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Former U.S. President Trump posted on Truth Social that the Democratic Party is composed of the most corrupt and anti-American political leaders and politicians in American and world history, who are doing everything possible to evade the massive corruption issues in blue states, while continuously repeating accusations of corruption against the Trump administration. He stated that this is a set of maliciously reused rhetoric aimed at covering up the large-scale, unprecedented embezzlement occurring in blue states across the country, including Minnesota, California, and others.Trump also claimed that the fake news media refuses to report this fact, even during his first term. He stated that perhaps he was too naive, even refusing to take a presidential salary, amounting to millions of dollars, and claimed to be the only president to do so. He further stated that Democrats are corrupt and evil, while he is just the opposite, and called on Republicans to fight hard, or they will lose their country.

According to an interview with "Daily People," a data center operations engineer who has worked in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia for 5 years stated that local AI data centers are still under large-scale construction, but the hiring demand at his company has significantly decreased. The company hired thousands of people in 2025, but by the time of the interview in 2026, only 3 new hires had been made.The engineer, who goes by the pseudonym Zhang Liwei, originally worked on an assembly line at an automobile factory. When he first switched careers, his internship monthly salary was 2,000 yuan, which increased to 4,500 yuan after graduation. After 5 years of job hopping and promotions, he currently earns over 10,000 yuan per month. In April of this year, DeepSeek was hiring senior operations engineers and senior delivery managers for its data center in Ulanqab, offering a monthly salary of 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, with 14 months' salary. These positions require extensive experience in data center operations and project management. According to Zhang Liwei's observations, local ordinary duty staff still earn around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per month, while assistant engineers can earn over 10,000 yuan.The entry barriers are also rising. In 2024, some data centers were still hiring newcomers without relevant professional backgrounds; however, this year, some companies have required candidates to have a relevant degree and work experience, and there is even a 35-year age limit for basic duty positions. Zhang Liwei mentioned that a former colleague has started a training class for operations, charging nearly 20,000 yuan per student, and classes only start when there are 60 students, with a single session fee approaching 1.2 million yuan. The so-called internal recommendations are mostly just to help students secure an interview opportunity.

Micron Technology, a memory manufacturer, recently signed a labor agreement with the Taichung Labor Union. Reports cite the Ministry of Economic Affairs explaining that over 80% of personnel will see salary adjustments of nearly 2.7 times, with production line staff's annual salary increasing from 630,000 to over 2 million.The Ministry of Economic Affairs also stated that the annual salary for entry-level engineers will rise from 1.45 million to 4 million, while mid-to-senior level engineers will see their salaries increase from over 2 million to 6 million. The union successfully negotiated an increase in the employer's contribution rate for labor retirement to 10%, which is above the industry standard; the day shift allowance for frontline production line staff has been adjusted from 1,500 to 4,500, tripling the original amount.

According to Beating reports, Lei Feng Network interviewed several headhunters and found that major domestic internet companies are tightening their recruitment quotas but are still willing to break salary limits for top AI talents. Headhunters revealed that this year, some outstanding fresh graduates in foundational model directions have annual packages reaching 2 million yuan; ByteDance Seed and Xiaohongshu's highest offers have reached 4 million to 5 million yuan, while Baidu is in the range of 2 million to 3 million yuan.The high salaries for talent are exacerbating internal salary discrepancies. An internet professional stated that some employees in foundational models have lower job levels but earn more than their higher-level colleagues. Similar situations emerged as early as 2017; an experienced engineer recalled that at that time, a returnee fresh graduate who joined a year later and was at a lower job level had a monthly salary 10,000 yuan higher than his own, leading to a monthly turnover of about 10% in a team of over thirty people.Headhunters noted that application-side positions are shrinking, while foundational model teams still lack individuals who can truly train large models. Coding Agents, model evaluation, pre-training data, and Agent infrastructure have become new focal points for talent acquisition; DeepSeek has recently been expanding its recruitment for backend developers and Agent Infra engineers, while the hiring enthusiasm in areas like AI search has decreased. Companies are not only looking at academic qualifications and papers but also place greater importance on whether candidates have actually trained large-scale models in leading teams; the salaries and responsibilities of scarce talents can be negotiated separately, while competition among ordinary AI job seekers is more intense.

At 20:30 Beijing time tonight, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the non-farm payroll report for September.Market consensus expects that 84,000 new jobs were added in September, the unemployment rate remains at 4.1%, and the average hourly wage year-on-year is 3.1%; the previous value for August was an increase of 162,000 jobs. The market is particularly focused on the extent of the decline in new jobs, wage growth, and whether the August data will be revised down.

Micron Technology announced on Friday that its direct labor employees in Taiwan will receive a total bonus for the fiscal year 2026 equivalent to 35 to 68 months of salary, with a minimum cash compensation of 1.7 million New Taiwan Dollars (approximately 53,809.39 USD).Employees in Taiwan who joined before August 29, 2025, will receive a cash bonus of 1 million New Taiwan Dollars (approximately 31,652.58 USD) for the fiscal year 2026. This announcement comes after union members representing about two-thirds of Micron's employees in Taiwan generally supported a strike.

The venture capital firm a16z's crypto division, a16z crypto, is hiring a Head of Social Media, with a salary range of $199,000 to $232,000.This position is aimed at candidates who are extremely active online, understand crypto and internet culture, can create and deliver content, and can showcase intelligence in a non-corporate or non-awkward manner. Responsibilities cover podcasts, investments, events, editing, memes, short video editing, and social media strategy. This is a remote position, requiring some travel or attendance at offline events.

On August 25, according to the Korea Herald, the SK Hynix union rejected the preliminary wage agreement reached with management. The preliminary agreement was voted down with 50.08% of the votes against it.Previously, the union leadership had reached this preliminary agreement with management before submitting it for a member vote.

According to Fortune, an analysis of executive compensation by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) shows that Elon Musk's total compensation from Tesla in 2025, calculated based on the fair value on the date of restricted stock grants, is approximately $158.3 billion, which is about 2.52 million times the median annual salary of Tesla employees at $57,243. Based on this calculation, Musk earns compensation equivalent to a Tesla employee's annual salary approximately every 4.23 seconds.The AFL-CIO stated that Musk's 2025 compensation package is at a "historic level" that has been "unprecedented" since it began tracking CEO compensation in 1997. His compensation is about 14 times the total compensation of all other S&P 500 company CEOs, while the average CEO compensation in the S&P 500 is approximately 312 times that of employees.It is important to note that the $158.3 billion is not the actual cash Musk will receive that year, but rather the fair value calculated based on the restricted stock granted by Tesla in 2025 on the grant date. This batch of stock could ultimately be worth up to $1 trillion, provided that Tesla meets the corresponding performance requirements.

CLR revealed on platform X that pump.fun is attracting users to migrate from the FOMO platform through an incentive program. According to the disclosed agreement documents, pump.fun plans to offer eligible users a one-time signing bonus of $20,000 and a fixed monthly salary of $30,000. The agreement requires users to: migrate funds and trading positions from the FOMO platform to pump.fun; use a new wallet that has not been used by other platforms as an exclusive wallet; bind their X (formerly Twitter) account to the pump.fun wallet; publicly declare on their X homepage that this wallet is the only public wallet; and permanently delete and close their FOMO platform account.In addition, users must also meet real trading requirements, including completing at least $25,000 in trading volume on pump.fun each month (or 25% of the previous average monthly trading volume on the FOMO platform).

According to a post by Frank Chaparro, GSR's Director of Strategic Communications, Visa is hiring for a "Sr Director, Stablecoin Labs" position in New York, with a maximum annual salary of $400,900, plus bonuses and equity incentives.The job listing indicates that this position will be responsible for Visa's Web3 and stablecoin product roadmap, exploring new commercialization application scenarios, and participating in the planning of the company's next-generation stablecoin payment products. Frank Chaparro believes this further indicates that stablecoins are becoming a core priority in the global payments sector.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, MiniMax founder and CEO Yan Junjie issued an internal letter to all employees, responding to recent market fluctuations and emphasizing that the company's long-term direction remains unchanged. In the letter, Yan Junjie announced that starting today, until the day the company achieves AGI, he will no longer receive any salary from the company. Over the next four years, he will allocate personal shares equivalent to 4% of the company's total equity to incentivize team members who work alongside the company to create value together; at the same time, he will set aside 1% of the shares to establish a special fund to continuously support the development of relevant open-source communities.

Baton Corporation, the UK-based development company behind Pump.fun, is hiring a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) with a base salary range of $1 million to $5 million, co-founder Alon Cohen announced on X on Wednesday. This salary level is among the top in the crypto industry, with the $5 million cap comparable to the compensation of executives at large American investment banks.According to the job listing, the CLO will be responsible for U.S. digital asset regulatory affairs (covering SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, and OFAC), product and commercial legal matters, corporate governance across Baton’s UK parent company and overseas subsidiaries, as well as cross-border compliance covering the UK FCA, EU MiCA, and the Asia-Pacific region, while overseeing AML/KYC projects and litigation management.The job listing reveals that Pump.fun has a daily trading volume exceeding $300 million and generated over $500 million in profit last year with a team of fewer than 100 people. This recruitment aims to add a legal infrastructure layer to the previously streamlined team operations of the platform.

According to Bits.media, the Central Bank of Russia announced that it will provide economic incentives to encourage the use of the digital ruble for salary payments. Starting from January 1, 2027, commercial banks will receive a reward of 0.67 rubles for each transaction where a business pays salaries or other labor contract payments to employees in digital rubles, with a minimum reward of 10 rubles per instruction list. According to the central bank's design, if a business pays salaries in digital rubles to 10 employees, the bank will receive a reward of 6.7 rubles, and the central bank will make up the difference to the minimum of 10 rubles; if it involves 20 people, the reward will be 13.4 rubles.At the same time, the country's central bank also approved the service fee rates for the digital ruble platform. Starting from early 2027, the transaction fee for each instruction when businesses transfer to individuals will be 1 ruble, with a minimum charge of 15 rubles per instruction list. Previously, the central bank's governor Nabiullina stated that the digital ruble aims to achieve national monitoring of fund operations for government procurement contracts, while denying that the government will monitor payments between individuals and promising that the digital ruble will not be mandatory.

According to a new document from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk has exercised all rights under his 2018 Tesla CEO compensation plan, acquiring 304 million shares of stock, with a paper gain of approximately $116 billion (about 780 billion yuan). However, the aforementioned shares will be locked until 2028. At that time, Musk will be able to sell these shares.

GMX Labs has released a proposal for an upgrade to its leadership structure, which has been approved by DAO governance voting with 96.42% in favor. The proposal points out that as the team expands and competition in the perpetual DEX space intensifies, GMX Labs' early flat, founder-driven organizational structure is no longer sustainable and needs to transition to a clearer and more accountable traditional leadership structure.The proposal announces the introduction of a CEO through a public recruitment process, with candidates drawn from DeFi, CeFi, traditional finance, and the technology industry. The goal is to complete the recruitment and onboarding by April 2026, and to complete the organizational restructuring and submit a new contributor token allocation plan aligned with performance to the DAO by June. The CEO's responsibilities include setting the strategic direction for GMX Labs, establishing a functional leadership team, strengthening partnerships, and representing GMX Labs in industry events.In terms of compensation, the CEO's base salary will be between $150,000 and $200,000 per year, paid in stablecoins; performance incentives will be denominated in GMX tokens and directly linked to the growth of protocol fees, with the current annual protocol fee baseline being approximately $60 million. A 50% increase in fees will yield partial rewards, while a 100% increase to about $120 million will yield the full base reward pool of 40,000 GMX tokens. A 125% increase to about $135 million will additionally grant 10,000 GMX as a special reward. The GMX tokens received will also be adjusted by 0.5 to 1.5 times based on the 30-day average price of GMX, with an annual token compensation cap of 75,000 GMX. Of the performance rewards, 25% will be unlocked immediately upon meeting targets, while the remaining 75% will vest linearly over 24 months, with unvested portions forfeited upon early departure.During the transition period, an interim leadership committee composed of members X, Coin, B, and Kal will be responsible for maintaining operations, advancing the existing roadmap, and leading the search for the CEO.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen issued an internal letter stating, "We are closely monitoring the current security situation in the Middle East and understand that everyone may feel anxious and concerned at this moment. We have activated our emergency mechanism and will accompany and support every colleague during this special period.Please temporarily set aside concerns about work and income, and prioritize the safety of yourself and your family; salaries will be fully paid, unaffected by work stoppages or remote work; all expenses incurred for safety reasons will be fully covered by the company, including but not limited to: temporary accommodation, transportation, emergency supplies, and medical expenses. If evacuation is necessary, the company will cover all airfare and transportation costs."

According to Cointelegraph, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has been receiving his salary in Bitcoin since the end of 2021. He stated that he is not worried about the recent volatility in the cryptocurrency market, as his Bitcoin salary has increased by about 300%.In an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, when asked if he was concerned about Bitcoin's price dropping below $100,000 and the significant decline in most of the cryptocurrency market, he responded, "When I received my first Bitcoin salary, the price was $30,000, and now it has increased by 300%, peaking at $120,000, which is a 400% increase. So, I am not worried about daily fluctuations. What I am more concerned about is the macro impact that a trusted store of value can bring, as its monetary creation system is realized through code. Rather than tracking prices daily, I am more focused on the development of decentralized finance, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence."

ChainCatcher news, according to @Pete Rizzo's post on X, Amazon has released a position for "Crypto Ecosystem Lead" with an annual salary of about $500,000. Rizzo stated that Bitcoin is moving towards the mainstream.