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In response to netizens' claims on Threads that Google Taiwan's layoffs are at least 30% to 50%, with all senior executives being let go, Google Taiwan officially denied that the rumors are exaggerated. The official statement indicated that to make operations more efficient, reduce organizational levels, and prepare for the company's long-term development, the team has been continuously making adjustments to its workforce. As resources focus on core objectives and significant future opportunities, related adjustments will continue.Google has established its largest hardware R&D base outside the United States in Banqiao, New Taipei City. The official job vacancy website shows that there are 49 positions open in Banqiao and 32 positions in Taipei City. Recently, the AI infrastructure R&D center located in the Shilin District of Taipei City has expanded, with office space set to increase by 60%.

According to the Phoenix Veritas Foundation, the cultural token themed around Hunter Biden's laptop, LAPTOP, has been issued on the Base chain, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The initial circulation at TGE is 350 million tokens (35%). In terms of token distribution, the founders (including Hunter Biden) and the prediction mechanism each account for 30%, community airdrops account for 20%, liquidity and the foundation treasury each account for 10%, and charitable distribution accounts for 5%. The founders' tokens have a 6-month lock-up period and a 24-month linear unlock.LAPTOP has no utility and is positioned as a purely cultural digital collectible, with its value entirely driven by community sentiment. The token contract has been audited for security by Hacken in April 2026, with no major vulnerabilities. Regarding market makers, the foundation has signed lending agreements for a total of 20.5 million tokens with G20 and GSR.

According to CoinDesk, a 22-year-old man from Singapore will plead guilty in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in the United States.The scammer posed as customer service representatives from Google and Gemini, tricking an investor into handing over Bitcoin worth $240 million.

Affected by the news that Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is about to launch a meme coin named after his "laptop incident" $LAPTOP, popular meme coins in the Robinhood ecosystem have generally fallen.Among them, PONS fell nearly 9% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $726 million; CASHCAT fell nearly 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $190 million; AI fell over 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value currently reported at $179 million; MEME fell over 20% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $91 million; microduck fell over 25% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $17 million. Price calculations are based on the announcement of the spontaneous coin disclosed at 22:50 Beijing time.

According to data from platform X, the official Twitter account and contract for the new meme coin project "LAPTOP" by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, have been announced. The account is named Laptop (@Laptoptoken) and has also gained the official Twitter follow of Hunter Biden.The project description states "Coming to @base September 9" and discloses the relevant token contract address, consistent with previously disclosed information.ChainCatcher reminds users: The currently disclosed information is all community speculation and has not yet been officially confirmed. Please do not interact with any unfamiliar links to protect asset security.ChainCatcher previously reported that according to The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.The founding team of the project, including Hunter Biden, will hold 30% of the total token supply (1 billion tokens), with that portion locked for 6 months and fully unlocked over two years; another 20% of the tokens will be airdropped in two batches to users who previously lost money on the Trump meme coin TRUMP, Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers and their friends, and users on the mailing list maintained by video journalist Andrew Callaghan; the remaining 20% will be used for charitable donations, liquidity, and distribution to exchange partners and market makers, as well as covering the accounting, legal, administrative, and compliance costs of the token foundation.It is reported that the founding team has also agreed on a destruction mechanism that includes 30 preset events; if the relevant events achieve the preset results within the designated time (such as the Democratic Party winning the 2028 presidential election, Bitcoin reaching a new historical high, LAPTOP's fully diluted valuation exceeding TRUMP, etc.), up to 30% of the token supply may be destroyed; if not achieved, the tokens will be donated to charitable organizations proportionally.The report notes that Hunter Biden has recently been frequently participating in podcasts, news programs, and writing Substack articles discussing his views on cryptocurrency, and has commented on the controversy between the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial and Sun Yuchen.

According to official news, Gate will launch the "Flash Exchange Advanced Season" event from September 7 at 18:00 to September 14 at 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete at least 100 USDT of valid flash exchange transactions daily and check in for 3 days or more will be able to share a prize pool of 20,000 USDT based on the number of accumulated check-in days; if the cumulative valid flash exchange transaction volume reaches 3,000 USDT, they can also participate in the transaction volume ranking to share another prize pool of 20,000 USDT. Among them, the user ranked first with a transaction volume of 150,000 USDT can receive a maximum reward of 1,000 USDT.In addition, the Gate flash exchange exclusive gift for newcomers is ongoing. From September 3 at 16:00 to September 10 at 16:00 (UTC+8), eligible newcomers who complete their first flash exchange and reach a transaction volume of 100 USDT will receive a 20 USDT dual-currency financial experience gift, limited to the first 1,000 participants; if the cumulative valid flash exchange transaction volume reaches 300 USDT, they can receive an additional 3 USDT cash reward, limited to the first 300 participants, and the two benefits can be stacked. Currently, Gate flash exchange supports one-click conversion of over 2,400 types of crypto assets without any transaction fees.

According to Digital Asset, the National Tax Service of South Korea has issued regulations stating that even if overseas virtual asset (digital asset) exchanges go bankrupt, individuals with accounts at those exchanges must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts. The National Tax Service stated on the 28th of last month: "Residents who open accounts with overseas virtual asset operators for the purpose of trading digital assets must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts, even if the operators go bankrupt."In addition, it is expected that the scale of digital assets included in the overseas financial account declaration will reach 105 trillion Korean won by 2026, a decrease of 5.4% compared to 2025.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), Jiang Zhuoer, stated that since the significant rise of BTC on August 20, the market has not shown any obvious correction. We are still in the early stages of a bull market filled with distrust and skepticism, and many investors have a deep fear of a crash.The concentrated liquidation area near $76,000 below is larger than the area near $83,000 above. He believes that the market is more likely to reach the lower liquidation zone, and this "magnetic effect" is the main reason he sold all BTC positions at $82,000 the day before yesterday.

According to the information released by the SEC, Coinbase (COIN) director Wilson Frederick R sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock on September 1 at an average price of $178.93 per share, with a total value of approximately $1.7893 million. After the transaction, his direct holdings decreased to 187,389 shares.

According to Bloomberg, after NVIDIA acquired the AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, the three French co-founders—38-year-old Clément Delangue, 42-year-old Julien Chaumond, and 41-year-old Thomas Wolf—each saw their net worth rise to about $1.8 billion, marking their debut on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The deal is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, and the three co-founders will continue to serve under a six-year retention agreement. NVIDIA has committed that Hugging Face will remain an open platform, allowing users to freely upload and download AI models and datasets. Hugging Face was founded in 2016, initially starting in Paris and now headquartered in Brooklyn.

WEEX Exchange announced that the WEEX Hackathon Season 2 "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era" is officially launched. AI developers, quantitative traders, teams, and individuals can join Team AI or Team Human to engage in a continuous five-round trading competition in a real market environment, competing for rankings and rewards based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool for the event is 600,000 USDT, with multi-layered incentives designed around different participation methods.From September 3 to 6 is the pre-registration phase, where the first 20,000 registrants can share a 100,000 USDT early bird prize pool. Early registrants can complete event tasks in advance to accumulate activity points for the subsequent competition.

B.AI platform announces that Anthropic's latest Mythos-level general model Claude Fable 5.1 is now officially integrated with the API.This model uses the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5.1, specifically optimized for high-intensity coding, long-term agent workflows, and complex knowledge tasks. It achieved an excellent performance of 73.4% at maximum computational intensity in the CursorBench 3.2.0 test.API access is now open, and developers can enjoy exclusive discounts—official channels as low as 15% off, and self-selected service providers as low as 40% off. B.AI continues to introduce top global models, providing developers with more powerful and cost-effective AI capability options.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "US Open WTA: Emma Navarro vs. Loïs Boisson," the sub-market "US Open WTA: Emma Navarro vs. Loïs Boisson Spread +/-1.5" saw the winning probability of the "Navarro" option experience significant fluctuations, dropping from 74.5% an hour ago to the current 52.5% (a fluctuation of 22%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to official news, Gate launched the 136th contract points airdrop event on September 2 at 18:00 (UTC+8). It is reported that this event is divided into two prize pools: users holding Gate contract points ≥40 can receive a 100 USDT position experience voucher, which will consume 20 Gate contract points; users holding ≥120--90 points (decreasing rule) can receive 12 GUSD, which will consume 15 Gate contract points.The GUSD prize pool adopts a decreasing threshold mechanism, where users with higher points qualify for rewards earlier, increasing their chances of obtaining rewards.

According to Digitalasset, the South Korean National Tax Service plans to introduce commercial tracking programs used by domestic and foreign investigative agencies to track and analyze the flow of funds between digital asset wallets, in order to close the tax loophole for virtual assets in personal wallets.The South Korean government stated that digital assets held in personal wallets and overseas exchanges are subject to taxation as long as there is income generated from transfers or loans. The overseas exchanges will respond through the Crypto Asset Automatic Information Exchange Framework (CARF).

Bitget launches the "Camping Stargazing Season" contract trading event, which runs from August 31 at 11:00 to September 7 at 11:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who accumulate a specified trading volume can receive tiered USDT rewards, with a maximum of 170 USDT per individual.Users can also receive camping-themed physical rewards such as the Arc'teryx Alpha SV Jacket and the Snow Peak 4-6 person tent.

According to The Verge, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking damages for "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works. They accuse Anthropic of illegally downloading, scraping, and distributing copyrighted works on a large scale to develop and train the Claude series of AI models. The plaintiffs are seeking up to $150,000 in damages for each work and an additional claim of up to $25,000 for each instance of removing identifiable copyright data.In addition to suing Anthropic, the lawsuit also names co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The lawsuit alleges that Mann used BitTorrent to download over 5 million pirated books, and that employees downloaded at least 2 million from Pirate Library Mirror. The complaint also claims that Anthropic scraped lyrics from websites such as MusixMatch and LyricFind. Recently, Anthropic reached a $1.5 billion settlement with the publishing industry over another lawsuit, while also facing multiple lawsuits from Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO, as well as lawsuits filed by BMG and Round Hill Music.