According to Reuters, RTHK and Sina Finance, Asian equities were mixed at midday Tuesday, with Taiwan surging on a chip-sector boost while Hong Kong's technology names came under pressure. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 pared an earlier slide of more than 730 points, trading at 66,257.27, down 0.08% or 54.66 points as of 12:33 Beijing time (UTC+8); it had ended the morning session at 66,050, off 0.39%. Japan reported second-quarter corporate capital spending rose 1.6% year on year, while manufacturing new business expanded at its fastest pace since 2018. Seoul's KOSPI edged up 0.07% to 6,824.50 as of 12:32 (UTC+8). South Korea's August exports climbed 68.7% year on year, extending gains to a 15th straight month, and factory activity logged a ninth consecutive month of expansion. Hong Kong stocks closed the morning lower, with the Hang Seng Index down 1.00% at 25,310.88 and the Hang Seng Tech Index off 0.76%. Alibaba fell more than 3% and Tencent, JD.com and Baidu each shed over 2%, while Kuaishou bucked the trend with a gain above 4%. Fast-fashion group Shein slid about 4% on its Hong Kong trading debut, opening below its HK$48.56 offer price, and fellow newcomer Mech-Mind dropped more than 2%. Property developer Yuexiu fell over 7%. Taiwan's TAIEX rallied 1.70% to 46,913.75 as of 12:33 (UTC+8). MediaTek soared 9.94% after Nvidia said it had invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by the chip designer. TSMC rose 1.04% and Hon Hai added 1.80%. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite was little changed, up 0.03% at 3,987.56 as of 12:33 (UTC+8), while the ChiNext narrowed its loss to under 1%. The official manufacturing PMI rose to 51.5 in August, beating expectations.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi said on X that the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI could become the largest liquidity transfer in history from global institutions to San Francisco futurists. According to ChainCatcher, he said the biggest beneficiaries would likely be San Francisco real estate and crypto. Qureshi said employee lockups typically expire 180 days after an IPO. He added that Anthropic is expected to go public in mid-October, which would mean the process begins in April 2027, followed by OpenAI's IPO the next year.

According to Wallstreetcn, Xpeng Group said in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing that in August 2026 its Robotaxi business validation accelerated further after the company obtained Guangzhou's remote testing qualification for intelligent connected vehicles, allowing road tests without a safety officer in the driver's seat on relevant first-, second- and third-level testing roads in Guangzhou and entering a key road-validation stage without a driver in the driver's seat.

According to Jin10, Bank Indonesia Governor said the central bank will work with the government to manage inflation and ensure it remains controllable.

BlockBeats reported on September 1 that TradingBeats monitoring showed a trader-linked subaccount associated with “CBB” had cumulatively bought 125,492.4 HYPE spot tokens since 00:45 today, with trades totaling about 10.55 million dollars at a weighted average price of 84.073 dollars. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the same account also opened a 10x cross-margin short position in 125,458.02 HYPE perpetual contracts while buying spot, creating a near 1:1 spot-and-futures hedge. The perpetual short position was valued at about 10.55 million dollars and was opened at an average price of 84.111 dollars. The account has also received about 1,818.6 dollars in funding fees today through the perpetual short, as HYPE funding rates remain positive. The strategy uses borrowing to improve capital efficiency. The account has enabled portfolio margin, holds about 190,538 HYPE as assets, and has borrowed about 7.56 million USDC, leaving its USDC balance at roughly negative 5.96 million dollars. The main account made a net deposit of about 10 million dollars in this round, while the remaining spot exposure was mainly financed through USDC borrowing. The address is a subaccount named “2 HYPE DN” under main account 0x49e9. The main account also holds about 15.696 million USDC and controls multiple related subaccounts. TradingBeats has also launched an on-chain perpetual and address analysis tool for real-time Hyperliquid data, covering address tracing and whale activity.

Catcher Predict monitoring showed the Martin Damm option in Polymarket’s U.S. Open ATP match market against Frances Tiafoe fell sharply from 61.5% one hour ago to 35.5%. According to ChainCatcher, the move represented a 26% swing in the submarket tied to the Martin Damm vs. Frances Tiafoe event. The report said users should pay attention to related breaking news that may be affecting the market.

The re-entry of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin buyer often boosts short-term sentiment, especially in a market that is already in a rebound.

Strive, the publicly traded asset manager pursuing an aggressive Bitcoin treasury strategy, has purchased another 1,800 Bitcoin for approximately $143 million, pushing its holdings to 23,156 BTC and vaulting the company into the top five publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holders.

Apate.AI has raised US$8.15 million to expand its AI scam-fighting platform into Europe and North America. Its AI agents pose as fake victims to keep scammers talking and collect intelligence, with Commonwealth Bank already using the platform for more than 2.5 million conversations.

When more and more money begins to automatically find its best destination according to rules that machines can understand, who will still have the right to decide where this money ultimately ends up?

The group is demanding 30 Bitcoin — approximately €2 million — and has set a countdown after which it says it will begin auctioning the data on the dark web

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