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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on September 21 requiring data centers built and operated in California to disclose water and electricity consumption, ensuring that data centers bear the costs of grid and water infrastructure upgrades themselves, while also limiting blanket environmental exemptions. Newsom said the measures aim to “ensure Californians remain in control”; the Data Center Coalition warned that such regulations could make California less attractive for new proje

South Korea's Financial Services Commission announced on September 22 that the second round of the National Growth Fund, valued at 600 billion won, will go on sale from September 30 to October 15 over 10 business days on a first-come, first-served basis. The fund follows the first round launched in

GRAM faces a $52.68 million unlock (approximately 36.58 million tokens) on September 22, with DeFiLlama linking the unlock to the TON Believers Fund. The unlock amount accounts for approximately 1.3% of GRAM’s circulating supply, while the unlock value accounts for approximately 83% of its trading volume, far exceeding the 0.20% median derived from The Tie’s analysis of more than 12,000 unlock events. The Ratio of Unlock Size to Market Liquidity: Why 83% Is Exceptionally High According to DeFiLl

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service issued a warning on May 23 regarding the concentration of leveraged and inverse products in crude oil and natural gas exchange-traded products, with these high-risk instruments accounting for 88.4% and 93.6% of their respective ETP markets based on May 11

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) issued a warning on March 22 regarding increased volatility in commodity exchange-traded products (ETPs), urging investors to exercise caution. The regulator cited ongoing geopolitical risks in international commodity markets as a key driver of

Meta's AI agent service 'Muse' reached the top position in iPhone app downloads on the 21st (local time), 10 days after its launch, driving Meta's stock price up 11.43% to close at $741.24 in Nasdaq regular trading. Muse recorded approximately 730,000 downloads on Apple iOS, with actual user

Baidu Wenku Cloud Drive, a subsidiary of Baidu (9888.HK), announced at Baidu AI Day on September 21 that it would accelerate the global expansion of its AI office tools and undertake a global brand upgrade. Oreate AI, the overseas one-stop AI office platform launched in 2025, has officially been renamed and upgraded as the overseas version of Kuku AI, “Kooko.” To date, Kooko’s overseas user base has surpassed 10 million. Why Oreate AI Was Renamed Kooko: More Than 10 Million Overseas Users and 40

South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy confirmed the Texas Encinal gas-fired power plant construction as the first project under the bilateral US investment framework on the 22nd during a National Assembly committee meeting. Minister Kim Jung-kwan reported one confirmed project and

Microsoft publicly disclosed a patent application through the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in September, publication number US 2026/0260258 A1. The applicant is Microsoft, and the filing date was Apr. 23. The patent describes a system that pauses the screen and inserts ads when gameplay reaches a “natural pause point.” The system uses a machine learning model to dynamically determine the optimal time for ad insertion, unlike the approach used by most free-to-play mobile game

SK Hynix and multiple foreign technology companies are investing billions of dollars in West Lafayette, Indiana, transforming the conservative city's economic landscape around Purdue University. SK Hynix broke ground last month on an advanced HBM packaging facility with investment exceeding $4 billi

Tiger Research surveyed 2,423 domestic cryptocurrency investors and found 73.1% plan to reduce usage of domestic crypto exchanges after taxation begins January 1 next year. The survey revealed investors intend to avoid the 22% effective tax rate by shifting to overseas exchanges and personal

Animoca Brands, a major investor in web3 and AI startups, and Nasdaq-listed Currenc Group suspended talks on a proposed reverse merger that would have taken Animoca public, the companies announced Tuesday. The two companies mutually agreed that the time required to close the deal no longer aligns

Xiaomi officially released and open-sourced the new Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 series in the early hours of September 22, including two natively fully multimodal models, Pro and Flash. Pro is priced at just 3 Yuan for input. MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 on the AA Overall Intelligence Index, surpassing Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max to become the strongest open-source model currently available. MiMo-V2.6 RL Training Specifications: $2.62 Million Cost, 30 Training Steps, and DeepSWE Improvements Xiaomi stated that MiMo

Xiaomi announced that it will launch the Xiaomi 18 Pro series flagship smartphones in China on September 23, featuring the Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Xiaomi officially previewed that the new series will feature a flagship mobile platform built on a 2nm GAA process, a Leica dual 200-megapixel imaging system, and an upgraded Super Pixel display using new M11 luminescent materials. Chip and Camera Specifications: 2nm GAA Flagship Platform and Leica Dual 200-Megapixel Imaging System The Xi

According to Reuters, Anthropic, which has publicly called for slowing the development of AI models, is considering releasing its next-generation AI model ahead of its IPO to counter the market impact of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. Anthropic’s IPO marketing campaign is expected to launch as early as mid-October, but may also be postponed until after the U.S. midterm elections in November. GPT-6 Astra’s Market Share Impact: Competitive Pressure Reflected in Ramp Data and OpenRouter Records OpenAI relea

Top-performing stock traders at Mirae Asset Securities net purchased Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Electronics, and Korea Circuit on 22일, according to data compiled by the brokerage. Investors in the top 1% by monthly returns bought Samsung Electro-Mechanics most heavily as its stock

SpaceXAI released “Grok 4.7” on Sept. 21, aiming to provide developers and professionals with deeper, more sustained computational support. It scored 71.0% on the DeepSWE v1.1 software engineering benchmark, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol max. In terms of its safety architecture, the new model allowed only 3.3% of high-risk prompts to pass HackerBench v0.3. Grok 4.7 Technical Architecture: A Larger Foundation Model, Long-Cycle Reinforcement Learning, and Long-Context Management Compared with its predece

Tesla registered a local entity, Tesla Motors Vietnam, this month according to business registration records, preparing to enter Vietnam's electric vehicle market where homegrown rival VinFast holds 92% of domestic EV sales per HSC research. The registration comes as Vietnam became Southeast Asia's

Bloomberg reported on September 22 that, according to people familiar with the matter, U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. violated U.S. sanctions on Iran by failing to prevent certain transactions on its platform. The investigation is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, with the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in Washington also involved; authorities are focusing on whether Binance knowingly allowed the trans