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According to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, Collin McKinney Hill has joined the prediction market platform as Vice President of Operations. Hill previously served as General Manager at DoorDash, overseeing one of the company's largest business units. Prior to that, he held the role of Chief of Staff to Ray Dalio at Bridgewater.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China's four major sea zones—the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea—reopen today (September 16) at 12:00 following a 4.5-month fishing moratorium. The Yellow Sea and East China Sea waters between 35°N and 26°30'N ended their closure. Post-moratorium resource surveys showed significant recovery: the northern East China Sea saw resource density increase approximately 9.8 times compared to pre-moratorium levels, whi

According to Washington Post, the Trump administration is preparing to provide Israel with thousands of bombs in what would be the largest single sale of such munitions in recent years, with a deal value reaching up to $2.8 billion, according to a U.S. official.

According to Guru Club and LSEG data, Asian currencies weakened against the dollar during early Asian trading on September 16, as markets awaited the Federal Reserve's policy decision later in the day. Fed funds futures pricing indicated a 92% probability of a 25 basis point rate hike, marking the first increase since 2023. The dollar gained 0.2% against the Japanese yen to 155.43, climbed 0.6% versus the South Korean won to 1,370.92, while the Australian dollar fell 0.1% to 0.7125 against the g

According to Guru Club, the Indonesian Rupiah weakened to 17,740 per US dollar on Sept 16, marking the lowest level since Sept 2.

According to a Deloitte study released on Sept 16, one in six UK employees purchases artificial intelligence tools at personal expense, with collective annual spending reaching nearly £1 billion (approximately $1.4 billion). The survey found that two-thirds of workers have tried AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, while almost one-quarter use these tools daily at work. The most common workplace applications of AI include information retrieval, email draf

According to PANews, Sihao Huang, former senior AI policy advisor at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), joined Anthropic on September 16 as Head of Frontier Compute Strategy. He will collaborate with Tom Brown, Anthropic's head of compute platform, to advance infrastructure expansion, build industry alliances, and develop strategies for rapid AI development. Huang stated that his new role brings him closer to cutting-edge technology while continuing to influence ma

According to Guru Club, lithium carbonate futures contracts declined 4% on Sept 16, currently trading at 124,320 yuan per ton.

According to Flop Labs, the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation disclosed that MCP tool calls initiated by ChatGPT users surged 98-fold between January and August 2026, with related SDK monthly downloads approaching 500 million. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined the foundation's board on September 17. These calls are driven by AI agents rather than direct user actions and are charged per invocation, reflecting rapidly rising computational demand powered by agents.

According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office report cited by CNBC on September 15, the U.S. Defense Department had spent approximately $38.1 billion on military operations against Iran as of August 1, averaging $246 million per day. More than half of these costs were spent replenishing missiles and ammunition used during the conflict, with additional expenses of $10.4 billion for increased flight hours and $2.7 billion for rising fuel prices. The CBO warned that U.S. air defense interceptor

New Zealand's sovereign wealth fund achieved a 14.2% annual return in the year ended June, according to CEO Jo Townsend. The fund, with roughly half its portfolio allocated to equities, maintained an underweight position in U.S. stocks due to valuation concerns. Townsend stated the fund has identified alternative investment opportunities to diversify the portfolio and generate long-term returns.

According to ChainCatcher, a whale has maintained an 8x leveraged long position on 45,000 ETH on Hyperliquid since August 31, currently facing an unrealized loss of $4.295 million. The position, valued at $107 million, ranks as Hyperliquid's third-largest single-asset holding. The whale opened at $2,486.37 with a liquidation price of $2,181.79, having paid over $540,000 in funding fees. Peak unrealized gains reached $5.054 million.

According to SEC Chair Paul Atkins, the agency has tasked staff with drafting a proposal to permit investment advisors to directly custody client and fund crypto assets under specific conditions, with consideration for state trust companies to serve as custodians. Atkins noted that some crypto assets currently lack qualified third-party custodians. The custody proposal is part of the SEC's broader crypto regulatory framework; the agency's amended crypto asset custody rules entered White House re

According to The Information, AI agent startup Instinct is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation. The funding round would value the early-stage company among the most sought-after AI infrastructure startups.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) futures surged 4% intraday today, climbing to 7,339 yuan per ton.

According to Yonhapnews, South Korea's former President Yoon Suk Yeol was acquitted on charges of perjury on September 16 in a second trial related to allegations that he gave false testimony in a case involving former Prime Minister Han Duck Soo.

According to Jin10 Data, the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opened on September 16 in Beijing, bringing together approximately 2,000 delegates from over 100 countries, regions, and international organizations. China's Defense Minister Dong Jun attended and delivered a keynote address. The forum's theme is "Building Consensus on Stability and Advancing Collaborative Security Governance."

According to ChainCatcher, tread.fi announced on September 16 at 13:00 UTC that its native token TREAD will undergo genesis distribution with a fixed total supply of 100 million. Genesis allocation accounts for 15.2% and will be fully unlocked based on platform usage, automatically sent to users' registered HyperCore addresses without claiming transactions or gas fees. Team members are ineligible to participate. The remaining allocation is split among community and ecosystem (35.5%), Tread Labs

According to Reuters, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been invited to attend a state dinner on September 24 in Washington, D.C., hosted by President Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping. A state dinner is among the highest-level diplomatic honors a U.S. president can bestow on foreign leaders, typically reserved for allied heads of state. This follows a reciprocal state dinner held by Xi for Trump in Beijing in May, which Huang also attended alongside SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former Apple CEO Tim

According to PANews, on September 16, Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd. completed a corporate registration update, increasing its registered capital from 364 million yuan to 404 million yuan. The company's administrative registration authority was also transferred from the Hangzhou High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Binjiang) Market Supervision and Management Bureau to the Zhejiang Province Market Supervision and Management Bureau.