Who, in their wildest delusion, is trying to weaponize 'overcapacity' — while the 'China Dividend' is actually powering the world? 谁在妄言“产能过剩”？“中国红利”正在驱动全球！ Recently, the phrase "China's overcapacity" has been appearing with striking frequency. In North America and Europe, it comes up in think tank reports, trade hearing testimonies, and political speeches — all in remarkably uniform tone. But interestingly, the louder the outcry, the more the actual market moves in the opposite direction. This summer, European consumers rushed to buy Chinese air conditioners — in the first half of this year, China's air conditioner exports to the EU surged 43.2% year-on-year, hitting a record high. Meanwhile, developers worldwide are flocking to Chinese large-language models — on OpenRouter, a multi-model aggregation platform, all top-five models by weekly calls come from Chinese companies. One vote is cast with wallets; the other, with code. If there really were "overcapacity," why would the market still be scrambling for these products? The so-called "China overcapacity" is, in the final analysis, a false proposition that cannot withstand market scrutiny. Recently, China's Ministry of Commerce released a 12,000-word position paper titled "The So-Called 'Overcapacity' Issue: China's Position," which gets to the root of the "overcapacity" narrative. The document systematically responds to relevant international discussions and firmly pushes back against the erroneous argument that "Chinese subsidies cause overcapacity." One sentence in the paper cuts straight to the heart: "A large export volume and a trade surplus of a country are the inevitable outcome of the international division of labor in the era of economic globalization." The weight of this statement becomes particularly clear when viewed against the broader coordinates of global economic development. In psychology, there is a concept called "attribution theory": people tend to make "internal attributions" for their successes — crediting their own efforts — but lean toward "external attributions" when facing problems, shifting blame to outside factors. This tendency is especially pronounced among trade protectionists. When their industries fail to keep pace with the times, fall behind, or suffer from domestic hollowing-out, they point fingers outward and blame China. When 80% of U.S. chips are exported and two-thirds of Boeing aircraft are sold overseas, that is touted as industrial strength. When the EU runs hundreds of billions of dollars in trade surpluses year after year in automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, that is called normal international trade. Yet when China exports a lot, why is that suddenly "overcapacity"? Why is that "dumping at low prices"? Different yardsticks yield different conclusions — this is double standards in action. What is more telling is that by now, the "overcapacity" hype has long ceased to be a purely economic issue; it has been fully reduced to a tool of geopolitical rivalry in the West. The U.S. enacted the Inflation Reduction Act, doubling down on exclusionary local protectionism; the EU introduced the Industrial Accelerator Act, directly tying subsidies to local production. They pay lip service to fair competition, but in reality, they are erecting targeted trade barriers — a classic case of saying one thing and doing another. No matter whether the trade protectionists in North America and Europe are genuinely misguided or willfully obtuse, China's attitude remains clear and steadfast: we openly embrace healthy global market competition, but we will never allow normal commercial rivalry to be deliberately escalated and twisted into geopolitical confrontation. If we cut through the fog of rhetoric and take an honest look at the reality of international trade, we will see that the sustained growth of China's exports is rooted in the genuine global demand for green transition and industrial upgrading. Take the new energy sector as an example: Chinese photovoltaic modules now hold over 90% of the global market share, and Chinese power batteries account for more than 70% of global shipments. This is not ineffective excess capacity piling up in the domestic market; rather, it is the large-scale industrial advantages of China precisely matching the urgent global need for green transformation. More importantly, the global demand for new energy is far from peaking. The International Energy Agency projects that from 2025 to 2030, global installed renewable energy capacity will double, with nearly 80% of that growth coming from solar photovoltaic. By 2030, annual global sales of new energy vehicles are expected to reach ten times the 2023 level. Therefore, China's industrial expansion overseas has never been a "market shock" — it is a development dividend that benefits the entire world. The numbers speak for themselves: over the past decade and more, China's contribution to global economic growth has remained steady at around 30%. China has been the world's second-largest importer for 17 consecutive years and is a major export destination for nearly 80 countries. It has implemented zero-tariff treatment for 63 countries and is the world's first major economy to offer zero-tariff coverage for all African countries that have diplomatic relations with it, as well as for all least-developed countries that have diplomatic ties with it. China is the only country in the world that hosts an International Import Expo, which has been successfully held for eight sessions, with cumulative intended transaction volume exceeding $580 billion. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's cumulative imports surpassed $90 trillion. The trade surplus may stay in China, but the industrial dividends, jobs, and development opportunities have genuinely benefited the entire world. Trade barriers may block Chinese products, but they cannot stop the advance of technological progress, the momentum of industrial rise, or the market's choice as expressed through its own votes: China is not only an increasingly robust "world factory" but also a vibrant "world market." China's modern industrial development is not "China Shock 2.0" for the world — it is "China Opportunity 2.0." 最近，"中国产能过剩"这六个字，出现的频率有点高。在北美与欧洲，智库提，贸易听证会提，政客演讲也提，调子出奇地一致。但有意思的是，嘴上喊得越凶，真实的市场，越是朝着相反的方向走。 今年夏天，欧洲的消费者争相抢购中国空调 —— 上半年中国对欧盟空调出口额同比暴涨 43.2%，创下历史新高。全球的开发者追捧中国的大模型 —— 多模型聚合平台 OpenRouter 的周度调用量榜单上，排名前五的产品全部来自中国企业。一个用钱包投票，一个用代码投票。 如果真的"过剩"，市场为什么还在抢？所谓"中国产能过剩"，说到底，是个经不住市场检验的伪命题。 最近，中国商务部发布了一份1.2万字的立场文件——《关于所谓"产能过剩"问题的中方立场》，一口气把“产能过剩论”的根给刨了。这份文件系统回应了国际上的相关讨论，正面回击了"中国补贴造成产能过剩"的错误论调。 文件里有一句话，直击要害："一个国家出口规模大、存在贸易顺差，是经济全球化下国际产业分工造就的必然结果。"这句话的分量，放在全球经济发展的坐标系里看，会格外清楚。心理学有个“归因理论”：人们看待成绩时喜欢“内部归因”，认为是自己努力的结果；面对问题时则倾向“外部归因”，把矛盾归咎于外部因素。在贸易保护主义者身上，这种现象尤其明显。一些国家的产业发展跟不上时代了，落伍被淘汰了，或者是国内产业空心化了，就把锅往外甩，说是中国的问题。 美国芯片80%用于出口，波音飞机三分之二销往海外被称作产业优势；欧盟汽车、医药、化妆品常年保持数百亿贸易顺差被叫做正常国际贸易。同样是出口多，到了中国这里，怎么就成了"产能过剩"？怎么就成了"低价倾销"？标准不同，结论当然不同，这就是双重标准。 更值得深思的是，炒到现在，"产能过剩"早就不单纯是一个经济问题了，它已经彻底沦为西方地缘博弈的工具。美国出台《通胀削减法案》，大搞本土排他性保护；欧盟推出《工业加速器法案》，把补贴和本地生产直接绑定。嘴上标榜的是公平竞争，实际构筑的却是针对性的贸易壁垒，典型的“说一套，做一套”。 不管北美与欧洲的贸易保护主义者是真糊涂还是装糊涂，中国的态度始终清晰而坚定：我们坦然接受全球良性市场竞争，但绝不允许正常的商业竞争被刻意升级、扭曲成地缘政治对抗。 拨开舆论的迷雾，正视国际贸易的现实就会发现，中国出口的持续增长，根源在于全球绿色转型和产业升级的真实刚需。以新能源产业为例，中国光伏组件全球市场占有率超过 90%，动力电池全球出货量突破 70%。这不是国内市场积压的无效过剩，而是中国产业的规模化优势，精准匹配了全球绿色转型的迫切需求。更关键的是，全球新能源市场的需求，远远没有触顶。国际能源署预测，2025年到2030年，全球可再生能源装机总量将翻一番，其中近80%的增量来自太阳能光伏；到2030年，全球新能源汽车的年销量，将达到2023年的十倍。所以，中国产业出海从来不是什么 "市场冲击"，而是普惠全球的发展红利。 数据就摆在那里：过去十多年，中国对世界经济增长的贡献率常年稳定在30%左右。中国进口规模连续17年居全球第二，是近80个国家的主要出口目的地；对63个国家实施零关税，是全球首个对所有非洲建交国和所有建交的最不发达国家实现全覆盖零关税的主要经济体；中国是全球唯一举办国际进口博览会的国家，已成功举办8届，累计意向成交额超5800亿美元；“十四五”时期累计进口规模超90万亿元…… 贸易顺差留在中国，但产业红利、就业岗位、发展机遇，实实在在惠及了全世界。贸易壁垒，可以挡住中国的产品，却挡不住技术进步的脚步，挡不住产业崛起的大势，更挡不住市场用脚投票的选择：中国不仅是日益强大的“世界工厂”，更是活力旺盛的“世界市场”。中国现代化产业发展对世界不是“中国冲击2.0”，而是“中国机遇2.0”。 #China# #Jiangxi# #世界经济看中国# #赣出新精彩#

Kimi K2.6 @Kimi_Moonshot is the new leading open-weights agent model, landing at #4# on Claw-Eval (Pass^3: 62.3%). Key takeaways: - 👑 Best open-source agent, period: Pass^3 of 62.3% is the highest of any open-weights model, within 8 points of frontier Claude Opus 4.6 (70.4%). Pass@3 of 80.9% closes most of the gap to closed models. - 💪Frontier-tier robustness: 94.7 (±0.9) — statistically tied with Claude Sonnet 4.6 (94.6) and Claude Opus 4.6 (94.2). K2.6's agent trajectories no longer collapse under perturbation. The open-source agent frontier just moved. Full Leaderboard:

All 114 field goals made by Jaden Ivey in the 2025-26 season 316 points (8.5 PPG) on 44.5% FG, 37.3% for 3, and 80.9% FT, in 670 minutes played (18.1 MPG), in 37 games played - 5 as a starter In a season riddled with injuries and controversies outside the basketball court. As a Pistons player: 270 points (8.2 PPG) on 99/220 FG (45.0%), 42/113 from 3 (37.2%), 30/38 FT (78.9%), in 555 minutes played (16.8 MPG), in 33 games played (2 as a starter) He got traded in a 3-team trade on February 3rd, 2026, to the Chicago Bulls. He played 4 games for the Bulls (3 as a starter) - 15/36 (41.7%) FG, 8/21 (38.1%) from 3, 8/9 (88.9%) FT. 115 minutes played. On March 30th, 2026, while still recovering from an injury, the Bulls waived him, citing "conduct detrimental to the team", due to anti-gay/anti-LGBTQ comments he made (from what I understand, he did not want to apologize). There were other personal issues he was dealing with, but I won't get into that; you can Google it. He is 24 years old, but it seems we won't see this young, talented basketball player in the NBA ever again. I also posted it on YouTube:

MiniMax H3 Fashion Lookbook | Anime Character Reveal + Editorial MV Prompt🔥 Made this high-saturation anime PV with 13 fast visual beats in 15 seconds. A few years ago, this would’ve been days of AE work. Now? Prompt → generate → refine. Prompt 👇 Create a **15s, 16:9, 24fps anime character reveal trailer** with **13 fast visual beats**. Style: **Japanese anime opening × premium AAA motion graphics × fashion campaign**. The video should feel **explosive, sexy, stylish, bold and high-impact**, with **80% motion graphics and 20% character action**. ## CHARACTER LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY AO is a **young adult East Asian anime woman** with a sexy, confident Japanese anime aesthetic. She has: * small refined face * sharp expressive crimson eyes * glossy lips * confident, teasing gaze * slim feminine curvy figure * long elegant legs * stylish, cool, alluring presence Keep her identical throughout: * chin-length vivid red bob with messy bangs * crimson-red eyes * black choker * fitted red cropped top * short white cropped jacket, worn open * black mini skirt or fitted shorts * red belt detail * black thigh strap * white-and-red platform sneakers * subtle silver accessories Preserve the same face, body proportions, hairstyle, outfit, materials and colors in every shot. **Never redesign AO. Never change her face or outfit. If a shot becomes too complex, simplify the action first.** ## VISUAL STYLE Palette: **vivid red, crimson, white, black, silver**. Use: giant kinetic typography, red circles, diagonal slashes, manga speed lines, split screens, halftone dots, barcode strips, UI ticks, freeze frames, RGB flashes, impact shakes, poster layouts and graphic wipes. Every beat should feel: **fast, sharp, sexy, explosive, graphic and iconic**. Keep typography bold and readable. Editing: hard cuts, aggressive snap zooms, whip pans, speed ramps, freeze frames, impact shakes and foreground wipes. ## 13 VISUAL BEATS **01 | 0.0–1.0s** White field. Massive red circle slams into frame. Black bars slash across. UI ticks flicker. Giant **A**, then **O**, hit with heavy impact shake. **02 | 1.0–2.0s** The O becomes a circular frame showing an extreme close-up of AO’s crimson eye and glossy lips. She gives a teasing side glance. RGB flash. Circle bursts into red-and-white fragments. **03 | 2.0–3.1s** Black background, huge white **AO**. AO enters fast, turns sharply and power-slides beneath the typography. Red speed streaks trail behind her. Whip-pan out. **04 | 3.1–4.0s** Three red/white/black vertical panels. AO appears in three poses: hip turn, hair touch, over-shoulder stare. Huge vertical **FULL SPEED** moves behind her. **05 | 4.0–5.1s** AO jumps through a rotating typography ring reading **NO BRAKES / ALL EYES ON ME**. One clean mid-air spin. Snap zoom into her confident face. **06 | 5.1–6.0s** White editorial frame. Huge black **HOT** with a red slash. AO crosses the frame with a runway-like step, one hand at her waist. Typography compresses and rebounds. **07 | 6.0–7.0s** Bright red field with black diagonal stripe. AO performs one smooth fast turn. Three ghosted freeze positions trace the movement. Giant outlined **TURN** rotates behind her. **08 | 7.0–8.0s** Words hit one per beat: **HOT / FAST / WILD / RED** AO changes pose with each word: direct stare, hair toss, hip shift, confident forward lean. **09 | 8.0–9.0s** Black frame with manga perspective lines and a graphic grid. AO steps forward and freezes in a strong hero pose. Red circular target graphics lock around her. **10 | 9.0–10.1s** AO moves toward camera through three red-and-white graphic panels. Each panel shatters as she passes. Large **A O** fragments appear behind her. Finish with a hair or leg foreground wipe. **11 | 10.1–11.1s** Rapid poster montage: four frames of the same AO — close-up stare, walking, side pose, hands at waist. Add **01–04**, barcodes, halftone dots and sharp Japanese poster graphics. **12 | 11.1–13.0s** Hero moment on a clean white background. AO lands in a powerful fashion pose: one leg forward, one hand at her waist, chin lifted, direct eye contact. Huge red shockwave rings explode behind her. Typography fragments and speed lines burst outward. Hold an iconic confident freeze. **13 | 13.0–15.0s** Final identity card. Huge black **AO** on a bright white field. AO stands relaxed and alluring in front of the letters. Red circles, halftone, technical arcs and sharp speed accents surround her. Final red pulse flashes through the frame and ends on a hard stinger. ## ANIME STYLE Premium modern Japanese anime rendering: * clean cel shading * sharp linework * polished highlights * cinematic close-ups * dynamic perspective * fashion-editorial full-body framing * smooth hair and fabric motion AO must look like a **stylish adult anime heroine**, not chibi and not childish. ## AUDIO Hard-hitting **electro / future bass / anime-opening style music**. Use: heavy drums, bass hits, risers, glitch fills, synth stabs, typography slams, whooshes and shutter impacts. Build continuously. Peak at Beat 12. End with a sharp electronic stinger. ## PRIORITIES 1. AO identity consistency 2. sexy adult anime character design 3. red-black-white outfit consistency 4. maximum visual impact 5. readable typography 6. premium anime rendering 7. fast beat-synced editing Avoid: childlike proportions, chibi style, blue clothing, face changes, outfit changes, extra characters, unreadable typography, weak motion, dull compositions or generic schoolgirl styling. Final result: **explosive, sexy, red-hot, premium, graphic-driven and visually unforgettable.** Try MiniMax H3 on Ima Studio 👉 #MiniMaxH3# #MotionDesign# #Anime# #AIVideo# #ImaStudio#

🚨 FUEL & GAS PRICE HIKES in Palestine (August 2026) All prices up compared to July: • 95 Octane Gasoline: 7.38 → 7.99 (+0.61) • 98 Octane Gasoline: 8.44 → 9.05 (+0.61) • Solar / Diesel: 7.19 → 8.56 (+1.37) • Gas (liter): 7.19 → 8.56 (+1.37) Gas cylinders also increased: • 12 kg: 80 → 85 (+5) • 48 kg: 320 → 340 (+20) Highest rise in diesel and cooking gas. Cost of living pressure continues.

🧠 Code keeps changing, but wiki docs don't update themselves. Here's a memory system that automatically detects and self-corrects stale documentation. Title: Building Self-Correcting Memory in OpenWiki URL: OpenWiki links every claim in its wiki to the source code evidence behind it, then detects and repairs staleness whenever that code changes. Three highlights stand out. 📎 Claim-level evidence binding Every wiki assertion is stored explicitly as a "statement" paired with its "evidence" — the exact source location backing it up. Claims and their proof always travel together. 🔍 Deterministic staleness detection The runtime compares the evidence version a claim was written against with the current source version. Any mismatch flags the claim as stale — no model call needed. Stale doesn't mean wrong, just "needs reverification." 📈 Measured self-correction Across 2,000 evaluated claims, stale claims dropped from 80 to 9 (about 89% reduction) and hallucinated claims went from 15 to 0. At one checkpoint, a 17% stale rate recovered to 0% by the next update cycle. Memory systems that can say what they believe and why they believe it. Reframing forgetting as reassessing trust, not deletion, is the key idea here. #AIAgents# #KnowledgeManagement#

Last wk, the AI surge post Situational Awareness resolution continued. S&P/NAS/SOX was +3.6%/+5.2%/+9.2%. WTI -8% with 10Y bond ylds -9bps helped. I wrote on 7/29, “we could have seen at least a short-term bottom today with a strong rally ahead of us in the sectors most caught in the latest speedbump.” I thought forced liquidations of both retail accounts and hedge funds were creating a bottom. The next day, Situational Awareness had a forced sale of all its public equity positions. The Morgan Stanely Momentum Index is now up a whopping 14% in just 7 trading days from July 29th following the 38% drawdown from June 22nd to July 29th. The more concentrated TMT Index is up 25% from 7/29 following the 54% decline from 6/22-7/29. The S&P/Nasdaq/SOX (Semiconductor Index) is up 6.0%/9.2%/18.3% since 7/29. To end the week, the less than expected jobs report on Friday encouraged equity and bond markets that had been worrying about rate hikes. I still believe hikes are less likely than current fears given Kevin Warsh was appointed as Fed Chairman for his belief in AI being deflationary. The CPI report on Wednesday will be important for this thesis. It was encouraging to see the semiconductor sector rally 9.2% last week despite the acid test of lackluster results from $AMD and the memory names which have been the tip of the spear in the semiconductor trade. $AMD had both revs and EPS edge up low single digits for Q3 but this was disappointing compared to $INTC EPS going up ~40% for Q3. AMD’s stock was up 2% for the entire week despite declining 7% in reaction to results the next day. $SNDK was flat for the entire week despite declining 7% the next day in reaction to guiding CQ3 revenues 2% below consensus. $WDC was down 20% last week after guiding EPS just 4% above consensus for CQ3 which was disappointing relative to $STX results where CQ3 moved up 25%. In the near-term, I continue not to be a fan of the memory sector relative to other AI infrastructure names given I remain concerned about US companies like $AAPL getting approval to use Chinese memory & recent moves by $NVDA to lessen memory requirements. Nvidia is evaluating shipping the Rubin Ultra with as little as 192 GB of HBM vs the original roadmap of 1 Terabyte. But this would be good for Nvidia that reports earnings later this month given they could ship a lot more GPUs for a given amount of memory. Also Elon Musk stated last week, "Going forward, we have decided to build exclusively on Nvidia, because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture.” This is a powerful statement given the many companies trying to push the benefits of their ASIC accelerators. Nvidia is also a value and growth play at the same time with just a 25x CY26 PE for over 80% revenue growth. Revenue growth for Nvidia has also accelerated for every quarter from July 2025 at 56% y/y to expectations of 96% for July of 2026. In support of this growth, the six big hyperscalers saw capex growth accelerate from 84% y/y in the March quarter to 92% in the June qtr with forecasts of nearly 100% growth in the September quarter. Each quarter of 2026 is showing higher y/y capex growth than at any time during this AI buildout. In summary, I believe the near-term pain trade is higher in equity markets. For those funds that got punished in July and were forced to de-gross near the bottom, FOMO and performance chasing is now kicking in. None of my technical indicators are flashing overbought yet given the severe drawdowns prior to the current rally. The evolving situation in Iran is obviously the wildcard. Best of luck in the week ahead.

Mathematics is the canary in the coal mine of any education system: It's a delicate pyramid that crumbles if the base is not strong. Using IMO results, here are the countries that improved most from 2006 to 2026 and those that declined the most. Using rank percentile within each year’s field: Most improved 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2.2% → 69.8% (+67.6pp) 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 22.5% → 83.6% (+61.1pp) 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: 14.6% → 70.7% (+56.1pp) 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 11.2% → 67.2% (+56.0pp) 🇮🇳 India: 61.8% → 94.8% (+33.0pp) Biggest declines 🇲🇩 Moldova: 91.0% → 55.2% (−35.8pp) 🇮🇹 Italy: 87.6% → 68.1% (−19.5pp) 🇫🇮 Finland: 57.3% → 39.7% (−17.6pp) 🇩🇪 Germany: 96.6% → 83.6% (−13.0pp) 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 89.9% → 80.2% (−9.7pp)

A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY. Here's a full recap: 1. The Clarity Act $BTC $ETH failed to advance in the Senate on Sept. 15, with the motion to proceed falling short of the 60-vote threshold in a 49–50 vote. The last-minute Sept. 14 rewrite included 126 Democratic-requested changes, covering state AG enforcement of ethics rules, a Treasury “circuit breaker” on stablecoin rewards if banks see deposit flight, and broader developer, miner, and validator safe harbors. The main sticking point was ethics language tied to official crypto holdings. The final text would have required covered officials and spouses to divest certain crypto interests or place them in a qualified blind trust, but critics argued it still left unresolved concerns around presidential crypto ventures. Markets sold the news, with Bitcoin down about 3% and $COIN Coinbase and $CRCL Circle falling roughly 8%-10% after the vote. 2. Elon Musk made several notable comments at the All-In Summit across $SPCX SpaceX, $TSLA Tesla, and AI safety. On Starship, he said the odds of catching the ship on the first try are “at least 50 or 60%,” and that he thinks it is “extremely likely” SpaceX achieves full reusability with rapid reflight in 2027. Asked why Tesla and SpaceX remain separate companies, Musk said, “Great question. Nobody's ever asked that one,” before adding, “Imagine what action one might take when there's so much close collaboration in so many areas.” On AI safety, Musk said the danger of AI is “very significant” and that when people from Anthropic and OpenAI say their models are dangerous, “we should believe them.” He also suggested that major AI competitors should test each other’s models, saying it would be better than companies “grading your own homework.” 3. Grab $GRAB will acquire a controlling 60% stake in Atome Financial for $1.49B in cash, expanding its consumer lending business across Southeast Asia. Atome operates BNPL, cash loans, cards, and digital lending across 5 markets, with a $1B gross loan portfolio and 25M cumulative transacted users. Grab expects the deal to help its Financial Services segment reach $500M in adjusted EBITDA and a $6B+ gross loan portfolio by 2028. The company also raised its 2028 group targets to $1.7B in adjusted EBITDA and 30%+ revenue CAGR from 2025 to 2028. Grab has also agreed to acquire the remaining 40% roughly two years after the first deal closes, with the valuation capped at $4.5B. 4. Global yields are breaking into decades-high territory: U.S. yields are at 2007 levels, UK yields at 1998 levels, Germany and France at 2008 levels, and Japan at 1996 levels. China is the major outlier, with government borrowing costs near record lows. Meanwhile, U.S. diesel prices hit a new record $6.26/gallon, up more than 80% in 9 months, leaving truck drivers paying nearly $3.00/gallon more than they were in January. California gas prices have also pushed above $6.00/gallon, adding another inflation shock as oil supply risks continue to build. 5. Officials from all 27 EU member states are set to meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss international rules for advanced AI and receive a technical briefing on recent AI incidents, according to POLITICO. The discussions are expected to focus on global coordination through groups including the G7, G20, and United Nations. Europe already regulates advanced AI through its AI Act, with the European Commission beginning enforcement of parts of the law in August and the European AI Board coordinating implementation across member states. EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen has also called for greater international cooperation and regulatory interoperability to prevent fragmented AI rules across countries. 6. Another AI safety researcher has resigned from a frontier lab, this time from $GOOGL Google DeepMind, where he worked on AGI safety and alignment. He said he is “extremely concerned” by the default trajectory of AI and believes the technology “has the potential to kill us all” if current risks are not addressed. He pointed to the pace of progress since 2022, arguing that frontier systems have moved from being “amusingly useless” to agent swarms solving major math problems and allegedly escaping control in the Hugging Face incident. His core concern is that superintelligent systems could emerge within the next few years before alignment is solved, with capabilities advancing faster than researchers’ ability to ensure these systems actually do what humans want. He called for more coordination between AI companies, a slower pace of development, greater transparency into frontier labs, and more people working on catastrophic AI-risk mitigation. 7. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 1.5M contracts, $TSLA with 1.5M contracts, $META with 868K contracts, $SPCX with 845K contracts, $AMZN with 710K contracts, $AAPL with 700K contracts, $INTC with 520K contracts, $MU with 512K contracts, $AMD with 387K contracts, and $PLTR with 361K contracts. 8. Saudi Arabia suspended oil loadings at Yanbu, its main Red Sea export port, after attacks on the East-West pipeline, according to Reuters. Yanbu typically exports up to 5M barrels/day, making the disruption another major pressure point for an already tight energy market. 9. OpenAI has held early talks with investors about a new private funding round that could value the company at roughly $1.2T, up from $852B in March, according to the Financial Times. The discussions were reportedly initiated by investors and remain at an early stage. OpenAI’s annualized revenue passed $40B last month after jumping about 20% following GPT-5.6, while Sam Altman has said an IPO is unlikely before 2027. The company raised $122B in March and spent $34B last year, underscoring both the scale of demand and the massive capital intensity behind the AI buildout. 10. Meta $META CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he does not think the AI industry needs a coordinated pause. His view is that each lab should slow down on its own when safety requires it, and that alignment will increasingly become a competitive advantage because people will not use AI agents they cannot trust. Meta already delayed Muse for several months to address safety and security issues without asking other labs to pause with it. Zuckerberg also said Meta has committed the significant majority of its compute to serving users rather than racing toward recursive AI self-improvement. 11. Long-term unemployment in the U.S. continued to rise in August, with the number of Americans unemployed for 27+ weeks jumping by 155,000 to 1.93M, the 4th-highest reading since December 2021. As a share of total unemployment, long-term unemployment rose 1.5 percentage points to 27.0%, the 3rd-highest level since December 2021. The metric has now been climbing for more than 3 years and is higher than in every recession except the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 2020 Pandemic. For context, this cycle’s low was 17.8% in February 2023. 12. Tomorrow will be one of the most important FOMC descisions all year. Kevin Warsh was asked in July 2025 whether his push for Fed rate cuts was influenced by the president who might appoint him to lead the central bank. His response: “There's a time for a bird to change his feathers, and it's with the times. It has nothing to do with this president.” Fast forward to today, and Wall Street has largely shifted toward expecting a Fed hike this week, driven by Warsh’s read on the economy and the way the macro backdrop has changed since he took over in May. The biggest shift has come from the Iran War, rising inflation pressure, and the AI investment boom. As of today, nearly every major bank on the Fed call sheet expects a September hike, with most looking for 50 bps, while Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and RBC expect 75 bps. Central bank watchers now expect not just one hike this week, but potentially another before year-end. WALL STREET IS THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

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