According to Jin10, Meta Platforms executives Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan issued an internal memo on Tuesday updating expectations for engineers and saying the company will not use AI adoption dashboards or token usage to assess employee impact. The memo said 93% of code changes are currently assisted by AI agents, but added that adopting artificial intelligence is not the end goal.

A key measure of bulk-shipping rates has reached a two-year high and may rise further as bad weather reduces the availability of Capesize vessels while exporters increase deliveries, according to Bloomberg. Analysts said the tighter vessel supply is driving the move.

Bank of America said the August nonfarm payrolls report due this Friday is unlikely to be the decisive factor in the Federal Reserve's September 15 to 16 policy meeting. According to ChainCatcher, the bank said the August CPI data due on September 11 will matter more for whether the Fed delivers a rate hike. Bank of America analysts said a materially weak payrolls report could reduce the odds of a hike, but inflation remains the Fed's main focus. The bank maintained its view that the Fed will raise rates in September unless Friday's jobs data delivers a clear downside surprise.

According to SoSoValue data, SOL spot ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $6.13 million on September 2, U.S. Eastern Time. According to Odaily, only Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL) posted a net outflow, totaling $6.13 million, while its cumulative historical net inflow reached $1.022 billion. As of press time, SOL spot ETFs had total net assets of $1.376 billion, a SOL net asset ratio of 2.36%, and cumulative historical net inflows of $1.345 billion.

A couple in southern France were tied up and threatened by two armed men who tried to force them to transfer cryptocurrency.

Hong Kong-listed property developers rose after mainland media reported fresh policy support for the housing market, with China Resources Land up 4.2% at HK$30.68, China Overseas Land & Investment up 3.1% at HK$13.27, Yuexiu Property up 5.3% at HK$3.17 and Vanke Enterprise up 3.9% at HK$2.415, according to ETNet. Shanghai Securities News reported that several mainland departments, including the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the People's Bank of China, the National Financial Regulatory Administration and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, have rolled out policy measures to speed up the building of a new real-estate development model. The report said reporters visited housing markets in Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Wuhan after the new measures were introduced, and found encouraging signs in both the new-home and secondary-home markets. Industry participants were broadly upbeat about the property market in the September-October peak season. At the time of the report, the Hang Seng Index was up 28 points at 25,339, while the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index fell 18 points to 8,431 and the Hang Seng Tech Index slipped 15 points to 4,501. Current-month HSI Futures were at 25,290, up 37 points and at a 50-point discount, while current-month HSCEI Futures were at 8,419, down 16 points and at a 12-point discount. Current-month Hang Seng Tech Futures were at 4,506, down 18 points and at a 13-point premium.

India’s rupee gained after the Reserve Bank of India raised $136 billion through its capital-raising measures, far above expectations, according to Bloomberg. The inflow further boosted the central bank’s war chest to defend the currency.

According to Jin10, the Indian rupee rose to a two-month high against the U.S. dollar, driven by stronger-than-expected inflows from overseas Indians.

What's truly worth watching about new public blockchains is never the "chain" itself, but rather who can become the transaction gateway, liquidity center, and core infrastructure on that chain.

Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins, Payments, Banking, Stablecoin Chains, Guarantee Services: Capturing the Value of Crypto Card Transaction Guarantees. Golden Finance explores the value generated by the cryptocurrency card transaction guarantee process.

This is Google's third Flash release in six weeks

Tim Cook has just ended his 15-year run as Apple CEO, officially stepping down into the role of executive chairman as John Ternus takes control of a company that has become vastly larger and more profitable under Cook — but now faces a technology race that could determine its next era.

Google is back! Early this morning, Google officially released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which focuses on network security. This is the third Flash version released by Google in just six weeks.

Amid the Robinhood Chain Meme craze, US stocks are quietly getting on-chain via AMM.

Bloomberg strategist White points out that Treasury bills, due to their zero discount rate, can be repeatedly pledged in the repurchase market, increasingly functioning like money, creating a money-like supply expansion effect, and exhibiting a leading correlation with structural inflation. This trend puts the Federal Reserve in a dilemma.

Investors are currently using both gold and Bitcoin to hedge against currency devaluation. Since its inception, Bitcoin has been priced like a risk asset; however, if this correlation with gold continues, its pricing logic may be drastically different over the next fifteen years.

On Wednesday, Trump abruptly proposed renaming the Strait of Hormuz to the "Trump Strait," only to say hours later that it was just a "casual remark." At the same time, he emphasized that the November midterm elections would not influence his decision on war with Iran: "I am not running for president."