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User chris__lu posted that they compiled all 236 companies and 470 founders from the YC Summer 2026 batch, categorizing each company into an AI technology stack layer and comparing it to the Spring batch using the same criteria. This batch still has 91% related to AI. The model companies increased from 8% to 20%, the application layer decreased from 55% to 39%, horizontal applications dropped from 58 to 32, and vertical applications remained at 25%.In the Spring, 45% of companies delivered autonomous agents, while in the Summer, it was 33%, with "agent" in a one-sentence introduction dropping from 27% to 19%. 21 companies are engaged in computational infrastructure, 11 focus on inference costs, and there are also companies for training data and reinforcement learning environments. Scale AI is listed as an alternative target by 8 companies. The industrial category increased from 12% to 24%, with 45 companies delivering physical products, 24 being robots or physical AI, and 21 companies operating their own businesses rather than selling software.This batch is the youngest, with 37% of founders being students or graduates in the last two years, 59 teams are entirely student teams, the dropout rate increased from 3% to 9%, and repeat founders decreased from 32% to 23%, with 84% having a technical background. 39 from Berkeley, 32 from MIT, and 25 from Stanford. Amazon is the largest source of talent. Sales and marketing AI decreased from 18 to 6. Only 19 founders come from AI labs, accounting for 4%. 8 founding teams come from the same previous employer.

CryptoQuant analyst Woominkyu pointed out that Bitcoin closed at $78,450 on September 8, continuing the rebound momentum from around $60,000 during the summer, while there was no simultaneous surge in large deposits at spot exchanges.Data shows that on September 8, the daily inflow of the top ten spot exchanges was 5,442 BTC, which is 4.4 times that of the previous day, but only 5.1% higher than the 30-day average. The seven-day average inflow was 4,678 BTC, lower than several peaks earlier this year. From a more macro perspective, the recent price rebound has not been accompanied by an abnormal increase in large deposit activity, providing limited evidence for assessing the ongoing selling pressure from large transfers.What needs to be focused on next is whether the seven-day average inflow will continue to rise while prices weaken. For now, the deposit rebound on September 8 seems more like a return to recent norms rather than an abnormal spike.

Multi-signature wallet Safe announced that it will launch Safe Pro on October 6. Teams can now apply to become early partners to help shape the product.Safe Pro offers enterprise-level management, additional security features, audit history, and reporting capabilities for all Safe accounts operated by the organization, along with guided onboarding and professional support, while self-custody remains unchanged.Before the launch, Safe has opened the Safe Pro early partner program to teams that wish to collaborate directly. The application link can be found in their official post.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 67, down 3 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 70, and the average over the past 30 days is 58.

Douyin is currently conducting an internal test of the AI Workshop, aimed at ordinary creators and developers, providing a complete link from AI application building, debugging, and operation to platform distribution, deeply integrating with Douyin's internal traffic system. The AI development framework, interface capabilities, and cloud storage services are all built into the creator's backend.The Douyin App's recommendation page has added a new content form interest card, used to showcase AI applications created in the AI Workshop. Users can directly interact with these cards while browsing the recommendation page, without needing to switch to a mini-program or leave the main app, allowing them to complete Q&A queries, fun interactions, and light tool experiences within the information flow. The interest card relies on Douyin's personalized recommendation distribution, supporting custom gameplay and styles.Creators who do not understand coding can use natural language to describe their ideas for building, while technically skilled developers can modify underlying files for deep customization. Debugging, real-device preview, and publishing can all be completed in the same environment. The produced works can be directly converted into interest cards for placement in the recommendation stream. This product is currently in the invitation-only internal testing phase.

The platform X-Agent, which builds runnable AI applications using natural language, was invited to participate in the AI Foundation Community Lightning Pitch held at WeWork in Tokyo, engaging with entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and practitioners of AI applications.Discussions on topics such as AI Agents, the implementation of AI Apps, and ecological collaboration took place on-site, allowing participants to further understand X-Agent's product experience that helps users build runnable AI applications through natural language. X-Agent stated that it will continue to deepen its product and community layout in the Japanese market and explore collaboration opportunities with local developers, project parties, and partners.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Park Woo-yeol, the chief researcher at Shinhan Financial Investment, stated that the traditional "60% stocks + 40% bonds" strategy has weakened due to the rising correlation between stocks and bonds, and he recommends allocating 8% to alternative assets and 2% to digital assets.His analysis shows that a combination of gold and Bitcoin configured at an 8:2 ratio performs relatively well on a risk-adjusted basis.

According to South Korea's "Cultural Daily," Samsung Electronics' wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, is expected to enter trial operation around the end of this month, as orders for 2-nanometer chips from Tesla, Broadcom, Arm, and others continue to pour in, with pre-production capacity nearing full load. The plant has accumulated an investment of $37 billion since 2022, with plans to begin trial operation early next month and mass production next year, with an initial monthly capacity of about 50,000 wafers, close to TSMC's approximately 80,000 wafers.The report states that the Taylor plant will produce Tesla's next-generation artificial intelligence chip AI5, Broadcom's new generation communication chips, and Arm's smart device AI chips, among others. Samsung's 2-nanometer yield has increased from about 60% earlier this year to around 80% recently. The company sent personnel for process, equipment, and yield to the plant in June, and began installing equipment in July. At a recent earnings meeting, Samsung projected that this year's 2-nanometer order volume would more than double compared to last year, and stated that NVIDIA's inference chip Grok3 began mass production last month; Samsung also recently raised the foundry price for 4-nanometer chips by up to 15%.The second Taylor plant is scheduled to start construction by the end of this year and begin mass production in 2030. Samsung has requested major partners to complete the relevant production equipment safety certifications in advance, and some partners are considering sending dozens of personnel to the local area. At the same time, Intel issued about $20 billion in new shares last month and expanded investments in 2-nanometer level 18A and 1.4-nanometer level 14A, while Japan's Rapidus completed its 2-nanometer factory in Hokkaido last month and entered the wafer trial production stage.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 70, up 0 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 69, and the average over the past 30 days is 56.

Cronos CEO Ryan Wyatt posted on the X platform that the team will announce the eligibility rules for its network token launch platform project on Crypto.com this week.The Cronos app will go live in 10 days, and the tokenomics proposal aims to use 100% of the app's revenue for the buyback and destruction of CRO.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex posted on X that the Bitcoin miner position index is currently -1.2, well below its annual average.Miners are holding supply, even though the breakthrough in August briefly pushed it up to 2.8. An index above 2 means that miners are selling again, and current selling activity is relatively sluggish.

Changxin Technology held a performance briefing for the first half of 2026. The company's independent director Chen Wuchao stated in response to investor questions that in the first half of 2026, the global DRAM product market improved, and prices increased.Currently, the company is still in a critical investment period for capacity expansion and technological upgrades, and it needs to gradually create returns for shareholders while ensuring necessary capital expenditures. As profitability continues to strengthen, the company will legally and in accordance with regulations timely initiate the verification of the dividend plan.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 70, down 4 points from yesterday. The average for the past 7 days is 69, and the average for the past 30 days is 55.

According to Slow Mist's warning, two attackers have been detected replicating the recent Notional Finance vulnerability attack method on the BSC chain. The attackers have completed their preliminary preparations and created malicious fCash positions using the same vulnerability pattern. Currently, the attack has not been fully executed, and the malicious positions are awaiting expiration.Once expired, the attackers may settle the positions and withdraw assets from the protocol. Slow Mist strongly recommends that affected projects take immediate mitigation measures to complete protection before the positions expire.

According to the latest data from OpenRouter reported by the Daily Economic News, the total global invocation of AI large models last week (from August 31 to September 6) reached 115 trillion tokens, a month-on-month increase of 1.77%. Among them, the weekly invocation of China's AI large models reached 56.72 trillion tokens, a month-on-month increase of 2.83%, surpassing the United States (16.54 trillion tokens, a month-on-month decrease of 3.1%) for nineteen consecutive weeks, ranking first in the world.Among the top five global invocation volumes, four are Chinese models. Tencent's Hyper Yuan Hy4 preview ranks first with 14.7 trillion tokens, a month-on-month increase of 379%; GPT-5.6 Luna ranks second with 12.9 trillion tokens; Zhiyu GLM-5.3 Flash rises to third with 12.4 trillion tokens; DeepSeek-V4-Flash's official and preview versions rank fourth and fifth, respectively.MiniMax M3 returns to the list after nearly a month, ranking sixth, and has become the foundational base for Saudi HUMAIN's Arabic large model. In addition, Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash fell out of the list this week.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 74, up 2 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 68, and the average over the past 30 days is 54.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 72, down 1 point from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 67, and the average over the past 30 days is 52.