Jefferies kept AIA Group at Buy with a target price of HK$114, saying Thailand is one of the insurer's most important markets and a high-quality business, according to ETNet. The report said AIA Thailand accounted for 15% of group new business value and 12% of embedded value. As of June 2026, annualized new premium in Thailand rose 6% year on year. AIA held a 17% share of new premiums, 20% of annualized new premium, 26% of total premiums and 27% of weighted total premium income, underscoring its market leadership. Jefferies said the insurer's position was supported by its large agency network and strategic partnership with Bangkok Bank, as well as leading shares in critical illness, investment-linked and medical products. The report added that investors still pay relatively little attention to the Thailand business despite its strong performance and importance to the group. It said management further outlined the unit's strengths in the 2025 results, reinforcing a positive view of the undervalued asset. Jefferies also pointed to growth potential in China, Malaysia and Singapore, along with share buybacks and a stable dividend policy, as support for the stock.

Blockaid said it detected an attack on Cozy, a DeFi risk management protocol on Optimism, with losses of about $170,000. According to Foresight News, the incident has been identified through monitoring by Blockaid.

French listed company Capital B increased its Bitcoin holdings by 376 coins, bringing its total to 3,521. According to Foresight News, the company disclosed the latest purchase without providing additional details.

New Jersey filed a petition last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether sports contracts tied to prediction markets are state-regulated products or swap products overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. According to Sina Finance, the filing could clear the way for the court to take up a core legal dispute in the industry. The case centers on whether the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act overrides state gambling rules when the products trade on federally regulated designated contract markets. According to Sina Finance, the Ninth Circuit’s ruling last month conflicted with an earlier Third Circuit decision, creating a circuit split that lawyers said the Supreme Court had needed. According to Sina Finance, legal experts said the Supreme Court could still wait for other circuit courts to weigh in, but that no longer appears necessary. Chainlink Labs’ legal chief said the case would materially affect the industry’s business model and that the Supreme Court is likely to hear it. If a majority of justices decide the sports-related prediction markets are gambling products, companies offering them would need licenses and pay taxes in every state where they operate. If the court instead treats them as swap products regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the ruling would have major implications for states and pure-play sports betting companies. The Supreme Court has about 90 days to decide whether to grant the petition, and Kalshi can respond to New Jersey’s request within 30 days after the filing. According to Sina Finance, if the court agrees to hear the case, both sides would then argue the merits. Some lawyers still think the Supreme Court may wait for rulings from the Sixth or Fourth Circuit to gather more information, or wait for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to finish revising its prediction market rules. On Capitol Hill, the U.S. House of Representatives will be in recess for the last two weeks of September, and even if the Senate passes the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act this month, it cannot become law before the midterm elections.

Jane Foley, Rabobank's head of FX strategy, said confidence in the dollar has weakened after stronger-than-expected payrolls data, according to Bloomberg. She also said upcoming CPI data could still give the currency a boost if the reading comes in stronger than expected.

Novartis AG suffered a second trial setback in a week after its potential blockbuster heart drug failed in a final-stage study, according to Bloomberg. The result deepens pipeline setbacks for the Swiss drugmaker and comes as rivals are also affected.

According to Jin10, Australian data center operator AirTrunk Operating Pty said U.S. tech giants are interested in building data centers in Australia because of the country's green power grid and geographic proximity to Asia. Sab Whiteley, AirTrunk's vice president for energy and utilities, said interest from companies including Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft has exceeded expectations over the past six to eight months.

A whale that began going long on ChangXin Memory Technologies on July 15 has received about $2.645 million in funding fees and is still sitting on about $3.094 million in unrealized profit on the long position. According to Odaily, the whale also holds about $4.575 million in io:ANTH long positions. The whale still holds about 1.4956 million ChangXin Memory Technologies tokens, with an average entry price of about $6.62 and a position value of about $12.988 million. Funding fee income and current unrealized gains together total about $5.738 million, with the unrealized profit not yet locked in. The whale’s ANTH position began on September 1 with an initial purchase of about $95,700. The long position has since grown to 2,298.60 ANTH using 4x isolated leverage, with a combined entry price of $1,963.57, unrealized profit of about $61,900, and an estimated liquidation price of $1,321.35. The whale also has a limit buy order for 30 ANTH at $1,910 and plans to add about $57,300 more. ANTH is an Anthropic pre-listing perpetual contract deployed by EntropyIO. ANTH was quoted at about $1,990.5, implying a chain-based market value of about $1.99 trillion for Anthropic; the whale’s entry price implies an estimated valuation of about $1.964 trillion.

From at least 75 investor pitches and 800,000 people queuing up, to GameStop, SBF, and Robinhood Chain.

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agent, LLM, GPT-6. Just three days after Astra's release, OpenAI's chief scientist called for "brakes," according to Jinse Finance, urging a halt to rapid iteration.

Poland’s attempt to establish a domestic framework for regulating its crypto industry has hit another roadblock, with lawmakers failing to overturn President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of legislation designed to bring the country’s market fully into line with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

If prices continue to reach new highs in the coming months, while stablecoin size, on-chain transactions, and protocol revenue do not show significant improvement, then this rally is more of a repricing of the financial market than an industry recovery.

Berlin’s state government refused to pay a €2 million ($2.3 million) ransom after Rhysida hackers stole sensitive data from two departments. The group later published around 5.8 terabytes of data on the dark web, with authorities now investigating what information was exposed.

"A Meme Coin" quickly raised $100 million, Robinhood's new way of pairing meme coins with US stocks, and the industry war it sparked.

Meme, Robinhood Chain, Hyperliquid, DEX, and FOMO are all the rage, but I advise you to avoid FOMO. According to Jinse Finance, most people lose money; only the platforms and big players make steady profits.

OpenAI's chief scientist published a lengthy article titled "An Alien Mind." The article argues that AI is nurtured, not created. Even those who create it don't fully understand it.

Rhysida published 1,439,893 files from the Berlin state government on the dark web, totaling nearly 6 terabytes in size.

OpenAI has released detailed data on how its AI models are accelerating research within the company. Furthermore, OpenAI officially announced that it has achieved its goal of "automating AI research interns" and aims to achieve fully automated AI researchers by 2028.