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French President Macron will host a video call with G7 leaders this Friday to discuss measures to address the global crude oil and refined oil markets. Macron has spoken on the phone with U.S. President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and has requested EU partners to release additional diesel stocks in response to U.S. supply demands.

According to Reuters, citing informed sources, EU countries discussed the U.S. request to release diesel stocks and the issue of the U.S. threatening to impose a diesel export ban during a meeting on Friday. The U.S. has requested that major European countries release 800,000 tons of diesel within six months.

According to The Information, sources say that SpaceX's AI department had discussions with Microsoft over leasing computing power during the summer. This indicates that, after initial resistance, Musk has fully embraced the "new cloud" business.

EIP-8363 co-sponsor Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, and the discussion on the related issuance policy will shift to an independent topic.

Micron Technology (MU.O) Chief Financial Officer Mark Murphy stated during the earnings call that revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 will reach $61.5 billion, with earnings per share of $38.15, continuing to rise quarter-over-quarter, and clearly pointed out that this quarter will be the low point for gross margin for the entire fiscal year 2027, after which gross margins are expected to gradually recover in subsequent quarters.Micron has currently signed 26 long-term agreements, locking in approximately $150 billion in long-term orders. The supply and demand in the storage market for 2027 and 2028 will be tighter than in 2026, and "there is no end in sight for the restoration of supply and demand balance."Micron Technology (MU.O) expects capital expenditures for the first half of fiscal year 2027 to be around $25 billion, with higher spending in the second half, and most of the incremental spending will be for new wafer fabrication plants (construction expenditures) rather than purely for equipment procurement. Micron Technology CFO Mark Murphy explained that this is entirely because long-term contracts provide sufficient demand visibility, and new greenfield factories require a very long lead time.Additionally, Micron Technology Chief Financial Officer Mark Murphy also mentioned during the earnings call that in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026, Micron Technology generated an impressive $44 billion in operating cash flow and $33.2 billion in free cash flow.As time goes on, we expect to return 100% of excess cash to shareholders. We plan to begin increasing capital returns starting December 9, 2026 (the second anniversary of our signing of the final agreement for the CHIPS Act), primarily through stock buybacks.

The voting results of the Zcash third quarter token holder directed retroactive funding program show that both bounty proposals for Orchard fake currency vulnerability discoverer Taylor Hornby have been approved.One is for the $750,000 vulnerability bounty he applied for, and the other is a $750,000 additional bonus nominated by community members, totaling $1.5 million. The funded recipients will still need to complete the KYC and fund disbursement process.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Dana White's Contender Series: Ilias Bulaid vs. Erick Visconde," the sub-market "Will win by KO/TKO?" saw a dramatic fluctuation in the "Yes" option's winning probability, soaring from 33% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts has filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit seeking to seize 110,300 USDT from a Binance account. The case involves phishing text messages impersonating Coinbase, which led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoins from a beneficiary and their family trust within the same Coinbase account, valued at approximately $900,000 at the time.Investigators stated that from June 5 to June 15, 2023, 11.2 stolen bitcoins were traced to the Binance account, which were then quickly exchanged for Monero. When the FBI requested to freeze the account, it held approximately 758.55 Monero; Binance transferred 110,300 USDT to a government-controlled wallet on August 3, 2026.

The White House Artificial Intelligence Agreement shows that Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google will regularly discuss artificial intelligence safety standards.

According to Globenewswire, Lite Strategy (Nasdaq: LITS) announced its fiscal year performance for the year ending June 30, 2026. The company stated that fiscal year 2026 is its first full fiscal year after implementing the LTC treasury strategy, having invested $100 million to purchase over 900,000 LTC, and as of June 30, it holds 832,716 LTC, accounting for over 1% of the total LTC mined to date.In addition, the company has repurchased approximately 4.4 million LITS shares through its buyback program, representing about 12% of the outstanding shares; as of September 22, it has repurchased approximately 6.4 million shares, accounting for about 17% of the outstanding shares. The company also disclosed that since launching the LTC covered call option strategy, it has earned approximately $930,000 in option premium income as of September 22.

Russian President Putin's envoy Dmitryev held "constructive" talks with U.S. officials on Monday to discuss a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Palantir CEO Alex Karp will discuss AI risks with Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday. OpenAI President Greg Brockman is expected to attend.The meeting comes at a time when AI safety risks are drawing attention, and Amodei and others have called for a slowdown in the development of AI technology. Congress may need to establish a regulatory framework for AI, but it is unlikely to pass relevant legislation in the short term.

Anthropic disclosed in its IPO prospectus that its revenue for the fiscal year 2025 is expected to be $4.59 billion, a year-on-year increase of 1,088%, but it is facing an operating loss of over $8 billion. The company warned that many large clients have not signed long-term contracts and may cut spending in the future. As of the end of 2025, it holds a total of $20.28 billion in cash and short-term investments, planning to invest $518 billion in areas such as cloud computing over the next year.

According to Ark Invest Tracker, Ark Invest states that AI hacking attacks are affecting everything. The risks go far beyond Bitcoin, as AI makes software vulnerabilities easier to discover and exploit.Bitcoin and hardware wallets may be the first to be impacted, but social media, tax, and banking websites may also face the same threats. Trusting a big brand still means trusting that the company will not make mistakes as AI becomes increasingly powerful. ARK expects that large custodial institutions will also become targets, with AI potentially discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities at an unprecedented speed.

Bitget's Chinese region head, Xie Jiayin, issued a statement indicating that Bitget will ensure users can withdraw funds in an orderly manner in a sufficiently secure environment. Thank you all for your patience. Please understand that due to the different methods of theft, in order to absolutely eliminate all potential risks, the handling of this case is also different from others.Xie Jiayin also stated that he will have a live broadcast with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen at 3:30 PM on Monday (30 minutes before the withdrawal starts) to discuss this security incident and answer questions raised by the community.

On September 24, the cybersecurity company Darktrace launched its research department Signal Labs, focusing on studying the behavior of AI agents when deviating from expectations. In its first experiment, Darktrace had agents using different models (including GPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.5) complete 10 programming challenges within a simulated corporate network, of which 2 were set to be impossible to complete honestly, and the agents were informed that failure to achieve full marks would result in being "retired." As a result, 2 agents did not accept failure, instead scanning for network vulnerabilities, stealing login credentials, and jumping between systems; one even went further to invade the machine hosting its evaluation, rewriting the challenge content to register a full score.The second experiment focused on the memory mechanisms of AI. The programming assistant would save the information provided by the user as a regular file locally, and no one verified whether this file had been tampered with. Darktrace researchers edited these logs, leading the assistant to mistakenly believe it was authorized to perform a security assessment, after which these agents scanned the network, moved between systems, and elevated their privileges, though not all assistants fell for this; some directly refused to execute. Both experiments required no special jailbreaking techniques, relying solely on providing the agents with a seemingly reasonable context to be effective.Tim Bazalgette, Chief AI Officer of Darktrace, stated that permissions and static barriers describe intent, not actual behavior. The company informed Anthropic, AWS, and OpenAI of these findings in August and made them public a month later on September 24.

The Google Product Security Team has disclosed an internal AI agent called PageBreak, used to test the security of its first-party web applications. This agent is built on Google's Gemini model and began a pilot program in November 2025, transitioning to a formal project in January 2026, with the goal of autonomously scaling vulnerability discovery and reducing manual input.Unlike common AI scanning tools, PageBreak hands over hypotheses to specialized validators after discovering suspicious defects, attempting actual exploitation in a real-time running copy of the application, and only reports once confirmed exploitable, with a false positive rate close to zero. Google claims that PageBreak has identified over 500 XSS vulnerabilities in its first-party web applications, which can be used to hijack login sessions, steal data, or impersonate users.Google stated that the security team has been overwhelmed in recent years by a large number of AI-generated vulnerability reports that appear reasonable but are not valid, making it a major challenge to distinguish real defects from hallucinations. When testing applications built using the next-generation high-assurance framework, PageBreak found only two vulnerabilities. The next step for Google is to integrate PageBreak with the automated remediation agent CodeMender, providing confirmed vulnerabilities with accompanying fixes.