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On September 6, local time, U.S. President Trump posted on the social platform Truth Social, stating that he earned "hundreds of billions of dollars" for the United States through stocks and holding various other assets, and he expressed, "I do this for our country, not for myself." The post also mentioned that the only response he received was criticism from the radical left "foolish Democrats."According to a previous report by Reuters, information from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics shows that Trump disclosed personal securities transactions totaling at least $220 million and up to about $750 million in the first three months of 2026. Annual financial documents released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics indicate that Trump's total income for 2025 was at least $2.2 billion, far exceeding his income of about $622 million in 2024 when he had not returned to the White House.On the same day, Trump also shared an AI-generated image, which appeared to show him trading in the Oval Office, with the screen displaying Intel's stock price rising from $20 to $95. In August of last year, the U.S. federal government invested about $8.9 billion to purchase a 9.9% stake in Intel at a price of $20.47 per share; CNBC reported that on September 4, 2026, the company's stock closed at $95.80. A White House spokesperson stated that all stock transactions under Trump's name are conducted by external financial managers, and Trump and his family have no control over specific trading decisions.

According to Blockaid monitoring, it has detected that the DeFi risk management protocol Cozy on Optimism has been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $170,000.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats, as HYPE broke through $88, the largest HYPE long address on Hyperliquid, 0x082e...ca88, currently holds approximately 1.38 million HYPE long positions, with a position value of about $12.2 million, an average opening price of $38.68, and current floating profits of about $6.862 million, using 5x full leverage.This address opened approximately $40 million in HYPE long positions with 5x leverage about 5 hours before Robinhood announced the launch of HYPE spot trading on October 23, 2025. Due to the precise timing of the large entry, the community suspected there was non-public information, hence it was referred to as the "HYPE listing insider whale."From December 5 to 6 of the same year, this address continued to increase its position by about 93,500 HYPE in the $31 to $32 range, ultimately raising the current holdings to about 1.38 million, and has held the contract position until now. This address has currently paid $5.42 million in funding fees for its long positions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg The Close" host Ed Ludlow that top AI developers have performed poorly in communicating the benefits of the technology, making the industry susceptible to growing opposition.Altman said, "I think the entire industry has done a very poor job in this regard." "I think we ourselves have not done well, perhaps better than some and worse than others."

OpenAI CEO Altman stated that the voluntary review conducted by the Trump administration on the company's upcoming Astra model is a "productive process," and he indicated that as artificial intelligence capabilities continue to improve, strengthening communication with government officials around the world will become increasingly important. The upcoming Astra model is the company's first to be rated with a "critical" cybersecurity capability level.OpenAI stated that such models require stricter safety measures during development and prior to release. The Trump administration has established a voluntary framework for reviewing certain advanced AI models before their release, which may include allowing government officials access to the model for up to 30 days. Altman confirmed that the Trump administration has reviewed Astra and noted that the process is voluntary in nature. He mentioned that as these models reach quite high levels of capability, close cooperation with security agencies in the U.S., the U.K., and other parts of the world will become increasingly important, and Astra is "an important step forward."

According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. President Trump is privately discussing with senior aides the possibility of announcing the end of the war with Iran.Aides reportedly advised Trump that an escalation of the war beyond recent strikes could cause the Republican Party to lose the midterm elections.

Tibo, the product head of OpenAI Codex, stated that the number of active users has reached 25 million. To celebrate this milestone, the usage limits for all paid subscriptions of ChatGPT Work and Codex have now been reset.

Chief Economist Fu Peng of New Fire Group published an article pointing out that although Nvidia's latest financial report has exceeded expectations for 15 consecutive quarters, the market has reacted lukewarmly to the financial data itself. Indicators such as stock price and options volatility show that market investors are currently more concerned about whether the free cash flow of the future index center can be smoothly delivered, and how long the momentum of AI growth can be maintained. These issues weigh more heavily than the performance of a single quarter's financial report, so even if this performance exceeds Wall Street's expectations by a few points, it does not change the denominator of the valuation.Fu Peng believes that Jensen Huang's statement during the conference call clearly indicated that "the inflection point for AI has arrived," which is essentially to reassure the market, aiming to strengthen market confidence in the formation of a closed-loop AI industry chain and alleviate concerns about over-investment. Investors should observe how long it takes for the market to digest this round of confidence boost, and how long the elevated expectations brought by Jensen Huang will last before fading. If the sentiment fades quickly, it indicates that the current typical market mentality is "no rabbit, no hawk," and the impact of manufacturers repeatedly reinforcing confidence in the market is gradually weakening, which can be observed from the duration of market fluctuations after each conference call.

Bitdeer released the production and operation update for July 2026: the company has signed a 16-year co-location lease agreement worth $4.7 billion for the artificial intelligence data center (AIDC) at the Tydal site in Norway, and has configured 121 megawatts of IT capacity to operate NVIDIA GPUs.

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," posted on the X platform stating that the new round of quantitative easing (QE) policy in the United States may lead to a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar and further increase inflation risks. Those holding cash dollar savings may become the biggest affected group.Investors should not rely on continuously depreciating fiat currency but should focus on assets that can appreciate over time.

According to reports from the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, humanoid intelligence company Current Robotics has publicly disclosed its financing progress for the first time: the company has completed seed round, angel round, and Pre-A round financing, with a total financing amount of hundreds of millions of RMB. The company's investors include financial investment institutions such as BV Baidu Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, Oasis Capital, Monolith Capital, Qianhai Ark, Fosun Wealth, Junshan Capital, as well as industry players like Zhiyuan Robotics, Xinghai Map, and Jike Technology.The financing funds will mainly be used to promote the large-scale collection of human body data, with a focus on investing in the research and development of core technologies such as full-body dexterous operation models and interactive world models.

Uber launches Baidu's fully driverless Apollo Go in Dubai, marking the birth of the world's first multi-party cooperative autonomous driving network.

According to Gate market data, Baidu (BIDU.O) stock price fell by 10%, marking the largest single-day decline since June 5.

According to Gate market data, Baidu (BIDU.O) fell 7.5% in pre-market trading.

Baidu released its Q2 2026 financial report, with total revenue of 31.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 4% and a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 2%; non-GAAP net profit was 2.6 billion yuan, with a non-GAAP net profit margin of 8%. Among them, revenue from Baidu's core AI business reached 12.5 billion yuan, accounting for 50% of the general business revenue (25.2 billion yuan), making AI business a core revenue pillar for Baidu.Looking at the segments, AI cloud infrastructure revenue was 7.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 50%, with GPU cloud revenue growing by 283% year-on-year, further accelerating from the 184% growth rate of the previous quarter; AI application revenue was 2.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3%; AI native marketing service revenue was 2.6 billion yuan. The monthly active users of the Baidu App reached 644 million. In terms of autonomous driving, Luobo Kuaipao has covered 28 cities globally, with a cumulative autonomous driving mileage exceeding 350 million kilometers, of which fully autonomous driving mileage exceeds 240 million kilometers. This quarter, Baidu's free cash flow was -7.95 billion yuan, but adjusted EBITDA was 6.15 billion yuan, with an adjusted EBITDA profit margin of 20%. Baidu is advancing its dual primary listing conversion in Hong Kong, expected to take effect within the year. This quarter, Baidu returned approximately $259 million to shareholders through share buybacks.

Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) stated on platform X that its $STRC semi-monthly dividend of $0.50 per share has been paid today. The next semi-monthly dividend payment date for $STRC is August 31.Strategy is known for its large-scale holdings of Bitcoin and financing through the issuance of various preferred stocks and convertible securities. $STRC is one of its related preferred stock products, distributing fixed dividends to shareholders on a semi-monthly basis. The company continues to support its Bitcoin reserve strategy through capital market instruments.

AI programming tool Cursor announces the launch of the Origin code hosting feature, which is now available for early testing to all paid users starting today. This feature supports the creation of new code repositories, bidirectional synchronization with GitHub repositories, and includes pull requests, code browsing, and AI Agent integration capabilities. Users can complete code reading, questioning, modification, and PR merging all within the same interface.The synchronized GitHub repositories support bidirectional comment synchronization. Comments in Cursor will sync to GitHub, and replies on GitHub will also be sent back to Cursor in real-time. Origin also integrates applications such as Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite, allowing PRs to automatically generate preview deployments. Cursor indicates that more native Agent features will be launched in the future. Enterprise users can opt out of this testing program through their administrators.

According to Protos, the latest disclosure from 21Shares' Polkadot ETF (TDOT) shows that in the second quarter of 2026, for every $1 in distribution income generated through the sale of DOT tokens to pay staking rewards, there was an accompanying realized loss of approximately $4.52.According to regulatory documents, TDOT sold 98,505 DOT in the second quarter, generating about $107,500 in cash to pay staking rewards to shareholders. However, due to a significant drop in DOT prices, these sales confirmed a loss of approximately $485,600.Data shows that DOT fell by about 34% in the second quarter of 2026, with a cumulative decline of 76% over the past 12 months as of June 30. Since TDOT shareholders receive distributions in USD rather than directly receiving DOT staking rewards, the fund needs to sell DOT to convert to cash payments, thereby locking in losses in a low-price environment. In the second quarter, TDOT paid shareholders a cumulative distribution of approximately $0.14698 per share, but during the same period, the fund's share price dropped from $14.95 to $9.86, a decline of about 34%, and the staking rewards did not offset the losses caused by the decline in asset prices.

FlashRescue co-founder @DarcyAri posted on the X platform that the Hyperliquid-related Google paid advertising phishing incident has resulted in approximately $550,000 in financial losses.The addresses related to the attackers have been disclosed, and users need to be vigilant about the phishing risks associated with Google paid advertisements and pay attention to protecting their asset security.

According to Bloomberg, amid the recent downturn in digital asset prices, cryptocurrency asset management company Bitwise Asset Management Inc. has cut approximately 14% of its staff.It is reported that the San Francisco-based Bitwise confirmed in an email statement sent to Bloomberg that its workforce has been reduced from about 180 people to around 155.CEO Hunter Horsley stated that even after the layoffs, Bitwise's workforce remains the largest in its eight-year history.