Prime Minister Mark Carney said he does not believe in escalating the trade war with the US, but said counter-tariffs are needed to cushion the blow for Canadian businesses and workers, according to Bloomberg.

Departures from Heathrow, Gatwick and other airports in southern England were disrupted by a technical problem affecting air traffic control provider Nats, according to BBC. Heathrow initially paused departures around lunchtime before traffic resumed and then faced further stop-start disruption in the afternoon, while incoming flights continued to land normally. Gatwick said it was being affected, East Midlands was also hit, and Manchester Airport warned some departing flights could be delayed. Nats said it had identified the issue in its flight processing system and that engineers were working urgently to restore normal operations.

According to CNBC, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, a large language model released last Thursday, is drawing strong interest on Wall Street and lifting shares tied to the company. Artificial Analysis said Astra is an improvement over earlier OpenAI models, but trails products from Meta Platforms and Anthropic; it also said Astra matches OpenAI's July model in raw power while offering significant cost-efficiency gains versus Anthropic's comparable model. Ben Reitzes of Melius Research said the launch shows OpenAI is “so back” and that its semis and hardware group can keep rallying, naming Arista, AMD and Broadcom as key beneficiaries and saying Oracle, Microsoft and CoreWeave are the cloud names that benefit most. Jefferies tracks stocks most closely linked to OpenAI, and several of the largest names on that list have outperformed the S&P 500 since Astra debuted last week. Reitzes also called Micron Technology an obvious beneficiary of the latest frontier LLMs, alongside SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.

The Ethereum Foundation said Trezor hardware wallets now support Clear Signing through the ERC-7730 standard, making transactions more readable and easier to understand on the device. According to Odaily, the development was driven by the foundation’s Clear Signing working group under its Trillion Dollar Security initiative, which aims to reduce the risk of asset losses from blind signing and encourage more wallets and DApps to participate.

Serenity said on X that he is bullish on memory chip maker Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT, 3006) over the next few months and thinks its share performance could mirror Sandisk's recent strength. According to Odaily, he said DDR2 chip prices are about $0.96 each and that a threefold rise in ASP would add roughly $2 to the cost of each chip. He added that the higher cost would be limited for end products but could have a significant impact on ESMT's profits if memory prices keep rising. Serenity also said SLC NAND ASP is expected to rise 120% to 170% in the second half of the year, while NOR Flash and other products also face price increase expectations. Serenity said ESMT's monthly net profit is about $111 million based on July results, with a market value of about $2.8 billion, and argued that the stock still has substantial room for valuation re-rating. He said ESMT's current situation reminds him of early Sandisk, but that the opportunity is mainly concentrated in traditional and niche memory markets.

According to Axios, Massachusetts in August became the first East Coast state and the second in the U.S. after Arizona to appoint a heat resilience officer, as states move to build systems for extreme heat that they were not historically designed to handle. The state has warmed by nearly 3.5°F over the past century, and Massachusetts Department of Public Health data showed nearly 1,500 heat-related emergency room visits last year. Heat resilience officer Katie Schlick said 1 in 5 Massachusetts public schools lacks air conditioning. Arizona's 2024 heat plan created a chief heat officer role to coordinate heat-response efforts across agencies, expanded heat-relief resources and deployed mobile solar-powered cooling centers made from shipping containers. Visits to two cooling centers at the Arizona Capitol rose 59% in summer 2025 from a year earlier, according to the state. California does not have an official with that title, but it has an office dedicated to extreme heat and a funding program for communities, while its 2022 Extreme Heat Action Plan established what officials called the state's first all-of-government framework for extreme heat. California's updated 2026 plan covers public health, emergency response, housing, infrastructure, energy and worker protections, and a separate law will require cities and counties to address extreme heat hazards when they next update certain general plan elements on or after Jan. 1, 2028.

According to Wallstreetcn, the manager of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, wrote to Norway's Ministry of Finance and recommended reducing government bonds to 50% of the fund's bond portfolio from 70%, with U.S. Treasuries among the main assets to be trimmed.

According to Jin10, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said, "We will see whether Iran takes action."

According to Jin10, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said two London penthouse apartments held by Iran are being auctioned.

Enbridge Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Greg Ebel will retire at the end of the year and Michele Harradence will take over as CEO, according to Bloomberg.

When political stances, private scandals, and even family feuds can be turned into a token, what will be the next thing to be financialized?

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.

South Korea, Artificial Intelligence, South Korea is gambling its national destiny again. Golden Finance: South Korea has fired the first shot in the global "AI public utility" revolution.

Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, One Person Burns Through $190,000 a Month; Silicon Valley Begins to Investigate Employee AI Bills. Golden Finance: "Some rush to the examination hall under the starry night, some resign and return to their hometowns."

Solana is hardworking, BSC is steadily improving, and Base is incompetent.

The trend is gradually becoming apparent: after assets are on the blockchain, the next step is to put market share on the blockchain. The real watershed moment for the industry may only begin after "market share is on the blockchain."

McDonald’s India’s X account briefly turned into an unlikely crypto drama after a series of posts from an unidentified person claimed to be an unpaid intern, alleged months of missing wages and said memecoin losses had left them “starving.”

Malone Lam is expected to plead guilty over his alleged role in stealing more than $240 million in Bitcoin from one investor.

In less than three months since its launch, Robinhood Chain's growth myth continues to be broken.

Brazil’s biggest banks are racing to put more cryptoassets in front of their customers, but there is one line they still have not crossed: putting their own money into digital assets.