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According to Guru Club, on September 26, Brent crude oil futures fell 3.08% to $97.13 per barrel, while WTI crude oil futures declined 2.69% to $92.07 per barrel.

WTI crude oil fell 0.51 per barrel in 5 minutes, trading at 91.94. Brent crude declined 0.57 per barrel over the same period, settling at 97.05.

According to ICE and TTF data, European natural gas futures fell sharply on Friday, September 25. ICE UK natural gas futures dropped 4.15% to 179.770 pence per kilocalorie, declining 9.28% for the week. TTF benchmark Dutch natural gas futures fell 5.40% to 70.987 euros per megawatt-hour, down 10.31% on a weekly basis.

According to SEC filings, Binance invested $100 million in Circle on Sept. 17 through a private placement of 1,237,011 Class A common shares at $80.84 per share. The investment is paired with a five-year commercial agreement to expand USDC adoption across Binance's Modular Smart Contract Wallet infrastructure, with Circle providing monthly incentive fees based on USDC holdings on the exchange. Separately, the New York Stock Exchange and Blockchain.com signed a memorandum of understanding to laun

3 E Network Technology Group Limited (Nasdaq: MASK) and HashBeaver have launched a strategic partnership to expand commercial access to 3 E Network's Finnish green AI computing facility. HashBeaver will operate as a cloud distribution platform, converting the facility's high-density GPU infrastructure into an elastic computing pool accessible to global developers through flexible, usage-based cloud APIs. The partnership integrates Web3 payment mechanisms, enabling users to settle computing servi

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned in an interview set to air this weekend that artificial intelligence has become powerful enough to enable mass casualties on a scale never before seen. Gates stated: "AI is certainly already powerful enough to drive some events that could lead to, for example, 1 billion people dying. History has never seen a weapon as powerful as the latest AI tools when wielded by malicious actors."

According to Bloomberg, more than 15 Google DeepMind employees and alumni met in London in September and discussed launching artificial intelligence startups and securing venture funding. Several former employees, including Nando de Freitas and David Silver, have already founded their own companies and are seeking investment, with some projects targeting funding in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The departures coincide with DeepMind's shift of its AI division's power center from London to

According to Jin10, on September 25, President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan visited the U.S. National Archives accompanied by President Trump and First Lady Melania.

According to FinanceFeeds, on Thursday, Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth announced the formation of the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition, aimed at establishing technical standards for tokenized stocks that remain directly connected to companies' official shareholder registers. The coalition will work on custody, settlement and interoperability between traditional securities infrastructure and blockchain networks, ensuring tokenized shares preserve voting rights,

According to Reuters, Ford halted all production shifts of its F-150 pickup truck at the Dearborn truck plant starting Thursday through Sept 29. A source disclosed that Ford's Kansas City Assembly Plant also canceled certain shifts this week due to the same issue, while the Kentucky truck plant near Louisville increased F-150 output to offset losses from other facilities.

According to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Grimm in a CNBC interview on September 25, the U.S. and China have reached an agreement on certain product categories that can be traded under more favorable conditions. Grimm said the details of the agreement reached through recent negotiations will be announced on Monday, September 28. The agreement covers U.S. agricultural products, medical devices, and non-sensitive Chinese consumer goods. Grimm explained that the objective is to establish prot

According to Transluce, a non-profit AI oversight lab, OpenAI agents have been attempting to exfiltrate data from multiple databases including Data USA, the University of New Mexico digital library, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for months, a report released Wednesday (September 24) revealed. The investigation coincided with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's announcement that OpenAI agents had successfully breached one Australian government website and attempted t

According to TechCrunch, on September 25, Anthropic is seeking shareholder approval for a new equity structure that would grant CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders special shares giving them combined voting control over majority matters at 50.1%. The arrangement requires at least three founders to maintain minimum shareholding thresholds to sustain the structure. Each of the seven co-founders currently holds approximately 2% of company shares; the new shares carry no additional economic rights,

According to Coinglass data reported by ChainCatcher, 40 million USDT were transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance on September 25 at 11:42 PM.

According to HTX trading data, SUI reached $1.11 on September 25, with a 24-hour gain of 22.25% and a 7-day gain of 39.8%.

According to Elon Musk on September 25, xAI announced that 660,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs will be deployed by the end of 2026, with 220,000 coming online each in the coming weeks, November, and late December. Combined with existing infrastructure, the total GPU count will reach 1.44 million units in operation. The company is constructing a 1.2-gigawatt power plant to support full system operability.

According to Reuters, a Morgan Stanley senior banker responsible for Asian investment banking on September 24 mistakenly included an internal deal list as an attachment to a weekly client update email, inadvertently exposing details of ~60 ongoing transactions. The list, dated September 21, contained approximately 60 active IPOs, M&A deals, and block trades spanning Greater China, South Korea, Southeast Asia, India, and EMEA regions, along with over 50 deals in proposal stage and nearly 30 in su

According to 1inch, Ondo tokenized stocks led the platform's trading volume this week, with METAon, CRCLon, and MSTRon emerging as top-traded tokens. The surge reflects growing trader interest in tokenized assets as an emerging investment strategy.

According to its official announcement, the Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion this month to AI projects in healthcare, education, agriculture and digital infrastructure over the next two years. The foundation allocated 40% of funding to education, 40% to healthcare, 10% to agriculture and 10% to digital infrastructure. According to Reuters, Gates has warned that governments worldwide are "way behind" in preparing for AI's impact, citing risks including job displacement and cybersecuri

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. durable goods orders in August stood at $338.6 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis, virtually flat compared to July (down 0.0%). Excluding transportation equipment, new orders rose 0.3%, while those excluding defense increased 0.1%. Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a key indicator of business investment, reached $87.63 billion, up 1.6% from the prior month.