Industry data released on Friday showed that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix remained the top two players in the global NAND flash memory market in the second quarter of this year. According to Sina Finance, citing Counterpoint Research, global NAND market sales rose 70% quarter on quarter from April to June, driven mainly by higher prices, after a 90% quarter-on-quarter increase in the first quarter. Samsung Electronics kept the No. 1 spot in the second quarter with a 28% market share, while SK Hynix ranked second with 19%. Micron Technology placed third with 15%, and Yangtze Memory Technologies reported higher-than-expected revenue in the period, with a 14% share that tied it for fourth place with Kioxia.

According to Jin10, OpenAI said GPT-6 Astra's API pricing is higher than the previous-generation GPT-5.6 Sol, charging $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with cached reads and writes billed separately. By comparison, GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 for input and $30 for output per million tokens.

According to Jin10, institutions forecast U.S. August unemployment rate readings ranging from 4.0% to 4.2%, compared with 4.1% previously. Moody's Analytics and Nomura Securities both expect 4.0%; Barclays, Danske, Capital Economics, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Group, HSBC, JPMorgan, Mizuho Securities, Monex, Oxford Economics, Pantheon Macroeconomics, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, BNP Paribas, Stifel, TD Securities, BMO, ABN AMRO, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Jefferies, Daiwa Capital, DZ Bank, ING Group, Lloyds, Nomura Securities, Scotiabank, Santander Bank, Standard Chartered, UBS Group, and UniCredit all expect 4.1% or 4.2%.

South Korea’s lead over China in memory chip production is expected to widen further as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. expand domestic facilities aggressively, according to Bloomberg reported the Bank of Korea.

Li Auto reported first-half revenue of 48.65 billion yuan and a net loss attributable to shareholders of 3.981 billion yuan on August 26, while August deliveries rose 32% year on year to 37,679 vehicles, ending three straight months of declines, according to Jiemian News. The company said second-quarter revenue increased 11.7% from the first quarter to 25.667 billion yuan, gross margin recovered to 11% from 7.9%, and automotive gross margin improved to 9.4%, though both remained well below year-earlier levels. The article said the margin pressure was driven largely by a shift in the sales mix, with the pure-electric i6 accounting for about 60% of Li Auto's total deliveries in the first half. The i6 starts at 249,800 yuan and competes in the same price band as Tesla's Model Y and Aito's M7. Li Auto also said the launch of refreshed L9 and L8 models helped second-quarter margins, while new high-end pure-electric models including the next-generation MEGA and i9 are scheduled to roll out in September. Jiemian News reported that Li Auto's first-half overall gross margin fell to 9.5% from 20.3% a year earlier, and automotive gross margin dropped to 7.8% from 19.6%. The company said it had 87.5 billion yuan in cash reserves. It also said overseas expansion is accelerating, with plans to enter Middle East and Central Asia markets in the third quarter, launch the i6 in Europe in the second half, and introduce right-hand-drive MEGA versions in Hong Kong and Singapore by year-end.

According to Jin10, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.60 points, or 0.01%, at 9,019.50 on September 4 (Friday).

Bank of China Hong Kong (02388) rose as much as 2% to an all-time high of HK$53.10 before easing to HK$53.00, up 1.7%, according to ETNet. The stock traded 14.37 million shares worth HK$758 million. Its active buy-sell ratio was 59:41, with net active buying of HK$75.99 million. The largest net passive buyer was ABN AMRO Clearing HK, while Goldman Sachs Asia Securities was the largest net passive seller. Its RMB counter (82388) gained 1.9% to RMB45.36, with turnover of 22,500 shares worth RMB1.0172 million. The Hang Seng Index was up 497 points, or 2%, at 25,711.

According to the BBC, rescuers pulled two people from a hydropower tunnel more than a week after a massive flash flood devastated the Nepal-China border. The rescue came after the flood hit the area and trapped people in the tunnel.

OpenAI,AI Agent,LLM,Token,“欢迎来到AGI时代”：OpenAI发布GPT-6 Astra 金色财经,“全球最强的计算机使用模型”。

人工智能,区块链,支付,DePIN,加密货币,解构DePIN机器人赛道：加密构建的真实图景 金色财经,加密行业正在为机器人领域构建的真实图景。

The FBI has confirmed it is investigating an alleged breach of a widely used identity verification company based in Louisiana

Thailand is tightening its grip on crypto transfers, requiring digital asset operators to verify who controls self-custodial wallets as part of a new Travel Rule framework aimed at bringing the country's crypto market closer to global anti-money laundering standards.

比特币本轮在AI集体宕机的时候突破八万，也挺有象征意义的~

Agent专家武雨卓重点阐述基于Agent的个性化医疗基础设施如何通过基因与症状数据整合辅助罕见病诊断，并深入探讨了FDE的职能边界及AI时代的学习建议。

Bitquery found that Bitcoin text storage can affect nodes differently, with 96,231 fake-address outputs leaving about 3.2 BTC in the UTXO set. The study also counted 13,062 OP_RETURN transactions linked to a March 2026 campaign naming Luke Dashjr, which paid 0.1014 BTC in fees.

最值得关注的地方并不是130亿美元，而是Nvidia正在买“入口”。

OpenAI正式发布新一代前沿模型GPT-6 Astra，总裁Greg Brockman更是毫不掩饰对Astra的评价。在发布前的媒体简报会上，他直言自己认为“我们已经到了AGI”。

Grayscale认为，代币化股票先以全球交易产品的形态实现规模扩张，不断壮大的资金基数，叠加美国潜在监管试点，或将推动其从“可投资访问”向“具备金融实用价值”转型。