US September unadjusted CPI year-on-year rate hits 3.7%, against expectations of 3.6% and a prior reading of 3.40%

Markets are fully pricing in two more interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve by the end of January next year.

Beating AI Express reports that Tencent was testing the web search capability of a batch of AI Agents, only for external security researchers to spot their abnormal behavior. The Agents’ task was straightforward: query public information on Amap, such as which entrance of Chengdu Zoo is most frequently navigated to. However, when encountering CAPTCHAs and anti-crawler restrictions, the Agents began finding workarounds on their own, including borrowing third-party websites to execute code, attempting to obtain anti-crawler verification information, and calling leaked API keys found online. Researchers documented over 2,600 data retrieval attempts, with one set of leaked keys successfully pulling the location data. In early October, the research team Swarmchasers traced the anomalous requests to Tencent Cloud, then released a public report. They further noticed that some Agents appeared to have read the report, so they hid text in web pages that was invisible during normal browsing, falsely claiming to offer free AI services to help query maps and leaving contact details. The Agents indeed reached out for assistance. The researchers then established two-way conversations with the Agents and invited a New York Times reporter to join. One Agent identified itself in Chinese as Claude Code, stating it was only completing the query task independently and had not collaborated with other Agents. On October 14, the research team released the full report. A source close to Tencent stated that this was in fact an internal network capability test conducted by Tencent’s evaluation team on third-party models, not its Hunyuan model. The experiment has concluded. Researchers found no evidence of Agents conducting coordinated attacks or breaching external systems, and Tencent has not yet issued an official public response.

According to Bitget market data, spot gold and silver saw sharp declines following the release of CPI data. Spot gold fell nearly 2% to $4,082 per ounce, while spot silver dropped 4% on the day to $53.7 per ounce.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Brooklyn has dismantled a cross-border cryptocurrency fraud network centered in Eastern Europe, marking a milestone in the office’s years-long efforts to combat such scams. The network defrauded U.S. victims out of tens of millions of dollars. Brooklyn prosecutors stated that last week’s operation shut down 241 websites linked to crypto fraud and seized 112 computer servers controlled by the criminal group, which were hosted by companies in Eastern Europe and the U.S.

Pre-market key news for US stocks is as follows: 1. US September unadjusted annual CPI rose to 3.7%, signaling broad-based inflation across the US, boosting market expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. 2. Following the release of September CPI data, US three major stock index futures plunged into negative territory, spot gold and silver declined, Bitcoin fell below $83,000, and the probability of a Fed rate hike in October rose to 43.7%. 3. NVIDIA announced that its new DLSS 5 neural rendering model runs twice as fast as the September version, cuts GPU overhead in half, and reduces 4K video memory usage by 20%. The new model will be integrated into games including NBA 2K27 and Hogwarts Legacy. 4. ASML’s CEO stated that equipment supply in 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet demand, with some clients already inquiring about and booking orders for equipment as far out as 2029 or even 2030. 5. Anthropic plans to host a Pre-IPO investor day at its San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday local time, where it will disclose its third-quarter revenue figures for the first time. 6. US federal regulators are reviewing SpaceX’s proposal to significantly expand operations at its Starbase facility in southern Texas. Under the proposal, SpaceX aims to conduct up to 456 launches and 912 landings annually at the site. 7. A SK Hynix executive said AI infrastructure performance and scale will grow roughly 20 times by 2030. He added that the company is developing next-generation memory technologies, including 3D-stacked DRAM and High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), while continuing to improve the performance of its existing HBM products.

Polygon Labs has officially announced the completion of its acquisition of Coinme, with its payment infrastructure Polygon Open Money Stack (OMS) now operating as a U.S.-regulated payment platform. The platform currently covers 48 U.S. states, holds 37 state-level money transmission licenses and 11 exemption qualifications, and is registered as a Money Services Business (MSB) with FinCEN.