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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about the plan to establish a national AI regulatory agency during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump last month. The proposal, advocated by Google DeepMind scientist Demis Hassabis and supported by some White House officials, aims to create an independent organization similar to FINRA to review and test potential risks before the broader deployment of advanced AI models. White House officials previewed the proposal to Trump and major tech companies, including Meta, in mid-August.Trump spoke with Zuckerberg during the week of August 17. According to senior White House officials familiar with the conversation, Zuckerberg opposed the proposal. Another informed source indicated that Zuckerberg did not ask Trump to change his position but told him that the personnel of the regulatory agency the White House might appoint should reflect Trump's light-touch approach to AI, noting that Trump made the call first. The conversation did not kill the idea, which is still under consideration. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment. A White House spokesperson stated that the Trump administration is committed to balancing innovation and safety in AI policymaking.In an article in August, Zuckerberg expressed skepticism about strict government regulation of new AI models, arguing that any policy that delays the release of models by even a month would pose significant risks to the U.S. leadership position relative to China. The government is considering a FINRA-like regulatory agency or a voluntary industry organization similar to the Motion Picture Association of America. Trump's former AI and crypto czar, David Sachs, opposed government regulatory agencies, calling them "the DMV of AI." Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark expressed support for the FINRA-like idea in a post in July.

AI-native operating system Metal, aimed at the private capital market, announced the completion of a $4.5 million seed round financing, led by a16z, Speedrun, and Y Combinator, with participation from Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, Gaingels, Indus Valley Capital, Team Ignite VC, Goodwater Capital, and Phaze Ventures.This round of financing will accelerate its development of software that founders can use during fundraising and continue to use throughout the capital formation process. Metal also released a paper on the trends in the private capital market.

Bitfinex Securities is a tokenized investment platform under the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, which has launched 5 types of tokenized notes, providing economic exposure to Bitcoin reserve companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group, and Capital B for eligible investors. The platform has also launched the Strategy floating rate perpetual preferred stock STRC.The aforementioned notes are issued through the Luxembourg ORO (II) Fund, managed by SICOS Securities, with the underlying securities held in custody by regulated financial institutions, but do not grant investors direct ownership of shares in the corresponding companies. Products can be invested in fractions starting from about $1 and support trading in USD, USDT, and Bitcoin, available only to eligible non-U.S. investors. Bitfinex Securities stated that this is the first time related products have been traded in the secondary market on a regulated tokenized securities exchange. After completing a $50 million tokenized financing for the metal company Alkemya in August this year, the platform has listed assets exceeding $500 million.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Metaplanet transferred 1,600 BTC (approximately 124.36 million USD) to two newly created wallets.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet (@Metaplanet) has accumulated 43,000 Bitcoins, with an average price of $96,191, totaling a value of $3.48 billion.In the past 3 days, it has deposited 2,400 Bitcoins into Coinbase Prime, worth $186 million.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Metaplanet transferred $237 million worth of Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Japanese listed company MetaPlanet deposited 3,000 BTC (worth $237 million) into Coinbase Prime in the past 24 hours.

At the Bitcoin Asia Conference, Simon Gerovich, CEO of the Japanese listed company Metaplanet, stated that the bottom of Bitcoin has already appeared, and the opportunity moment for Asia has arrived. He pointed out that the past few cycles belonged to the West, while the first Asian cycle has begun.Gerovich revealed that since Metaplanet shifted from hotel and technology businesses to Bitcoin reserves in 2024, it currently holds approximately 43,000 Bitcoins, valued at about $3.3 billion. He emphasized that Japanese households hold about $14 trillion in financial assets, with approximately half stored in nearly zero-yield bank deposits, and these savings are looking for new destinations.Gerovich called on Asian businesses, institutions, and savers to seize the current market conditions and build Bitcoin infrastructure in their respective regions. He stated that the end of cash hoarding strategies coinciding with the introduction of new regulatory rules together constitute the biggest opportunity in today's Asian market.

Meta is testing robots for maintaining its artificial intelligence system data centers, including machines for replacing network cables, rebooting servers, and inspecting equipment. According to WIRED, Meta has tested robots from San Francisco's Watney Robotics, Quebec's Kinova, and Zurich's ABB to reduce labor costs. An employee estimated that a successful cable replacement robot could replace up to 80% of the work in certain positions, but the machine currently cannot match human speed.Meta's robotics program has raised concerns, with employees believing that automation may reduce the demand for experienced technicians and shift remaining work to low-wage positions operated by AI instructions. A Meta spokesperson stated that the U.S. is experiencing the largest infrastructure boom since World War II, with a severe shortage of skilled workers, and the company needs more workers, not fewer. Currently, robots still require human supervision and face challenges with obstacles, battery life, visual inspections, and handling dense cabling.Nvidia and Alibaba are also developing systems to improve robot training. ACE Robotics Chairman Wang Xiaogang stated that embodied AI could experience a "ChatGPT moment" by the end of 2027. Additionally, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates proposed taxing robots and AI tokens, believing that the current tax system may make machines cheaper than employees.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet (@Metaplanet) has purchased 43,000 bitcoins, with a total value of 3.48 billion dollars and an average purchase price of 96,191 dollars.An hour ago, the company deposited another 1,350 bitcoins into Coinbase Prime, worth 108 million dollars.

According to the New York Times, citing two informed sources, Meta had internally predicted this year that it might invest up to $10 billion annually in Anthropic's AI models.

Driven by the performance of technology stocks in the US market, multiple popular stock tokens on Gate gStocks have shown strong growth. According to the latest data from Gate, Nvidia (NVDAG/USDT) has seen a 24-hour increase of 3.49%, currently priced at $221.42; SpaceX (SPCXG/USDT) has risen 2.53% in 24 hours, currently at $141.36; Meta (METAG/USDT) has increased by 0.99% in 24 hours, currently at $576.43, with trading activity for related assets continuing to rise.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 full native stock reserve mechanism, where each tokenized security corresponds to an equal number of native stocks as underlying asset support. It supports 24/7 trading, unified account management, and a minimum investment of 1 USDT, along with fractional share trading. Users can participate more flexibly in global popular stock investments, achieving a one-stop allocation of digital assets and traditional securities. As the ecosystem of tokenized securities continues to enrich, Gate gStocks will keep expanding more quality stocks and ETF targets, providing users with a more diverse selection of global asset allocation options.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones down 0.19%, the S&P 500 index down 0.02%, and the Nasdaq down 0.22%.Meta Platforms (META) rose about 3% as the company agreed to settle allegations of harm caused by its platform to children.

According to informed sources, Meta Platforms has discussed the possibility of reaching a settlement during court proceedings with the attorneys general of multiple states in the U.S. The case accuses Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for teenagers, facing a maximum fine of $1.4 trillion.

The development team of Term Finance, Term Labs, announced that after the governance attack incident, all Term Meta Vaults have been permanently closed, DAO governance rights have been revoked, but the withdrawal channel remains open. In an update on August 23, Term stated that this closure is irreversible and permanently prevents subsequent deposits, but did not disclose the scale of the remaining assets in the vault, only indicating that it will "explore pathways" to address any gaps, and the amount that depositors can recover remains undecided.Blockchain security company PeckShield estimates that the attacker stole approximately 2,843 ETH (worth about $6.87 million at the time) and 1.68 million USDC (which was later exchanged for about 1.68 million DAI), with total losses estimated at around $8.5 million. On-chain records confirm the related transfers: one transaction transferred 2,841.74 WETH to an address labeled "Term Finance Exploiter 1" by Etherscan, while another transaction transferred 1.68 million USDC to an address labeled "Term Finance Exploiter 2".Yearn stated that Term's vault contract uses its V3 architecture, but the attack occurred on Term's custom governance wrapper, which is not applicable to standard Yearn vaults. Term indicated that, according to the current investigation, its underlying protocol and direct lending market were not affected and is working with external security teams for remediation and recovery, but did not provide any compensation commitments or timelines.

According to Cointelegraph, Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich denied selling Bitcoin and expressed an optimistic outlook on Bitcoin's future.Earlier, ChainCatcher reported that the Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet deposited 1000 BTC into Coinbase Prime.

According to TrendForce, at Hot Chips 2026, Micron emphasized that the progress of AI computing power is faster than storage improvements, and the challenge of the "storage wall" is becoming increasingly prominent. Micron Fellow Raghu Sriramaneni pointed out that the computing power of AI accelerators increases approximately threefold every two years, while the bandwidth of HBM increases by less than double during the same period, and the gap may further widen. The deepening reliance on HBM also brings reliability issues; Micron cited Meta Llama 3 data indicating that HBM failures account for about 17% of unexpected training interruptions. New designs that blur the boundaries between computing and storage may help break through the bottleneck.The expansion of HBM also brings area and supply pressures: the latest generation of packaging integrates two GPUs with eight 12-layer HBM4 stacks, with storage accounting for about 90% of the semiconductor area, more than eight times the area occupied by GPUs; achieving equivalent capacity with HBM requires about three times the wafers of standard DDR5 DRAM. Thermal management has also become a key constraint, with solutions such as liquid cooling and ultra-thin chips being explored.Micron is advancing innovations in interconnect, packaging, and cooling, including SerDes and die-to-die PHY optimized for storage, larger size SiP and advanced packaging with glass substrates, as well as liquid cooling and hybrid bonding, and is developing fusion bonding to reduce thermal resistance and enhance data throughput.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet purchased 43,000 BTC at an average price of $96,191, investing $3.48 billion.And 1 hour ago, it deposited 1,000 BTC, worth $79.77 million, into Coinbase Prime.

According to The Information, Meta Platforms plans to launch the "HATCH" AI agent platform in the coming weeks.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich stated that the core logic behind their bullish outlook on Bitcoin is that AI is significantly reducing the production costs of software, content, and analytics, and value will shift towards scarce assets that cannot be infinitely increased.The supply cap of 21 million Bitcoins is guaranteed by network rules, cannot be copied or diluted, and can be settled globally 24 hours a day. The long-term experience of Japanese households regarding changes in currency purchasing power has also reinforced this judgment.