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Samsung Electronics hired former Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Lee Hee-kun, for its IR team as an executive last month. Lee Hee-kun has held positions such as Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division and Director of the Capital Market Policy Division, responsible for foreign exchange systems and overseas investment responses. In April this year, he participated in the work of including South Korea in the World Government Bond Index and received special recognition. He is expected to be responsible for responding to overseas investors and the global capital market.SK Hynix hired former Director of the Strategic Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Jeong Yu-jin, as the Vice President under the Communications Division last month. Jeong Yu-jin has served as the Director of the Climate and Environment Budget Division, Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division, and Director of the Foreign Exchange Fund Division. Both companies are advancing production investments in the United States, with Samsung Electronics planning to invest $37 billion to build a foundry in Taylor, Texas, and SK Hynix planning to invest $4 billion to build an advanced packaging factory in Indiana.

Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong stated that The Wall Street Journal is writing a report blaming the failure of the CLARITY Act on Coinbase and himself. He mentioned that the newspaper has repeatedly taken an adversarial stance towards CLARITY in related reports and echoed the views of banking lobby groups.Armstrong stated that in January of this year, he opposed a draft that was about to be submitted for committee vote due to significant issues in areas such as DeFi, tokenization, CFTC authority, and stablecoin rewards, which could harm the crypto industry, and that support was scattered and difficult to pass. Afterward, multiple parties modified the draft, and about four months later, the version submitted to the committee had addressed the aforementioned four issues. He expressed that the final draft submitted to the Senate is good and he strongly supports it, and will continue to advocate for clear rules that treat crypto fairly.

The French Council of State rejected the urgent application filed by the cryptocurrency companies Bull Bitcoin and Paymium, refusing to immediately suspend the implementation of the French decree enforcing the EU Directive on Administrative Cooperation No. 8 (DAC8).The applicants argued that the centralized collection of personal and financial data from digital asset users could lead to data breaches, extortion, and personal safety risks. The court found that the applicants failed to demonstrate an urgent situation sufficient to support an emergency suspension. The lawsuit seeking to fully revoke the decree by Bull Bitcoin is still under review. DAC8 will take effect in the EU on January 1, 2026, and registered service providers must complete their first declaration for the year 2026 by September 30, 2027.

The South Korean Deputy Prime Minister stated on Wednesday that South Korea must continue to advance artificial intelligence development without pause or delay, clearly expressing its stance in the global discussion about the pace of this technology's development.South Korea is home to memory chip companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, and is also one of the main beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence data center boom, with related demand driving vigorous procurement of the country's semiconductors and hardware. The country's population is approximately 52 million, and it cannot slow its progress in the direction proposed by Anthropic and OpenAI leaders, as suggested by American artificial intelligence model developers.

User MaxForAI stated that the National Internet Information Office recently reported a case of illegal API relay station. On September 15, the Internet Administration of China announced a batch of internet law enforcement cases, where two websites operated by a technology company in Jiangsu used an API relay station to call multiple large model product interfaces, providing services such as dialogue and Q&A without conducting safety assessments as required, posing content safety risks, and violating the "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services" and other regulations.The local internet information office ordered rectification, imposed strict penalties on those responsible, and issued a warning. The user mentioned that the above description aligns with the details of the large model relay platform "Zhixin Token" launched by Jiangsu Biying Technology under Suning.com in July this year, which aggregated multiple mainstream large models to provide a unified API service through two service domain names.

Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. has recently undergone a business change, with the registered capital increased from 364 million yuan to 404 million yuan; the registration authority has changed from the Market Supervision Administration of the Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone (Binjiang) in China to the Market Supervision Administration of Zhejiang Province, China.

The trade dispute between the United States and Canada is still brewing. Canada's counter-tariff measures against the U.S. have taken effect, and the U.S. has imposed a 50% tariff on over a hundred categories of Canadian goods, which took effect on the 15th. Canadian Prime Minister Carney stated that a trade agreement must be reached when Canada's interests are respected and the timing is right.He announced that Canada will begin consultations with the European Union next month to build a security and economic alliance.

According to Digital Assets, South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister nominee Lee Hyeong-jin stated at a parliamentary hearing that taxing virtual assets poses a relatively small burden for most investors and is not expected to have a significant impact on the market.Data shows that about 95% of investors hold assets of less than 5 million Korean Won; when the acquisition cost cannot be proven, 50% of the income can be considered necessary expenses, plus a basic deduction of 2.5 million Korean Won, resulting in a limited actual tax burden for small investors.

On September 14, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated: Spreading various threatening narratives, engaging in confrontation and malicious competition will only disrupt the global governance process of artificial intelligence and does not align with the interests of any party.Recently, leaders from several AI companies have called for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence and believe that China's advantages in the field of artificial intelligence may pose national security risks.

According to Fox Business, the Trump administration is collaborating with OpenAI to use artificial intelligence tools.

The UK Ministry of Defence has spent nearly $40 million on SpaceX's Starshield and Starlink satellite services.

Trump promised that if the Republican Party wins the midterm elections, each citizen will receive $5,000, which has injected new uncertainty into the bond market ahead of the U.S. 30-year Treasury auction.U.S. Treasury yields fluctuated within a narrow range, with the 30-year Treasury yield nearing its highest level since the global financial crisis. The market is focused on the $22 billion 2056 maturity Treasury bond to be issued on Thursday and the CPI data later this week.

According to Akchabar, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Ulan Niyazbekov, stated that since 2026, the country's internal affairs agency has initiated 90 criminal investigations related to cryptocurrency, involving cases of online fraud, theft of funds, money laundering, and the transfer of criminal proceeds.Niyazbekov revealed that during a 2025 investigation into a transnational online fraud gang, police discovered a TRON wallet holding over 3 million dollars in digital assets on a suspect's device and used blockchain analysis tools to trace the related funds.

Former Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane stated in a Substack post that the political and regulatory pressures from the Biden administration led to the bank's voluntary liquidation in 2023. He mentioned that Silvergate could continue operating after meeting withdrawals equivalent to 70% of demand deposits in the fourth quarter of 2022, and the decision to liquidate was made "in the face of political pressure." The Federal Reserve's Office of Inspector General's review in September 2023 concluded that the liquidation stemmed from reliance on crypto depositors, funding risks, and governance and compliance deficiencies. The SEC had previously charged Silvergate, Lane, and former Chief Risk Officer Kathleen Fraher with misleading investors regarding their anti-money laundering program, with Lane settling for a $1 million fine and a five-year executive ban, while the Federal Reserve imposed a $43 million fine on Silvergate. Lane also cited a statement on crypto risks released by multiple agencies at the beginning of 2023 as evidence of industry pressure, which was later withdrawn in April 2025.

According to German media Golem, the Federal Ministry of Finance is preparing a bill to include cryptocurrency gains under capital gains tax. Speculative gains from digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum will be taxed at a rate of 25% starting as early as 2028, consistent with the current stock trading gains tax rate. Currently, selling crypto assets after holding them for more than a year is tax-free, while selling them within a year incurs a personal income tax rate of up to 45%.The bill proposes to retain the personal tax-free allowance (currently €1,000 per person) and allows crypto gains to offset losses from stocks and other securities; taxpayers with a personal tax rate below 25% can also apply for a "favorable assessment" to reduce their tax burden. This tax will apply to crypto assets purchased after January 1, 2027, and it remains to be clarified by legislation whether assets held prior to this date will enjoy transitional protection. The Ministry of Finance expects this move to generate approximately €350 million in additional tax revenue each year, and the bill has been submitted to other federal departments for consultation.

The Canadian government's countermeasures against the U.S. tariffs have officially taken effect. Canadian Prime Minister Carney delivered a national video address, mobilizing the entire nation to unite in response to the Canada-U.S. trade war.Carney stated that Canada will reduce its dependence on the United States, although this will come at a cost, but it is negligible compared to the cost of stagnation.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry," setting the national intelligent computing power target at 9800 EFLOPS by 2030. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of July, the national intelligent computing scale was approximately 2450 EFLOPS (FP16), indicating that it needs to expand by about 4 times in the next four years based on this standard.The plan proposes an orderly deployment of intelligent computing clusters with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cards, building inference computing power for different scenarios, and increasing the adaptation of domestic computing power chips. Currently, 52 intelligent computing facilities with more than ten thousand cards have been established nationwide. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology disclosed that the intelligent computing power scale at the end of June was 2185 EFLOPS, a year-on-year increase of 177%. The plan uses 1590 EFLOPS in 2025 as a benchmark, aiming to reach 9800 EFLOPS by 2030, which is an expansion of about 6.2 times. During the same period, the cumulative investment target for information infrastructure in the information and communication industry is 3.8 trillion yuan, which also includes communication networks and is not all allocated for AI computing power.

According to Caixin, the "Management Measures for Online Marketing of Financial Products" jointly issued by the central bank and eight ministries will officially take effect on September 30, 2026. The measures aim to clarify the boundaries between finance and technology, and do not completely prohibit the online promotion of financial products, but rather provide specific guidance and regulations for marketing activities. It is specified that marketing financial products through public accounts, live broadcasts, and short videos should be conducted on the self-operated platforms of financial institutions or on accounts legally established by financial institutions on third-party internet platforms.In addition, marketers must be employees of financial institutions, possess qualifications for engaging in related business, and obtain authorization and consent from financial institutions. This means that if Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) want to promote financial products, they must be certified to do so.

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Transformation and Development of Digitalization and Greening (2026-2030)", proposing to advance the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.The plan emphasizes empowering green and low-carbon transformation with digital intelligence technology, achieving low-cost and high-efficiency applications of artificial intelligence by 2030, significantly improving the energy efficiency of computing facilities and 5G base stations, promoting renewable energy electricity consumption in key areas such as computing facilities to reach the responsibility weight level of the respective provinces, and deepening the digital and green applications in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, consumption, and urban operation, strengthening intelligent governance of the ecological environment and digital carbon management, and solidifying the foundation for coordinated dual transformation and international cooperation.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Entrepreneurship Support Plan for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Artificial Intelligence (2026-2028)." Over three years, it aims to cultivate a large number of innovative and dynamic artificial intelligence startups with significant growth potential in key areas such as industry applications, data services, and intelligent computing power. More than 10,000 new technology and innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises will be nurtured, with over 2,000 "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" small giant enterprises emerging, along with a number of gazelle and unicorn companies.Focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, the plan will establish 10 high-standard technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms (bases) for small and medium-sized enterprises. It will also cultivate 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters for small and medium-sized enterprises. The entrepreneurial and innovative vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises in artificial intelligence will continue to surge, and a preliminary pattern of high-quality development for small and medium-sized enterprises empowered by artificial intelligence will take shape.