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Lithuania's President confirmed on Tuesday that an unmanned drone shot down belonged to the Gerbera model.

According to Jin10 Futures, the U.S. Federal Reserve's probability of raising rates by 25 basis points on September 17 surged to 92.5% as of September 16. Domestic China petrochemical prices and futures hit their highest levels since 2021, supported by tight refinery feedstock supplies, low port crude oil inventories, and strong local refinery restocking demand. The market is closely monitoring whether the Fed rate hike materializes, as rising U.S. interest rates could pressure global commoditie

According to BlockBeats, SK Hynix stated on September 16 that it has not confirmed any plans related to reported negotiations with Intel regarding memory chip production in the United States. The company said it is exploring multiple options to strengthen its global competitiveness but has not determined any specific plans or arrangements.

According to Bloomberg, UK 30-year government bond yields have reached their highest level since 1998 and are now approaching 6%, signaling that the government's strategy of reducing long-term debt issuance to support the gilt market has failed to reverse the upward pressure on borrowing costs since the 2022 market turmoil.

Tencent repurchased shares worth HK$100.4 million (approximately 1.004 billion Hong Kong dollars) on September 16.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget released its August 2026 Proof of Reserves report, recording a total reserve ratio of 122%, marking its 45th consecutive monthly disclosure since December 2022. The exchange's Protection Fund averaged $351 million in July, with values ranging between $329.8 million and $365.9 million, primarily reflecting Bitcoin price fluctuations as the fund is backed by 5,500 BTC held separately from customer deposits. Users can independently verify reserve snapshots using Bitge

According to BlockBeats, UXUY, a decentralized on-chain trading platform incubated by Binance Labs and backed by YZi Labs, completed integration on Arc's public mainnet on September 16. Arc, the Layer-1 blockchain launched by Circle (USDC issuer), uses USDC for gas payments and focuses on stablecoin payments and asset tokenization.

As of 4:30 PM KST on September 16, South Korea's four major cryptocurrency exchanges—Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit—showed an average Bitcoin premium (Kimchi Premium) of 0.97% compared to Binance, according to data from Digital Asset. Ethereum averaged a 0.99% premium, while XRP and USDT each showed 0.97% premiums. Bitcoin traded at an average of 103.62 million Korean won on domestic exchanges versus 102.62 million won on Binance (converted at the Bank of Korea exchange rate).

According to BlockBeats and BIT market data, U.S. tech sectors advanced in Wednesday pre-market trading on Sept 16. Semiconductor stocks led, with Lam Research (LRCX) up 2.26%, Applied Materials (AMAT) up 1.55%, and Arm (ARM) up 1.41%. Storage shares also climbed: SK Hynix (SKHY) +3.47%, Micron Technology (MU) +0.81%, Western Digital (WDC) +1.43%, SanDisk (SNDK) +0.9%, and Seagate Technology (STX) +0.99%. Optical communications stocks outpaced, including Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) +2.17%, Co

According to Odaily, on September 16, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, announced the establishment of the Sun Yuchen Award, a decentralized academic bounty mechanism with no identity restrictions for contributors—both humans and AI systems are eligible. OpenAI's research team received the top prize of $1 million for completing the formal proof of the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. The award mechanism uses machine verification as its core, with problems and proofs published on GitHub

According to Yonhapinfomax, on September 16, South Korea's interest rate swap (IRS) rates fell across most tenors in the Seoul bond market. The 10-year IRS rate declined 6.75 basis points to 4.2875%, while the 5-year rate dropped 7.50bp to 4.1975%. The 2-year and 3-year rates fell 3.75bp and 6.25bp respectively. The 1-year rate rose 0.25bp to 3.7200%, bucking the downward trend. Meanwhile, SOFR rates fell sharply across all tenors, with the 1-year rate declining 8.50bp to 3.5350% and both 5-year

According to Mitsubishi UFJ analyst Lee Hardman on September 16, the Federal Reserve's rate decision may fail to strengthen the US dollar unless it signals continued tightening ahead. LSEG data shows markets have largely priced in a 25 basis point rate hike on Wednesday and cumulative hikes of nearly 95 basis points through September 2027, setting a high bar for the Fed to deliver more hawkish signals than expected.

Qualcomm has restructured its next-generation Hexagon NPU architecture to support agentic AI workloads on mobile devices. The updated processor features a 50% increase in NPU shared memory capacity, reducing the need for frequent external memory access and enabling longer context processing, multi-model collaboration, and parallel AI agent operations. The architecture introduces a new Element Accelerator specialized for Transformer workloads and adds support for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models,

At All-In Summit, Elon Musk warned that current semiconductor foundry capacity will become a critical bottleneck for AI expansion. He noted that existing wafer fabs are already running at full capacity, and future demand from data centers, humanoid robots, and vehicles will require simultaneous expansion of logic chips, memory, and advanced packaging. To address the constraint, Tesla and SpaceX are jointly developing Terafab chip manufacturing lines in Austin. Musk stated the companies have alre

On September 14, China and Germany held a cooperation meeting on autonomous and connected vehicles in Berlin. The two sides discussed technology standards, road testing, vehicle data security, V2X applications, and vehicle-cloud-infrastructure integration pilots. Both nations confirmed the meeting has become a key platform for regular information sharing and collaboration between government agencies, industry bodies, and leading enterprises from both countries.

Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, Elon Musk proposed that xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and leading Chinese AI companies allow rivals to run tests on their models before release. Rather than companies "grading their own homework," Musk argued that competitors could search for dangerous capabilities or weaknesses and raise alarms when problems emerge. He acknowledged the system would not eliminate every risk but said it could dramatically increase the chances of disco

According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain, MARA Holdings purchased 1,292 Bitcoin on September 16, 2026, worth approximately $98.64 million. The transaction was processed through crypto trading firm FalconX and marked one of the company's largest single purchases in nearly a year. After the buy, MARA Holdings' total Bitcoin treasury reached 35,577 BTC, valued near $2.7 billion, positioning the company among the larger corporate Bitcoin holders.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation Crypto Assets proposal will enter its final public-comment phase on October 20, 2026, marking a critical deadline for industry feedback on the 145-page framework formally proposed on August 18. The 60-day comment period covers two new exemptions from Securities Act registration requirements—one allowing startups to raise up to $5 million over four years, and a broader exemption permitting up to $75 million annually with additional reportin

BASIS, an institutional-grade crypto yield platform, has launched Auto Earn, automatically restaking unclaimed rewards for BTC, ETH, SOL, and PAXG every Monday at 00:00 UTC. The feature handles only accrued rewards without creating new positions or resetting lock-up terms, and users can enable or disable it at any time. Concurrently, BASIS announced two partnerships: an ecosystem collaboration with XDC Network to explore crypto yield integration with real-world assets and trade finance, and a te

According to Yonhap Infomax, South Korea's government bond yields fell across the board on September 16 as foreign investors bought 9,538 contracts of 3-year treasury futures. The 3-year yield declined 3.8 basis points to 4.053%, while the 10-year yield fell 5.3 basis points to 4.547%, and the 30-year yield dropped 3.7 basis points to 4.692%.