The AI savings protocol Surf Liquid launched on April 2 on the Polygon network, introducing an AI-driven stablecoin savings vault that lets users deposit USDC. Users can earn yield through lending markets, with a minimum deposit of $10. Funds are allocated by AI agents to the Morpho V2 protocol, and users can withdraw at any time.

Yupp.ai announced that it will shut down starting immediately. The website will remain available for 15 days so users can download their chat data. With improvements in AI model capabilities and changes in user needs, the company has decided to end operations early and return the remaining funds to investors.

Gate News message, April 2, Nasdaq-listed company Soluna Holdings announced that it has spent $53.0 million to acquire a wind farm located in West Texas. Soluna Holdings focuses on developing green data centers for compute-intensive applications such as bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence. After the transaction is completed, the company will launch the Dorothy 3 project development to support building a renewable-energy-driven AI data center.

A Deutsche Bank research report shows that the three major AI systems believe AI’s impact on inflation is negligible. Among them, the probability that AI will raise inflation is higher than the probability of a statistically significant reduction, mainly due to demand-pull inflation pressures driven by an investment boom.

Boundless Ark recently completed two rounds of Pre-A funding, with total funding in the hundreds of millions of yuan. Its core product, EVA OS, is an AI operating system that supports a variety of hardware terminals, with efficiency far higher than traditional solutions. It has already attracted more than 2,500 enterprises to integrate.

Gate News, April 2, Alibaba released the Qwen3.6-Plus next-generation large language model Qwen3.6-Plus. The model has native multimodal understanding and reasoning capabilities, and can autonomously break down tasks, plan paths, test changes, and complete tasks in scenarios such as front-end web development and warehouse-level complex tasks. Currently, Qwen3.6-Plus has been listed on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform, priced at the equivalent of 2 yuan minimum per million Tokens (tokens) for input; Qwen 3.6 has also launched on Wu Kong, the Qwen App, and other AI applications and platforms.

Cango completed a $75 million fundraising round, including $65 million from board members and $10 million from Delin, and both sides signed a memorandum of cooperation. The funding will be used to optimize the balance sheet and support development in the AI sector. Cango has responded to the New York Stock Exchange’s noncompliance requirements and has entered the remediation phase.

Gate News update: On April 2, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, PIPPIN (pippin) is trading at $0.0603. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 20.56%, with a high of $0.0779 and a low of $0.0499. The 24-hour trading volume is $21.2392 million. Its current market cap is approximately $60.3162 million. Pippin is an SVG unicorn drawn using the latest LLM benchmark from ChatGPT 4o. Pippin was created by Yohei Nakajima, a widely recognized innovator and thought leader in the AI VC space. He is known for his public-building approach, and has been at the forefront of the "AI for VC" movement

Gate News update. On April 2, most Hong Kong stock OpenClaw concept shares (AI open-source model-related concepts) fell. Zhipu (02513.HK) fell more than 15%, MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) fell more than 9%, Kingsoft Cloud (03896.HK) and Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) fell more than 3%, Alibaba (09988.HK) and Meituan (03690.HK) fell more than 2%.

Gate News message: On April 2, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, ARIA (Aria) is trading at $0.43. In the past 24 hours, it is up 25.33%, reaching a high of $0.50 and dipping to a low of $0.33. The trading volume over the past 24 hours was $1.6239 million. Its current market cap is approximately $77.947 million. Aria.AI is a next-generation game development and publishing experiment. It draws inspiration from a Disney-style immersive world and AI technology, and is designed around game mechanics related to its own IP. It represents a major leap in bringing Web3 a higher standard of game design and publishing quality from Web2 (combined with AI execution). As an open-world mobile game, Aria invites players to explore the world of Fudonia