TikTok parent company ByteDance has secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 Chinese and international banks as it pours money into artificial intelligence, according to Reuters, citing people with direct knowledge of the transaction.

The yen strengthened to its highest level since February, moving above the peak reached after coordinated intervention by Japan and the US, according to Bloomberg.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the information and communications industry, setting a goal of building a new-generation communications network by 2030, according to ETNet. The plan calls for industry revenue to reach RMB 4.1 trillion by 2030, cumulative investment in information infrastructure to total RMB 3.8 trillion, and annual growth in telecom business volume of 7%. It also targets 50 5G and 5G-A base stations per 10,000 people, smart computing capacity of 9,800 EFLOPS, and a 95% 5G and 5G-A user penetration rate. It also proposes building a national integrated computing network, deploying large-scale intelligent computing clusters of 10,000 cards and 100,000 cards or more in an orderly manner, and increasing support for domestic computing chips. The plan calls for wider use of 400G and faster transmission technologies, faster development of 6G commercial use, and the development of 6G base stations, core network equipment and 6G smartphones.

According to Jin10, the yen rose as much as 1.1% to 154.56, its highest level since February and above the peak reached after joint U.S.-Japan intervention.

According to Korea Herald, HKET and Nikkei-affiliated market data, Asian equities finished mixed on Monday, with Seoul and Tokyo rallying on renewed appetite for AI-linked chip names while Hong Kong edged lower. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 extended its advance, closing up 1,378.90 points, or 2.12%, at 66,399.84, while the broader TOPIX added 22.57 points, or 0.55%, to 4,125.80. Chip-sector names led the gains, with Advantest and Tokyo Electron among the top index contributors alongside SoftBank Group, though Sony eased 2.70%. Seoul's KOSPI outperformed the region, closing up 308.18 points, or 4.61%, at 6,995.39, its highest finish since July 23 and a third straight advance, after OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model stoked demand for memory-chip shares. Samsung Electronics jumped 5.68% to 270,000 won and SK hynix rose 8.26% to 1.78 million won. Shinhan Securities senior analyst Kang Jin-hyuk said sentiment was boosted by the new model despite a weak Wall Street tech session, noting the Philadelphia semiconductor index rose 3.38% on Friday. Hong Kong stocks slipped, with the Hang Seng Index closing down 237 points, or 0.93%, at 25,413.12, and the Hang Seng Tech Index off 0.92% at 4,527; the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index fell 1.46%. Baidu dropped more than 4% and Xiaomi lost over 3%, while mainland banks were broadly weaker. Chipmaker Hua Hong Semiconductor bucked the trend, rising about 5%, and PCB and memory-related names strengthened. Taiwan's TAIEX climbed 775.14 points, or 1.67%, to close at 47,326.27, its highest in about two and a half months, led by heavyweights TSMC, up 2.07% at NT$2,460, and MediaTek, which hit its 10% daily limit at NT$4,855; optical-lens maker Largan fell to its limit-down. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite ended little changed, up 0.07% at 3,932.70, while the tech-heavy ChiNext Index gained 3.41% to 3,398.68 as AI-hardware, semiconductor and CPO shares rallied. Combined turnover across the two bourses was about 1.95 trillion yuan.

Germany’s Zeiss Group overhauled its plan to move to a new cloud-based SAP SE software service after costs rose to more than €200 million ($232 million) over several years, according to Bloomberg. Zeiss is a key supplier to the global semiconductor industry.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin's realized market cap 30-day change rate turned positive on August 24 after 87 consecutive days below zero and rose to +0.88% on September 6. According to ChainCatcher, the realized market cap reached $1.068 trillion, increasing by $9.36 billion over the past 30 days, suggesting on-chain cost basis conditions improved after a prolonged contraction and continued rising while Bitcoin traded near $80,000.

According to Jin10, the eurozone Sentix investor confidence index rose to 5.1 in September, above the expected 2 and the previous 0.9.

Uber Technologies, Inc. has hired banks for its debut multi-tranche debt offering in euros, according to Bloomberg.

Router Protocol will shut down all operations by 30 September 2026 after failing to find a sustainable business model amid lower fees, weaker Web3 activity and rising costs. The project will also delist ROUTE from exchanges and burn 303,333,198 tokens from its treasury, with holders urged to check individual exchange deadlines.

According to Jin10, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the oil and gas production chain in the area is widely distributed, easily accessible, and poorly protected, and that U.S. oil and gas companies in these waters and facilities face the same exposure.

A surge of unsolicited password-reset emails has flooded X users' inboxes.

Robinhood Chain, RWA, TradFi, Meme, Public Chain, Behind Robinhood's Meme Frenzy: The Next Generation of Global Financial Markets is Quietly Going On-Chain. Golden Finance: The future is here, but the financial world is only just beginning to adapt to it.

Ukrainian authorities shut down a Kyiv-based network of fake crypto investment platforms that allegedly used wallet-draining code to steal funds, with 62 victims identified across more than 20 countries and turnover reaching up to $1 million a month.

LeBron James appears to be teasing a partnership with prediction market platform Polymarket, while the details of the partnership remain unclear.

Approximately 4,000 bitcoins, worth about $320 million, were transferred from Liquid Network's Federation wallet. This batch of bitcoins represents 95% of Liquid's publicly disclosed reserves. Before the incident, Liquid held approximately 4,200 BTC, and after the transfer, only about 200 remained.

Approximately 4,000 BTC worth around $320 million was withdrawn from Liquid's federation wallet on September 6 — representing roughly 95% of the network's bitcoin reserves

Anthropic has signed a series of computing power agreements in the past 11 months, totaling $517 billion and securing at least 14.8 gigawatts of capacity. Although its annualized revenue has exceeded $65 billion, its computing power reserves still lag behind OpenAI's planned target of 30 gigawatts.

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