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According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

According to Bloomberg, the artificial intelligence company Humain is planning to raise its first $2.5 billion in funding to establish a fund focused on investing in data centers. Sources revealed that the fund will provide financing support for the 250 megawatt data center capacity being constructed in collaboration with Al Moammar Information Systems, with the overall scale potentially expanding to 1 gigawatt in the future.It is reported that Humain, supported by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), is promoting the development of local AI computing power and data center infrastructure to meet the growing demand for AI computing.

According to Securityweek, artificial intelligence security company HiddenLayer has completed a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Microsoft's M12, Morgan Stanley, and Ten Eleven Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of over $155 million.HiddenLayer focuses on protecting the entire lifecycle security of generative AI, predictive AI, and AI Agents. Its enterprise platform includes features such as AI asset discovery, AI supply chain security, attack simulation, and runtime protection. The new funding will primarily be used to expand the runtime security capabilities of AI Agents, particularly targeting AI programming Agents.

According to Techcrunch, cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced the acquisition of AI Agent startup Console for $500 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2024, Console uses AI Agent to automate tasks such as password resets, application permission grants, and daily IT troubleshooting, with clients including Ramp, Flock Safety, and Scale AI.Palo Alto Networks plans to integrate Console into its AI-driven security platform Cortex, enabling security teams to investigate and handle security alerts through natural language, achieving more automated enterprise security operations.It is reported that this is also the seventh acquisition completed by Palo Alto Networks this year, having previously acquired Chronosphere at a valuation of $3.35 billion and the cybersecurity startup Koi for $400 million.

According to Businesswire, the bank-led digital currency network Cari announced that it has raised $32.5 million in its first round of external financing, with all funds coming from banking institutions, including First Horizon Bank, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, M&T Bank, Old National Bank, and SouthState Bank, as well as Glacier Bank.Cari is built on an Ethereum-based permissioned Layer 2 blockchain, aimed at helping banks put funds on-chain through shared infrastructure, providing programmable financial services. The new funds will be used to accelerate bank access and integration, expanding tokenized deposits and programmable currency application scenarios.

Geoff Kendrick, the Global Head of Digital Assets at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that the global monthly trading volume of stablecoins has reached approximately $7 trillion, with Solana accounting for about one-fifth of stablecoin transactions.The interview also discussed the development trends of stablecoin payments and settlements by 2026, as well as how different blockchain networks are forming their own application positioning. Geoff Kendrick shared the progress of enterprises adopting stablecoins and stated that enterprise-level applications will become an important driving force for the further popularization of stablecoins.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, investment bank Alliance Global Partners, which manages $2.3 billion in assets, has given Strategy (stock code: MSTR) a buy rating for the first time, with a target price of $217. This indicates a 75% upside potential.

Echo Base is an institution focused on stabilizing digital asset companies, assisting in the formation of the BitMart Creditors' Committee, representing users holding frozen assets, and hiring legal advisors to evaluate recovery plans, including applying for bankruptcy proceedings without financial support. Echo Base had proposed a funding plan of up to $10 million to support BitMart in submitting a pre-negotiated bankruptcy application, but received no response from BitMart.Echo Base stated that the relevant actions stem from BitMart's failure to respond to the restructuring proposal and user withdrawal requests. Sonn Law Group has initiated an investigation for users with frozen assets of $500,000 or more at BitMart, assessing potential claims and asset recovery plans. Echo Base CEO Roshan Dharia stated that BitMart's employee plan can only sustain operations until January 2027, and the longer the delay, the fewer viable options there will be.

According to Zhitong Finance, Standard Chartered Bank stated that it will expand its institutional-level Bitcoin and Ethereum spot trading business from the UK to the UAE and will launch this business.

According to Tech Funding News, German AI data analytics startup Zeit AI has completed a €5 million seed round financing, with investors including Y Combinator, the Oxford University Seed Fund, Sequoia Capital Scout Fund, ACE Ventures, and HPVC, founded by SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner.Angel investors include former German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, 2014 World Cup champion Mario Götze, and Meta board member Charlie Songhurst. Zeit AI was founded two years ago by two former Palantir employees, and its product ZeitMind is an autonomous data analyst that can automatically process raw data and generate reports, alerts, inventory optimization, and other applications without the need for human data engineers to intervene.

Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Peng Jinlong stated that the "Virtual Asset Service Act" was passed on June 30 of this year after three readings. The Financial Supervisory Commission is currently formulating nine subsidiary regulations, covering stablecoin-related specifications, which are expected to be announced and implemented in the first quarter of next year.With the development of technologies such as AI and blockchain, Taiwan and global financial markets are moving towards a parallel track of traditional finance, digital finance, and blockchain finance. The demand for cross-border payments, trade financing, and capital allocation in the semiconductor supply chain is heating up, and stablecoins, blockchain, and financial technology are seen as new infrastructure supporting cross-border capital flows.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the top spot on the Binance contract real smart money 30-day leaderboard has changed hands, with trader Semisemi earning over 10.78 million USD in the past 30 days. Among them, the BTC long position has realized profits of over 8.06 million USD, and the ETH long position has realized profits of over 3.91 million USD, with the main earnings contributed by BTC and ETH trading.Currently, Semisemi still holds BTC and ETH long positions worth 95.59 million USD, with a total unrealized loss of approximately 1.885 million USD.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on the X platform that this week cybercriminals launched password recovery attacks against hundreds of thousands of X users. The X platform successfully thwarted this attack to prevent user accounts from being hijacked, and the Department of Justice is working closely with X to track down the attackers.

The Payment and Settlement Department of the People's Bank of China released the overall situation of the payment system operation for the second quarter of 2025. By the end of the second quarter, a total of 15.238 billion bank accounts had been opened nationwide, including 116 million corporate bank accounts and 15.122 billion personal bank accounts; a total of 10.068 billion bank cards had been issued nationwide, including 9.354 billion debit cards and 715 million credit cards and loan cards, with 775,700 ATMs.In the second quarter, banks nationwide processed 149.789 billion non-cash payment transactions, amounting to 136.536 trillion yuan. Bank card transactions totaled 146.662 billion, amounting to 22.670 trillion yuan, of which consumer transactions accounted for 93.371 billion, amounting to 3.157 trillion yuan. Banks processed 80.053 billion electronic payment transactions, amounting to 85.816 trillion yuan, including 18.217 billion online payments, amounting to 70.785 trillion yuan, and 58.386 billion mobile payments, amounting to 13.606 trillion yuan. Non-bank payment institutions processed 333.845 billion online payment transactions, amounting to 8.211 trillion yuan.In the second quarter, the payment system processed a total of 392.751 billion payment transactions, amounting to 308.483 trillion yuan. The People's Bank of China Clearing Center system processed 5.543 billion transactions, amounting to 22.957 trillion yuan; the UnionPay interbank payment system processed 97.641 billion transactions, amounting to 6.671 trillion yuan; the NetUnion clearing platform processed 283.180 billion transactions, amounting to 14.558 trillion yuan; and the RMB cross-border payment system processed 2.121 million transactions, amounting to 4.594 trillion yuan.

The official Chinese version of the "2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report" from Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI) was officially released today. The report points out that artificial intelligence has moved beyond a mere competition of model capabilities and is deepening into systemic changes at the levels of infrastructure, organizational processes, and institutions.Currently, the leading models worldwide are performing close to 100% human level on the software engineering benchmark SWE-bench; the success rate of agents in real computing environments has surged from 12% to 66%, with AI evolving from "generating information" to "executing tasks." The gap between top models in China and the U.S. has narrowed to 2.7%, with leading models from both sides having exchanged positions multiple times.In addition, physical infrastructure has become a core constraint on AI development. The global AI data center power capacity has reached 29.6 gigawatts, and chips, energy, and water resources are becoming key strategic bottlenecks for AI development.

The Bitget 2026 King Cup Global Invitation Tournament KCGI has opened registration on August 26. As of now, the event has formed 1,122 teams, with a total of 30,337 participants.This tournament is the first to integrate three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot rToken, all in the same arena, with the same prize pool and ranking, totaling a prize pool of 3 million USDT. Registration ends on September 22, and the team and individual competitions will take place from September 9 to September 22.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, publicly listed companies around the world have disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation and mining strategy transformation, with the core information as follows:The Smarter Web invests £2 million to increase its holdings of 35 BTC: London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company announced that it has purchased 35 bitcoins on the secondary market for £2 million (approximately $2.7 million). After this increase, the total amount of bitcoins on its balance sheet has reached 2,747 BTC.DDC Enterprise holds 2,899 BTC in the first half of the year: Asian food platform and bitcoin treasury company DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSE: $DDC) released its financial report for the first half of 2026. The company's total revenue reached $20.2 million (a year-on-year increase of 29%), and the adjusted EBITDA for its core food business successfully turned positive at $1.2 million. Due to fluctuations in the crypto market, the GAAP net loss for the period was $38.41 million (of which $34.27 million was a non-cash fair value loss on bitcoin). As of the date of publication, the company holds a total of 2,899 bitcoins, a significant increase of 145% compared to the end of 2025 (1,181 bitcoins), with cash and short-term investments totaling approximately $21.6 million.Capital B receives over €7.6 million in targeted investment from Adam Back: European bitcoin reserve company Capital B announced that it will issue new shares with warrants to strategic investor Adam Back through a private placement. The subscription price is €0.58 per share, with a total fundraising amount of approximately €7.645 million (about $8.86 million), and the delivery is expected to be completed today (September 3, 2026).Remixpoint liquidates altcoins, all in on bitcoin: Japanese listed company Remixpoint officially disclosed that in order to promote the selection and centralized management of its investment portfolio, it has sold all altcoins held in its treasury. In the future, the company's cryptocurrency asset holdings and operations will be 100% concentrated on bitcoin as a single asset.Hyperscale Data (NYSE: $GPUS) shuts down Michigan mining operations, fully transforms to AI computing power: Listed bitcoin mining company and AI data center company Hyperscale Data announced that it has completely stopped its bitcoin mining operations at its Michigan data center as of September 1. CEO William Horne stated that this move aims to fully cooperate with the previously announced Master Service Agreement (MSA) and promote the deployment of AI data center infrastructure, and it is expected to generate additional funding gains by selling idle bitcoin mining servers.

Crypto KOL Ansem stated that traditional financial companies often lag when integrating new cryptocurrencies, as management tends to see relevant data later.He believes that Robinhood's current stock price has been gaining momentum from the bottom area, while its crypto business is launching a layer two blockchain, which is expected to bring significant new sources of revenue. Therefore, he is optimistic that HOOD will reach an all-time high in the fourth quarter, rising about 50% from the current level.

Broadcom announced its third quarter results for fiscal year 2026, with adjusted earnings per share of $3.32, exceeding expectations of $3.24; revenue was $29.59 billion, higher than the expected $29.36 billion. Revenue for the quarter grew 86% year-over-year, rising from $15.95 billion in the same period last year to $29.59 billion; net profit increased to $13.09 billion, or $2.68 per share, compared to $4.14 billion, or $0.85 per share in the same period last year.Semiconductor business revenue increased to $16.7 billion, while infrastructure software business revenue was $8.75 billion. The company expects fourth quarter revenue of $34.8 billion, below market expectations of $35.03 billion. CEO Hock Tan stated that the company is expanding its custom chip business with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, including Jalapeno shipments and TPU deployments, aiming for AI revenue of $11.5 billion in fiscal year 2027 and $23 billion in fiscal year 2028. After-hours stock price rose slightly.

Microsoft announced that it will begin disclosing quarterly sales figures for its Azure cloud business, changing the company's long-standing practice of only reporting Azure revenue growth without disclosing specific income. Microsoft stated that considering the scale and importance of Azure, now is the right time to increase transparency. This adjustment marks the first major reform of the primary financial reporting structure since 2015.Microsoft has merged its existing Intelligent Cloud business and Productivity and Business Processes business into a "Agent and Infrastructure" department; more personal computing business has been adjusted to the "Devices and Consumer" department. Microsoft stated that artificial intelligence is changing the way the company builds products and operates, blurring the lines between products and reshaping business models.The company previously disclosed that Azure's sales for the fiscal year ending in June exceeded $100 billion, up from $75 billion in the previous fiscal year, accounting for about 30% of Microsoft's total revenue. This new reporting structure will officially take effect when Microsoft releases its first-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2027.