China's five listed insurers — Ping An, China Pacific Insurance, China Life, PICC, and New China Life — reported a combined 317.387 billion yuan in attributable net profit in the first half, up 78.12% year on year, according to Jiemian News. China Life's net profit jumped 228.57%, while Ping An, China Pacific Insurance, PICC and New China Life posted increases of 36.06%, 10.36%, 38.50% and 54.02%, respectively. The gains were driven mainly by investment income. On the liability side, the insurers continued to shift toward participating products, while bancassurance growth diverged and property insurance combined ratios generally improved. New business value rose across major life insurers, with China Life's new business value reaching 38.167 billion yuan, up 33.7%, and Ping An's life and health new business value rising 11.2%. Participating insurance accounted for more than 90% of Ping An Life's new business, and its participating premium reached 121.549 billion yuan, up 143.49%. New China Life's participating premium income rose 165.4% to 48.492 billion yuan, while China Pacific Life's participating premium reached 65.7 billion yuan, up 76.1%. Executives said they will keep pushing the shift to participating products to lower liability costs. Bancassurance performance was mixed. China Life's total bancassurance premium rose 12.4% to 81.458 billion yuan, while New China Life's bancassurance premium fell 3.5% and China Pacific Life's declined 8.9%. PICC Life's bancassurance premium income dropped 13.1%. Property insurers also reported lower combined ratios. Ping An Property & Casualty's combined ratio was 95.1%, PICC P&C's was 94.5%, and China Pacific Property & Casualty's was 95.0%. New-energy vehicle insurance grew quickly at Ping An P&C and China Pacific P&C, while corporate property insurance premiums fell at all three insurers.

AMM诞生于早期区块链吞吐量低、订单修改成本高的技术约束，却成为近十年交易机制中最重要的创新之一。

Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) said it stopped all Bitcoin mining operations at its Michigan data center on September 1 to support the rollout of AI data center infrastructure under a previously announced master services agreement (MSA). According to Foresight News, Chief Executive William Horne also expects additional proceeds from selling related Bitcoin mining servers. The MSA was signed with a California cloud services customer and covers a 20-megawatt deployment. The initial term runs for 10 years and includes two five-year extension options. If fully exercised, the agreement is expected to generate more than $1.2 billion in revenue. The contract also gives the customer an option for an additional 32 megawatts of capacity, and if that option is exercised within the first two years of the initial term and extended through both five-year renewals, total contract revenue is expected to exceed $3 billion.

According to Jin10, the Kremlin said Iranian President Pezeshkian did not ask Russia to mediate in talks with the United States.

Ethena 需要一个足够火热的股票永续合约市场才能获得高收益，但它进场本身，又可能亲手把这份高收益磨平。

Ghana’s annual inflation rate resumed its upswing in August as elevated oil prices from the war in Iran fed into costs, according to Bloomberg. The reading supports the case for the central bank to hold rates.

Two US investment firms are asking a New York court to compel disclosure over Aston Martin’s £450 million loan that shifted most of its brand rights to an outside owner. According to BeInCrypto, Arini Capital Management and Tresidor Investment Management want documents from the lenders and advisers, while Aston Martin bondholders are preparing a separate claim in London. The loan was arranged in July by a group led by HPS Investment Partners, with an Authentic Brands Group arm also involved. A further £100 million is tied to Authentic Brands taking a 50.1% stake in the unit holding Aston Martin’s non-automotive brand rights.

According to Jin10, Oppenheimer raised its target price for SpaceX (SPCX.O) to $280 from $250.

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s policy platform chief rejected investor calls for public-spending cuts, saying austerity would be unnecessary if the leftist wins reelection, according to Bloomberg. The remarks came in an interview as investors seek spending cuts.

OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model can find and exploit previously unknown security flaws, so it is adding stronger safeguards before release. Astra will initially be limited to selected testers, while OpenAI monitors its activity and restricts capabilities to reduce the risk of misuse.

Webull has launched crypto trading in Canada through Coinbase’s infrastructure, giving customers access to assets such as Bitcoin, Ether and Solana on its existing platform. The move expands Webull’s investment services as crypto ownership in Canada grows, with digital asset ownership rising to 25% this year from 10% in 2023.

一条链好不好，不看它说自己能做什么，看它真的在做什么。

More than $13.5 million sitting in a Premier League bank account has been frozen by the UK’s National Crime Agency as investigators examine whether the funds could be linked to alleged third-party criminality.

YZi Labs 究竟算不算一家真正意义上的顶级 VC？

欧洲央行已经开始把这些讨论推进到实际基础设施层面。

美联储,沃什,事情似乎正变得糟糕起来 金色财经,事情似乎正变得糟糕起来

Astra is the first OpenAI model to cross its Critical cybersecurity capability threshold — meaning it can find previously unknown security flaws and exploit them without step-by-step guidance from humans