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According to a report by Sina Technology, Faraday Future (abbreviated as FF) announced that its robotics business plans to merge into the NASDAQ-listed company AIxC (which will be renamed FFR) for an independent listing at a valuation of $200 million. FFAI's strategic upgrade will transform it into a Robotaxi sharing network + smart cabin technology operator and Physical AI investment holding company.FF founder and global CEO Jia Yueting stated, "FFAI will merge its robotics business into AIxC and go public independently, and FFAI will release value in a more open and resilient manner." The NASDAQ-listed company AIxC has signed a non-binding Term Sheet with FFAI to merge FFAI's robotics assets and business at a market valuation of $200 million, aiming to become the first pure-play stock in the four-core fully intelligent EAI robotics ecosystem. Specific transaction arrangements are still subject to the final agreement, approval from the special committee of the boards of AIxC and FFAI, regulatory approval, and formal company announcements.

According to First Financial, the artificial intelligence company MiniMax has launched the text model M3.1-Flash-Preview and started public testing. MiniMax stated that this model supports native multimodal capabilities and a million-context window, enabling tasks such as bug fixing and complete feature development, as well as participating in problem localization, code implementation, and testing verification.After the launch of M3.1-Flash-Preview, some developers linked it with the anonymous model Space Bunny. This model, known as "Space Bunny," was launched on September 23 and topped the daily usage charts on the model aggregation platform OpenRouter and the programming platform OpenCode during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

BIT announces that the Hong Kong stock trading feature will enter internal testing starting today, with a targeted public beta launch on October 5 and trading opening on October 12. Users can directly participate in trading using stablecoins.The first phase supports full trading of all stocks on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board and the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), IPO subscriptions, and financing trading. Hong Kong stocks and U.S. stocks share the same account system, allowing users with a BIT U.S. stock account to directly enable Hong Kong stock trading. During the public beta period, priority experience slots will be granted to invited users; from the start of the public beta until the first month after the official launch (ending November 11), all users can enjoy zero-commission trading, zero interest and zero subscription fees for financing new shares, a HK$100 Hong Kong stock platform fee deduction card, and a Hong Kong stock L2 market data card. Specific qualifications and rules are subject to BIT's official announcement.Elio Cui, head of BIT's brokerage business, stated: "The launch of BIT's Hong Kong stock trading provides customers with a more comprehensive cross-market investment tool. As a key hub connecting domestic and foreign liquidity, the Hong Kong capital market concentrates scarce high-growth and high-dividend quality targets, making it a core channel for investors to conduct cross-regional asset allocation and share regional growth dividends. Relying on the BIT account system, investors can flexibly allocate global mainstream quality assets such as U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and digital assets, truly achieving 'one account, global allocation' investment efficiency."

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting California public officials from issuing meme coins.

The Solana core consensus upgrade Alpenglow has officially entered the second public test network, and the transaction settlement delay is expected to be reduced from approximately 13 seconds to 150 milliseconds.

According to official news from the Sun Yuchen Prize, the first batch of award winners has officially entered a 14-day public notice period starting September 19. The topics currently under public notice are questions number 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001, among which candidates for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, candidates for questions 866 and 1001 are mathematical problem solvers, and question 526 has candidates from both roles. The public notice information has been made available on the official GitHub candidate registration form, and the public can submit formal challenges.It is reported that the Sun Yuchen Prize is the world's first zero-trust decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a list of questions, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million US dollars. On the day of its establishment, the first batch of 66 mathematical problems was announced, with the highest prize of 1 million US dollars awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their solution and formal proof regarding the "existence and smoothness problem of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations." At the same time, the prize operating organization also announced the on-chain address of the prize pool, which has already deposited 10 million US dollars. After the public notice period ends, the prize will be distributed in USDT (TRC20) or USDC (ERC20), and the winners will also receive certificates and medals.

On September 24, the trending topic "Doubao employees lament that Doubao has become a marginal product" topped Weibo's hot search. Previously, media reported that the Doubao General Session team had undergone personnel reductions. Following the dissemination of related content, statements such as "Doubao layoffs" and "half of the dialogue team cut" appeared online, with some claiming that internal employees lamented that Doubao was being marginalized.In response to the above statements, Doubao's public relations head Liu Xing posted a response stating: Some media reported that the Doubao Session team underwent organizational adjustments, and some self-media interpreted it as Doubao layoffs and cutting half of the Doubao dialogue team, which is inaccurate information; in fact, it is merely an organizational adjustment of responsibilities.According to Liu Xing, part of the functions of the Doubao General Session team has been split into the Doubao trading and Doubao work teams, with relevant personnel being transferred accordingly. Many employees are still engaged in dialogue experience-related work, such as optimizing the trading dialogue experience on the trading side. The team has fewer than 50 people, and the adjustment of responsibilities involves 11 individuals, of which 3 have left. He emphasized that statements in some self-media reports, such as "Doubao layoffs affecting 200 million users" and "half of the dialogue team cut," are inaccurate.

According to Investment World citing Quantum Bit reports, DeepSeek has publicly disclosed the technical details of the system DSec (DeepSeek Elastic Compute) used for training Agents, authored by Liang Wenfeng. This system can generate over 5,000 sandboxes per second, reaching 3 million in a day, with a peak simultaneous operation of 380,000; supporting this scale is a single cluster with approximately 160 nodes, 30,000 CPU cores, and 250TB of memory.DSec prepares four types of backends for four categories of tasks: FnCall, Container, MicroVM, and Full VM, with the training side called through a unified Python SDK libdsec. The scheduling chain includes IAM, API Server, scheduling engine, node Edge, network proxy Aether, and components within the sandbox Chronus. The environment is divided into three layers of read-only images: base image, workspace, and toolkit, which are used in combination at startup. Runtime data from the paper shows that the actual read ratios of Python, Java, and C++ container images are approximately 6.0%, 9.2%, and 8.7%, respectively.Starting from DeepSeek-V4.1, the Agent loop has been moved to the DSec worker container, no longer bound to the GPU Pod lifecycle. The security section disclosed reward hacking during training, including actions such as overwriting system files, swapping file data blocks, scanning networks, and triggering kernel crashes. Defensive measures include AppArmor and eBPF-based network filtering, but reports indicate that these measures do not completely resolve the issues.

Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee sent a letter to the committee's chairman, Republican Senator Tim Scott, calling for a congressional hearing on prediction markets. The Democrats stated in the letter that the committee has a "critical oversight responsibility" in regulating prediction markets and emphasized that Congress should examine prediction markets through public hearings on a bipartisan basis, rather than in closed-door roundtable meetings limited to Republicans and industry-friendly discussions. Senators including Elizabeth Warren signed the letter.On the same day, Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee met with Tarek Mansour, CEO of the prediction market platform Kalshi. Scott stated in a statement to The Block that he convened Republican lawmakers to meet with Kalshi to better understand the opportunities and challenges presented by securities-linked products. The two sides discussed keeping innovation within the United States, how investors use these products, protecting retail investors, and regulatory issues that Congress should address. Kalshi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Currently, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) advocates for a leading role in the regulation of prediction markets but faces opposition from various states, which claim jurisdiction over sports event contracts. The Senate Banking Committee, on the other hand, has jurisdiction over the SEC and is responsible for regulating "securities-linked products" related to prediction markets. Democrats pointed out that the bets offered by such products, which are linked to company performance metrics, may fall under the SEC's regulatory scope. It has been reported that Cboe Global Markets is seeking SEC approval for its listing of "all-or-nothing options" linked to company earnings results.

The Alpenglow upgrade of the blockchain network Solana has entered the public testnet, where developers will test reducing transaction finality from about 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds. This upgrade will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one to two rounds of direct voting, but the way users send funds will not change.The first testnet migration requires using Agave 4.3 and does not currently support Firedancer or Frankendancer. The mainnet update on September 28 is still a tentative arrangement and not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow.

According to Caixin, the internal situation of Cambodia's first publicly disclosed telecom fraud base "Zone 8" has been revealed. This "fraud city" is the largest telecom fraud base in Cambodia, capable of accommodating up to 20,000 workers who have been trafficked and forced to engage in online scams, operated by the Cambodian company Legend Innovation.Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic found that the operating company has connections to the Prince Group. Legend Innovation is accused of having links to the Prince Group, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. and the U.K., through company phone numbers, board activities, and related business records. Notably, the phone number registered by Legend Innovation appeared in the records of a real estate company that is alleged to belong to the Prince Group's network. The park once had a physical store for Huiwang Payment, allowing personnel to exchange cryptocurrency and cash, while Huiwang Logistics was accused of providing freight services between Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the park.

The public chain Arc officially announced that Circle's on-chain foreign exchange engine StableFX has now launched on the Arc mainnet. Arc is the public chain launched by Circle, aimed at stablecoins and payment scenarios.The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly 10 trillion USD, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours. StableFX supports round-the-clock settlement, allowing for near-instant or delayed settlement, where both parties can either receive funds simultaneously or not at all to reduce settlement risk. A single contract can trade with multiple vetted counterparties and obtain pricing through a unified RFQ model.

U.S. Senator John Curtis from Utah, a Republican, wrote to Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dick Durbin, the Chief Minority Whip, calling for an investigation into whether Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden exploited their presidential family connections for personal financial gain, and requested subpoenas for both individuals. Curtis pointed out that Donald Trump Jr. had accepted wedding gifts from Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, actively promoted family-backed cryptocurrency ventures, and served as an advisor for a prediction market platform; the related companies are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Donald Trump stated that his son has returned the relevant funds to Umar Kremlev.Curtis also called for an investigation into Hunter Biden's substantial business dealings with foreign entities, as well as whether the two utilized their relationship with the president to create commercial value. He mentioned that Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden in December 2024, who had previously denied involving his father in business transactions. A week prior to this investigation call, Senate Republicans failed to garner enough Democratic support to advance the Digital Asset Market Clear Act. Some Democratic senators opposed the bill, citing reasons including Donald Trump's use of cryptocurrency ventures to gain benefits related to the presidency; Donald Trump disclosed that he earned $1.4 billion from digital asset-related businesses in 2025.

Cryptocurrency media The Block announced the launch of its sister publication The Latent, covering the AI field.The Latent is now live, providing AI news, a data portal, The Latent Score, and a daily newsletter. The Block stated that it will bring its reporting and data expertise into the AI field.

According to a report from the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Hunan Province, on August 19, 2026, the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province discovered fraud clues during routine inspections and successfully cracked a virtual currency investment fraud case, arresting two criminal suspects.Upon investigation, on May 1, 2026, the suspect Li met the victim, Ms. Yue, through private messages on a social platform, falsely claiming to teach virtual currency investment skills with guaranteed profits. He induced her to download a certain app to purchase Tether (USDT) and then exchange it for a newly issued virtual currency manipulated by his "superior." Li, in collusion with his "superior," created the illusion of rising prices to lure the victim into increasing her investment; once the funds were in place, they quickly crashed the market, causing the virtual currency's value to drop to zero. Ms. Yue lost approximately 30,000 yuan, while Li illegally profited tens of thousands of yuan, which was collected by his friend Lei and squandered.On August 19, the investigating police arrested Li; on September 17, Lei, who was suspected of collecting the stolen funds, was also apprehended. Both have been criminally detained according to the law. The police remind: virtual currency is not legal tender, and there are no "guaranteed profit" projects. Recommendations for high returns made through private messages online are all fraud traps. Do not easily trust investment recommendations from strangers or transfer money to unfamiliar platforms.

According to the latest stock spot exchange ranking released by RootData, influenced by the stock market conditions, the trading volume of the top five exchanges' 24h public order books has collectively increased, with Bitget's 24h public order book trading volume rising approximately by 2594.19%, ranking first among the top five, and its overall ranking has risen to second.

According to the latest stock spot exchange ranking released by RootData, as of the time of publication, Gate 24h's public order book transaction volume is approximately 53.72 million USD, an increase of 1025.39%, with a market share of 8.51%, an increase of 5.54%.

GMGN co-founder Haze posted on the X platform stating that the perpetual contract trading feature of the GMGN platform is officially open for public testing. Everyone is welcome to experience it and provide feedback.

According to Nikkei Asia, Chinese startup Unitree Robotics saw its stock price drop more than 50% from its opening price one month after listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The market capitalization corresponding to the company's opening price reached 66 billion dollars.The report states that as the IPO frenzy subsides, investors are assessing the future of humanoid robots, with retail investors paying closer attention to the potential of humanoid robots. Unitree Robotics is a Chinese robotics startup, with products covering quadrupedal robots and humanoid robots.

Nic Carter, co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, commented on the "slow down the frontier" proposal put forward by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Nic Carter stated that if the goal is to widen the gap between the public and the true frontier internally, and requires cooperation from competitors, then the proposal is reasonable. The main commercial risk for Anthropic is the commoditization of models due to distillation, rather than safety issues.Nic Carter mentioned that safety and profit incentives tend to align in limiting public access to truly frontier models. The highest return use of frontier tokens is for internal research and capturing downstream intellectual property, rather than public API sales. Anthropic has made models like Mythos Preview available only to a few partners.Nic Carter expressed that unilateral slowing down cannot solve the prisoner's dilemma, and coordinated restraint requires antitrust exemptions or regulation. Dario called for the U.S. government to provide limited exemptions for safety discussions so that companies can voluntarily set standards.