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South Korean banks' won-denominated loan delinquency rate rose to 0.63% at the end of July, up 0.07 percentage points from 0.56% at the end of June, according to data released by the Financial Supervisory Service on September 22. The increase was driven by new delinquencies totaling 3.2 trillion won

Oil prices fell sharply on September 21 as prospects emerged for US-Iran dialogue at the UN General Assembly in New York. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for October delivery dropped $4.52 (4.51%) to close at $95.78 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, marking the first close

Saudi Arabia's central bank (SAMA) withdrew from mBridge, a China-backed cross-border digital currency project, after completing a proof of concept on May 13, 2025, according to the Financial Times. SAMA had joined mBridge as a full

OpenAI on Monday posted a set of proposals for safety and security in the development of frontier artificial intelligence with a heavy focus on alignment research and recursive self-improvement, or RSI. The company said navigating the AI transition safely requires alignment research to keep pace wit

Gold futures declined nearly 1% on September 21 (US Eastern Time) as risk appetite strengthened across financial markets. At 1:31 PM, December delivery gold futures (GCZ6) on the COMEX exchange fell $42.80 (0.97%) to $4,382.10 per troy ounce from the previous settlement price of $4,424.90. The

X filed a lawsuit on September 17 in London's High Court against Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and unnamed others, alleging they operated a bot network that stole at least £207,384 ($278,000) from its Creator Revenue Sharing program. The six accounts allegedly posted near-identical Bitcoin

On Monday, OpenAI announced the formation of The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, an independent advisory body hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. The group is designed to give mathematicians more input into the company's math-oriented research and

Meta Platforms Inc.'s (META) new AI assistant Muse topped U.S. app store charts on Monday after launching Sept. 8, driving the stock to its best single-day gain in 13 months with an 11% jump. The app registered over 902,000 downloads in its first six days, outpacing Meta's earlier AI app launch.

The European Central Bank announced Monday it will invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities, with transactions settling through its newly launched Pontes service. The purchases aim to help the ECB gain practical experience as an investor and build institutional expertise in th

Ondo Finance introduced a conversion system allowing eligible institutions to convert stocks and exchange-traded funds directly into tokenized equivalents or redeem tokens for underlying shares. The new system aims to reduce the amount of additional capital needed to create tokenized inventory and l

Venice AI's native token VVV hit a fresh all-time high of $34.51 on September 21. The token is up roughly 17% in the past 24 hours and has climbed around 3,000% since bottoming out at $0.92 last December. VVV now holds a market cap near $1.6 billion, making it the third-largest AI-focused

Meta's Muse personal AI agent app topped Apple's iOS app store free app chart on Friday, surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and SpaceXAI's Grok AI. The app racked up 730,000 downloads over about five days after launching on Sep. 8, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. Meta's

Hardware maker FutureBit tested a Bitcoin mining demonstration using a simulated fruit fly brain to perform mining calculations in a web browser, the company stated on X on September 13, 2026. The HashFly experiment simulates activity across 2,914 neural pathways from MaleCNS v1.0, a digital

Iran's government has implemented reduced office hours and increased remote work to address energy shortages, as reported by Al Jazeera. The measures respond to fuel and power shortages exacerbated by ongoing military conflict, including strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and disruptions in

The United States is investigating a shipment of F-35 components that was diverted to Hong Kong instead of its intended destination, Australia. The shipment is believed to have included sensitive stealth-related technology, prompting an inquiry by the Pentagon and U.S. Congress due to concerns

Sunrun and Tesla said on Monday that more than 140,000 household batteries discharged power into California's grid on the evening of Sept. 9, when a heat wave lifted demand and wholesale prices. The companies reported a peak of more than 580 megawatts over a three-hour window, describing the

ARM Holdings Plc (ARM) shares surged about 16% on Monday, making the stock the Nasdaq-100 pack's top gainer, as Meta Platforms Inc.'s (META) Muse AI agent reportedly sparked renewed enthusiasm for central processing units (CPUs). Meta is ARM's lead partner and co-developer on the AGI CPU built for a

Paramount Skydance will settle with state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, allowing its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to proceed, multiple reports said Monday. The lawsuit sought to block the deal on antitrust grounds and was previously set for trial in March. The d

Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks announced on Monday that one-third of new GLP-1 pill patients are taking the company's Foundayo, as the drugmaker ramps up production to compete with rival Novo Nordisk in the oral obesity medication market. The announcement came as Lilly broke ground on a $6.5 billion