Dubai developer BinGhatti is facing scrutiny from rating agencies over tightening liquidity and elevated debt levels, according to Bloomberg. Chairman Muhammad BinGhatti told Horizons Middle East and Africa the company is confident it can meet its obligations, while outlining its growth plans and view on the property market.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a special campaign to cultivate AI application service providers, aiming to build a resource pool and accelerate large-scale AI deployment across industries, according to ETNet. The ministry said the number of providers in the national resource pool should exceed 2,000 by end-2026 and reach at least 3,000 by end-2027. It also wants provinces with national AI industry innovation pilot zones to have at least 100 local providers in their pools by end-2027. The notice calls for local authorities to identify AI application service providers and compile regional resource pools, which the ministry will consolidate into a national list and publish when appropriate. It also encourages providers to form integrated AI application service teams with upstream and downstream partners to deliver one-stop solutions. Local governments are asked to submit at least 10 such service teams, with each team led by one provider and including at least two upstream or downstream participants. The ministry also urged wider procurement of large models, AI agents and Token-based services, and said local authorities may use measures such as first-purchase support and risk compensation to promote adoption. The notice further supports links with national computing network hubs, interconnection nodes and the China computing platform, and encourages the use of policy tools such as computing vouchers to lower costs. It also backs joint training bases between universities, vocational schools and leading providers, as well as front-line deployment engineer teams to support implementation at user sites.

According to Wallstreetcn, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on August 31 that Iran does not seek war but will never stand by in the face of aggression and will respond firmly.

According to Jin10, U.S. energy stocks rose in pre-market trading after international oil prices climbed, with Halliburton (HAL.N) up 2%, Valero Energy (VLO.N) up 2.4%, Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) up 1.6%, Chevron (CVX.N) up 1.6%, Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) up 1.4%, and Marathon Petroleum (MRO.N) up 1.2%.

Berlin city government officials are facing a ransom demand after a cyberattack two weeks ago, according to ZEIT. According to ChainCatcher, the attackers are suspected to be the long-running Rhysida hacking group, which allegedly demanded 30 bitcoin and threatened to publish stolen data. Sensitive information may include traffic violation records and passwords. Berlin state authorities have not confirmed the scope of any data leak or commented on the ransom amount or the attackers' identity, saying they are withholding details for investigative reasons. Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner said the city will not yield to extortion. The attack mainly affected the transport and construction administration departments, which were temporarily isolated from the state government network after the incident.

According to Jin10, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed down 17.8 points, or 0.07%, at 25,566.99 on August 31, while the Hang Seng Tech Index rose 14.72 points, or 0.32%, to 4,619.87. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index gained 22.79 points, or 0.27%, to 8,513.18, while the Hang Seng Red Chip Index fell 88.82 points, or 2.09%, to 4,170.36.

According to Jin10, Turkey's central bank launched a 1-week gold-for-lira seller swap auction through traditional methods, with a size of 6 tons.

According to Jin10, Hygon Information and Tencent Cloud's open-source project Cube Sandbox have completed deep joint adaptation and tuning based on Hygon C86 series CPUs, with full-stack software and hardware co-optimization from application architecture and microservice chains to Linux kernel scheduling.

According to Wallstreetcn, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said China-U.S. economic and trade relations are mutually beneficial and win-win, China has never deliberately pursued a trade surplus, and it opposes all forms of unilateral tariff measures.

LS Securities cut its target price for SK Hynix by 27.3% to 2.4 million won and kept a buy rating. According to Sina Finance, the firm said next year's high-bandwidth memory profitability is unlikely to meet earlier expectations, lowering its target price from 3.3 million won to 2.4 million won. Researcher Jung Woo-sung said the downgrade was not driven by slower HBM demand or the end of the memory cycle, but by a weaker HBM earnings outlook. He added that Samsung Electronics' entry into HBM4 may partly reduce the premium from concentrated supply. LS Securities had previously expected SK Hynix's HBM operating margin to reach as high as about 80% next year, but after industry research it now sees the margin staying near this year's level of around 60%. The firm also raised its target price for Samsung Electronics by 12.5% to 450,000 won and kept a buy rating. According to Sina Finance, LS Securities said Samsung Electronics' HBM4 shipment share and yield are improving together, and that profit growth may accelerate. The firm estimated that HBM4 shipments accounted for about 5% of Samsung Electronics' HBM products in the first quarter of this year and rose to about 35% in the second quarter. Over the same period, yield improved by more than 5 percentage points. The report said the HBM weakness that had weighed on valuation is gradually fading.

Polish prosecutors have charged Radosław Piesiewicz, president of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOl), in an investigation into the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto, adding a major new figure to a case that has already ensnared the exchange’s former chief executive.

Anthropic is forcing some Claude users to sign out after detecting unauthorized access using stolen browser sessions.

Sberbank plans to accept Bitcoin, Ether and USDT as loan collateral once Russia’s central bank approves their use in the regulated market.

Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh delivered his first keynote address since taking office in Jackson Hole, and this time the market seemed to understand what he wanted to say.

Apple welcomed its third CEO, John Ternus, who officially succeeded Tim Cook on September 1st, but the honeymoon period was practically nonexistent. This 25-year hardware veteran shoulders triple pressures, and Apple, which has already fallen behind in the AI ​​race, is standing at a true historical turning point.

Since 2025, the crypto industry has suffered $3.63 billion in thefts. CEXs (Converted Exchanges) face the primary risk of private key leaks; DEXs (Decentralized Exchanges) are vulnerable to smart contract vulnerabilities, and the harm caused by fake user interfaces and malicious integrations is constantly compounding.

For an AI agent company to succeed, the founder must have a deep understanding of what an AI agent is and how to build one.

Elon Musk claimed on X that AI will be able to do "anything digital at a superhuman level" by the end of next year

Strategy创始人兼执行董事长Michael Saylor与CEO Phong Le参加了投资者直播问答，并回应了市场中的一些热点问题。

A Solana-based token called Trump Digital GOLD briefly soared to a multimillion-dollar valuation after appearing on a Trump-linked social media account, only to collapse by roughly 99% as a concentrated group of wallets sold a huge portion of the token supply.