According to Yonhap, HKET and Sina Finance, Asian equities firmed at midday Wednesday after a weaker-than-expected US August ADP private-payrolls print eased worries the Federal Reserve could resume rate hikes, while a stronger yen pulled the dollar and US Treasury yields back from recent highs. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 traded higher through the lunch break, standing at 64,583.46, up 0.40% or 257.82 points, as of 04:33 UTC. Chip-sector names advanced, with Tokyo Electron up 1.21% and Advantest up 0.18%, while Sony eased 0.33%. Seoul's KOSPI led regional gains, rebounding 1.66% or 108.69 points to 6,671.41 as of 04:33 UTC, recovering from the prior session's roughly 4% slide. Samsung Electronics rose 1.20% and SK Hynix gained 1.30%. Hong Kong stocks were little changed at the noon recess, with the Hang Seng Index up 0.02% at 25,317.49 while the Hang Seng Tech Index fell 0.56%. Tech names were mostly weaker — Xiaomi dropped more than 3%, and Alibaba, Meituan, JD.com and NetEase each slipped over 1% — while gold miners rallied, with Tongguan Gold Holding up more than 8% as spot gold climbed back above $4,400. Mainland property developers also gained, Yuexiu Property rising over 5%. Taiwan's TAIEX added 0.28% or 129.95 points to 46,294.67 as of 04:33 UTC, with MediaTek up 2.69% and TSMC up 0.42%. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite was up about 0.4% at the midday break and the CSI 300 gained 0.51% as of 04:33 UTC, aided by an August services PMI that rose to 51.4.

Binance Wallet announced on X that Prediction Markets can now be accessed through the Binance App and Binance Wallet on both mobile and web. On the Binance App, users can navigate to Exchange, then Markets, then Prediction, or go to Wallet, Home, Prediction, and View more. On the web, users can access the feature through Binance Web by selecting Trade and then Prediction, or through Binance Wallet Web by selecting Prediction. The announcement states that Prediction Markets are available only to users in eligible regions and may not be available to all users. No additional details were provided about supported markets, timing, or further feature changes.

According to Wallstreetcn, the U.S. Justice Department on the 2nd issued a legal opinion requiring states that receive funding from two federal benefit programs to expand reporting of undocumented immigrant information to the Department of Homeland Security, or face severe consequences including possible funding cuts.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund said its management team held an unusual meeting in August, according to Bloomberg. The announcement has fueled speculation that the country’s biggest retirement fund may raise its target allocation to domestic bonds.

According to Jin10, Barclays raised its price target on Snowflake (SNOW.N) to $384 from $332.

Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute released the official Chinese version of its 2026 AI Index Report on Tuesday. According to ChainCatcher, the report says artificial intelligence is moving beyond a pure model-capability race and into broader changes in infrastructure, organizational processes, and institutional systems. The report said leading models are now approaching human-level performance on the SWE-bench software engineering benchmark, while agents’ task success rate in real computer environments has risen from 12% to 66%. It added that AI is shifting from generating information to executing tasks. The report also said the gap between top U.S. and Chinese models has narrowed to 2.7%, with the two sides’ leading models repeatedly swapping the lead. It further noted that physical infrastructure has become a core constraint on AI development, with global AI data center power capacity reaching 29.6 gigawatts, and chips, energy, and water emerging as key strategic bottlenecks.

Polymarket odds for the Los Angeles Dodgers option in the Cardinals vs. Dodgers submarket for the -1.5 spread fell sharply from 81.5% one hour earlier to 42%, according to Catcher Predict monitoring. According to ChainCatcher, the move reflected a 39.5 percentage point swing and came amid a warning that related breaking news may be affecting the market.

Brazil's Congress has passed a critical minerals bill that gives the government greater power to review mining transactions. According to Sina Finance, the legislation still needs President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's signature. Despite industry warnings that the new rules could hurt foreign investment, the bill would create a special committee with the authority to approve changes in control of mining companies. The text approved by the Senate also says foreign takeovers that run counter to government strategic interests could be blocked.

More than a third of companies backed by the UK government under a Covid rescue program have gone bust, costing taxpayers £423 million ($571 million), according to Bloomberg.

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

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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.

谷歌杀回来了！凌晨谷歌正式发布Gemini 3.8 Flash，以及专攻网络安全的Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber。这是谷歌在短短六周内连续发布的第三个Flash版本。

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