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According to the official announcement, Bitget CFD will adjust the leverage and margin tier rules for XAUUSD (gold against the US dollar) and USDCNH (US dollar/offshore RMB) starting from August 15.Among them, when the nominal value of the XAUUSD contract is below $100,000, a maximum leverage of 800 times can be supported; when the nominal value of the USDCNH contract is below $1,000,000, a maximum leverage of 100 times can be supported. For positions exceeding the corresponding range, the platform will adopt a tiered margin calculation method, and the margin rate will be adjusted as the nominal value of the position increases. Users can reasonably allocate their positions according to their asset needs.

According to exclusive information from Intelligent Era AGI, DeepSeek is actively recruiting for emotional intelligence data product manager positions, with a daily salary of 510 yuan. The role is responsible for optimizing DeepSeek's model performance in emotional scenarios, enhancing the realism and immersion of role-playing and emotional interactions, and deeply exploring Badcases in emotional scenarios for attribution analysis.This recruitment information indicates that DeepSeek is expanding from basic capabilities like programming towards emotional interactions that are closer to human language. The product positioning is similar to Doubao, aiming to create a more "personalized" AI model system, rather than being limited to programming scenarios. Previously, DeepSeek launched the Harness preview version for developers on August 13. According to Citigroup's research report and Analysys data, the current market competitor WorkBuddy has surpassed 20 million cross-platform MAU, with 20.97 million monthly visits on the PC side. DeepSeek has not yet provided details on specific product planning for emotional AI.

Goldman Sachs announced the acquisition of NEOS Investments, which is an ETF issuer managing assets totaling $30 billion, including the Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI), which manages assets of $1.1 billion.

According to ChianCatcher news, as reported by CoinDesk, the U.S. SEC's Investment Management Division has issued a no-action letter to Franklin Templeton, allowing its registered funds to use the on-chain money market fund FOBXX (also known as BENJI) to manage cash and collateral via blockchain, rather than following traditional custody rules.This letter is based on Section 17(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Rule 17f-2, allowing registered funds to hold shares of FOBXX without meeting certain physical custody requirements. This supports intraday trading, hourly net asset value calculations, and faster transaction processing. FOBXX primarily invests in U.S. government securities and aims to maintain a stable share price of $1, and has expanded to multiple blockchains.

Bitget announced the launch of the "Project Archimedes," establishing a special fund with a total scale of $300 million to provide capital support for quantitative trading firms, asset management institutions, and market makers. The plan includes two sub-projects: a $100 million "Capital Support Program," which focuses on supporting emerging and growth-oriented quantitative institutions that adopt market-neutral strategies; and a $200 million "Interest-Free Lending Program," aimed at institutions with mature strategies and a certain trading scale, which can obtain interest-free funds by meeting corresponding trading volume or position standards to reduce financing costs and expand strategy scale.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that as competition in institutional trading intensifies, capital, execution efficiency, and risk control are becoming important factors in whether strategies can achieve scalability. The Archimedes plan aims to help capable teams expand their strategy scale through capital support, with expectations to support over 50 projects in the next six months. Meanwhile, relying on Bitget's Unified Trading Account (UTA), institutions can use rToken spot positions as collateral for derivatives, allowing them to maintain tokenized stock exposure and contract strategies simultaneously without cross-account transfers, further enhancing capital efficiency.The Archimedes plan will adopt a long-term cooperation framework, implementing rolling access and phased deployment, and will regularly disclose progress such as the number of participating institutions, capital deployment scale, and strategy distribution.

Citrini analyst Jukan shared content on platform X stating that industry insiders reported that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis had previously planned to leave simultaneously with another co-founder, David Silver. However, Google management was concerned that this news could trigger a significant drop in stock prices, so they hoped to delay his departure. Reports indicate that after Google announced related adjustments, the company's stock did indeed decline. Ultimately, Hassabis was persuaded to take on the role of chairman of DeepMind to help facilitate a smooth transition and create space for a more appropriate departure from Google in the future.It is reported that as David Silver shifts to founding Ineffable Intelligence and John Jumper joins Anthropic, the core AI research and development force at DeepMind is undergoing changes. Some insiders believe that the center of gravity for AI model development at Google has now shifted more towards the Bay Area, leading to a decline in the importance of DeepMind. Internally, Google is focusing on the large language model Gemini to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Hassabis's adjustment reflects a long-standing strategic contradiction within Google: researchers are more focused on long-term scientific breakthroughs, while the commercial team is more concerned with AI products that can be quickly commercialized to drive revenue and stock price growth. Market predictions suggest that Hassabis may leave Google within a year and could potentially start a new venture.

The prediction market platform Kalshi announced the launch of the AI tool Blanket, aimed at helping small businesses hedge operational risks related to weather, energy prices, tariffs, elections, and more using event contracts.Blanket was developed by independent fintech entrepreneur Lauris Zminsky, based on Kalshi's CFTC-regulated prediction market operations, but it is not an internal product of Kalshi. The tool does not directly execute trades or handle funds, but instead analyzes the risks faced by businesses through AI and recommends Kalshi event contracts that can be used for hedging.

The Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China held a work meeting for the second half of 2026, during which it emphasized the need to firmly uphold the bottom line of preventing systemic financial risks. It will continue to strengthen the assessment and verification of bank institution ratings. Monitoring and analysis of systemically important financial institutions will be enhanced.There will be ongoing prevention and handling of risks related to speculative virtual currency trading. Efforts will be made to actively promote the standardization of financial product online marketing behaviors by local institutions. The mechanism for preventing and resolving systemic risks will be continuously improved. There will be a strengthened crackdown on illegal financial activities. The framework for macro-prudential management will be continuously refined. The level of cross-border financial risk monitoring will be comprehensively enhanced.

According to TechCrunch, OpenAI is fighting back against Apple's lawsuit regarding the leak of trade secrets, stating that Apple itself has vulnerabilities in its information security management and employee departure processes, and cannot prove that the relevant information is protected trade secrets.Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining hardware-related secrets through former employees who left Apple and requested the court to expedite the evidence investigation. In the latest legal documents submitted, OpenAI stated that Apple allows employees to use personal iCloud accounts to handle work materials and did not promptly revoke access after employees left. OpenAI claimed that Apple did not specify the exact trade secrets that were allegedly stolen, but only referred generally to information such as product development processes, supply chains, and testing.OpenAI believes that Apple's lawsuit is more about restricting its development in the AI hardware field and denies that the company needs or uses Apple's trade secrets. The focus of the dispute between the two parties centers on employee mobility, intellectual property protection, and competition in the AI hardware sector.

Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer of Western Digital, stated that the key to AI storage competition is not simply pursuing the fastest medium, but whether it can continuously scale capacity at an affordable cost. He believes that many architectures run well in the early stages, but when the data scale grows from several PB to hundreds of PB or even EB levels, issues may arise due to uncontrolled costs.Flash storage is suitable for high-performance, low-latency scenarios such as model weights, GPU overflow, KV caches, and session contexts; HDDs are more suitable for large-scale, long-term storage, and cost-sensitive data such as training corpora, logs, checkpoints, compliance records, synthetic data, and inference outputs. He summarized: "Flash handles the present, HDD handles the entire lifecycle."At the scale of AI, storage costs themselves will become an architectural issue. Long-term storage of large volumes of data on high-performance media will crowd out budgets for computing, networking, power, and personnel. For many bulk storage workloads, the issue is not whether flash can store, but whether customers can afford the total cost of using flash in the long term.In the future, AI storage will not be dominated by a single technology, but should be designed in layers based on performance, cost, power consumption, density, reliability, and data lifecycle. He emphasized that this is not a competition between flash and HDD, but rather a need to match the appropriate medium for different workloads from the very beginning; otherwise, the architecture may impact business sustainability as it scales.

Bitget recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) of Bhutan. According to the framework of the agreement, Bitget will establish a legal entity in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) and prepare relevant financial service license applications under the regulatory framework of the Gelephu Financial Services Office (GFSO), while collaborating with GMCA on workflows related to operations, regulation, and ecosystem development. According to the plan, Bitget will also gradually establish offices locally and conduct local recruitment to support local talent development and long-term construction.As a special administrative region in southern Bhutan, GMC is being developed as the next-generation international financial and innovation center, with its virtual asset system governed by the Financial Services Act of 2025. Jigdrel Singay, a board member of the Gelephu Mindfulness City Board, pointed out that introducing partners like Bitget helps bring global expertise while promoting local capabilities and the broader financial ecosystem development.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that his previous viewpoint of "Never Sell Your Bitcoin" was to share ideas with other holders as a personal investor.Saylor mentioned that he has never sold any Bitcoin, "not even one satoshi." He emphasized that Strategy is a publicly traded company, not a personal wallet, and has been publicly disclosing since 2020 that it may manage capital through buying or selling BTC.Saylor stated that Strategy's long-term belief in Bitcoin has not changed among investors, and the company's related operations are part of its corporate financial strategy, while his personal holding philosophy remains unchanged.Previously, the market was concerned about whether Strategy would adjust its Bitcoin holding strategy. Saylor's statement this time aims to distinguish personal holding behavior from the asset management decisions of a publicly traded company.

Asset management giant BlackRock has announced the launch of two tokenized money market products, further expanding its blockchain-based cash management business, including the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle (BRSRV).BlackRock stated that the new products will combine the liquidity and stability of traditional money market funds with blockchain infrastructure, providing institutional investors with more flexible cash management tools between traditional finance and digital asset markets.Among them: BSTBL will launch tokenized shares based on Ethereum on the existing money market fund. These on-chain shares can be transferred between approved wallets in compliance with regulatory requirements. BNY Mellon will serve as the transfer agent and tokenization service provider for BSTBL. BRSRV is a new type of tokenized money fund designed for digitally native institutional investors, supporting daily dividend reinvestment and multi-blockchain access, applicable to various digital asset scenarios including stablecoin reserve management. Securitize will act as the transfer agent and tokenization service provider for this fund.Both products invest in cash, short-term U.S. Treasury securities, and overnight repurchase agreements backed by U.S. Treasury securities, aiming to generate returns while maintaining principal stability and liquidity. As of now, the cash strategy assets managed by BlackRock's cash management group are close to $1.1 trillion, covering a variety of investors including corporations, banks, foundations, insurance companies, and public institutions. The launch of tokenized money funds is seen as an important step for traditional asset management institutions to further engage in RWA (real-world asset tokenization) and on-chain financial infrastructure.

According to Jinshi News, the recent sharp rise of the yen has triggered a sell-off in the Japanese stock market on Monday, but analysts believe that the risk to corporate earnings is manageable. A survey by the Bank of Japan shows that the weighted average exchange rate assumption for the dollar against the yen adopted by companies is 151.49, and the current yen to dollar exchange rate is still about 5 yen away from this level.Yugo Tsuboi, Chief Strategist at Daiwa Securities, stated that unless the yen/dollar appreciates further to near the 150 level, the risk of downward adjustments to corporate earnings should be very small.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to solicit public comments on the amendments to Parts 37, 38, and 39 of the CFTC regulations and Sections 1.52 and 1.55, with a comment period of 60 days following publication in the Federal Register.The purpose of this amendment is to address potential conflicts of interest arising from the increasing interconnectedness among regulated entities such as Derivatives Clearing Organizations (DCOs), Designated Contract Markets (DCMs), Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs), Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), and market makers.CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig stated that the new rules will establish a principles-based regulatory framework for vertically integrated market structures, supporting innovation in the U.S. derivatives market while maintaining market integrity.

Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) in Bhutan has appointed the Canadian digital asset management company 3iQ to manage an authorization supported by part of its Bitcoin reserves, as GMC is building a digital asset investment center.According to the cooperation arrangement, 3iQ will manage a portion of the Bitcoin allocated to support the development of Gelephu, with specific amounts not disclosed. 3iQ will also establish a long-term business locally, invest in local talent, and provide training and knowledge transfer.Bhutan announced in December 2025 that it would allocate up to 10,000 Bitcoins from its national holdings to support GMC. The parties have not disclosed the actual management amount, custody arrangements, or whether the authorization allows for lending, derivatives, and other yield-generating strategies. 3iQ CEO Pascal St-Jean stated that the company will introduce institutional discipline for this authorization and will utilize Bhutan's capital in a responsible, transparent, and long-term manner. Jigdrel Singay, a board member of Gelephu, stated that 3iQ is one of the founding institutional partners of the city.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to solicit public comments on the amendments to Parts 37, 38, and 39 of the CFTC regulations and Sections 1.52 and 1.55, with a comment period of 60 days following the publication in the Federal Register.The purpose of this amendment is to address potential conflicts of interest arising from the increasing interconnectedness among regulated entities such as Derivatives Clearing Organizations (DCOs), Designated Contract Markets (DCMs), Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs), Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), and market makers. CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig stated that the new rules will establish a principles-based regulatory framework for vertically integrated market structures, supporting innovation in the U.S. derivatives market while maintaining market integrity.

According to Jinshi reports, Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched the artificial intelligence investment platform AlphaAI.