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According to Jin10, Tencent Music announced plans to issue $1 billion in offshore bonds on September 2, marking the company's first offshore debt issuance in six years. The move signals the Chinese music platform's return to international capital markets after a six-year hiatus.

According to IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva, global public debt reached nearly 100% of GDP on September 2, surpassing the post-World War II record. This represents a significant deterioration in the global fiscal position, with the IMF warning that unsustainable debt levels pose risks to economic stability and limit policymakers' ability to respond to future crises.

According to Kuwait's Foreign Ministry, Iran's continued attacks constitute serious violations of international law and represent a dangerous escalation threatening regional security.

According to The Block's recent testing, users of Robinhood Wallet and social trading app Fomo have been able to purchase meme coins, including dogwifhat (WIF), with credit cards without completing separate know-your-customer verification. The purchases are powered by Crossmint's Token Checkout payment infrastructure and processed through Apple Pay and Google Pay. The transactions were classified under merchant category code 5815 (Digital Goods Media) rather than cryptocurrency, allowing users t

MoonPay announced on August 31 that it has integrated its PayBox payment infrastructure into Grok, enabling users to execute crypto trades, move assets across blockchains and make online purchases through conversational AI instructions. The integration was completed in approximately two days, demonstrating rapid deployment speed using standardized connector architecture. PayBox initially launched on July 29 with support for ChatGPT and Claude, functioning as a separate payment vault that connect

According to ARK Invest and Glassnode, on September 2 the two organizations published a joint research report titled The Decentralization Spectrum: Design Tradeoffs in Digital Assets, examining the decentralization architectures of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The report measures decentralization along a spectrum using six quantitative dimensions: ownership distribution, exit fluidity, network verification overhead, critical resilience threshold, blockchain reconstruction overhead, and geograp

According to Ontology's official blog via Foresight News, the Ontology mainnet has recently resumed normal operations following the completion of security audits and network upgrades. All Sync Nodes are required to upgrade promptly to version v3.1.5 to ensure compatibility and smooth synchronization with the network post-recovery.

According to Foresight News, HashKey has joined the U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)'s Digital Assets Advisory Services industry working group, becoming the first Asian digital asset services provider to do so. The working group comprises over 100 leading global financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, and the New York Stock Exchange, collaborating on tokenized asset issuance, settlement, and custody mechanisms at the institutional level. DTC, a

According to Silicon Data's LLM Token Expenditure Index reported by Korean media, the benchmark fell to 97 cents per million tokens on August 31, marking its historic low since the index's launch last year and representing a 50% decline from May's peak of $2.05. The drop was driven by Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI's open-source Kimi K3 model, OpenAI's pricing reductions for ChatGPT-5.6 series models in July, and dynamic pricing adoption by major developers. While lower token costs benefit end user

According to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, two tankers were targeted by sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz on September 2 and have halted their voyage.

According to Xiaomi, the company will debut at the Berlin International Electronics Consumer Expo (IFA 2026) on September 4 local time, showcasing its flagship foldable phone Mi 18 Fold and robot CyberOne for the first time outside Asia. The company also disclosed that major home appliances and other products will formally scale into Europe starting from this event.

According to Google VP Amin Vahdat at SEMICON 2026, Google is accelerating the pace of TPU development and production. Previously releasing one TPU generation every three years, then annually, Google has shipped two TPU variants in the past year and plans to potentially introduce new chips every six months. Google is adopting a new "Square Wave Deployment" production model that rapidly scales manufacturing capacity immediately after chip verification, rather than the traditional gradual ramp-up

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale wallet has accumulated 155,980 HYPE tokens worth approximately $12.91 million at an average price of $82.77, with zero sales recorded to date. The accumulated HYPE has been transferred to another wallet and staked. The wallet maintains roughly $4.34 million in USDC available for further purchases, indicating ongoing accumulation intent.

According to Onchain Lens, a whale accumulated 155,980 HYPE tokens (worth approximately $12.91 million) on September 2, with an average purchase price of $82.77. The whale subsequently transferred the tokens to another wallet and staked them.

According to South Korea's Financial Services Commission, on September 2, KOSDAQ-listed company A's investor relations executive B was reported to investigators for illegal use of non-public material information. The executive gained prior knowledge of the company's new drug Phase 1 trial results and technology licensing agreements, then purchased company stock through nominee accounts between March and June 2024, before the information became public. The illicit gains totaled approximately 20 m

According to BIT (bit.com), U.S. semiconductor, storage, and optical communications stocks declined on September 2 in premarket trading. Semiconductor stocks including Arm (ARM) fell 1.09%, Intel (INTC) dropped 1.01%, and Applied Materials (AMAT) fell 0.42%. Storage sector stocks also moved lower, with Micron Technology (MU) down 0.6% and Western Digital (WDC) falling 0.65%. Optical communications stocks led declines, with Credo (CRDO) down 8.77%, Astera Labs (ALAB) down 1.3%, and Lumentum (LITE

According to Bloomberg, Cognition AI, the San Francisco-based developer of AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise approximately $1 billion at a valuation of roughly $47 billion as of September 2. Strong investor demand could push the round above $1 billion, with investors expressing nearly $10 billion in interest. Cognition is generating more than $900 million in annualized revenue, up from $492 million in late May, representing significant growth since its $26 billion valuation three month

According to Reuters, Brent crude climbed to $95.68 a barrel on September 2 as renewed US-Iran strikes escalated risks in the Strait of Hormuz, gaining more than $7 from Friday's settlement of $88.10. The rise fueled inflation expectations and global government-bond selling, with the US 10-year Treasury yield reaching 4.81% and Britain's 10-year gilt hitting 5.25% — its highest level since June 2008, according to Bloomberg. The European Central Bank is expected to raise rates by 0.25% on Septemb

According to 科创板日报, Douyin Work released two new features on September 2. The first enables multi-agent parallel processing, where a primary coordinator agent decomposes tasks and distributes specialized ones to sub-agents for concurrent handling. The second adds Mac operating system support with local GUI control capabilities, allowing Douyin Work to understand interfaces and execute tasks without requiring MCP, APIs, plugins, or CLI access.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump on Tuesday urged oil executives at a White House meeting to construct additional refineries capable of producing fuel, though the industry faces significant economic barriers to doing so. Building new refineries requires investments of billions of dollars and takes three to five years to complete. Energy Aspects analyst Robert Campbell stated: "No one is going to make a multibillion-dollar investment based on three months of record-high profit margins.