Citrini analyst jukan said on X that Samsung Electronics expects to at least double production of HBM4 and HBM4E next year compared with this year. According to Odaily, Samsung Electronics also plans to raise outsourced cleaning of glass substrates used in HBM production from 20,000 wafers per month this year to 50,000 wafers per month next year. Samsung Electronics began mass production shipments of HBM4 in February and provided 12-layer HBM4E samples to customers including Nvidia in May. Industry estimates put Samsung Electronics' average monthly HBM wafer input at about 180,000 wafers this year, rising to about 250,000 wafers next year, while the share of HBM4-series shipments may increase from about 40% to about 80%.

The yen is vulnerable to sharp swings and further declines over the next week as Japan enters a three-day holiday that is expected to thin trading liquidity, according to Bloomberg. Investors were disappointed that the Bank of Japan did not give stronger guidance on the pace of future interest-rate hikes.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin's 30-day compression indicator has rebounded to 93.9%, an extreme level that has appeared four times since the current bear market phase began. According to ChainCatcher, Bitcoin has repeatedly tested its annual moving average over the past 20 days but has failed to hold above it, suggesting volatility compression is intensifying near a key resistance level and that the market may soon choose a direction.

Anthropic said it has chosen Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help slow the pace of AI development, following a proposal from CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei published a three-step proposal on Sept. 12 calling for slower AI development so safeguards can be put in place amid warnings about the potential for catastrophic harm from rapid, unchecked progress. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded positively to the proposal, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that such regulation was not necessary. Amodei said AI has been advancing faster because of its growing ability to build the next generation of AI, describing the process as recursive self-improvement and warning that, if left unchecked, it could outrun human ability to understand and control these systems. Anthropic said the first step in Amodei’s proposal is to use independent evaluators with employee-like access, a commitment the company had already made. According to Cointelegraph, Anthropic announced on Friday that it is moving toward that goal by partnering with Accenture and its AI business Faculty to evaluate and red-team models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards. The company said details of how the arrangement will work are still being developed because embedded evaluation is a new approach. Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least $1 billion in the project over the next five years. Anthropic also said there is no existing system for funding independent evaluation, so long-term support should come from pooled or government sources, but it will fund Accenture’s work directly because of the urgency of the effort. The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce additional evaluators in the coming weeks. Accenture said its Faculty unit has experience testing and evaluating models for leading AI labs and building complex AI systems designed to be safe and ethical by design. Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said embedded evaluation is an emerging area and that the company looks forward to helping accelerate its development as part of the safety landscape going forward.

Hong Kong plans to expand the Dim Sum bond market and develop yuan-denominated gold and commodity markets, Financial Secretary Paul Chan wrote in his weekly blog Sunday, according to Bloomberg. Chan said the moves are aimed at further enhancing the city’s financial role and pricing power.

LaiBit mining pool founder Jiang Zhuoer said ZEC fell to $1,445 after Garrett Jin previously shorted ZEC and drew market skepticism over whether he was deliberately creating a counterparty to attract retail longs. According to ChainCatcher, Jiang said Jin’s disclosure of a large spot position removed that target, while his roughly 200,000 ZEC holdings, about 1% of total supply, could become potential selling pressure. Jiang said this suggests the current ZEC rally may be close to ending. He added that, in trading a token he described as being controlled by major holders, he would be at an information disadvantage versus counterparties and would not participate in the trade.

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Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya released a research report saying open-weight models are now about four months behind the best closed frontier models on public evaluations, with the gap becoming more volatile. According to ChainCatcher, the report argues that if open models can approach frontier performance while giving companies more control over data, infrastructure, and customization, the value of paying frontier labs becomes a business question. Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that companies may hand over proprietary knowledge and workflows that create differentiation to frontier model providers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said enterprises effectively pay for intelligence twice, once in money and once through the more valuable proprietary knowledge they must disclose to make that intelligence useful. Despite those concerns, the report says companies are still willing to pay for frontier performance even when the best open-weight models lag by only months, and frontier lab revenue continues to accelerate. It also said leading companies use both model types, relying on open models for control and customization and closed frontier models for maximum capability, with some cases reporting up to 12 times engineering efficiency and more than 20 times cost savings. The 99-page report also discussed the cost of maintaining frontier leadership, five factors in model competition, where models are run, and investments by NVIDIA and Samsung in open-weight models.

Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned the economy faces “serious risks” as the population ages and grows more slowly, according to Bloomberg. He said the demographic shift will also pressure government finances.

Bitcoin surged back above 80,000 with a large bullish candle, and Glassnode claims that the fuel for this surge came almost entirely from short liquidations.

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