South Korea's KOSPI index opened 2.79% lower, with SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics both falling around 3%.

Robinhood Chain’s token issuance platform Long.xyz announced that over the past 24 hours, the trading volume of LONG’s tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain has exceeded $425 million. Currently, the platform’s stock total value locked (TVL) stands at nearly $12 million, accounting for roughly 20% of the total stock TVL across the entire chain. Long.xyz, an emerging issuance platform on Robinhood Chain, allows users to issue meme tokens and pair them directly with tokenized stocks (such as NVDA, AAPL, and TSLA) instead of pairing with USDC or ETH, a mechanism designed to drive trading volume and liquidity to tokenized stocks.

Beating AI Express: OpenAI has officially confirmed that its upcoming model Astra has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold, becoming the first model rated at this level by OpenAI. When provided with appropriate tools and permissions, Astra can independently identify unknown vulnerabilities and develop attack methods without step-by-step human guidance, scoring 100% on ExploitBench. OpenAI conducted internal tests using 20 recently disclosed high-severity vulnerabilities, during which Astra also independently discovered and exploited two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. Expert tests showed Astra can break through browser sandboxes to execute commands on host machines, and attack hardened operating systems to escalate privileges from regular users to root. These results are from the Daybreak Blue version, which has advanced cybersecurity capabilities, not the default Astra version for regular users. During its initial launch phase, advanced capabilities will only be available to a small number of testers, and will later be opened to defenders via Daybreak Blue. Astra-related training, suspended due to a Hugging Face security incident, has resumed: OpenAI restarted the large-scale frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training suspended on August 28, though some experimental training remains suspended.

U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he is not attempting to force Iran back to the negotiating table, contrary to reports from ABC, which he labeled "fake news". He added that he does not care whether Iran signs a deal that is worthless to the country, noting he prefers the current situation: the U.S. has almost full control over the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran’s economy has completely collapsed. He claimed Iran is merely going through the inevitable outcome of this state of affairs.

According to EmberCN’s monitoring, over the past 9 hours, Multicoin Capital has transferred an additional 261,000 HYPE tokens to Coinbase Prime, valued at $21.7 million. At the end of July, Multicoin Capital redeemed 1.97 million HYPE tokens from staking; 1.551 million of these (worth $114 million) have been gradually transferred to Coinbase Prime over the past month, at an average price of $73.

Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield rose to 3% on September 1, its first such level since September 1996, hitting an intraday high of 3.005%. The 5-year yield touched a record high of 2.265%, while the 2-year yield climbed to a 31-year peak of 1.81%. The surge in yields is driven by three key pressures: the Middle East crisis lifting global inflation expectations, near-certain market bets that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates this month, and growing concerns about fiscal expansion under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The Japanese government had assumed a long-term interest rate of 3% in its fiscal 2026 budget to calculate debt servicing costs, and current yields have now officially breached this key threshold. Japan is not alone: amid ongoing U.S.-Iran tensions and high oil prices, global sovereign bond yields have hit multi-year highs, with yields on U.S., German, and French government bonds all rising to multi-year peaks recently. Japan’s debt burden exceeds 200% of its GDP, making it particularly vulnerable to rising borrowing costs. Ryutaro Kimura, senior fixed income strategist at BNP Asset Management, noted that the bond market has to some extent issued a warning about fiscal expansion. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama declined to comment on yields approaching 3%. Since taking office last October, Prime Minister Takaichi has pursued an investment-led growth strategy centered on semiconductors and AI, with markets concerned this will further worsen the already fragile fiscal situation.

Beating AI Insight News: According to a report by Wall Street Journal reporter Erin Woo citing internal employee sources, Google’s AI research division will launch the new Gemini 3.8 Flash model, which features significantly enhanced coding capabilities. The model’s internal codename is "Skimaki", and it could go live as early as Wednesday (September 2). In comparative tests against Google’s internal coding tool Jetski, the company’s engineers prefer the new model over Anthropic’s Opus.