According to 1M AI News monitoring, Mercedes-Benz China announced that an edge-side multimodal large model jointly developed with Tsinghua University and Zhipu, an AI large model company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January this year, will be deployed in the next-generation Maybach S-Class and the new S-Class sedan. The model is deployed in the rear-seat entertainment system, integrating natural language processing with multimodal understanding and generation capabilities in vision, audio, and other modalities. Combined with in-vehicle cameras and other perceptual hardware, it completes inference under local computing power conditions. According to Zhipu's official statement, Mercedes-Benz has become the first automotive brand to apply multimodal large models in rear-seat entertainment systems.

數字資產平台 Gate 將於 4 月 18 日至 24 日在香港維多利亞港與 F1 紅牛車隊聯合舉辦「Racing the Future：競速未來」特展，展覽佔地 238 平方米，展示紅牛車隊 2026 新賽車及沉浸式互動體驗，向公眾開放。

香港財經事務及庫務局局長許正宇介紹了香港穩定幣和數字人民幣的發展現狀，強調數字人民幣錢包的增長與本地銀行的推動，商戶接受度擴展顯著。未來將探索錢包升級及新支付工具的潛力，以滿足市場需求。

香港財經事務及庫務局局長許正宇表示，數字人民幣錢包數量穩定增長，累計約8萬個。中國人民銀行與香港金管局正探討錢包升級，以提升使用額度和用戶體驗，同時穩定幣和央行數字貨幣在合規下有多種支付應用潛力。

Gate News report, on March 25, Hong Kong stocks' AI application sector strengthened. Deeproute.ai-W (00800.HK) rose 8%, Haizhi Technology Group (02706.HK) rose 6.77%, Zhipu (02513.HK) rose 4.58%.

A 39-year-old woman in Hong Kong met a man claiming to be an employee of a new energy company through a dating app, and the relationship developed into a romantic connection on WhatsApp. The man lured her into investing cryptocurrency on a fraudulent platform, causing her to transfer over 5.5 million Hong Kong dollars within two months before losing contact. The Hong Kong Police have received 15 similar fraud cases with a total amount involved of nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

Gate News reported that on March 21, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Union Chairman Chan Chi-wah commented on the controversy surrounding brokers' "pre-registration of designated bank accounts" for customers. He stated that while the regulatory circular proposes establishing a bank account registration mechanism with upper limits, the relevant practices may stem from inappropriately applying virtual asset regulatory approaches (such as pre-approval of wallet addresses) to the traditional securities industry.

Digital payment platform Wirex integrated the Gauntlet-managed Morpho vault into its enterprise accounts on March 20, enabling automatic conversion of corporate funds to USDC or EURC deposited into the vault. Over $10 million has generated yield through this feature, with plans to expand to pound sterling, Australian dollar, and Hong Kong dollar accounts, as well as launch enterprise loans backed by Bitcoin collateral.

Morgan Stanley issued a research report on March 20th giving MINIMAX (Hong Kong stock code 00100.HK) an overweight rating with a target price of HK$990. The report points out that MINIMAX has made significant progress in large model iterations and enhanced its AI capabilities, with expected considerable growth potential for its tokens.

Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission released a report in 2025 showing that it has joined the Virtual Assets Intelligence Working Group to support the development of the digital asset market. Since 2024, the total market value of virtual asset ETFs listed in Hong Kong has grown to HK$5.4 billion. Meanwhile, tokenized retail money market funds have also grown significantly, with the overall market's assets under management and number of funds both achieving substantial increases.