Hong Kong has designated Nasdaq-listed Solana Company as a strategic enterprise under a government programme to attract firms that support the city’s economic development, Cointelegraph reported. Solana Company was selected for the programme and is the only blockchain infrastructure firm accepted by Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises in 2026. The company said the designation will provide a single point of contact across government departments and regulators and speed up overseas hiring, while also supporting links with local institutional partners.

Latest general-purpose AI models recorded lower accuracy than Google’s Inception v3 image recognition model released in 2016 in a skin lesion diagnosis experiment. Researchers compared GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and Inception v3 using 200 lesion images split between cases needing treatment and those requiring no action. Inception v3 led overall and in melanoma identification. The study said differing training conditions limited interpretation and larger validation and safety assessments are needed for clinical use.