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According to GoPlus alerts, the meme coin LAPTOP issued by Hunter Biden, son of Biden, is about to launch an airdrop. A large number of phishing websites for fake LAPTOP airdrop whitelists, eligibility checks, and claims have appeared on Twitter, and there are also lookalike versions on multiple chains, with risks such as unverified contracts, high taxes, and trading suspensions.GoPlus reminds users to refer to the official website and Twitter for accurate information, to be cautious when participating in lookalike trading, and to use Token security checks to confirm contract safety. Remember the four principles: do not click, do not install, do not sign, do not transfer.

FinChip and AgentOn today announced a merger agreement, and the two parties will integrate into a unified operating company, branded as Finch, while also announcing the completion of a pre-A round of financing.Finch is valued at 50 million USD in this round, with participation from Waterdrop Capital, Peer VC, and other institutions. Previously, the company had received investments from Longling Investment, ME Group, and X INFINITY. The funds from this round will primarily be used to expand the supply of agents and skills in four major markets, develop enterprise clients and task demand sides, and promote the implementation of skill standards in the industry.

According to Arkham monitoring, trader @The__Solstice bought $80,300 worth of STONK on the first day of its launch with a market value of approximately $2.73 million. This position is currently valued at $1.63 million, down from its peak of $2.24 million.This address has only sold 21% and still holds the majority of the position.

a16z related project speedrun launches Alpha Fellowship, with the application deadline on October 11. This program is aimed at highly technical students, dropouts, and recent graduates, supporting builders in the earliest stages. The program takes place in San Francisco and is operated by the speedrun team in collaboration with EO Ventures.The founder track can receive up to $250,000 in investment, over $1 million in partner credits (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc.), speedrun automatic final interview (up to $1 million investment), office hours, co-working space, and an 8-week in-person experience (from January 11 to March 5). The talent track offers a 4-week in-person experience (from February 8 to March 5), introducing portfolio companies, office hours, fireside chats, and co-working space.Speakers and mentors include a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, Substack founder Chris Best, a16z general partner Andrew Chen, EO Ventures founding general partner Roland Fryer, among others. The investment terms are $150,000 for 5% SAFE plus a $100,000 follow-on investment within 18 months. This program is limited to software engineers, requiring authorization for full-time work in the U.S.; students may apply but must commit to full-time participation.

TrendForce's latest research on the wafer foundry industry shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the total revenue of the world's top ten wafer foundries increased by 11.5% quarter-on-quarter, approaching $53.49 billion, setting a new record. The growth mainly comes from the continued demand exceeding supply for advanced processes in AI and HPC processors, as well as the rising demand for peripheral AI chips such as PMICs and power discrete devices; the early stocking of consumer supply chains for TVs, PCs, and laptops has also tightened the capacity of some mature processes.TSMC continues to lead, with revenue nearing $40.2 billion in the second quarter, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.1%, and a market share of 72.5%. The demand for AI server GPUs and XPUs has kept its 5/4 nm and 3 nm capacities fully loaded, and the initial stocking of the new iPhone has also contributed, with 2 nm making its first revenue contribution. Samsung Foundry ranks second, with revenue of $3.26 billion, a slight quarter-on-quarter increase of 1.8%, and a market share dropping to 5.9%. SMIC ranks third, with revenue exceeding $3 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 20%, and a market share rising to 5.4%, narrowing the gap with Samsung.UMC maintains fourth place, with revenue of nearly $2.18 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.7%, and a market share of 3.9%. GlobalFoundries is fifth, with revenue of approximately $1.79 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 9.3%, and a market share of 3.2%. Hua Hong Group ranks sixth, with revenue exceeding $1.27 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.5%. Tower, World Advanced, Jinghe Integrated, and Powerchip rank seventh to tenth, with revenues of $460 million, $451 million, $447 million, and $432 million, respectively.

User chris__lu posted that they compiled all 236 companies and 470 founders from the YC Summer 2026 batch, categorizing each company into an AI technology stack layer and comparing it to the Spring batch using the same criteria. This batch still has 91% related to AI. The model companies increased from 8% to 20%, the application layer decreased from 55% to 39%, horizontal applications dropped from 58 to 32, and vertical applications remained at 25%.In the Spring, 45% of companies delivered autonomous agents, while in the Summer, it was 33%, with "agent" in a one-sentence introduction dropping from 27% to 19%. 21 companies are engaged in computational infrastructure, 11 focus on inference costs, and there are also companies for training data and reinforcement learning environments. Scale AI is listed as an alternative target by 8 companies. The industrial category increased from 12% to 24%, with 45 companies delivering physical products, 24 being robots or physical AI, and 21 companies operating their own businesses rather than selling software.This batch is the youngest, with 37% of founders being students or graduates in the last two years, 59 teams are entirely student teams, the dropout rate increased from 3% to 9%, and repeat founders decreased from 32% to 23%, with 84% having a technical background. 39 from Berkeley, 32 from MIT, and 25 from Stanford. Amazon is the largest source of talent. Sales and marketing AI decreased from 18 to 6. Only 19 founders come from AI labs, accounting for 4%. 8 founding teams come from the same previous employer.

According to Decrypt, the Mexican federal prosecutor, in conjunction with the Navy and Puebla state police, conducted a raid on a property in the remote mountainous area of Tlaola, Puebla, seizing approximately 300 cryptocurrency mining machines, as well as transformers, medium-voltage terminals, and satellite internet antennas.The investigation revealed that the mining operation illegally tapped into the grid of the Nuevo Necaxa hydroelectric power station, and authorities have filed charges for "theft of electricity." Currently, forensic accountants are tracing the source of the hardware funding, and money laundering suspicions have not been ruled out. Data from the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission shows that from January to July 2024, non-technical electricity losses reached up to 6,346 gigawatt-hours, valued at approximately 13.8 billion pesos (about 817 million USD).

The AI intelligent terminal project Herdr announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, e2vc, and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke.The funds will be used to enhance Herdr's runtime performance, stability, and scalability, and to build a team focused on Rust, terminals, and AI intelligences.

SK Hynix stated on the 9th that the development of the next-generation memory 3D DRAM semiconductor can utilize foundry processes. The day before, at the 2026 SK Hynix Future Forum held at the Supex Center in the Icheon campus, Vice President Kim Kyung-hoon and Son Ho-young presented the main technical directions for 3D DRAM, including the use of logic foundry processes for DRAM peripheral circuits, maximizing data bus bandwidth, and ultra-short distance transmission.3D DRAM is the next-generation DRAM that vertically stacks the originally planar storage cells to improve integration. The two stated that achieving this technology requires addressing not only design and heat dissipation issues but also challenges in fine interconnections, bonding, and process integration in the packaging field. As the boundaries between front-end and back-end packaging, foundry, and memory technology converge, collaborative optimization beyond existing fields will become more important. Son Ho-young mentioned that 3D technology is changing the technological boundaries between wafer fabs and packaging, and it is necessary to establish an optimization and new collaboration system that transcends existing fields alongside innovations in advanced packaging technology.In a related presentation, Professor Shin Chang-hwan from Korea University stated that 3D DRAM is not only about the vertical stacking of chips but also a technology that breaks the boundaries between memory and logic. As device miniaturization approaches its limits and the time and power consumption associated with data movement between systems and memory increases, the shift to 3D technology is inevitable. He proposed a 3D integrated design framework that links materials, devices, packaging, and architecture through artificial intelligence. SK Hynix President Kwon Oh-joon, in his speech, remarked that the past memory market resembled a straight road where the competition was about who could run faster, but now it resembles a constantly changing curve, making it important to grasp the speed and direction of external environmental changes and adapt flexibly in addition to internal capabilities.

On September 9, at the 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, the Chairman of the JD Group Technology Committee and President of JD Cloud, Cao Peng, announced the latest progress of JD in the three major AI infrastructures of computing power, data, and models.In terms of computing power, JD Cloud has collaborated with partners such as Moore Threads to create a domestic 10,000-card cluster and plans to build a 100,000-card cluster.In terms of data, JD Cloud's 10 million hours of the largest human-scale data collection initiative is progressing smoothly.In terms of models, JD has formed a JoyAI foundational model matrix covering multimodal models, world models, and embodied models, and has released the real-time interactive world model JoyAI-Echo WM.

Tether froze approximately $39.3 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network earlier today, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee. Insiders revealed that Xinbi Guarantee is a guaranteed trading market that emerged around 2022 on Telegram.Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has described it as one of the largest illegal cryptocurrency markets in Southeast Asia, stating that the platform has processed a cumulative transaction volume of about $24.2 billion. The on-chain tracking platform MistTrack was the first to disclose the news regarding the frozen USDT. This freeze indicates that Tether is further taking on-chain asset freezing measures to restrict addresses deemed to be associated with high risk or suspected illegal activities.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 16,976 SOL from Binance, worth 1.76 million dollars, and then purchased 9.32 million STONK at an average price of 0.19 dollars.

Due to the artificial intelligence boom offsetting concerns about the situation in the Middle East, the Japanese stock market rebounded, with the Nikkei 225 index rising by 0.35% and the Topix index increasing by about 0.24%. Nomura Securities strategists stated that the high-density fiber optic agreement between Verizon and Corning boosted market confidence. The strengthening yen is expected to prompt the Bank of Japan to accelerate interest rate hikes, and Sony financial analysts noted that the market may shift towards buying on dips.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address deposited 11.9 million USDC into Hyperliquid, and then went long on 500 Bitcoin with 20x leverage, with a position value of 39.44 million dollars and a liquidation price of 55,570.76 dollars.

The meme coin LAPTOP, launched by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President, announced the airdrop details on social media, with 20% of the total supply of LAPTOP tokens to be distributed for free to the community. Among this, 2% is reserved for users who incurred losses in Trump-related meme coins and other designated groups, 8% is allocated to Hunter Biden Substack subscribers as of September 6, 2026, and another 10% is set aside for future community airdrops.Claims will open on September 9, 2026, at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time), and community users will have 30 days to claim from the launch date. LAPTOP is a meme coin created for entertainment and community engagement purposes and does not represent any equity, ownership, or other economic interests.

Amazon (AMZN.O) announced that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has now landed on Amazon Bedrock.

According to MistTrack monitoring, Tether froze approximately 39.27 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network a few hours ago, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee.Previously, Tether had frozen funds related to Huiwang Guarantee, and this action seems to be another blow against illegal hosting platforms on Telegram.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index opened down over 1%, and Baidu (BIDU.O) fell over 7%.