China's Foreign Ministry said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit China on September 16, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with him, according to ETNet. This will be Araghchi's second visit to China this year and comes ahead of the planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. ETNet reported that Araghchi's previous visit in early May was his first trip to China since the U.S.-Iran conflict escalated, and that he briefed Wang on the latest status of U.S.-Iran talks and Iran's next steps.

Sitara Sundar, head of alternative investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, said the artificial intelligence trade is in a “digestion” phase and that the firm remains constructive on the AI industry over the long run, according to Bloomberg. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Sundar said JPMorgan would lean more into the integration and application layers of artificial intelligence.

According to RTHK, HKET and Yonhap, Asian equities closed mostly lower on Tuesday as a fresh climb in U.S. bond yields and a selloff in chip and memory names pressured the region. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 finished virtually unchanged at 63,484.10, down 8.89 points or 0.01%, after a choppy session that spanned a range of more than 1,030 points. Chip-related names lagged, with Advantest down 2.96% and Tokyo Electron off 0.55%, while Sony fell 1.66%. Seoul's KOSPI ended down 0.85% at 6,627.26, its fourth straight losing session, as the won weakened against the dollar amid rising bond yields. Bank of Korea minutes pointed to a possible policy rift over back-to-back rate hikes. Samsung Electronics eased 0.20% and SK Hynix slipped 0.41%. Hong Kong stocks retreated, with the Hang Seng Index closing down 1.00% at 24,667.24 and the Hang Seng Tech Index off about 0.6% at 4,291; turnover reached HK$187.2 billion. Tencent bucked the trend to rise about 1.9% and Alibaba added more than 1%, while Lenovo fell nearly 3%, Zhipu dropped about 5% and MINIMAX declined 7%. Taiwan's TAIEX closed down 351.03 points or 0.77% at 45,511.49 on thin turnover of NT$603.5 billion, as memory and chip stocks bore selling pressure. TSMC rose NT$5 or 0.21% to NT$2,385, while MediaTek fell 2.85% and Hon Hai eased 0.80%. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite closed down 0.54% at 3,864.28, its fourth straight decline, and the ChiNext Index fell 1.15% to 3,247.92, with A-share turnover holding near a year-to-date low.

Finloop Finance Technology has completed an A+ funding round of more than $10 million, with HSBC and People's Capital among the investors. According to Foresight News, Finloop also launched a one-stop enterprise wealth management service called Finterprise to provide digital solutions for corporate clients' cash and liquidity management needs. Finloop describes itself as a Hong Kong-based AI-driven global Web5 (Web2+Web3) wealth technology platform. It says it provides wealth management products and technology solutions for financial institutions across cash management, mutual funds, alternative investments, structured products, bonds, insurance and virtual assets.

MediaTek unveiled its next-generation flagship chip, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, at its 2026 Dimensity flagship product launch on September 15. According to ChainCatcher, the chip uses TSMC's 2nm process and contains more than 33 billion transistors. The company said the chip adopts a fused computing architecture that integrates CPU, GPU, NPU, and ISP cores around AI. It features an all-big-core design with two C2-Ultra cores at 4.55GHz, three C2-Pro cores at 4.35GHz, and three C2-Pro cores at 3.1GHz, along with 34.5MB of L2+L3+ system cache. It also supports LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage. MediaTek said the Dimensity 9600 Pro's big-core power consumption is down 37% and multi-core power consumption is down 61% versus the Dimensity 9500. In GeekBench V6.4, it scored 4,276 in single-core and 12,650 in multi-core tests, up about 17% and 15%, respectively, from the Dimensity 9500. The NPU uses a dual-NPU architecture with the APU 1090, and peak performance is said to be up 51%. MediaTek also said it has ranked first in global smartphone SoC market share for six consecutive years.

According to Wallstreetcn, the Gates Foundation plans to invest at least $1 billion over the next two years to improve access to artificial intelligence, and co-founder Bill Gates warned that the way AI is spread could widen the global wealth gap further. In a report, Gates wrote that if AI is properly guided, it will give more people solutions, opportunities, and knowledge that have long been out of reach, and that decisions over the next 12 to 18 months on how AI is built, funded, and deployed will determine whether the technology mainly benefits those with the most resources or reaches those with the least. The Gates Foundation plans to donate a cumulative $200 billion before it closes in 2045.

The US Department of War put the cost of Operation Epic Fury, its campaign against Iran, at $33.4 billion for the first four months, while Brown University’s tracker said higher fuel prices have cost US households about $106.4 billion. According to BeInCrypto, the Pentagon’s estimate covers a fixed window through June 29 and excludes broader economic damage, including the oil shock. Munitions account for $22.3 billion of the total, with cumulative obligations at $7.4 billion and damaged equipment at $3.7 billion. The White House has asked for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding, including $21 billion for munitions.

MetaMask is rolling out a new generation of wallet protections designed to do more than warn users about crypto scams. The wallet provider is adding safeguards that can flag suspicious recipients and transactions — and automatically revert transactions when what happens onchain does not match what users were shown before signing.

Attackers used a legitimate government email account to send fraudulent data requests.

Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus mocked Donald Trump’s proposed $5,000 payments to US adults by joking that the government should instead buy $1.2 trillion of Dogecoin and distribute it.

美联储,沃什,加息,通货膨胀,美联储今起议息 沃什或成关键一票 金色财经,北京时间周四凌晨两点，美联储悬念即将揭晓。

President Donald Trump has backed tougher crypto ethics rules that could force him to divest significant digital-asset interests or place them in a qualified blind trust, giving Senate Republicans a potentially crucial path toward advancing the Clarity Act.

《CLARITY法案》投票在即，本文梳理《CLARITY法案》从雏形到即将投票的演进历程。

AI正在重新定义世界，而真正重要的问题或许并不是人类能把AI推到多快，而是当这场技术革命席卷全球之后，有多少人能够真正从中受益。

AI systems can increasingly identify and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale and speed.

这次投票要是黄了，加密市场的系统性结构立法可能要拖到2030年。

从最新的情况来看，清晰法案依旧面临考验，一旦不通过，SEC和CFTC已经准备好了B计划。