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Futu Unveils Major AI Upgrade, Making Professional Agentic Investing Accessible to All, Seize the Next Rally with FUTU AI

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HONG KONG, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited (“Futu”)  announced a comprehensive upgrade to its AI capabilities with the launch of “Expert” mode, its self-developed and built-in AI agent. Powered by a novel “Agentic AI + Skills” architecture that delivers simplicity, customization, and security. Futu’s pursuit is to make its platform accessible, easy to use, user-friendly, and intuitive for every user — truly empowering investors to analyze rationally, make better investment decisions, and seize more opportunities to profit.

Futu hosted a product launch event at its Causeway Bay flagship store yesterday, attracting more than 50 guests, including AI industry experts, university professors, and KOLs from the finance and technology sectors. The event also featured a product experience zone and interactive demonstration area, allowing attendees to try out the new AI capabilities firsthand. Meanwhile, the livestream of the product launch event on the Futubull Community and the official YouTube channel attracted more than 40,000 views from users and fans.

This upgrade also brings to Hong Kong the first AI solution to span the entire investment journey, from information gathering and analysis to decision-making and trade execution. Far from a simple aggregation of features, it represents a paradigm shift in the underlying architecture — evolving from a passive Q&A AI assistant into an intelligent investment partner capable of independent thinking, proactive planning, advanced reflection, and execution.

At the product launch event, Joe Yu, Chief Marketing Officer of Futu Securities, noted that market opportunities always exist, yet retail investors often find it difficult to capture them. As such, investors need tools that can help establish investment discipline and enhance the rationality of decision-making. Futu is committed to democratizing intelligent investing capabilities, enabling every retail investor to access professional-grade investment tools and participate in the market more effectively. Vincent Yao, Head of AI Growth Center at Futu, provided an in-depth introduction to the two new AI products unveiled at the event — “Expert” Mode and the Agentic AI + Skills architecture. Through multiple application scenarios and real-life examples, he demonstrated how AI can empower the entire investment process, from information integration and advanced reflection to strategy execution.

Joe Yu, Chief Marketing Officer of Futu Securities stated: “Through the deep integration of technology and finance, we hope to make professional investment capabilities more accessible. Today’s launch is only the beginning. Our goal is not merely to create a useful AI feature, but to build a complete AI investment ecosystem. With breakthroughs in AI technology, the gap between retail investors and institutions in information access, data analysis, and strategy construction is gradually being narrowed by technology. Looking ahead, Futu will continue to uphold the principles of safety, compliance, and effectiveness, while investing in AI, product innovation, and talent development. Through self-developed technologies, we will continue optimizing the user experience and strive to build a truly inclusive automated investment ecosystem. Professional capabilities should not be monopolized — they should belong to every investor who takes investing seriously.”

Vincent Yao, Head of AI Growth Center at Futu stated: “”While there is no shortage of AI-powered investment tools on the market today, most remain limited to basic question-and-answer functionality, struggling to handle complex cross-market and cross-asset analysis, let alone seamlessly translating insights into actual trades. Futu’s upgraded AI is designed to redefine the boundaries of AI investing and put an end to the era of superficial interactions, empowering investors to learn, evolve, and make stronger decisions in the new era of Agentic Investing.”

Multiple interactive experience stations were set up at the venue. After the product launch, guests experienced Futu AI’s latest capabilities firsthand, including using Futubull AI’s “Expert” Mode for in-depth stock interpretation, as well as building personalized AI agents through the open platform. Participants also experienced the full process from strategy generation to simulated trading. In addition, attendees engaged in in-depth discussions on the prospects and trends of AI applications in the financial sector, with enthusiastic responses.

Calvin Tsai, quantitative trader and co-founder of Hong Kong Program Trading Research Center, said: “From the perspective of quantitative trading, the core of investing has always been disciplining and systematic decision-making. After experiencing Futu AI’s ‘Expert’ Mode and its Agentic architecture at the product launch event, I can see that AI is no longer merely an auxiliary analysis tool — it is beginning to acquire the ability to put strategy logic into execution. For retail investors, this means capabilities that once belonged only to professional institutions are gradually being opened up. I believe that if such technologies continue to be optimized, they have the potential to reshape how investors interact with the market in the future.”

Two Key Product Highlights

1. Futubull AI “Expert” Mode — Professional-Grade Research Through Conversation

Producing a high-quality sector analysis or expert insights once required days of sifting through financial statements, integrating data, and building models. Today, with Futubull AI’s “Expert” mode, it takes just a few minutes. Driven by the new Agentic + Skills architecture, Futubull AI possesses a complete cognitive loop: deconstructing problems, planning paths, invoking tools, reflecting and verifying, and outputting conclusions.

Whether an investor poses highly complex questions, such as “Under the current macro environment, which targets in the Hong Kong semiconductor sector offer Alpha opportunities using options strategies, or requests comparative dissection spanning multiple markets and asset classes, Futubull AI can integrate real-time financial data with professional interpretation tools. No longer merely a chatbot, Futubull AI is now your 24/7 industry expert.

In a critical breakthrough for trade execution, Futubull AI’s “Expert” Mode enables natural language order placement, understands the user’s investment intent and translates it into trading commands precisely. During conversations, investors can complete transactions for equities, options, and ETFs using simple language without switching interfaces.

The soon-to-launch Futubull AI + Algo feature lowers the barrier to quantitative trading, allowing any investor to transform strategy ideas into actionable strategies without writing a single line of code.

2. Open Ecosystem — Code-Free Capabilities with Multi-Layered Security Architecture : Mobilize Your AI Financial Expert Team with a Single Sentence

Futu has packaged its years of deep expertise in market data, trading, stock selection, and derivatives into Futu Skills and MCPs (Model Context Protocol), allowing investors and developers to flexibly invoke them within standard AI Agents available in the market.

Investors can freely select and combine different capability modules based on their personal investment style and needs, ranging from quantitative smart stock selection and real-time portfolio risk monitoring to multi-dimensional market analysis and all-market execution. This allows them to build a unique personal research team, using simple language as a unified command to orchestrate the entire team’s collaboration. Multi-strategy, multi-expert collaboration models that were once affordable only for large hedge funds are now accessible to ordinary investors.

Futu recognizes that as AI becomes increasingly integrated into trade execution, investors’ concerns around privacy and capital security must remain a top priority and Futu is committed to delivering a powerful and responsible AI product to every investor. To address these concerns, Futu AI has established multiple layers of protection: a simulated environment by default to ensure strategies are tested before execution, a password-protection mechanism that strictly separates the AI from live trading, and end-to-end encryption to safeguard data and prevent information leakage. All sensitive data is processed locally, ensuring that client information and trading environments are operated under the highest security standards.

Experiential event in Late July Featuring Interactive Gaming Zones

Futu has recently launched its new “Futu AI” feature, while CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, is targeted to launch the new U.S. Single Stock Futures* at the end of July (*pending completion of all regulatory review and processes). To mark these developments, Futu, in collaboration with CME Group will jointly bring an offline interactive experience event at the K11 Art Mall atrium in Tsim Sha Tsui from July 28 to August 5.

To invite the public to experience firsthand the innovative application of “Futu AI”, the event will feature an AI-themed showcase area, offering insights into the latest smart trading tools to help investors better understand emerging technologies in trading. AI interactive gaming zone and a large-scale FUTU mascot installation will also be set up, delivering an immersive AI experience for participants.

Furthermore, the pop-up will preview CME Group’s upcoming U.S. Single Stock Futures*, expanding investors’ knowledge of global market instruments. The event will be open to the public. Investors are encouraged to attend and experience how AI technology is reshaping the investment landscape, while capturing opportunities brought by the next generation of agentic investing.

“Seize the Next Rally with FUTU AI” Offline Experience Event
Date: 28 July – 5 August 2026
Venue: G/F, Atrium, K11 Art Mall

Contact: media@futuhk.com

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35.5%! LONGi Once Again Breaks World Record for Crystalline Silicon-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cell Efficiency

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SHANGHAI, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the 2026 Solar and Energy Storage Innovation Conference, LONGi officially announced that its independently developed crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell has achieved a conversion efficiency of 35.5%, certified by the European Solar Test Installation (ESTI), once again setting a new world record.

Crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells represent the mainstream technology route for next-generation ultra-high-efficiency solar cells, with a theoretical efficiency limit of up to 43% – far exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit of 33.7% for single-junction cells. Through sustained technological breakthroughs, LONGi’s tandem cell team lifted the efficiency to 33.9% in November 2023 and further to 34.6% in June 2024. In less than a year since then, the team has achieved a series of successive advances, moving from 34.85% to 35.2%, and now to 35.5%, clearly demonstrating the R&D strength and spirit of exploration at LONGi’s Central Research Institute.

In May this year, LONGi’s independently developed two-terminal crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem cell efficiency (35.2%) was included in the 68th edition of the Solar Cell Efficiency Tables published by the team led by Professor Martin Green at the University of New South Wales, Australia, marking a representative high-level achievement for this technology route at the time. Meanwhile, under conditions closer to industrial-scale dimensions, LONGi achieved conversion efficiencies of 34.3% (261 cm²) and 32.2% (274 cm²), highlighting the promising industrialization prospects of tandem technology. Furthermore, LONGi’s tandem modules delivered conversion efficiencies of 31.4% and 29.4%, both independently certified by authoritative international institutions and included in the efficiency tables, further strengthening the foundation for moving crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem technology from the lab to industrial application.

Driven by its leading technological innovation capabilities, LONGi has established a tiered R&D system of “one generation in mass production, one in development, and one in reserve,” continuously advancing technological breakthroughs and high-quality development in clean energy. Looking ahead, LONGi will remain focused on technological leadership, delivering iterative breakthroughs to contribute the innovative strength of a Chinese enterprise to the global energy transition.

SOURCE LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

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Altimetrik Joins the World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence to Advance Responsible, Enterprise-Scale AI Innovation

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BENGALURU, India, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Altimetrik, an AI-native engineering company, has joined the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Centre for AI Excellence. Through this collaboration, Altimetrik will contribute its expertise in AI engineering, data, and platform foundations to help shape global standards for the responsible adoption and enterprise-scale deployment of artificial intelligence.

Central to Altimetrik’s contribution is ALTi AIOS™, its recently launched AI engineering operating system, purpose-built for the brownfield realities of large enterprises. The platform is backed by more than 10,000 engineering practitioners delivering AI in production across BFSI, manufacturing, retail, automotive, healthcare, and life sciences.

“Joining the World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence is a milestone for Altimetrik and an opportunity to help shape the global agenda on enterprise AI,” said Raj Sundaresan – CEO, Altimetrik. 

“AI is receiving unprecedented attention, but real transformation requires more than deploying tools. It requires organizations to be engineered to run AI responsibly, securely, and at scale.”

Most enterprises today are not greenfield. They are running decades of accumulated systems, data estates, and operational processes that AI must integrate with, not replace. ALTi AIOS™ abstracts that complexity, standardizes how humans and AI interact, and manages models, data, and governance through a unified operational layer. Through ALTi AIOS™, AI shifts from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide execution, with measurable business outcomes and built-in governance from the start.

“The enterprises that define the next decade will be the ones that engineer context, orchestration, governance, and trust into every layer of their agentic systems, not bolt it on after the fact,” said Niraj Nagrani – Chief Data and AI Officer, Altimetrik.

“The World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence is the right platform to advance that agenda, and we’re proud to bring ALTi AIOS™ and our production AI experience to that conversation.”

The WEF Centre for AI Excellence advances responsible AI through workstreams focused on accelerating impactful innovation, preparing industries and societies for the Intelligent Era, and promoting trustworthy technology through effective governance. Altimetrik joins a cohort of global organizations contributing engineering depth, sector expertise, and applied research to those workstreams.

Learn more about ALTi AIOS™.

About Altimetrik

We are Altimetrik, an AI-native engineering company helping some of the most revered and iconic enterprises modernize systems, data, and processes at the heart of their business, so they can move faster, operate more efficiently, and innovate continuously. Through ALTi AIOS™, our AI-native operating system, we combine the latest AI capabilities with deep engineering expertise to help clients solve complex challenges, accelerate modernization, and deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

Our clients get access to the latest AI innovations while maintaining the flexibility to choose the right technologies for their business, through trusted relationships with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Databricks and major hyperscalers.

A member of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for AI Excellence, the Forum’s global hub for shaping responsible AI, Altimetrik is also recognized in the 2025 Constellation Research ShortList™ for Global AI Services and named a Major Contender in multiple Everest Group PEAK Matrix® assessments, including Software Product Engineering Services (2026), Enterprise Quality Engineering Services (2025), and Digital Engineering Services for BFSI and Life Sciences. Learn more at altimetrik.com.

 

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GIMM Festival brings leading microbiology experts to Lisbon to discuss emerging viruses, antimicrobial resistance and biological engineering

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Charles M. Rice (2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine), Bonnie Bassler, Yasmine Belkaid and Isabel Gordo are among the confirmed speakers.

LISBON, Portugal, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bacteria are continuously evolving and becoming increasingly resistant to life-saving medicines. Understanding how microorganisms adapt, communicate and influence human health is now a global scientific priority. This will be one of the central themes of the second edition of the GIMM Festival, taking place in Lisbon from 17 to 19 September.

Under the theme ‘Microbes – The Questions of the Future’, the festival will bring together internationally renowned researchers to explore the role of microorganisms in human health, biological evolution and ecosystem sustainability. The event aims to foster dialogue between science, society and biomedical innovation, at a time when challenges such as pandemics, antimicrobial resistance and environmental change are raising urgent new questions for research and policy.

The programme features some of the most influential names in contemporary microbiology:

Charles M. Rice (Rockefeller University), Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (2020), whose work led to the identification of the hepatitis C virus and enabled the development of effective antiviral treatments;Yasmine Belkaid, President of the Institut Pasteur, recognised for her pioneering research on the microbiome and immune system interactions;Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University), a leading expert in quorum sensing, the chemical communication process used by bacteria;Isabel Gordo (GIMM), ERC Advanced Grant recipient, who studies bacterial evolution within the human body and the mechanisms behind antibiotic resistance.

Over three days, researchers and the public will engage in discussions on major scientific challenges of the 21st century, including host–microbe interactions and disease, antimicrobial resistance and bacterial evolution, emerging viruses and preparedness for future pandemics, as well as microorganism engineering and synthetic biology.

Antimicrobial resistance is considered by the World Health Organization one of the greatest threats to global health, with the potential to cause millions of deaths in the coming decades if no effective action is taken. At the same time, advances in microbiome research and the growing capacity to engineer microorganisms are transforming fields such as medicine, biotechnology and environmental sustainability, opening new possibilities for prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

“The microscopic world has a profound impact on our health, ecosystems and the future of biotechnology. The GIMM Festival aims to bring researchers and society closer together to discuss how these discoveries can shape the future,” says Maria Manuel Mota, CEO of the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine.

With the participation of world-leading scientists, including a Nobel laureate, the GIMM Festival positions Lisbon as an international hub for scientific debate, reinforcing its role as a meeting point for cutting-edge research and innovation in microbiology and global health.

The full programme and registration are available at www.gimmfest.pt.

About the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM)
The Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is a biomedical research institute created through the merger of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) and the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM). With a strong commitment to advancing knowledge, developing innovative solutions for health and translating discoveries into real-world impact, GIMM aims to establish itself as a global leader in life sciences and biomedical research.
www.gimm.pt 

About the GIMM Festival
The GIMM Festival is an annual event in Lisbon that celebrates science as a driver of social transformation. Organised by GIMM, it brings together national and international experts to discuss the major challenges of global health, promoting the connection between cutting-edge research, biomedical innovation and society.
www.gimmfest.pt

Press Contacts
Rita Resendes   
Communications & Media Relations Manager, Fundação GIMM 
rita.resendes@gimm.pt
+351 916 519 630

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