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The Wall Street Journal reported that a small group of artificial intelligence researchers is discussing how to avoid catastrophic artificial intelligence risks in a co-working space named Constellation in Berkeley, California. Sources close to the space indicated that employees from Anthropic also have office space there. The report noted that Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this month, bringing public attention in the U.S. to the notion that "uncontrolled AI development could end humanity."The report stated that individuals in the relevant AI safety circles have been concerned about this issue for over a decade. They have honed their arguments in shared houses in the Bay Area and exchanged predictions at conferences in Berkeley and the Bahamas, discussing ideas such as purchasing remote islands, stockpiling iodine tablets, or relocating to desert electromagnetic shielding bunkers. A cocktail named "Death With Dignity" appeared on the drink menu at an event in 2022, referencing an article that suggested humanity is doomed to fail.The Wall Street Journal stated that these so-called doomsayers are among the earliest employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which were founded on the principle of preventing AI dangers. They continue to exert influence, with some personnel and project funding coming from networks associated with effective altruism, including the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried; the report noted he is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that a recent paper explored the possibility of implementing privacy transactions on Bitcoin, characterized by the ability to achieve this directly on Bitcoin L1 without the need for a soft fork, making privacy transactions a native feature.Darkfost mentioned that he is not a developer and lacks the relevant technical background, but this idea is quite appealing. He believes it could be an important direction for Bitcoin's evolution according to Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision, while potentially diminishing the appeal of privacy projects like Zcash and Monero.

Capital Economics stated that if the United States implements a diesel export ban, customers in Latin America and Europe will be the first to be affected, and global prices will also be impacted. Chief Commodities Economist David Oxley mentioned that the reduction in U.S. diesel flows will weaken a key supplemental source in the global market. Capital Economics estimates that a comprehensive ban could reduce global marine diesel supply by 30%.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) stated that investments driven by artificial intelligence have helped the global economy perform slightly better than expected this year, but the impact of commodity price shocks caused by conflicts in the Middle East is expected to weigh on economic growth momentum in 2027.The OECD predicts that the global economic growth rate will rise to 3%, down from the 3.1% forecast in June. AI infrastructure spending has become an important pillar supporting economic resilience, but the global outlook remains affected by factors such as fluctuations in the energy market.

According to GMGN market data, the Solana ecosystem meme coin Super Inu briefly surged over 3 times, with a current market value of 7.23 million USD. Super Inu was issued on the Stonk platform, inspired by Trump forcibly renaming AI to Super Intelligence, pairing it with the tokenized US stock Nvidia.During a recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump expressed his desire to rename artificial intelligence to "Super Intelligence," stating that all American documents will use "Super Intelligence." According to market news, the related token has a small market value, with significant price volatility; the bottom chips have already made substantial profits, and there may be considerable selling pressure in the short term, so users should invest cautiously.

According to The Guardian, UK media publisher Reach, which includes The Mirror and The Express, announced the layoff of 220 editorial positions due to a significant shift in reader behavior towards AI-generated summaries, resulting in a substantial decline in website traffic.David Higgerson, the company's Chief Content Officer, stated that this is the result of a "huge shift" in how audiences access content. Reach's data shows that traffic from Google has decreased by 46% year-on-year, and digital revenue has also slightly declined to £128.9 million.Meanwhile, the company will close three online brands: KentLive, AberdeenLive, and GalwayBeo, while adding approximately 60 editorial positions, focusing on subscription services and long video content to seek a sustainable development path.

Phemex CEO Federico Variola stated in Cointelegraph's Chain Reaction program that AI has a "net negative impact" on the cryptocurrency industry. He believes that AI diverts funds from the crypto sector on one hand, while on the other hand, it empowers attackers to exploit protocols through means such as social engineering or vulnerability exploitation, increasing cybersecurity costs for small teams. This pressure may push the crypto industry towards greater centralization.Variola expressed that it is difficult to maintain an optimistic view of AI in the crypto space, as many so-called fixes actually encourage more rather than less centralization. He also warned that as AI becomes more widespread, threats such as device breaches or social engineering will increase, reducing the appeal of DeFi to ordinary retail users. However, he acknowledged that AI agents have practical value in helping investors build portfolios or make better trading decisions, but he expects that AI agents will not completely replace human trading decisions.The context of this statement is that Phemex announced an AI transformation in February this year, planning to integrate AI into product development and internal operations. Additionally, in July this year, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Coldcard hardware wallet to steal approximately $116 million in Bitcoin, a vulnerability widely believed to have been discovered through malicious use of AI; Coinkite CEO Rodolfo Novak warned at the time that the speed at which AI-assisted code reviews find vulnerabilities has surpassed that of the industry's most experienced experts. CertiK senior blockchain investigator Natalie Newson pointed out that AI can also become one of the greatest defensive forces.

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.

DeepSeek operator engineer Liu Sheng discusses the impact of AI on his work. He states that the main Attention operator of DeepSeek V4.1 was written by himself, but given the current pace of progress, in another six months to a year, the level of AI in writing operators will likely catch up to or even surpass his own.A year ago, AI could only help him check documents, read code, and find bugs. Now it can read CUDA, PTX, and SASS, analyze the pause time of each instruction, and independently optimize operators. He anticipates that the next step will be for AI to design scheduling plans, evaluate performance, and complete implementations on its own. He is very clear that the better he optimizes the operators, the faster the training and inference of the DeepSeek model will be, and AI will catch up to him even faster. But even if he stops now, models from other companies will not stop, so he will continue to make the operators the best they can be.He believes that he is unlikely to become unemployed, but he may be forced to "change careers," transitioning from writing operators himself to becoming a "mecha pilot" who manipulates agents. What he truly finds difficult to accept is not the disappearance of his job, but the possibility that he may never have the chance to do the work he loves again: "I have to bury my talent in yesterday." The article concludes with his reasons for staying at DeepSeek. He advocates that cutting-edge AI should be provided openly and cheaply to everyone and openly expresses his disbelief that Anthropic or OpenAI can achieve this. He worries that the strongest AI will ultimately be controlled by a few companies, further turning the technological gap into a gap of power and class.

SaxoBank pointed out that the supply risks in the Middle East continue to escalate, the US PPI is supported by a surge in diesel prices, European and American bond yields have risen significantly, and gold, copper, and the stock market are all under pressure.The market is concerned whether the energy shock will rewrite the Federal Reserve's interest rate expectations.

J.P. Morgan Private Bank macro investment strategist Patrick Ernst stated that the European Central Bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points as expected, which has a limited impact on the euro to dollar exchange rate.Ernst pointed out that the dollar may still dominate the market. If the U.S. CPI data exceeds expectations, it could weaken the upward momentum of the euro against the dollar. The U.S. CPI data for August will be released on Friday.

BlackRock strategists indicate that the impact of Japan's interest rate reset has transcended borders. Rising interest rates in the United States may weaken the yen and pressure the Bank of Japan to act more quickly; rising interest rates in Japan could attract more capital back home, weakening demand for U.S. Treasury bonds. Japan holds about 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds, and if 5% of that capital is repatriated, it would amount to 55 billion dollars.

Trader BonkGuy (@theunipcs) posted that he has cumulatively invested over $500,000 in MEME at an average market value of about $45 million, and denied insider trading allegations. BonkGuy stated that MEME is at the core of the meme/stock narrative, which has spawned several high market cap projects (AI at $320 million, MARSCOIN at $260 million, STONK at $220 million).Currently, Robinhood founder Vlad Tenev and AMC CEO are engaged in a public debate over the legality of meme/stock tokens. BonkGuy believes that if the regulatory controversy ultimately favors this sector, MEME has the potential to impact its market cap by billions of dollars, and he expects it to potentially land on the Robinhood platform in the future. Possibly influenced by this, MEME briefly surpassed $130 million and is currently reported at $122 million.

IMF President Georgieva stated at the Jackson Hole annual meeting that stablecoins and tokenization could enhance global financial liquidity, making large cross-border payments cheaper and faster; however, stablecoins could also exacerbate currency substitution, capital flows, and exchange rate volatility, while undermining capital controls and monetary sovereignty. Dollar stablecoins may expand the global network effect of the dollar and marginally reduce U.S. financing costs, but they cannot replace fiscal discipline.This year's Jackson Hole Global Central Bank Annual Meeting has revealed three clear institutional divergences: BIS leans towards "marginalization of stablecoins, centralization of tokenized deposits"; ECB leans towards "central bank currencies on-chain"; while IMF acknowledges the real efficiency of stablecoins in cross-border payments but emphasizes the risks of currency substitution and capital flows in emerging markets. This has more policy implications than simply "supporting or opposing stablecoins."

According to statements cited by Outcome, the CEO of CME Group stated that TradeXYZ and Hyperliquid are having an impact on the U.S. market. The above viewpoint points to the spillover effects of decentralized perpetual contracts and on-chain trading platforms on liquidity, price discovery, and trading activity in traditional markets.

The peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes announced yesterday that it will begin to gradually shut down operations after more than three years of operation. The official statement indicated that it had previously sought to resolve and lift the sanctions against NoOnes, but ultimately was unsuccessful.NoOnes stated that the related sanctions led to the loss of key partners, while blockchain monitoring agencies marked transactions related to NoOnes as high risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue normal operations.According to the official schedule, the business contraction was initiated on August 17, and the P2P market will close on August 21 at 23:59 UTC. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat withdrawals, gift card store, and Bitcoin Lightning Network will also be gradually discontinued. After that, the platform will only support withdrawals, and users will still be able to log in, check their balances, and withdraw remaining assets.The official recommended that users complete asset withdrawals as soon as possible, no later than August 23.Previously, the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes revealed that the platform had encountered a significant security breach, resulting in a loss of approximately $8 million in crypto assets. CEO Ray Youssef confirmed this news after on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed the hack on his Telegram channel.

Harmony has released a rollback plan, intending to retain shard 0 block 92,730,034 and shard 1 block 94,978,278, both corresponding to the time of August 11, 2026, 23:25:37 UTC.Validators will use a replacement database, and the new client version will reject the relevant abnormal block hashes, subsequently continuing to produce blocks from the new block height.