Norway is moving to tighten rules around smart glasses and considering a ban on facial recognition in public spaces as governments and privacy advocates grapple with a new problem: cameras and artificial intelligence that people can wear on their faces.

Data from the Kobeissi Letter show that Nvidia's market capitalization has surpassed the combined value of the S&P 500 energy, utilities, real estate, consumer staples and materials sectors, according to ETNet. The report said Nvidia's market value is now equivalent to 16.3% of U.S. GDP. It also accounts for about 8% of the S&P 500's total market capitalization, with analysts saying the valuation has been driven almost entirely by the artificial intelligence boom.

Data show the implied probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike at the September FOMC meeting is about 50.5%, while the probability of keeping rates unchanged is about 48.5%. According to Odaily, cumulative trading volume tied to the event is about $80.69 million.

B.AI said on September 3 that its cumulative user count has surpassed 2.3 million. According to ChainCatcher, the AGI infrastructure platform described itself as a global settlement layer connecting models, agents, and value transfer, and said its services focus on lowering compute costs, aggregating large models, and using intelligent routing and scheduling. The company said its products include LLM Services, BAIclaw, MCP, and Agent payments, covering model calls, agent execution, and value settlement.

US equity-index futures fluctuated as oil prices and Treasury yields stabilized, while the yen jumped more than 1% against the dollar as investors focused on factors that could bolster the currency, according to Bloomberg. Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were little changed and Europe's Stoxx 600 edged 0.1% higher, with technology shares in focus after Broadcom predicted a boom in AI chip sales over the next two years. South Korea's Kospi, a barometer of AI investments, swung sharply — rising as much as 1.8% before falling as much as 1.9% — and closed up 0.26% at 6,579.48. The yen rose as much as 1.4% to 156.41 per dollar as traders questioned the view that the Bank of Japan will move too slowly in raising rates, with news from the nation's biggest pension fueling talk of more positive fund flows and speculation about possible intervention. The currency pared gains after Bloomberg reported the BOJ is leaning toward raising its benchmark rate by a quarter point this month in response to upward price risks, while remaining flexible on the pace of future hikes. Brent crude halted a three-day rally, falling 1.3% to $94.35 a barrel after President Donald Trump said renewed attacks on Iran would likely be short-lived and reiterated his claim that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz, easing pressure on Treasuries. The moves followed a cautious start to September, when global bond yields surged as renewed fighting in Iran drove oil higher, fueling inflation concerns and bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike this month. With earnings season largely over, attention shifts to Friday's US jobs report. Candriam's Nadege Dufosse said there is no structural trend in the direction of travel and the market typically follows short-term oil moves, calling it complicated to navigate. European natural gas futures rose for a fourth day toward their highest close since early 2023, and base metals advanced, with London copper trading less than $300 a ton below January's record. A Bloomberg gauge of the dollar slipped for a second day, gold rose about 1% to around $4,420 an ounce, and the 10-year US Treasury yield was little changed at 4.77%. In corporate news, Elliott Investment Management has built a sizeable stake in Deutsche Telekom and indicated it should ditch a potential merger with T-Mobile US, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise declined in late trading after sales missed high expectations.

Standard Chartered said it will expand its institutional Bitcoin and Ethereum spot trading business from the United Kingdom to the United Arab Emirates. According to Foresight News, the bank made the announcement through a report cited by Zhitong Finance.

Independent app researcher Nima Owji said X Money will soon let users connect AI agents to manage funds. According to ChainCatcher, the feature would allow AI agents to handle money management within the platform.

PPP monitoring showed that an account with nearly $600,000 in losses bought $111,000 worth of DK to beat BFX in the LCK playoff prediction event, opening at an average price of 74.7 cents and purchasing 149,734.6 shares. According to Odaily, the DK versus BFX match began at 16:00 on September 3 in a best-of-five format and was the first round of the LCK lower bracket, with the loser eliminated from contention for the World Championship.

Blockchain: Throughput is Just the Entry Ticket. What Does the Financial Market Really Need from Blockchain? Golden Finance: Throughput is Just the First Test.

Tether froze $42.4 million worth of its USDt months before US authorities obtained a court order to seize the funds. Now, two Thai businessmen whose wallets held the stablecoins are taking the company to court, turning a $61 million pig-butchering investigation into a much bigger fight over who has the power to freeze crypto.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's target for monetary policy is, in effect, a super-version of a moving target. The key question is, after the Fed sets its interest rate policy, the target shifts again—is it truly aiming and firing?

Thailand’s SEC has introduced new crypto Travel Rule requirements that will make regulated platforms collect and share more information about people involved in transfers. The rules take effect on 27 February 2027 and will require checks on self-hosted wallet ownership or control, with transfer records kept for at least five years.

CrowdStrike is taking a new approach to AI-powered cybersecurity with SafeMind, a system designed to bring offensive and defensive security capabilities together in a continuous testing loop.

Meme first brought in users, and then stocks and tokens began to supplement the asset layer. What truly determines the upper limit of this chain is whether these assets can be converted into long-term liquidity and enter the lending and derivatives system.

We contributed 1.5% of trade.xyz's total trading volume and can now wait for Hyperliquid's next quarterly airdrop.

Artificial intelligence, chips, semiconductors, Wall Street, "better than expected" but not as expected: Wall Street reassesses Broadcom. Golden Finance reports that AI chips brought in $16.7 billion in a single quarter.

Some researchers believe that Astra's performance improvement, thanks to its more powerful coding and computing capabilities, could be comparable to the leap OpenAI made when it released GPT-4 in 2023.