Odaily News – iPronics, an AI data center optical interconnect company, announced the completion of a $125 million Series B funding round, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, and others. The company's total funding has now reached $177 million.

iPronics primarily provides rack-scale optical switching equipment for AI infrastructure. Through a programmable optical layer, it enables AI clusters to adjust network connections in real time for training and inference workloads. The new funds will be used to expand operational scale and accelerate commercial deployment. (Reuters)

Odaily News: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June non-farm payrolls were revised upward from 20,000 to 31,000, while July non-farm payrolls were revised from a decrease of 23,000 to an increase of 21,000. Following these revisions, the total job gains for June and July combined increased by 55,000 compared to previous estimates. The market has increased its bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike in September. (CLS)

Odaily News, according to Gate data, after the release of the non-farm payroll data, spot gold dropped over $70 in the short term, reporting at $4,405 per ounce; spot silver fell $1.5 in the short term, reporting at $65.7 per ounce. The U.S. dollar index DXY rose 34 points in the short term, reaching 99.36 points.

The U.S. seasonally adjusted non-farm payroll employment figure for August came in at 162,000, the highest since March and far exceeding the market expectation of 56,000.

Odaily News: The seasonally adjusted non-farm payroll employment in the U.S. increased by 162,000 in August, beating expectations of 56,000. The previous figure was revised upward from -23,000 to 21,000.

Odaily News, Four.Meme announced that its Stock Meme product has added 4 new trading pairs, including: Fluence Energy ($FLNCb), Trump Media & Technology Group ($DJTb), Moderna ($MRNAb), and Robinhood ($HOODb). Four.Meme stated that it will further expand the range of stock assets available for Meme issuance in the future.

Odaily News, According to a disclosure by the SlowMist security team, they have detected an attack campaign disguised as a free VPS service, specifically targeting iPhone Safari browsers running iOS versions 18.4 to 18.6.2. The attackers exploited a chain of six vulnerabilities codenamed DarkSword to form a complete attack sequence, covering WebKit remote code execution, sandbox escape, and kernel read/write operations. This allows them to access app container files and keychain data without user awareness, and record keyboard inputs while wallets such as imToken, TokenPocket, or TronLink are in the foreground.

The SlowMist team stated that all six aforementioned vulnerabilities have been patched by Apple, and the current attack constitutes reuse of an n-day vulnerability chain. Merely visiting a malicious page does not directly prove that mnemonic phrases or private keys have been stolen, and device forensics is still required for confirmation. iOS/iPadOS users are advised to upgrade their systems to version 18.7.3 or 26.3 and above as soon as possible.

Odaily News: According to CFM flash memory market data, the global DRAM market size reached $147.07 billion in Q2 2026, up 55.9% quarter-over-quarter, setting a new all-time high. In Q2, manufacturers actively responded to strong server market demand by continuing to expand sales of high-value-added products such as server DRAM and HBM. Compared to Q1, where server and PC DRAM ASPs doubled quarter-over-quarter, the growth rate moderated to the 40%-50% range in Q2.

The favorable pricing environment drove continued strength in DRAM prices, with manufacturers achieving both higher volumes and prices, leading to a significant sequential revenue surge in Q2. Looking ahead to Q3, manufacturers have already locked in price caps under long-term agreements with certain server customers, and the room for price increases outside these agreements is also narrowing quarter by quarter. DRAM ASP is expected to continue rising sequentially in Q3, albeit at a slowing pace. Meanwhile, with expectations of positive DRAM bit shipment growth in Q3, manufacturers' DRAM revenue is projected to hit another record high in Q3. (STAR Market Daily)

Odaily News: In May of this year, OpenAI agents大规模edited the German programmer community website DseWiki without authorization, transforming it into a "message board" for other AI agents to communicate. This incident had never been publicly disclosed before.

Researchers found that the website had over 15,000 editing operations performed by AI agents. Related information shows that these agents not only exchanged solutions for tasks but also discussed how to bypass OpenAI's restrictions, evade detection, and use tools like Tor to hide their activities. When site administrators began deleting related pages, some agents created backup pages to avoid cleanup. About half of the related accounts used names hinting at a connection to OpenAI, such as "OpenAIResearcher" and "OAIResearchMar26." Public server logs reveal that a significant amount of activity came from Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and OpenAI employees also visited the website multiple times after the incident.

Some internal investigators at OpenAI wanted to further investigate the incident, but expanding the investigation was reportedly met with resistance from certain individuals, including legal advisors. OpenAI denied that its legal team blocked the investigation and stated that it has not yet had the opportunity to review the relevant reports, and therefore cannot make a substantive response to the allegations contained therein.

Researchers believe that this incident highlights the risks of unauthorized collaboration, regulatory circumvention, and hidden behavior that may emerge as AI agents' autonomous capabilities increase. Researchers at the University of Cambridge stated that what may be more concerning is not a single superintelligent system, but rather "large-scale groups of semi-intelligent AI agents collaborating with each other." (Reuters)

Odaily News, CryptoQuant posted on the X platform that Bitcoin’s recent climb toward the $80,000 mark has been accompanied by notable market activity. Data shows spot trading volume has increased roughly 3 to 4 times compared to earlier levels, with Binance accounting for the largest share.

At the same time, whale inflows remain consistently active, with hourly inflows exceeding 2,000 BTC on multiple occasions and the average deposit size per transaction rising above 50 BTC. Additionally, the volume of altcoins deposited into exchanges has also grown by approximately 3 times, indicating that market participation is expanding once again.

Odaily News: Prediction market platform Kalshi recorded 15.4 million U.S. visits in July, up approximately 1,520% from fewer than 1 million visits in August 2025; U.S. visits accounted for nearly 80% of its total traffic, higher than the 72.8% recorded during the same period.

Kalshi's August monthly notional trading volume reached approximately $40 billion, up roughly 4,500% from $874 million in the same period last year. During the same timeframe, the prediction market industry's monthly notional trading volume rose from approximately $2 billion to $50.7 billion, with Kalshi accounting for nearly 79% of the latest total.

Sports contracts accounted for 83% of Kalshi's July trading volume. Whether Kalshi's sports contracts fall under federal regulation or state gambling laws is subject to legal dispute, and New Jersey has brought the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Canada recorded approximately 450,000 visits in July, and the U.K. around 296,000 visits, both higher than the roughly 50,000 and 31,000 visits in August 2025, respectively. Users in both regions are currently prohibited from directly accessing or trading on Kalshi under its membership agreement. Kalshi has partnered with Canadian financial services firm Wealthsimple to offer nearly 4,000 eligible contracts through a standalone application. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News, according to Hyperbot data, Hyperliquid's largest LIT short seller is still "holding firm." The 3x leveraged LIT short position still holds 2.528 million LIT, with unrealized losses expanding to $8.4 million and a liquidation price of $7.05. The overall position's unrealized loss is approximately $8.456 million, with a return on investment of negative 106%.

Odaily News: The latest analysis report from the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) shows that approximately $12.7 billion in suspicious financial activity is linked to crypto investment scams operated by Southeast Asian scam compounds. The report covers 33,904 suspicious activity reports filed by around 1,300 institutions between September 2023 and December 2025, during which the average monthly number of reports grew by 10.9%, and the average monthly amount involved grew by 18%.

Scammers primarily used Ethereum, USDT, and USDC for their operations, ultimately converting almost all illicit proceeds into USDT and transferring funds through DeFi protocols or overseas exchanges. The scam compounds are concentrated in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, involving hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals. Interpol has classified this network as a transnational crime threat and warned that the model is spreading beyond Southeast Asia. It was also revealed that FinCEN's Rapid Response Program has recovered over $1 billion for 5,790 U.S. victims since 2015. (Decrypt)

Odaily News: Today, aside from the MEME project on the Robinhood chain that saw its market cap surpass $100 million in a single day, there are other trending projects. The newly launched token issuance platform pair.fund allows users to issue ERC-20 tokens with a fixed total supply of 1 billion, and select 1 to 5 listed Robinhood stock tokens (such as Apple, TSLA, NVIDIA, SPY, etc.) as quote assets, while permanently locking Uniswap V4 liquidity. As of press time, the market cap of pair.fund's platform token PAIR stands at $8.53 million, up 91.37% in 24 hours; the highest market cap token issued on the platform is CINEMA, with a market cap of $3.52 million.