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Tencent announced the official launch of the WorkBuddy open platform on September 2, opening underlying agent capabilities to smart hardware, industry applications, and developers. The platform onboarded over 100 ecosystem partners in its initial phase.

According to OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, the Astra recurrent architecture does not significantly increase model opacity. Pachocki stated that the compute graph depth of Astra and other current frontier models is at most 2x deeper than GPT-4, not orders of magnitude larger as some reports suggested. Pachocki acknowledged that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) monitoring faces growing challenges, but clarified this stems from factors independent of architecture changes. He emphasized that OpenAI h

Eurozone government bond yields continued to rise for the sixth consecutive trading day, with German 2-year government bond yields reaching 2.975% on September 2, the highest level since June 2024.

According to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, on September 1, global economic growth is expected to reach 3% this year, but faces severe divergence in growth trajectories and persistent high uncertainty. She expressed concern that rising bond yields in developed economies are pushing up global interest rates, adding to economic headwinds.

According to Bloomberg, Binance's monthly trading volume for perpetual futures tied to traditional financial assets reached approximately $445 billion in July, up nearly 15 times from approximately $30 billion in January. The figure represents an increase of about 1,383% in six months as crypto exchanges increasingly compete for stock, commodity and ETF trading. Binance's traditional-asset perpetual contracts are derivatives settled in USDT and offer up to 10x leverage, allowing traders to specu

According to Jin10 data, on September 1-2, the U.S. military struck two Iranian oil tankers, while commercial shipping in the Hormuz Strait faced disruption. The U.S. Central Command rerouted 84 merchant vessels and disabled three ships as of September 1. Shipping data showed only four commercial vessels transited the strait on Tuesday, down from an average of 13 over the prior 10 days, according to maritime risk firm Marisks. Meanwhile, Russia revised its 2026 oil production forecast downward t

According to ChainCatcher, the G20's finance ministers and central bank governors issued a joint statement after concluding a two-day meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, committing to establish a clear regulatory pathway for digital assets to promote financial innovation. The statement acknowledged that digital financial innovation, including digital assets, can support broad economic growth and play a key role in driving private-sector innovation. G20 officials expressed anticipation for the

According to News1, South Korea's Digital Asset Exchange Association (DAXA) recently identified four undeclared foreign virtual asset firms suspected of operating in the country and has requested police investigations. The entities include virtual asset exchanges Big One and CoinMy.

According to Mirae Asset's Hong Kong subsidiary, the firm added a tokenized share class to its Global X HSCEI Covered Call Active ETF on August 27 in collaboration with Citi and digital asset platform OSL, marking the first tokenized covered call ETF offering in Hong Kong. The tokenized class allows both institutional and retail investors to hold fund shares as blockchain-based tokens via the OSL platform, which is licensed by Hong Kong financial authorities. Globally, BlackRock launched two tok

According to Jin10 data, Jens Weidmann, ECB Governing Council member and head of Germany's central bank, confirmed on September 2 that the European Central Bank will raise rates next week, but declined to commit to further action beyond September. In a Wednesday interview, Weidmann noted: "The market is currently pricing in a rate hike probability exceeding 95% for our September meeting, and I believe the market has a fairly accurate understanding of potential policy responses at this stage." Ho

According to XRPScan network metrics, the XRP Ledger has crossed 3 billion cumulative transactions, marking a long-term usage milestone for the payment-focused blockchain. The figure reflects the ledger's activity accumulation across multiple market cycles and regulatory periods.

Alibaba Cloud has opened public beta testing for its enterprise-grade multi-agent collaboration platform, Wanque. Unlike single AI agents handling entire tasks, the platform breaks down complex projects into smaller components assigned to multiple agents with different responsibilities. Members and assets are organized within project spaces, and multiple agents collaborate via group chat to advance tasks sequentially, with outputs stored in an asset library for enterprise-wide reuse.

According to ship-tracking firms Vortexa and Kpler, three batches of liquefied natural gas from Qatar and the UAE have been rerouted via ship-to-ship (STS) transfers outside the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks, subsequently heading to India and Japan. In late August, the Greek shipping company GasLog's LNG carrier completed an STS transfer near Oman. A second shipment, originally loaded in Ras Laffan by Qatar Energy, involved an LNG carrier that was struck by projectiles near the Strait in July

According to Silicon Data's LLM Token Expenditure Index, on Monday artificial intelligence token prices fell to a record-low 97 cents. The benchmark, which tracks the effective market price of large language model tokens, has dropped more than half from its peak earlier this summer. OpenAI cut prices across its GPT-5.6 lineup, adding to downward pressure amid competition from cheaper open-source models, particularly from Chinese developers including Moonshot AI's Kimi.

According to Noor News, a car crashed into a pro-government and pro-military rally in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, overnight on September 2, killing 4 people and injuring 10 others. The vehicle, traveling at high speed, first collided with another car, then lost control, struck safety barriers and traffic signs before plunging into the crowd, according to Mohsin Musa-Abadi, director of the Traffic Police of Razavi Khorasan Province. Authorities have arrested the driver, whose preliminary examinat

Xiaomi officially announced that its Xiaomi 18 Fold will launch on September 7.

According to Morgan Asset Management's survey conducted in April-June 2026, Japanese pension funds planning to increase domestic bond allocation (9.8%) exceeded those planning to reduce it (1.2%) by the widest margin since 2008. The 82 surveyed funds showed the largest net positive shift toward Japanese bonds since the survey began. Additionally, approximately 62% of respondents indicated they are considering changes to how they manage domestic bond investments.

According to Guru Club, ECB Governing Council member Negrel maintained caution on any guidance beyond September on September 2, citing significant uncertainty and an unsettling current situation.

According to Guru Club on September 2, a global aluminum producer has quoted Japanese buyers a premium of $325 per ton for primary aluminum in the fourth quarter (October-December), marking an 18% decrease from the current quarter. Another major producer submitted an initial quote of $310 per ton last week, representing a 22% quarterly decline. Japanese buyers pay the premium on top of London Metal Exchange spot prices.

According to Flop Labs, the AI agent project led by Arthur Hayes announced on September 2 that it is building a GPU compute exchange allowing the buying and selling of computing resources. The platform enables AI agents to purchase computing power from miners using FLOP tokens, while validators re-execute portions of completed computational work to verify pricing mechanisms. Flop Labs noted that Nvidia's data center compute sales reached $89 billion in a single quarter with 117% year-over-year g