Oil prices fell, with WTI crude dropping below $96 per barrel and down 1.54% on the day. According to Odaily, Brent crude was at $100.4 per barrel, down 1.6%.

The predict.fun forecast for the LPL qualifier event "IG vs. TES" shows IG with a 55% chance of defeating TES. According to Odaily, the winner of the best-of-five match at 5 p.m. today will secure the LPL's third seed for the 2026 World Championship, while the loser will drop into the qualifier losers' bracket to face the winner of WE and JDG for the fourth seed.

Huawei rotating chairman Wang Tao said at Huawei Connect 2026 that the Ascend 960 chip is ready ahead of schedule and delivers twice the performance. According to ChainCatcher, the Ascend 960DT is now set for release in Q1 2027, three quarters earlier than planned, while the Ascend 960PR is scheduled for Q3 2027, one quarter earlier than planned. Wang said Huawei will continue its one-generation-per-year development pace. According to ChainCatcher, the Ascend 970 is planned for release in 2028, and the Ascend 980 is planned for release in 2029.

Exxon Mobil is nearing a preliminary agreement with Venezuela to explore investment in several oil fields, which could mark its return to the country after nearly two decades. According to Sina Finance, people familiar with the matter said Exxon Mobil could sign a memorandum of understanding with Venezuela's state oil company as soon as this month to discuss investment in several developed and undeveloped oil fields, though the talks could still collapse or run past September. One person familiar with the matter said the deal could cover fields with more than 50 billion barrels of underground oil reserves in total. Venezuela says it has about 300 billion barrels of oil reserves, the largest in the world. Exxon Mobil has sent teams to Caracas this year for talks on a potential deal as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes U.S. oil producers to help revive Venezuela's struggling oil industry. People familiar with the matter said discussions between Exxon Mobil and Venezuelan officials have gradually advanced over time, and are expected to continue this week at the Group of 20 energy ministers' meeting in Houston. Trump, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others are trying to shift the global energy industry back toward the Western Hemisphere, encouraging companies to invest $100 billion in Venezuela to lift the country's weak crude output and send oil to U.S. refineries. Exxon Mobil's main rival Chevron signed a deal earlier this month to invest $7 billion through its joint venture in Venezuela over five years, with a goal of doubling output to 600,000 barrels per day. On September 16, billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm signed a preliminary agreement for his Oklahoma-based Continental Resources to explore an undeveloped oil field in Anzoategui state. Many major oil and gas companies remain hesitant to commit capital to Venezuela, fearing financial and legal problems from years of investment in a country with a record of nationalizing private assets. Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips are still seeking compensation for billions of dollars in losses after Hugo Chavez nationalized their assets in 2007. At a televised White House meeting with Trump in January, Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods and others expressed caution. Woods said at the time that Venezuela did not seem worth investing in unless its commercial framework, legal system and oil and gas laws changed significantly. Venezuela has since revised oil-related regulations, including allowing lower oil production tax rates. Continental Resources said in a September 16 news release that recent changes to the country's regulatory and legal framework were one reason the deal could move forward.

UBS believes that the Warsh policy response function has undergone a substantial shift compared to its predecessor, becoming more sensitive to inflation and supply shocks, significantly less concerned about the labor market, and setting higher thresholds for restrictive policies.

India bought a record amount of US Treasuries in July as large inflows came in under the central bank’s special facilities to attract overseas capital, according to Bloomberg.

Elon Musk said he is currently living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI's largest expansion project so far. According to Sina Finance, Musk made the remarks on Monday while recording the All-In podcast, and SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell also took part in the recording. Shotwell praised Musk's unusual living arrangement and said he fully commits himself whenever he takes on major projects he cares about. She said Musk is now in Memphis, where xAI is accelerating the expansion of its Colossus supercomputing center. The project began in 2024 and is designed to provide computing power for xAI's Grok model. xAI also rents excess computing capacity to Google and Anthropic under contracts worth billions of dollars. Musk did not disclose the exact model of the Airstream trailer. The aluminum camper has a sleeping area, a kitchen, and a bathroom within 16 feet of space.

Turkey’s market regulator filed criminal complaints against dozens of people and imposed trading bans over alleged share-price manipulation by asset managers, according to Bloomberg. The actions come amid turmoil that has shaken the country’s investment fund industry.

SYN rose more than 100% today, according to Lookonchain monitoring. According to Odaily, one address opened a 4x leveraged long position on 3.25 million SYN on Aster DEX, worth $588,000, and is sitting on an unrealized profit of $304,000 with a 207% return.

Market sources say Apollo is considering raising a $9 billion loan from SoftBank to invest in OpenAI. According to ChainCatcher, the reported financing would be used for that investment purpose.

This does not mean that the Federal Reserve's influence on Bitcoin has decreased. The current price performance only indicates that short-term selling pressure has been controlled. What will truly determine the subsequent market trend is still the change in liquidity and market risk appetite.

Whether the stock market can withstand future interest rate hikes largely depends on oil prices. If the situation in Iran and oil prices ease, there will still be a large amount of capital waiting to enter the market, and interest rate hikes will be more of a precautionary measure. However, if oil prices remain high, market sentiment will inevitably be affected.

The agency said the intrusion began with an attacker exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN-connected device used by the Government Solution Service

Bitcoin mining companies shut down massively in the second quarter, which might seem like a surrender, but that's not the case. Many miners didn't completely withdraw from the computing power field; instead, they were redirected to AI infrastructure upgrades.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, XAI – Jensen Huang to the left, Amody to the right – Golden Finance: Giants are choosing sides.

Artificial Intelligence, AI Agent, Computing Power, Computing Power Spot Market: Separating AI Inference Computing Power from Subscription Packages (Jinse Finance)

ISO 9001:2026 is the first major revision to the international quality management benchmark since 2015

The flaw has already been exploited in the wild and CISA has added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

A probe into fraudulent requests for Revolut customer data has led Italian investigators to a compromised government email account, turning a financial data leak into a wider investigation into the security of Italy’s trusted digital communications system.