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Thirteen years of piracy attacks in Somalia

International Maritime Organization statistics indicate that at least 15 pirate attacks have taken place in the waters around Somalia this year, up from 2013. According to the information received, a report of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) provides an inventory of incidents in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean waters within 2,000 kilometres of the Somali coast since 1994. Since 2013, no more than 10 piracy attacks have been recorded annually in the region, compared with 5 in 2025. However, in 2026, there was a significant increase in pirate attacks, with pirates particularly active in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia。

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Greyscale study: Bitcoin is more than 50 per cent relevant to gold

According to the greyscale study, the 90-day correlation between bitcoin and gold has risen to more than 50 per cent, reflecting the fact that bitcoin is gradually being seen as a scarce currency asset rather than as a mere high-risk investment in technology. The report noted that investors might reconsider the investment role of bitcoin as concerns about the United States debt and fiscal deficit resurfaced. At the same time, the relevance of Bitcoin to NASDAQ 100 declined from over 60 per cent to about 33 per cent。

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Sam Altman: OpenAI expects to achieve AGI by 2026

On 28 August, according to Forbes, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman of OpenAI, in an interview intime magazinetime, stated that the company expected to achieve its defined internal AGI system by 2026 — that is, AI that matches or exceeds human performance in most economic value tasks. The Chief Research Officer, Mark Chen, described the company as “80 per cent of its journey”, and the co-founder, Greg Brockman, thought that two years later, the period might be seen as the moment when AGI was born. The Astra model, to be launched by OpenAI, has been able to carry out the experiment and complete the work that previously required one week of human researcher work through internal automated AI research interns benchmark testing. Altman claims that Astra will be “the first model to invent new things in a meaningful way”. OpenAI is developing multi-purpose equipment (including desktop equipment introduced in early 2027), its own reasoned chip, Jalapeño, and human robotics, with the long-term goal of creating a universal AI subscription service for voluntary referrals and assignments。

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Upbit parent company Dunamu works with Visa to explore stabilization currency and AI payments

On 28 August, the Block reported that Dunamu, the Korean encryption exchange ' s Upbit parent company, had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Visa to explore innovative financial services based on stable currency and AI. The two sides will develop new services such as stable currency payments, cross-border remittances and AI-driven finance in the context of Dunamu digital asset technology and the Visa global payment network, and plan to link stable currency to the existing global payment infrastructure. In the area of AI, the parties will focus on the commercial-AI agent, who will search for the goods on behalf of the user and complete the payment. Dunamu also indicated that the potential application of Open Standard’s Open USD stabilization currency in cooperation would be assessed. Dunamu CEO Oh Kyung-seok states: “The spread of AI, stable currency and monetization will change the way finance and business operate.” This cooperation was announced two days after Visa reached a similar agreement with the New Korea Financial Group。

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Iranian officials: The United States turned to economic pressure to show that its military strike was of limited effect

On the Lebanese side, an interview with the Secretary of the Supreme State Security Council of Iran, Rezai, was broadcast on the evening of 27 local time. In the programme, Rezai stated that the United States had turned to pressure on the Iranian economy, indicating that its military strike had not produced the desired results. Rezai stated that Iran believes that the security of Lebanon is part of the security of the region as a whole. The terms of any agreement between Iran and the United States would be a ceasefire in all parts of Western Asia, including Lebanon, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanese territory and an end to the fighting in Gaza。

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0xbow.io awarded a reward to the researchers who disclosed the Privacy Pools loophole, which was repaired in March

On 28 August, the private and regulatory compliance tool, 0xbow.io, supported by the Taifung Foundation, indicated that it had awarded a $5,000 reward to the researcher Ross.wei to disclose loopholes in the private pool Privacy Pools v1 SDK. This problem reduces the entropy generated by the main key of the user account. The team stated that the loophole had been repaired in March and that the migration process had been provided and no loss of user funds had occurred。

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Hy4 open source: total parameter 77 billion, context 1 million

The hybrid Hy4 model, which was released by telecommunication, uses MOE structures, with a total parameter of 77 billion, with 4.9 billion activated each time, and the context expanded to 1 million. Compared to Hy3, the overall parameters of Hy4 have doubled and the long context has increased approximately fourfold. The call highlighted the ability of the model to be applied to real tasks such as code, office, games and scientific research, such as the creation of the Three-D website from the zero line, the production of games demo in Unity, and the processing of 72 financial documents to check duplicate claims and budget anomalies. Hy4 is also co-training and iterative with the products of the communicators, such as workbuddy and codebuddy, to form an initial self-improvement cycle. Hy4 preview has been connected to a number of telecommunication products, which were previously forecasted in the financial statements that Hy4 would be larger than Hy3 and used real product feedback as an important source of model training。

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Argentina recorded a record high in oil production in July

Argentina recorded a record high in oil production in July. In addition, American media reports that the United States is seeking access to parts of the Venezuelan oil fields and that Venezuela is known to be withdrawing from OPEC and deepening its relations with the United States. Qatar Energy sold at least 7 million barrels of crude oil loaded on ships in October, and Goldman Sachs indicated that oil exports from the Persian Gulf had resumed to about two thirds before the war. The Trump Government is considering an increase of 500 million gallons in the biofuels quota for 2027, and the National Petroleum Corporation of Brazil is considering launching liquefied natural gas exports in response to the surge in demand in Asia. According to market information, Qatar extended the force majeure period for liquefied natural gas in Pakistan to October. On the Iranian side, the United States forces claim to have cleared the international channel mines in the Strait of Hormuz and the United States Department of Justice intends to reopen the capture court to seize Iranian tankers. Trump states that the Strait of Hormuz is open, and the Iranian Minister of Oil states that, despite the decrease, Iran ' s long-sea oil sales and deliveries have not ceased。

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