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BlockBeats News, March 13th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post explaining his relationship with the Future of Life Institute and his stance on AI risk issues. Vitalik stated that in 2021, he passively received a large amount of meme coins like SHIB, with the on-paper value peaking at over $1 billion. He then donated half to CryptoRelief and the other half to FLI, expecting FLI to cash out a maximum of $10-25 million. However, FLI actually cashed out around $500 million. (CryptoRelief had a similar situation) Vitalik mentioned that FLI later underwent an internal strategic shift, focusing on large-scale political actions as the primary mechanism, which significantly differed from the initial plan. He expressed concerns about this, believing that driving political action with a large fund pool could lead to unintended consequences and potentially evolve into an authoritarian approach, such as by restricting open-source AI to support a single "correct" institution's dominance. Such practices carry a significant risk of backfiring.

Odaily reports that Polymarket search shows that, possibly due to legal and regulatory issues, weather prediction events related to the Hong Kong region have now been removed. In addition, weather prediction events related to the Shanghai region have not yet been removed.

Golden Ten Data reported on March 13 that the offshore RMB Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate (CNH HIBOR) showed that most major term rates declined on Friday; the overnight HIBOR rose by 9 basis points to 1.49167%. The one-week HIBOR slightly fell to 1.57121%, the two-week HIBOR dropped to 1.60000%, and the one-year HIBOR slightly decreased to 1.86667%.