalized recommendations, though Android Authority noted that previously collected data may linger in a user’s Search history even after disconnecting. The quiet rollout echoes recent Google privacy posturing around its AI ambitions. As <i>Decrypt</i> reported in May, Google’s Chrome browser began <a href="https://decrypt.co/367060/chrome-quietly-installing-4gb-ai-model-computer" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>silently installing</a> a multi-gigabyte on-device AI model on users’ computers, and separately removed a privacy claim tied to its <a href="https://decrypt.co/367193/chrome-removes-privacy-claim-gemini-nano-google" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Gemini Nano model</a>, both moves that drew scrutiny over how the company handles user data as it races to embed AI across its products. <span class="md:block">Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more. </span>
Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin
The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline. Standard Chartered-backed stablecoin venture Anchorpoint says it will take a cautious approach to opening its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin to retail users, declining to confirm a launch date after rival HSBC rolled out RedCoin, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3372060/standard-chartered-led-anchorpoint-plans-retail-stablecoin-hsbc-redcoin-launches" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>according</a> to the South China Morning Post. The <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">venture</a> released its institutional stablecoin product in August and previously <a href="https://anchorpoint.hk/faqs/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>indicated</a> a retail offering could arrive as early as the end of 2026. Anchorpoint CEO Dominic Maffei declined to confirm that timeline at a Friday press conference, saying the company would take a prudent approach. “We believe it’s important to build the market out in a long-term, sustainable manner,” Maffei said, adding that rushing a launch “does not make sense.” The update comes after <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hsbc-launches-redcoin-hong-kong-dollar-stablecoin-payme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HSBC launched its Hong Kong dollar-backed RedCoin</a> on Friday for the 3.3 million users of its PayMe app. <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/standard-chartered-animoca-brands-hong-kong-stablecoin-license" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anchorpoint grew out of a partnership</a> between Standard Chartered, Animoca Brands and telecommunications provider HKT, which was announced in February 2025, following their joint participation in Hong Kong’s stablecoin issuer sandbox in July 2024. Animoca’s role is to bring its blockchain expertise and industry network to the venture and help develop uses for the stablecoin across the Web3 ecosystem. <em><strong>Related: </strong></em><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hashkey-begins-beta-distribution-of-hong-kong-regulated-hkdap-stablecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em><strong>HashKey begins beta distribution of Hong Kong-regulated HKDAP stablecoin</strong></em></a>
Chris Dixon：a16z crypto扩展为a16z frontier
According to CoinWorld news, a16z managing partner Chris Dixon said that expanding a16z crypto into a16z frontier stems from the gradually blurring boundaries between crypto and fintech, Wall Street, and mainstream technology. Stablecoins have become a common tool for fintech companies, and asset tokenization is also developing rapidly. The team will further explore frontier areas that have not yet been fully covered, continuing the approach of seeking investment opportunities from the second-order effects of technological development.
BofA: Oil prices could reach $120 if Iran resumes attacks on infrastructure.
According to a report by Bloomberg, Francisco Blanch, head of commodities and derivatives research at Bank of America, said that if Iran resumes attacks on infrastructure in the region, oil prices could average $120 per barrel in the coming months. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, he mentioned that President Trump is considering further attacks or resuming peace talks with Tehran.
Defu Technology: Q3 net profit up 631% year-on-year and 75% quarter-on-quarter; copper foil product gross margin rose.
According to Coin World news, [Defu Technology: Q3 net profit up 631% year-on-year and 75% quarter-on-quarter; copper foil product gross margin rose] Cailian Press, October 26 - Defu Technology (301511.SZ) announced that in the first three quarters it achieved operating revenue of 14.583 billion yuan, up 71.56% year-on-year; net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 467 million yuan, up 601.75% year-on-year. In the third quarter, operating revenue was 5.387 billion yuan, up 68.29% year-on-year; net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 204 million yuan, up 631.02% year-on-year. The company continued to advance product iteration and upgrading, with the shipment proportion of high value-added products rising significantly. Product structure optimization drove an increase in the company's average processing fees, thereby enhancing the company's overall profitability; at the same time, the company's capacity utilization rate increased year-on-year, unit production costs fell noticeably, causing the gross margin of the company's copper foil products to rise and profits to increase accordingly. Xiaocai note: The company's Q3 net profit was 204 million yuan, and Q2 net profit was 116 million yuan. Based on this calculation, Q3 net profit grew 75% quarter-on-quarter.
标普500期权Put/Call比报1.25
Biji Network US stock data: The S&P 500 options Put/Call ratio is 1.25, with put option trading volume higher than call option volume on the day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.06.
Upbit will suspend deposit and withdrawal services for 25 digital assets on October 31.
币界网消息，Upbit宣布将于2026年10月31日21:00至11月1日05:00（UTC+8）期间，因进行月度数字资产余额审计，暂停BTC、XRP、ETH、SOL、DOGE、XLM、ADA、SHIB、ONDO、ETC、LINK、NEAR、SUI、ARB、ENS、TRUMP、ENA、SEI、PEPE、ATOM、UNI、CTC、SAND、APT、CHZ共25种数字资产的充提服务，同时暂停ETH、ATOM、ADA、SOL的质押申请。
Alpaca receives in-principle approval from the Abu Dhabi Financial Services Regulatory Authority
CoinWorld news: U.S. securities brokerage and clearing infrastructure company Alpaca announced that its Abu Dhabi entity, Alpaca Clearing & Custody ME Ltd, has received in-principle approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), with plans to obtain a full license thereafter. The current approval does not yet permit it to conduct the relevant regulated business. Alpaca previously partnered with Binance to launch services related to U.S. stocks, ETFs, and Bstocks tokenized equities, and provides infrastructure support for tokenized securities platforms such as Ondo Finance.
DeepSeek's new model tops global weekly API call volume, surging 801% week-over-week
According to BiJie Network, the latest model from DeepSeek topped OpenRouter's weekly global AI large-model usage ranking (October 19–25), with weekly usage reaching 33.6 trillion tokens, a month-over-month increase of 801%. The model was updated to version v4.1-flash-1017 on October 17, making it the most explosive model of the past week and the core driver of the overall incremental growth of domestic models. The second place on the ranking was DeepSeek's older version v4.1-flash, officially launched on September 10, with weekly usage of 18 trillion tokens, down 45% month-over-month, indicating that developers are rapidly migrating to the new version.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission approves the first batch of compliant public digital funds for 7*24 real-time trading.
CoinWorld news, Cailian Press reported on October 26 that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved the first batch of compliant public digital funds to be traded on the secondary market on licensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATPs), a move believed to be a global first. Industry insiders said that the approval of 7*24 real-time trading for the first batch of compliant public digital funds breaks through the limitations of traditional public funds, such as fixed trading hours and multi-day settlement cycles, allowing investors to trade digital currency market funds 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In the future, the SFC will closely monitor the trading operations of the first batch of products and, in light of market developments, appropriately consider expanding the scope of products.