0G Labs has partnered with HackQuest to launch the 0G APAC Hackathon with a prize pool of $150,000 across four tracks, supporting AI agents, on-chain trading, autonomous economic systems, and privacy-preserving applications. The initiative provides full-stack technical support and will host networking events throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Gate News report: On March 19, it was reported that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" on March 3 and ordered the Pentagon to phase out the use of Claude AI in military systems within 6 months. The decision will impact AI application deployments across the entire U.S. Department of Defense.

Cloudflare stock rises over 6%, plans to launch NET Dollar stablecoin aimed at driving AI-powered network transactions. Zerohash is competing to become the issuer, with the stablecoin embedded in network infrastructure to enable efficient micropayments.

Gate News report: On March 19, Visa Crypto Labs recently launched a command-line tool called "Visa CLI" designed to provide secure solutions for AI payment scenarios. The tool operates through a command-line interface and focuses on ensuring the security of cryptocurrency payments.

Gate News reported on March 19 that Alibaba management stated during today’s (March 19) earnings call that over the next 3 to 5 years, global AI computing power will remain in severe shortage. As the only cloud computing company in the Chinese market with self-developed chip capabilities, Pingtou Ge is of vital importance to the Alibaba Group. The management also revealed that an IPO for Pingtou Ge is not ruled out in the future, but there is currently no specific timeline.

Gate News reported on March 19 that during Alibaba Group's FY2026 Q3 earnings analyst call, CEO Wu Yongming stated that Alibaba Cloud's external commercialized revenue as of the end of February in FY2026 officially exceeded 100 billion yuan. Facing the long-term growth momentum of the AI market, Alibaba Group's AI strategy has a very clear commercial objective—over the next five years, cloud and AI commercialized revenue, including MaaS (Models as a Service), will exceed 100 billion dollars.

Gate News report: On March 19, according to South Korea's Economic Daily reported Thursday, Samsung Electronics plans to supply its next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) chips to OpenAI for the latter's first in-house artificial intelligence processor. The report states that Samsung Electronics signed a letter of intent with OpenAI last year, committing to supply memory chips for OpenAI's data centers to meet the growing demands of its Stargate project.

Gate News: On March 19, Circle, the issuer of USDC, announced the appointment of a senior Microsoft executive to its board of directors. This personnel adjustment comes amid intensifying competition in the AI agent (Agentic) space. Circle, the issuer of USDC, the world's second-largest stablecoin, views this board expansion as an important move in the company's technology strategy positioning.

Gate News report: On March 19, Alibaba (Hong Kong stock code: 09988.HK) released its latest performance data. Alibaba Cloud revenue accelerated growth of 36% year-over-year; flagship AI application Qwen app achieved large-scale real-world service capabilities, with Qwen consumer-facing application monthly active users surpassing 300 million.

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham shared a conversation with OpenAI employees on the X platform, mentioning that purchasing rare items can hedge against AI risk, and pointing out that items from before 2028 will be more valuable, suggesting that AI will be able to replicate most items created by humans in the future.