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According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that humanoid robot manufacturer Noetix Robotics has secretly submitted an initial public offering (IPO) application in Hong Kong, aiming to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.The company's official name is Songyan Power Beijing Technology Co., and it may go public as early as next year.

In July 2026, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare launched a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether Cloudflare's network signals could help ChatGPT users discover new content more efficiently. Both parties reported positive early results, with the pilot incorporating previously unknown pages into OpenAI's search index, providing ChatGPT with more sources to reference.The pilot utilized about 1% of Cloudflare's global participation queue, allowing OpenAI to discover and index hundreds of millions of new web pages. OpenAI independently evaluated and ranked these pages based on relevance and usefulness, while ChatGPT Search enabled users to view original content and publishers through backlinks. Observations indicated that automated traffic might make non-existent pages appear noteworthy, with some sites redirecting arbitrary addresses to their homepage and others pointing to duplicate content. Both parties are also testing signals to identify potentially harmful pages, such as fake login pages embedded on legitimate sites, advocating for the marking of single pages rather than entire domains.Related signals are also used to filter out non-existent or redirecting pages and to assess whether unchanged pages are worth revisiting. Page signals do not constitute access permission; the study utilized web metadata for search and discovery rather than using page content for model training. Site owners can understand and manage how AI systems access their websites through Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control. The next phase will improve page selection and test faster, more reliable change signals.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated on the X platform yesterday, "We hope that Robinhood will have the best builders on-chain, and we are investing to make this a reality. More details will be announced soon." This news subsequently continued to ferment within the community, with crypto KOL @rickytheirish claiming that the Robinhood chain will launch a funding program exceeding $100 million, aimed at ecological builders.According to GMGN market data, possibly influenced by the above news, the Robinhood chain's ecological tokens experienced a rebound: PONS is currently priced at $0.324, with a 24-hour increase of 16.4%; Artificial Inu is currently priced at $0.101, with a 24-hour increase of 20.7%; BUN is currently priced at $0.0563, with a 24-hour increase of 17.38%; some small-cap varieties, including PRIORS and Index, also showed significant rebounds. ChainCatcher reminds users that the related rumors have not been officially confirmed, and the prices of on-chain tokens are highly volatile, so users should invest cautiously.

According to 36Kr, Euler Wanshang recently completed hundreds of millions of yuan in angel round + financing, jointly invested by Chengyuanxiang Fund, Xinneng Venture Capital, Xizhou International, Tuobang Co., Ltd., and Hongyi Investment, with Zhiguan Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor.The company was founded by Zhou Shunbo, the original "genius boy" from Huawei and the first employee of Huawei's embodied intelligence, and has been established for more than half a year. It focuses on building a Real-world RSI system for home service robots and has released the phased results UniWAM, exploring ways for robots to continuously improve through feedback from real-world scenarios.

The official account of the AI assistant Claude from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic stated that the application volume for the Claude Startups program has exceeded expectations, and they will suspend the $1000 API credit offer for Claude Team.Claude mentioned that there have been hundreds of thousands of applications for the program, and the team is re-evaluating to cover as many startups as possible. Accounts that have already received the discount can still retain their related rights; accounts that have applied or have been approved but have not yet claimed will enter a review process, and some previously approved accounts will not be able to receive the discount.Claude stated that accepted program members can still use Startup Stack and Applied AI office hours. Users on the Claude Max or Team plan can continue to use their monthly API credits as usual in the Console.

According to reports from Lei Feng Network·Whale Rhino, AI hardware company Loke Technology NOOKLAB has completed several rounds of financing, with investors including Sequoia China, Linear Capital, and others, accumulating a total amount of several hundred million RMB, with a current valuation close to 100 million USD. The two rounds of financing were concentrated at the beginning of this year.Loke Technology's founder Raymond was born in 1996 and has previously worked at OPPO, OnePlus, Anker, and ByteDance, where he was responsible for the second-generation AI glasses in the Byte Ocean team. Its first product, Moonphase Flip, weighs 54 grams and attaches to the back of the phone via MagSafe magnetic suction. The company defines it as a low-disruption AI portable screen, primarily targeting overseas markets. The team currently consists of about 30 people.

Polymarket's CEO Shayne Coplan stated during a fireside chat at the Token2049 conference in Singapore that cryptocurrency trading is evolving into a game of "irrational exuberance," where traders compete to be the first to find the next hundredfold token. He pointed out that people think they are buying something valuable, but in reality, it is worthless; however, as long as there is a possibility of it rising to 100 times, they want to sell before it goes to zero. Coplan mentioned that some traders can gain considerable wealth through this strategy, but it is essentially a game of "irrational exuberance and hot potato," where rising asset prices will eventually fall back.Coplan indicated that the continuous growth of Polymarket's user base shows that some traders are looking for betting opportunities with more predictable odds, rather than the next skyrocketing cryptocurrency. He explained that trading these markets on Polymarket does not have exponential upside potential, but informed traders will continue to place bets on future events with more predictable odds. According to data from DefiLlama, Polymarket is the second-largest prediction market, with a trading volume of $1.21 billion in the past seven days, while the largest market, Kalshi, had $2.3 billion.The growth of prediction markets has also attracted more attention from U.S. regulators. It was reported that JPMorgan terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket on August 14 due to regulatory concerns but expressed interest in acting as an underwriter if Polymarket seeks to go public.

AMD CEO Lisa Su stated that AMD will invest a total of tens of billions of dollars across the global supply chain.

The NFT market Magic Eden appears to have a security vulnerability, with white hat hackers transferring 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets.Quit, the Vice President of Blockchain at Yuga Labs, stated that this transfer is part of a white hat operation. The related NFTs are currently stored in an address starting with "0x71cF," and the assets are in a secure state. They will be returned in full once the risk is eliminated.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iran's BitBank, claiming that the exchange processed Bitcoin payments made by vessels under the Hormuz Security Insurance Program.The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that as of June, these funds had been transferred to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Babak Zanjani's network had used the exchange to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Bitcoin payment channels are not exempt from regulation by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against the Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, stating that the platform transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran. OFAC stated that BitBank is controlled by Iranian financier Babak Zanjani, who was designated in January of this year, and that he used the platform to complete transfers between June and July, with this designation made under Executive Order 13902.The sanctions also cover three executives from BitBank's software developer Pishtaz Simorgh and its parent company Dot One. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that using cryptocurrency to finance the Iranian regime is well within OFAC's jurisdiction. OFAC also mentioned that Hormuz Safe, an entity selling passage security in the Strait of Hormuz, has been receiving payments through BitBank since June; this entity was sanctioned in July. OFAC did not disclose the relevant wallet addresses.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Shanghai-based embodied haptic company Qianjue Robotics has announced the completion of two rounds of strategic financing totaling hundreds of millions. Previously, Qianjue Robotics had announced the completion of financing at the hundred million level, with investors including embodied intelligence industry players, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric. Currently, Qianjue's shareholders include financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, and Futen Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied and industrial fields like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Jide Electric.This round of funding will focus on product upgrades, business expansion, and industrial implementation, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision visual and haptic sensors, improving the collection of real interaction data, haptic simulation, and dataset construction, and continuously promoting the research and development of haptic embodied models and haptic world models.

Strategy is leveraging large-scale buybacks to push the price of perpetual preferred stock STRC back to around the $100 par value, in order to restore its Bitcoin financing capability. From July 20 to September 13, Strategy repurchased a total of 9.96 million shares of STRC, costing approximately $950 million, accounting for about 18% of the trading volume during the same period.Of this, approximately $765 million can be traced back to the sale of MSTR common stock, while about $161 million came from Bitcoin reductions. STRC had previously fallen to around $70 but has recently risen to about $99. Analysts believe that only when the price of STRC approaches or exceeds the $100 par value can Strategy effectively reissue the security and use the raised funds to purchase Bitcoin. However, after Strategy reduced its buybacks, whether STRC can continue to stay near the par value remains uncertain.

On September 14, the B.AI platform announced that the cumulative number of registered users officially surpassed 2,600,264, crossing the milestones of 2.4 million, 2.5 million, and 2.6 million within just 5 days, with the community size continuing to accelerate.Behind the rapid growth is the platform's daily throughput capability of 1T+ Tokens, strongly supporting scalable production-level workloads—zero-threshold cutting-edge model supply, cost-effective computing power scheduling, and stable carrying capacity have made B.AI the choice for more and more developers to quickly turn innovative ideas into reality. From AI exploration to production-level applications, from single model calls to complex Agent workflows, B.AI is continuously connecting more models, users, and developers, allowing intelligent capabilities to reach the world with a lower threshold. Welcome to log in at chat.b.ai/chat and join the ranks of over 2.6 million users.

ARK Invest crypto analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that stablecoins have a significant network effect. Although there are thousands of stablecoins in the market, as the market capitalization threshold increases, the number of tiers is rapidly leveling off. Currently, the stablecoins that are truly worth paying attention to are those with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars, gradually moving towards the 100 billion and 500 billion dollar levels.Data shows that the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 1 billion dollars has only increased from single digits to the current 12 since 2021, while the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars has actually decreased from its peak in 2022, with only Tether and Circle's stablecoins remaining. Valente believes that entering the 10 billion dollar market capitalization club has become very difficult, and in the future, the 100 billion dollar level stablecoins may only have two competitors for a long time, while it may take more than two years for only one to reach the 500 billion dollar level.

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.

According to CoinDesk, data from Curve Finance shows that its lending market has recorded a total of 704 "soft liquidation" events, involving 602 borrower addresses, with a median duration of 14.5 days, of which a quarter lasted at least 38.9 days, and some positions remained within the liquidation range for several months. Of these soft liquidations, 476 began in the first half of 2026. Unlike traditional lending protocols such as Aave and Compound, Curve's LLAMMA system does not sell off collateral all at once after the price drops below a threshold, but gradually converts collateral into borrowed assets within a price range. If the price rebounds before the loan completely fails, some or all of the conversions may be reversed. This means that borrowers are not in a grace period; their collateral has been partially liquidated during the loan's duration, but they still have the opportunity to restore their positions if the price reverses. However, soft liquidations are not without costs. Data shows that borrowers may still incur losses due to transaction fees, conversions, rebalancing, interest, and bid-ask price fluctuations, and if the market remains unfavorable, positions may still fall into hard liquidation. Curve Finance is a mainstream DeFi protocol focused on stablecoin exchanges and crvUSD lending, currently holding approximately $1.35 billion in deposits, with a DEX trading volume of about $3.4 billion over the past 30 days and active loans of about $46 million.

Tencent WorkBuddy announced the official launch of its open platform, introducing over a hundred ecological partners in the first batch, aimed at opening underlying Agent capabilities for smart hardware, industry applications, and developers.At the press conference, 9 co-branded smart hardware products made their debut, with partners including Plaud, Rokid, Yingshi, iFlytek, Anker, Mengma, and Jingdong Jingzao; over 30 industry applications were simultaneously integrated, covering more than 20 fields including finance, law, healthcare, education, and public welfare. Previously, WorkBuddy collaborated with Li Weike Technology to launch the X-AI memory glasses and reached an ecological linkage for AI glasses with Rokid.