Artificial intelligence: AI giants that once frantically accelerated their development are finally starting to fear AI. Golden Finance reports that AI may kill us all within a decade.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said recent energy-price developments have been "quite concerning" as officials consider further interest-rate increases after last week’s move, according to Bloomberg. Schnabel made the remarks as the ECB weighs its next policy steps.

An American miner is partnering with Rwanda’s government to source and process tungsten from the African nation, according to Bloomberg. The deal is part of a broader effort to build a Western-aligned supply chain for the strategic metal and reduce reliance on China.

According to Wallstreetcn, tech journalist Mark Gurman said Apple’s first foldable iPhone Duo could help foldable phones go mainstream, and he expects Apple to further expand the product line in the coming years with a larger-screen iPhone Duo Max, a stripped-down Duo SE, or a clamshell-style Duo mini.

South Korea's stock exchange has officially launched after-hours trading. Normal trading hours remain 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and investors can now trade until 8 p.m. after the regular close. According to Odaily, the exchange delayed the pre-market session originally set to launch today until the end of 2027 because the securities industry said IT system development and staffing would be burdensome. It also said exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes will not be included in after-hours trading for now, citing market volatility concerns.

An attacker minted 40.65 BTC worth of Nomic’s nBTC on June 25 without depositing any Bitcoin to back the tokens. It then took Osmosis — where the resulting shortfall left its allBTC reserves 36% unbacked — 74 days to discover the exploit.

Harvest Fund Management said on September 14 that its Harvest Nasdaq 100 ETF QDII, listed as NDX ETF Harvest and coded 159501, has recently traded at a significant premium to its indicative net asset value. According to Jiemian News, the fund closed at 2.083 yuan on September 14, while its IOPV was 1.8628 yuan at the close. To protect investors, the fund will be suspended from the market opening on September 15 and resume trading at 10:30 a.m. the same day; redemption will continue as normal during the suspension.

Bitcoin-denominated open contracts fell from 321,497 on September 3 to 278,151 on September 11 — a reduction of 43,346 contracts, or 13.5%, according to Santiment.Bitcoin's price declined roughly 5% over the same period. That gap is the point: the drop in open interest was not caused by the fall in price.The Denomination Is What Makes the Reading CleanMeasuring open interest in BTC rather than dollars removes the mechanical effect price has on the figure.Dollar-denominated open interest falls automatically when price falls, even if every position stays exactly where it was. A 5% price decline produces a 5% decline in notional value with no trader doing anything.Contract counts denominated in BTC do not behave that way. A 13.5% reduction against a 5% price drop means roughly 43,000 contracts were actually closed rather than revalued.That distinction separates deleveraging from arithmetic, and most open interest coverage does not make it.Positioning Sits 20% Below Pre-Rally LevelsSantiment places current positioning about 20% below where it stood before the mid-August rally.That rally carried Bitcoin from roughly $62,000 to $82,284, and the leverage that accumulated through it has now been substantially removed while price has given back only part of the gain.The reading is consistent with other measures of the same condition. The aggregated long/short accounts ratio stands at 1.114, with longs at 52.67% against shorts at 47.29%. Funding remains positive but subdued at 0.0036%.ARP Digital's Yusuf Fakhro made a related observation in early September, noting perpetual open interest at its lowest since May and arguing there was no crowded leveraged long left to unwind. The Santiment figures quantify how much further that has gone.Deleveraging Stopped on CPI DayThe timing detail is the most actionable part of the release.Positions stopped declining on September 11 and rebounded slightly across the two following trading days.September 11 was the CPI release. Core came in at 0.3% against 0.2% expected, sending the two-year Treasury yield to 4.61% as traders assigned nearly a 100% chance of a hike.Deleveraging that halts precisely at the data point suggests the reduction was preparatory rather than reactive. Traders reduced exposure into the event and then stopped, which is the opposite sequence from a market being forced out by losses.Risk-Taking Happened Before the Events, Not During ThemSantiment's conclusion follows directly: market risk-taking occurred primarily ahead of this week's important events rather than during them.That describes a market that positioned deliberately rather than one that got caught. The distinction matters for what happens Wednesday.A market carrying heavy leverage into an FOMC decision faces liquidation risk in both directions, because forced flow amplifies whatever the initial move is. A market 20% below pre-rally positioning has considerably less of that mechanism available.LMAX Group's Joel Kruger flagged where the resulting asymmetry sits: "A good deal of the hawkish risk is arguably priced in. We see greater potential for an outsized move in risk assets to the topside should the Fed ultimately fail to deliver on these hawkish expectations."Light positioning cuts both ways on that. It limits the downside cascade, and it also means less short covering fuel if the surprise arrives.The Spot Picture Has Not Improved Alongside ItReduced leverage is not the same as returning demand, and the two have moved in opposite directions.CryptoQuant's spot demand metric sits at −145,000 BTC after nearly turning positive at −5,000 in late August. The Coinbase premium index fell to −0.036. Crypto ETFs saw $308 million of net outflows on September 10, the worst single day in two months.A market with neutral leverage and deteriorating spot demand does not face liquidation cascades. It also lacks the bid required to absorb supply, which is the configuration that produces grinding declines rather than violent ones.Bitcoin traded around $77,300 after Friday's release, having dipped to $76,046 before the print and rebounded above $79,000 immediately after.Two Events Land Within Two DaysGlassnode data shows nearly 8% of Bitcoin's supply was acquired between $80,000 and $82,000 — the largest concentration at any comparable range — with the US spot ETF cohort's average cost basis in the same band and the 50-week moving average at $81,081.Clearing that requires sustained spot demand rather than leverage, and the deleveraging data confirms the leverage is not there to supply it.The Clarity Act cloture vote falls Tuesday, needing 60 votes with Democrats continuing to flag the absent bipartisan ethics agreement. The Fed decides Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, with updated projections and a Warsh press conference following.

According to CNBC, analysts project the U.S. will hit the $41.1 trillion debt ceiling in 2027, forcing Congress to raise or suspend the limit before the Treasury Department exhausts its extraordinary measures to avoid default. The report said a possible Democratic takeover of one or both chambers in November's midterm election could set up a confrontation with Republican President Donald Trump, while some Republicans are weighing a debt-ceiling increase this year or during the lame-duck session after the election. Trump last week proposed a $5,000 dividend for every American if Republicans win the midterms, a move the report said could bring the U.S. to the debt ceiling faster. Rep. Eric Burlison said discussions are already underway about handling the issue in the lame duck if Republicans lose the midterms, but he said a blanket increase would not get his vote. Rep. Chip Roy said he would not support raising the debt ceiling without massive spending restraint and reforms. The report said Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune would need to navigate a narrow House margin and likely Democratic support in the Senate, while Democrats signaled they would seek leverage if they win in November.

UMG and ElevenLabs are developing an AI music platform using licensed music, allowing participating artists to opt in and earn royalties from fan-created remixes, mashups and vocal tracks.

ArcChain, the offspring of Circle, launched its public mainnet on September 16th, igniting the competition among on-chain launchers. This article reviews the mechanisms, data, and risks of Arc ecosystem launchers such as Tolly, Warp, and Arcemist.

Leaders from some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies are set to gather in Scotland this week at a summit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III, as growing concerns over frontier AI raise a question that would have seemed almost unthinkable during the technology’s recent boom: how fast is too fast?

Senate Republicans released a new version of the CLARITY Act, which includes a revised ethics proposal approved by Trump. The text also modifies sections of the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, stablecoin yields, and the Agriculture Committee provisions.

South Korea’s crypto tax deferral petition has passed 50,000 signatures, triggering parliamentary review as investors call for a two-year delay. The government still plans to impose a 22% tax on annual crypto gains above 2.5 million won from 1 January 2027, despite having no firm estimate of expected revenue or collection costs.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for AI development to slow down and be independently monitored as models become more powerful. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk backed the call, while Amodei proposed stronger safety standards and international coordination to manage AI risks.

The worst outcome isn't even the failure of the bill. The worst outcome is that Congress passes a loosely defined, vaguely accountable, and under-resourced system under the guise of "clear regulation."

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