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A federal jury in San Diego, USA, ruled on Friday that Apple must pay over $5.7 billion in damages for using patented technology from the haptic patent company Taction Technology, according to Caixin. This is the highest patent compensation amount in U.S. history. Taction sued Apple in 2021, claiming that its sales of devices infringing on touch technology improperly utilized related innovations; the case was dismissed in 2023 but was later reinstated by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.Apple issued a statement strongly opposing the verdict and the amount of damages, stating that the ruling lacks factual basis. Apple stated that its haptic engine is fundamentally different from Taction's technology, and tests conducted during the trial confirmed this, asserting that it did not use Taction's technology and would appeal. Taction's chief attorney, Lance Yang, thanked the jury and mentioned that the company waited five and a half years for the case to go to trial.The core of the lawsuit revolves around two vibration-based haptic sensor technologies designed to allow users to perceive the device's response to input. Taction claims that Apple’s haptic engine in the Apple Watch and iPhone used its inventions without authorization. Apple's haptic engine was launched in 2014 with the Apple Watch and was used in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus the following year, replacing the older vibration motors. Since Apple insists on appealing, the amount of damages will need to be determined first by the presiding judge before entering the appeals process for final confirmation.

Fidelity Investments Global Macro Director Jurrien Timmer posted on X, discussing Bitcoin prices and the power law model.Jurrien Timmer stated: The power law mathematics of Bitcoin continues to indicate that after holding the $60,000 level, a new cyclical bull market is unfolding, with a target of reaching $300,000 by 2029.

According to Caixin, poker master and seasoned cryptocurrency investor Hu Zheweng made significant bets during the three waves of cryptocurrency frenzy involving ICOs, algorithmic stablecoins, and AI tokens, but faced consecutive failures. Hu Zheweng claimed to have invested in the blockchain project Stratis, achieving a return of "over 1000 times."According to disclosed information, Hu Zheweng invested approximately 80 million USD in algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and its sister token LUNA from May 2021 to May 2022, with the peak market value of his holdings exceeding 800 million USD, but the price of LUNA subsequently nearly dropped to zero.In addition, Hu Zheweng has filed a lawsuit in Chicago, USA against the globally renowned quantitative trading firm Jump Trading and its related companies and executives in the cryptocurrency business, seeking at least 500 million USD in damages. After experiencing Stox and Terra, Hu Zheweng has not left the cryptocurrency market; last January, he bet on a new project by a Chinese computer professor Zhang Yongfeng. Zhang Yongfeng entered the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University in 2007 and is currently a tenured associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University in the USA. He has been sued by Hu Zheweng on multiple charges including "securities fraud." It is reported that the tokens issued by the organization founded by Zhang Yongfeng, in which Hu Zheweng invested millions of dollars, have fallen over 99.6% from their peak in 2025.

KelpDAO stated on platform X that it has filed a lawsuit against LayerZero and its co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, seeking accountability for the rsETH cross-chain bridge attack incident that occurred earlier this year. The lawsuit claims that LayerZero failed to adequately disclose its inherent technical weaknesses and risks; failed to prevent its security infrastructure from being compromised; and that LayerZero had previously reviewed and approved Kelp's deployment and configuration in writing.Officials stated that LayerZero has publicly attributed responsibility to itself in recent months. Since the occurrence of the attack, the team has taken action to ensure the safety of user assets, including migrating the rsETH cross-chain bridge to a more secure cross-chain standard.LayerZero co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino tweeted that KelpDAO's related claims lack basis and that he will respond and defend in Vancouver.Previously, LayerZero released an incident report indicating that on April 18, 2026, the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain bridge built on LayerZero was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at around $292 million.

Two ChatGPT users from California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California this month, accusing the company of failing to adequately inform users that their real conversations were being handed over to external contractors for processing. The lawsuit was served to OpenAI on September 2, focusing on its internal initiative Project Lily. According to the complaint, "AI data reviewers" and "chatbot evaluators" recruited through a third-party staffing company read real ChatGPT prompts and complete conversations, summarize user intent, and score and comment on responses from four models on a scale of 1 to 7.This process is known in the industry as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which is a fundamental method for enhancing chatbot capabilities. The complaint states that users were never explicitly informed that a person, rather than a machine, might be reading their conversations. OpenAI filters conversations through an automated system before human review, but the complaint alleges that the filters cannot intercept all content, and personal details sometimes still reach contractors. 404 Media first reported on the project on September 14 and found that the reviewers' dashboard included "user memory summaries," which could expose users' approximate locations, occupations, or private life information, even though usernames had been removed.OpenAI stated that such reviews aim to reduce two behaviors: chatbots behaving too much like humans and overly catering to users, referred to by researchers as "flattery." The complaint raises eight legal claims, including violations of California's Unfair Competition Law, Consumer Privacy Act, and common law claims for intrusion into private affairs, with the plaintiffs seeking damages, restitution of unjust enrichment, and punitive damages.

According to Slow Fog Security Alert, the AI memory toolchain under MemTensor has been compromised. The open-source long-term memory library MemoryOS (PyPI) aimed at LLM and AI Agent, as well as the official plugin memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin (npm) that connects to the OpenClaw runtime, have been implanted with a cross-platform Go binary, which triggers execution when the package is loaded or imported.Affected versions include: MemoryOS==2.34 on PyPI, and npm plugins 0.1.21, 0.1.23, 0.1.25. Among them, the affected npm plugins may also cause user prompt content leakage. Slow Fog recommends taking the following measures: uninstall or downgrade to known safe versions (npm 0.1.20, PyPI 2.33); terminate the sckit process; block related infrastructure; check network activity; and rotate credentials in the affected environment.

On September 24, the official homepage of the local AI assistant QClaw displayed that due to business adjustments, QClaw will stop new user registrations starting today and will officially cease operations on December 24. The official statement indicated that user data migration will be supported, and migration users will receive point subsidies.According to Jiupai News, on March 10 of this year, Tencent launched the entire "Lobster" product matrix, covering general users, developers, and enterprise users. The products include WorkBuddy, QClaw, Tencent Cloud Lighthouse, intelligent agent development platform ADP, Tencent Cloud Desktop, and more. Tencent announced at that time that QClaw was in internal testing.Tencent introduced that QClaw is a local AI assistant launched based on OpenClaw, supporting one-click installation on Windows and Mac, and can be remotely controlled through WeChat conversations. After users send commands via WeChat on their phones, the assistant can automatically operate the computer to perform tasks and return results.

Market news indicates that Powerlaw is considering a strategic sale of part of its SpaceX shares to raise funds for dividends, tax distributions, and new private market investments.

According to a report from the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Hunan Province, on August 19, 2026, the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province discovered fraud clues during routine inspections and successfully cracked a virtual currency investment fraud case, arresting two criminal suspects.Upon investigation, on May 1, 2026, the suspect Li met the victim, Ms. Yue, through private messages on a social platform, falsely claiming to teach virtual currency investment skills with guaranteed profits. He induced her to download a certain app to purchase Tether (USDT) and then exchange it for a newly issued virtual currency manipulated by his "superior." Li, in collusion with his "superior," created the illusion of rising prices to lure the victim into increasing her investment; once the funds were in place, they quickly crashed the market, causing the virtual currency's value to drop to zero. Ms. Yue lost approximately 30,000 yuan, while Li illegally profited tens of thousands of yuan, which was collected by his friend Lei and squandered.On August 19, the investigating police arrested Li; on September 17, Lei, who was suspected of collecting the stolen funds, was also apprehended. Both have been criminally detained according to the law. The police remind: virtual currency is not legal tender, and there are no "guaranteed profit" projects. Recommendations for high returns made through private messages online are all fraud traps. Do not easily trust investment recommendations from strangers or transfer money to unfamiliar platforms.

The White House announced that Trump has signed the Russia sanctions bill, making it official law.

Market news shows that OpenAI and GitHub have won the copyright lawsuit regarding AI programming tools.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor stated that as the CLARITY Act faces obstacles, he expects the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Treasury Department to continue advancing digital asset regulatory rules based on existing laws, without waiting for Congress to complete legislation.Saylor anticipates that banks will expand Bitcoin custody and Bitcoin-collateralized loan services, with more funds flowing into Bitcoin and digital credit. He added that the GENIUS Act will support further adoption of stablecoins, and the development of the crypto industry does not need to be paused due to the stagnation of the CLARITY Act.

Court documents show that Elon Musk's company X and xAI have resolved the antitrust lawsuit against Apple (AAPL.O).

According to Taiwan's "Commercial Times" report on September 14, as the computing power of GPUs and ASICs continues to rise, traditional copper interconnects are gradually approaching the limits of power consumption and signal transmission. TSMC is accelerating its layout for co-packaged optics (CPO). The industry is optimistic that if CPO bandwidth continues to double every two years, it may form the "CPO Moore's Law" of the AI era. Industry analysis indicates that the upgrade of CPO bandwidth mainly has three paths: including increasing single-channel speed from 200G to over 400G, expanding the number of optical channels from 16 to 32, 64 or more, and introducing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). By 2040, the theoretical value could reach about 128 times the current level, with long-term potential for development towards hundreds of T based on the current level of about 3.2T.TSMC's role in optical interconnects has extended from wafer foundry to system integration, gradually integrating computing, HBM memory, and high-speed I/O from 3DFabric, CoWoS, SoIC to silicon photonics and CPO. When high-speed electrical signals exceed 200G, signal attenuation increases after passing through longer copper paths such as ABF substrates, PCBs, and connectors, leading the industry to develop shorter copper paths and longer optical paths. In terms of packaging architecture, the optical engine is currently laid out on the substrate, and the next step is expected to place CPO in the intermediary layer, with future possibilities of using SoIC technology to achieve 3D vertical integration of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and ASICs. Industry players indicate that CPO still needs to overcome challenges in packaging, optical coupling, and testing before mass production can be achieved.

According to South Korean media MK, Min Byeong-deok, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, revealed that the South Korean "Basic Law on Digital Assets" will be promoted for formulation within the year, with a public hearing planned for this month, and the formal advancement of the bill review will begin in November after the national government audit concludes. However, considering that the National Assembly will also conduct national government audits and budget reviews, the legislative timeline may be postponed until the first half of next year.In addition, the South Korean Financial Services Commission has announced a phased implementation roadmap for Security Token Offerings (STO), and financial institutions are also advancing tokenization system testing and global infrastructure cooperation. South Korea's digital asset regulation is gradually shifting from institutional discussions to the preparation phase for implementation.

F2Pool co-founder and stakefish founder Wang Chun tweeted that Oleksii Trofimchuk filed a lawsuit against Lido Finance and stakefish on September 8 in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, accusing them of allowing competing MEV bots to submit high-priority fee transactions to claim the ETH after his wallet was hacked.

According to Hyperliquid News, the Hyperliquid Policy Center has submitted a legal opinion to the federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).The lawsuit involves the CFTC's prior approval of the launch of regulated cryptocurrency perpetual contracts in the U.S. through Kalshi. CME had previously filed a lawsuit regarding the related regulatory decision, while the Hyperliquid Policy Center supports the CFTC's side, arguing that the court should dismiss CME's lawsuit.

Spain's largest cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me announced the establishment of an independent company Bit2Shield (registered name CryptoShield S.L) to assist courts, police, and financial institutions in tracking, seizing, storing, and selling cryptocurrency assets. This department will support investigators in extracting wallet data, locating cryptocurrency assets, and issuing digital signature forensic reports that can be used in court, while also being responsible for fraud investigations, source of funds verification, and providing training for police, judges, and banks.This move formalizes the work Bit2Me previously conducted for public institutions. In 2025, Bit2Me handled seized cryptocurrency assets worth 1.5 million euros (approximately 1.74 million dollars) for Interpol, Europol, and the Spanish police, using blockchain analysis company Chainalysis to track the assets. Bit2Shield will store seized assets in cold wallets that require multiple signatures and arrange for their sale when ordered by authorities, with proceeds transferred to government bank accounts in euros.Bit2Shield is part of Bit2Me's expansion from retail trading to banking and public institution infrastructure, with investors including Bankinter, Unicaja, Cecabank, Telefónica, and Tether. Since Bit2Shield focuses on investigations, forensics, and training, it is not considered a cryptocurrency service provider under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA); any operations involving the exchange of cryptocurrency for euros will be handled by Bitcoinforme S.L., an entity authorized by the Spanish securities regulator MiCA under Bit2Me.

According to Bitcoin News, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested a Washington D.C. court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) against Kalshi regarding Bitcoin perpetual futures contracts.Kalshi's cash-settled BTCPERP contract was approved on May 29, which has no expiration date, employs a funding rate mechanism, and tracks the spot price of Bitcoin. CME argues that contracts without a delivery date that continuously generate funding payments should be classified as swaps, not futures. In response, the CFTC stated that CME's lawsuit is "making a fuss over nothing" and pointed out that CME could also list similar products. Furthermore, the CFTC noted that CME's Bitcoin futures trading volume in June and August was higher than in May, indicating that related business has not been significantly affected. CME must submit a response by October 2.

According to Politico, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long advocated for strict enforcement of gambling laws, but after his political action committee received a $5,000 donation from the prediction market platform Kalshi in May 2025, and he personally received a $7,000 donation from Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour in June of the same year, he did not participate in several legal actions initiated by other state attorneys general aimed at restricting Kalshi's operations.