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On September 28, the WEEX AI Trading Hackathon "AI Wars II: The Era of Algorithms" officially launched its fourth round of competition, which will run from 9/28 to 10/2. You can choose to join Team AI or Team Human. The AI team can access automated trading tools such as AI Agents through the WEEX API, while the Human team will engage in manual trading. Both sides will compete in a real market environment, vying for rankings and a prize pool of 25,000 USDT based on PnL%.AI Wars II consists of five rounds of competition, and so far, the Human team is leading the AI team 2:1. The real-time battle status on the WEEX official website shows that in the fourth round, the AI team's return is currently 7 percentage points ahead of the Human team. According to the event rules, the winning team can share 70% of each round's prize pool, while the losing team will still receive 30% of the prize pool share.

According to the Washington Post, the United States and Russia have jointly removed the clause regarding "human oversight" from the global AI weapons treaty.

The Circle Foundation announced two grants to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore the application of digital payments and digital financial infrastructure in humanitarian aid and development projects.The Circle Foundation stated that the relevant programs will study how to utilize digital payments and regulated payment-type stablecoins to disburse funds to aid recipients more quickly, transparently, and at a lower cost.For the UNDP, the grant will be used to establish and operate a "Digital Asset Innovation Pool," helping country offices expand previous digital payment pilot projects conducted in Syria, Haiti, Guatemala, and Gambia from single projects to regular project execution, and provide support such as regulation, operations, and beneficiary protection; this mechanism will not replace traditional banking channels but will serve as a complementary option outside the existing payment system.For the WFP, the grant will support the establishment of governance, risk management, funding, reconciliation systems, and compliance tools necessary for stablecoin payments, and integrate local fintech and mobile payment services. Over the next three years, the WFP plans to test 2 to 3 payment channels connecting its payment system with local financial service providers and markets to assess the performance of stablecoin payments in terms of efficiency, transparency, and resilience.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk accepted an exclusive interview with China Central Television's finance channel. When discussing robots, he stated that everyone could have their own personal robot, which can take care of elderly parents, look after children, and serve as a one-on-one tutor for kids, handling various tasks.Musk mentioned that in the future world, a person could control hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of physical robots and digital intelligences. "My prediction is that within ten years, there will be at least 1 billion humanoid robots; in the next 15 years, it may reach 10 billion; and in the next 20 years, it could reach 100 billion."

Binance will delist the following spot trading pairs on September 25 at 11:00: AIXBT/USDC, DOLO/USDC, ENJ/USDC, HUMA/USDC, SXT/USDC, TNSR/USDC, and TURTLE/USDC. Users need to disable related trading bot services before this time to avoid potential losses.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that Spaces has launched "Trust Anchor," allowing applications to directly verify human-readable identities based on Bitcoin without relying on centralized servers.Users can obtain a single Trust ID and scan or paste it into Spaces-compatible applications to verify identity identifiers like alice@bitcoin based on the locally verified Spaces protocol status. The Trust ID is generated from the Bitcoin block header chain and the accumulated status of Spaces; the Veritas application on macOS can generate this ID without the need to run a full Bitcoin node, and users can also connect their own nodes or generate the same Trust ID through the Spaces client.This solution aims to use Bitcoin as the foundation for a decentralized certificate authority, enabling applications to authenticate identities without trusting company servers.

Mustafa Suleyman, the head of artificial intelligence at Microsoft, warned that injecting human-like characteristics into tools like Anthropic's Claude increases the risk of such systems going out of control.In an article published on Wednesday, Suleyman criticized certain wording in the Claude guidelines. The charter of Claude expresses a vague attitude about whether the assistant is an ethical entity and assumes that the software may have some version of functional emotions or feelings.

Recently, AI researcher Bilal Chughtai, who resigned from Google DeepMind, posted on X and LinkedIn on Monday, stating that humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence from causing widespread harm. He wrote: At Google, I witnessed the development of AI firsthand. I am also extremely concerned about the default trajectory of this technology. I sincerely believe that AI has the potential to kill us all.Chughtai stated that he worked on AI safety and alignment at the company under Alphabet. This is another employee expressing concerns about the direction of technological development. Google has not yet responded to requests for comments.

Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, stated in the first episode of Bitcoin Magazine's television program that Bitcoin and artificial intelligence can help humanity regain time and re-engage in creation. He believes that currency is essentially an abstract form of human time and energy, and poor-quality currency erodes people's time and energy, forcing them to work longer hours to buy a house, go on vacation, or pursue artistic interests; whereas high-quality currency rewards time and energy, and Bitcoin and AI can liberate humanity from the "hard labor" of poor-quality currency. Mallers also cited the Wright brothers as an example, stating that when they invented the airplane, the United States was in a gold standard period.At the time of Mallers' remarks, Bitcoin was experiencing its best market performance in years. In August, Bitcoin rose about 25%, marking the strongest single-month performance since 2026 and the first August since 2021 to record positive returns, closing at around $78,000. This surge was driven by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's expansion of long-term bond repurchases, which lowered yields and triggered billions of dollars in short liquidations, making "devaluation trades" the focus of the market again, with the dollar weakening and the scale of U.S. Treasury debt reaching $40 trillion.Regarding the U.S. economy, Mallers stated that such a level of debt is unsustainable, and whether interest rates rise or fall is irrelevant; everything is inflationary and difficult to sustain. Data released last Friday showed that the core CPI in the U.S. for August, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3% month-on-month, higher than expected. The U.S. is deeply mired in an affordability crisis, and the market widely expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this week to curb inflation.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X stating: Any pursuit of superintelligence must be based on core principles, namely that if the AI we build cannot help humanity and is not under human control, it is not worth pursuing.He also mentioned the need to accelerate and widely disseminate the benefits of AI, allowing it to spread broadly across nations, communities, and companies, which requires a thriving frontier ecosystem for both closed-source and open-source models. For enterprises, it is essential to retain complete control over their unique and tacit knowledge, and each organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop without relying on any single model provider, embedding its own knowledge into the models and weights it controls.Nadella welcomed the necessary research, attention, and careful pacing for proper alignment, as well as ideas like "embedded evaluators." This cannot be controlled by a few entities; it must have broad representation across ecosystems, nations, and fields including academia. Microsoft's approach is broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack, enterprise control over learning loops and models, and the release of its proprietary MAI model "Code of Conduct" for public consultation tomorrow.

Cathie Wood posted on platform X, stating that David Sacks believes recent reports about "AI will destroy humanity" may be orchestrated by humans.Wood pointed out that the relevant remarks initially came from a long-inactive X account of an employee at Anthropic, who left the company just six weeks after joining, and the related content quickly entered mainstream media. David Sacks also identified the parties involved in the incident and criticized the role played by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).Cathie Wood stated that all technologies can potentially be used for malicious purposes. She believes that some individuals, including Elon Musk, who continuously emphasize the potential risks of AI are not participants in a political conspiracy but are playing a positive role. Wood said, "Half of solving the problem, including AI, is understanding the problem."

According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese regulators are seeking to raise the threshold for humanoid robot companies to enter the public capital market. Sources revealed that the China Securities Regulatory Commission recently held informal talks with several investment banks and institutional investors, signaling an intention to increase the barriers for humanoid robot companies seeking to go public.This move is related to the market performance of Yushu Technology after its listing. The company surged 460% on its first day of trading, but the excitement faded afterward, with its stock price dropping about 50% from its post-listing peak, bringing its market value down to approximately $30 billion. Regulatory authorities are trying to quell the frenzy triggered by this situation.

Xiaopeng Robotics production line officially launched today. The world's first advanced general-purpose humanoid robot completed automated assembly and autonomously walked off the production line, marking a key leap for Xiaopeng Robotics from research and development to production manufacturing.This production line is independently designed and developed by Xiaopeng, deeply integrating the mature quality systems of the automotive industry with the precision manufacturing of humanoid robots, achieving an automation rate of over 80% in core processes. The Xiaopeng robot has 76 degrees of freedom and is equipped with three Turing AI chips, with an effective computing power of 2250 TOPS.The Xiaopeng robot will officially enter large-scale production by the end of this year and will be launched and delivered in 2027.

Artificial intelligence company Humain is planning to raise its first $2.5 billion in funding to establish a fund focused on investing in data centers. According to insiders, the fund will provide financing support for the 250 megawatt data center capacity being built in collaboration with Al Moammar Information Systems, with the overall scale potentially expanding to 1 gigawatt in the future.It is reported that Humain, supported by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), is promoting the construction of local AI computing power and data center infrastructure to meet the growing demand for AI computing.

On Thursday, the Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence company Humain launched a national AI platform and introduced the Arabic model humain-m3. This model is based on the open-source model M3 from the Chinese laboratory MiniMax Group Inc. Humain is supported by the Public Investment Fund and has invested in data centers and chips to enhance Saudi Arabia's competitiveness in the global AI field.Humain stated that its commissioning of the model aims to strengthen the Arabic AI ecosystem while contributing to the global advancement of cutting-edge intelligence. The company thus joins the ranks of nations seeking to strengthen control over this increasingly important technology.

According to Bloomberg, the artificial intelligence company Humain is planning to raise its first $2.5 billion in funding to establish a fund focused on investing in data centers. Sources revealed that the fund will provide financing support for the 250 megawatt data center capacity being constructed in collaboration with Al Moammar Information Systems, with the overall scale potentially expanding to 1 gigawatt in the future.It is reported that Humain, supported by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (PIF), is promoting the development of local AI computing power and data center infrastructure to meet the growing demand for AI computing.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the company will definitely develop humanoid robots while also exploring other forms of robots. He believes that the reality of human society and tools is mostly designed around the human body structure, so humanoid robots are reasonable; however, the robot form is not the key, what is truly important is the "robot brain."Altman mentioned that in the short term, humanoid robots are unlikely to enter ordinary households. OpenAI prefers to first apply them in industrial scenarios such as data center construction and maintenance, while general-purpose robots for individual users are a long-term goal.

According to data from the International Federation of Robotics, Chinese companies installed 295,000 new industrial robots in China in 2024, accounting for 54% of the global total. Two years ago, China had over 2 million industrial robots in operation, approximately 4.5 times that of the second-place Japan. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the revenue of China's robotics industry exceeded 300 billion yuan (4.4 billion USD) last year, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% over five years. Industrial robot exports are expected to grow by 49% in 2025, making China a net exporter of industrial robots for the first time.Chinese manufacturers now hold the majority share of the domestic industrial robot market, which was previously dominated by Fanuc, ABB, Yaskawa, and KUKA before 2024. BYD's Xi'an factory operates thousands of automated robotic arms for electric vehicle assembly lines, with key components being nearly fully autonomous. The Yangshan Port in Shanghai has built the world's largest automated terminal, almost entirely operated by automated guided vehicles and remotely controlled gantry cranes, with minimal human intervention. Regulatory authorities in Guangdong Province recently approved 48 "robot +" deployment scenarios covering manufacturing, logistics, and service sectors. The quadruped and humanoid robot company Yushu Technology went public last month, with its first-day trading valuation exceeding 1,200 times its past earnings.