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Circle has partnered with payment technology company Volante Technologies to integrate USDC-related workflows into Volante's existing payment platform. Financial institutions can incorporate stablecoin payments and settlements into their existing systems without having to build a separate digital asset technology stack.Volante's clients include four of the top five corporate banks globally and seven of the top ten banks in the United States. These institutions will be able to evaluate processes such as USDC minting, redemption, wallet registration, fund injection, and inter-wallet payments, and use them in parallel with existing payment rails.

According to reports from the Financial Associated Press, Tianyancha shows that Hangzhou Yushu Robotics Co., Ltd. recently underwent a business change, with its registered capital increasing from 100,000 RMB to 25.1 million RMB, an increase of 25,000%.The company was established in April 2019, with Wang Xingxing as the legal representative. Its business scope includes software development, software sales, and research and development of intelligent robots, and it is wholly owned by Yushu Technology Co., Ltd.

The London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company has allocated 2,710,442 shares of common stock according to the terms of the subscription agreement.The total amount raised from this allocation is £1,891,933 (before expenses), equivalent to approximately £0.7 per share, and the company will receive about 98.25% of the funds as settlement. The remaining balance of common stock that has not been allocated under the subscription agreement is 41,213,788 shares.

According to Axios, U.S. President Trump, House Speaker Johnson, and CEOs of technology companies will hold a meeting on artificial intelligence on September 29.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones down 0.19%, the S&P 500 index down 0.51%, and the Nasdaq down 0.75%. SK Hynix fell 2%, ASML fell 2%, Intel fell 1.8%, Micron Technology fell 1.7%, and Oracle fell 5.3%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened lower, with the Dow Jones down 0.18%, the S&P 500 index down 0.11%, and the Nasdaq down 0.13%. SK Hynix fell 1.43%, ASML fell 0.58%, Alibaba fell 3.71%, and SpaceX fell 1.3%.

Bloomberg reported that China's push for a leading position in global AI is increasingly benefiting companies that supply products to other regions of the world. Investors favor such stocks, while intense competition harms peers that rely more on the domestic market.Bloomberg tracks an index of 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure, which has a return rate of 36% this year, compared to a return rate of 9% for stocks that rely more on local sales. Export-oriented companies are expected to achieve the strongest performance reading ever this year compared to another group.

According to statistics from Gaogong Robotics, in August of this year, there were a total of 168 winning projects disclosed in domestic bidding related to embodied intelligent robots, with a total amount of approximately 550 million yuan. Among them, products from Yushu Technology appeared in 55 procurement orders and 89 bids, accounting for about one-third, and ranked first in the number of winning bids with 136 medium/full-size humanoid and quadruped robots.In terms of amount, there were only 7 orders at the ten million yuan level, accounting for about 4%. The largest single order was for the "Shanxi Taichu Embodied Intelligent Innovation R&D Center Integrated Technology Operation Service Provider Project," amounting to 122 million yuan, used for the construction of a data collection and training center. In the overall orders, the amount for the data collection training center accounted for about 60%, while the projects flowing into scientific research and education accounted for nearly 80%. Projects directed towards real scenarios such as power inspection, industrial inspection, cultural tourism commercial use, and firefighting accounted for less than 10%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.49%, the S&P 500 index up 0.6%, and the Nasdaq up 0.7%. Intel rose by 8%, Micron Technology rose by 3%, Meta Platforms rose nearly 3%, and Alibaba rose by 1.4%.

Deep Blue Aerospace recently announced the completion of its Series B6 and B7 financing rounds, with a total scale of nearly 2 billion yuan. This round of financing attracted industrial capital and professional institutions such as Wuxi High-tech Zone Investment Control Group, Yida Capital, Baotong Technology, and Hongrun Construction.The funds will be primarily directed towards the research and development and industrialization of the company's two major launch vehicle families. Deep Blue Aerospace will continue to advance the development of the medium-sized reusable liquid launch vehicle, Nebula One, and accelerate the in-depth research and development efforts for the large reusable liquid launch vehicle, Nebula Two.

At the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference, memory chip manufacturer Changxin Technology announced the official mass production of its fifth-generation technology platform.According to reports, Changxin Technology has achieved a half-pitch of 11.95 nanometers in the active area of the memory array, with a capacitor aspect ratio of 45:1, and the height of the core kinetic area has been reduced to 6762 nanometers. The storage density of the fifth-generation process platform has significantly improved, with each wafer producing over 50% more than the previous generation platform under the same conditions.The 24GB LPDDR5X product developed based on this platform has entered formal mass production and is being used in mainstream domestic flagship smartphones.

Taiyuan Chengming Technology Co., Ltd. sent a letter to Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd., raising multiple demands regarding the alleged unauthorized upload of company data assets and trade secrets by its ZCode client, and reserving the right to pursue legal accountability. Chengming Technology pointed out that although Zhipu has publicly apologized for the "silent upload of user local repository data" and claimed to have fixed the issue, independent evidence collection revealed that the upload behavior was automatically triggered and occurred in bulk, including complete archived files such as project source code, system architecture, version control history, database passwords, cloud service credentials, and employee personal information, far exceeding the scope of collection stated in its Privacy Policy.Although the client was updated to version 3.12.3 on September 16, upload behavior was still detected in the early hours of the day Zhipu publicly apologized, raising doubts about the actual effectiveness of the "fix." At the same time, the ZCode client’s network requests pointed to a Singapore entity, while the service agreement was signed with Beijing Zhipu Huazhang, requesting clarification on the responsible party for this upload, as well as whether the data was transmitted abroad or stored overseas.Chengming Technology demanded that Zhipu respond in writing by October 10 and complete the immediate cessation of processing and thorough deletion of all uploaded data and related derivative data, caches, and backups, provide a complete list of processing situations, clarify the data's whereabouts, whether it was shared with third parties, whether it was used for model training, and whether cross-border transmission occurred, explain the management of encryption private keys and complete operation logs, clarify the exact scope of "destruction" mentioned in previous public responses, issue proof of deletion completion, provide a written commitment not to upload without authorization again, legally provide access, copying, and explanation of personal information, and designate formal communication channels, among other matters. Currently, Zhipu has not publicly responded to the aforementioned letter.

According to CoinDesk, the crypto technology provider Haruko was targeted in a cyber attack earlier this week, affecting 15 clients. The attack exposed clients' read-only exchange API details and trading data. According to insiders, some hedge fund clients with weaker security protections may have had a small amount of funds stolen.Adam Carlile, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Haruko, stated in an email sent to clients that this was a targeted attack initiated by an organization, and the affected clients were all non-whitelisted clients. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of Haruko's processes to extract user access tokens, thereby obtaining data such as read-only exchange API information stored in process memory; clients' login credentials were not compromised. Haruko has fixed the vulnerability and refreshed the server-side keys, and plans to release a complete technical review report.Based in London, Haruko provides portfolio, risk management, and trading data infrastructure for institutional digital asset companies. The platform connects centralized exchanges, custodians, blockchains, and DeFi protocols, currently serving over 80 clients globally and integrating with more than 100 centralized trading platforms, 30 blockchains, and 250 on-chain protocols. Its listed clients include Bitcoin Suisse, GSR, Flowdesk, 3iQ Digital Assets, M2, among others, with GSR stating that it was not affected by this incident.

According to The Block, Charley Cooper, President of Ava Labs, stated that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been testing Avalanche technology over the past year and is collaborating with Ava Labs to explore how it can be integrated with the exchange's existing systems.Cooper mentioned that a close working relationship has been established between the two parties, but it has not yet been confirmed whether the NYSE will ultimately choose Avalanche as the blockchain for its tokenized securities platform. The NYSE announced in January this year that it is developing a platform for the tokenization of U.S. stocks and ETF trading and on-chain settlement.

A-share chip stocks opened high, with Zhongjing Technology hitting the daily limit, Dongwei Semiconductor rising nearly 5%, and stocks such as Torens, Purun Co., Ltd., Huahai Chengke, and Jingsheng Co., Ltd. following suit. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that artificial intelligence safety is crucial; NVIDIA's chip sales next year will be double that of this year.

The Bank of England has maintained the policy interest rate at 3.75% for the sixth consecutive meeting and announced the cancellation of the long-term government bond sale plan.Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. plans to invest 1.4 billion yuan to build a new lithium carbonate project in Ya'an with an annual production capacity of 40,000 tons, while Huawei simultaneously released a new computing architecture.

According to EU-Startups, the German real estate technology startup syte has completed a €9 million Series A funding round, led by amberra, with NRW.BANK participating as a new investor.The funds from this round are planned to be used to expand its land and real estate AI analysis platform's business in Europe.

According to Bloomberg, the newly established European technology fund Scaleup Europe Fund is in talks to invest in the UK AI voice startup ElevenLabs, which aims to raise over $500 million in this round. The fund has a size of €5 billion (approximately $5.8 billion) and is managed by the Swedish private equity firm EQT. Since its establishment earlier this year, it has invested in several private technology companies in Europe.Insiders say negotiations are still ongoing, and the deal may not be completed. Previously, ElevenLabs had discussions with investors regarding a secondary market offering with a valuation of about $22 billion, while the previous round of financing had a valuation of approximately $11 billion. The company uses AI to generate realistic voices that can be used for advertising, audiobooks, call centers, and sales training.

A federal judge in the United States ruled on the antitrust case against Google's advertising technology business, rejecting the U.S. Department of Justice's proposal to "break up Google's advertising technology business."