Odaily News, TSMC (TSM.N) co-Chief Operating Officer Hou Yongqing said today that as the company expands capacity to meet artificial intelligence demand, its demand for chip manufacturing equipment has nearly doubled since the end of last year. Hou noted that the company has raised its quarterly equipment procurement estimate to approximately 1.9 times the level forecast in December last year. This is the latest sign that robust demand from AI developers and massive data center expansions worldwide are further boosting chip demand.

TSMC is also currently facing a shortage of experienced construction workers, as the company seeks to build and equip approximately 20 factories in the Taiwan region of China and overseas—an expansion drive unprecedented in the company's history. Previously, TSMC typically advanced construction on 4 to 5 new plants simultaneously. Hou said, "We are currently catching up at roughly 4 to 5 times the pace of the past, yet we still cannot keep up with demand." (Jin Shi)

According to Hyperbot data reported by Odaily, a whale has opened large short positions on BTC, ETH, and XYZ100, with the total value of these short positions reaching nearly $107 million. Among them:

BTC 10x short position totals $64.21 million, with unrealized profits of $1.39 million;

ETH 20x short position totals $27.53 million, with unrealized profits of $1.02 million;

XYZ100 20x short position totals $15.1 million, with unrealized profits of $220,000.

Additionally, this address holds small long positions in WTI and Brent crude oil, as well as short positions in MRVL, Silver, SMSN, and others.

According to Odaily, DefiLlama data shows that Gate recorded a net capital inflow of $520.45 million over the past month, ranking third globally among centralized exchanges.

Odaily News, HIP-3 market deployer Entropy has launched an Anthropic Pre-IPO market on Hyperliquid. ANTH is up 1.58% in the past 24 hours, currently trading at $1,968, with a 24-hour trading volume of $9.59 million and open interest in contracts reaching $9.9 million.

Odaily News: On-chain data shows that at 17:48 Beijing time today, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

Odaily News: Over the past 7 days, the top five revenue generators in the Ethereum ecosystem were Robinhood Chain ($8.26 million), Ethereum mainnet ($2.48 million), Base Chain ($0.84 million), and Polygon PoS ($0.5358 million). Robinhood Chain's revenue grew 1,653% quarter-over-quarter, contributing the vast majority of total revenue across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Odaily News, September 2 — The B.AI platform announced that Hy4 Preview, the latest open-source flagship model from Tencent's Hunyuan team, has officially launched its API service, providing full developer access. As an early version of the Hy4 series, this model adopts a 770B sparse MoE architecture, activating 49B parameters per token, and supports a 1M ultra-long context window, delivering professional-grade performance in scenarios such as software engineering agents, office data workflows, game development, and scientific research. Starting today, developers can directly call Hy4 Preview through the official B.AI API channel, and visit chat.b.ai/chat for details and an immediate hands-on experience. Going forward, B.AI will continue to introduce cutting-edge models, offering developers a richer and more cost-effective selection of AI computing power.

Odaily Planet Daily News Yi Lihua stated in a post that after failing to break through the $81,000 resistance level a few days ago, he has been anticipating a pullback during this phase, with a pullback range of 75.5 to 76, followed by a continued bullish outlook toward the next resistance level at 86. His judgment over the past few months has been largely correct, but that does not mean subsequent forecasts will always be right. Every trade requires caution and a fresh start. Making mistakes is normal. Many people believe that sharing market views is easily falsifiable—one wrong call could undo all previous success—but facing challenges head-on and continuously improving is the true entrepreneurial spirit. Failure is also part of the business process.

Odaily News: Global major government bond yields continue to rise. The UK 10-year government bond yield climbed 7 basis points to 5.29%, the highest level since August 2007. The German 10-year government bond yield rose 5 basis points to 3.39%. Italy's two-year government bond yield briefly touched its highest level since 2024, currently at 3.22%. The US 10-year government bond yield rose to 4.816%, renewing its highest level since late 2023.

Odaily News: The UK 10-year gilt yield has risen to its highest level since August 2007, reaching 5.29%, up 7 basis points on the day.

Odaily News: According to Hong Kong Stock Exchange filings, JPMorgan's long position ratio in Zhongji Innolight (03308.HK) decreased from 15.73% to 15.65% on August 27, 2026. (Jin10)

Odaily Odaily News The prediction market exchange Kalshi has suspended North Carolina Republican House candidate Laurie Buckhout from trading for three years due to her trading of contracts related to her own congressional election. The settlement took effect on Friday, and she is also required to pay a fine of $2,589.96.

During her campaign against Democratic Rep. Don Davis for North Carolina's 1st Congressional District, Buckhout purchased related contracts worth less than $1,000. Under Kalshi's rules, candidates are considered persons with direct decision-making influence over outcomes and are prohibited from trading related contracts.

Kalshi has previously suspended Minnesota Senator Matt Klein, former Texas congressional candidate Ezekiel Enriquez, and Virginia Senate candidate Mark Moran for five years each over candidates betting on their own elections. Former Rep. George Santos was permanently banned for trading contracts related to his own attendance at the State of the Union address and was fined $71,356.

Buckhout won the Republican primary in March of this year and will face Don Davis again in the election; she previously lost by less than two percentage points in 2024. Kalshi is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and has processed tens of billions of dollars in trading volume over the past year. (Decrypt)

According to Odaily, on-chain analyst Ai Yi reported that an ETH swing trading address (0x806…904aa) sold 1,673 ETH 2 minutes ago at an average price of $2,392, with a transaction value of approximately $4 million, securing a profit of $817,000. The address had accumulated its position two weeks ago, before the current market rally commenced; it has achieved four consecutive profitable trades since July, with cumulative profits reaching $1.05 million.

Odaily News: CoinGecko has announced the migration of the cybersecurity scoring component within its centralized exchange Trust Score from CER.live to Hacken's risk infrastructure platform CORE3, covering 166 exchanges and introducing a framework that places greater emphasis on forward-looking risk assessment. CORE3 data shows that among the 193 exchanges it evaluated, approximately 48% did not provide evidence of proof of reserves, penetration testing, or bug bounty programs, while only about 5.2% met all three criteria simultaneously. Users can view the updated cybersecurity scores on CoinGecko and access multidimensional risk breakdowns—covering security, solvency, and transparency—along with loss probability metrics via CORE3.

Odaily News: According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, the HIP-4 market recorded a trading volume of $3.26 million over the past 24 hours, with the @Outcomexyz account contributing 82.5% of the total trading volume.