AB Kuai Dong

I am very glad to meet CZ in Tokyo. This is his return to Japan after 7 years, and during this time, the entire industry has undergone tremendous changes.

At this event, I asked CZ a question: How do you view the on-chain of everything and the tokenization of stocks?

He replied: There have not yet been large-scale coin-stock products on the market. The possible reason is that each country and region has different policies, making it difficult for coin-stock investors to receive dividends and easily redeem stocks. There are also price differences during trading. However, projects on the chain are usually global in nature, which was a significant pain point back then.

Restrict areas or try to solve it?

But he reiterated that the trend of RWA cannot be stopped. $BNB

Previously, because of participating in the discussion and riding on Jing Tian’s trending heat, Feng Ge was banned from the platform

It’s been 48 hours with no updates—fully stopped

The Apple official websites in various places have already updated the team member list. The former CEO, Tim Cook, has been replaced by John Ternus.

This means a brand-new era of Apple’s management has officially begun.

Memory strain is still ongoing. Multiple domestic smartphone brands have announced that, starting September 1, they will raise prices across their lineup for mainstream flagship and older model phones.

Currently, mainstream media forecasts suggest that the upcoming September new iPhone models from Apple will generally have a launch price increase of 800–2,000 RMB compared with previous years.

Multiple major domestic media outlets collectively published statements at noon, saying that many domestic media account received bulk complaints from Justin Sun. The reason was that they mentioned his personal past experiences. Even articles that didn’t mention his name—only historical matters—were also subject to infringement complaints.

Among them, the article complained about by 36kr was an old piece from 2023.

According to the latest Apple employee posts and the 5-year service anniversary certificates they shared, Apple’s internal handover has been completed in full. The new certificates all bear the signature of John Ternus, rather than the previous one, Tim Cook.

White House: Announces the details of the exclusive crude oil agreement with Venezuela.

1. The U.S. government will receive, free of charge, a 35% stake in NABEP, the parent company of Venezuela’s second-largest crude oil producer.

2. The U.S. can take first 20% of all current and future production at the cost of extraction.

3. For the remaining 80% of crude oil production, the U.S. has a right of first refusal—meaning anyone who wants to buy must first ask the U.S. whether it wants to.

4. The U.S. owns the company, has a one-vote veto power in the board, and more than half of the board members must be U.S. citizens.

5. The company plans to invest up to $100 billion into Venezuela’s oil field facilities to rapidly increase production capacity.

6. Over the first 25 years of the agreement, Venezuela is expected to generate about $200 billion in revenue from royalties and taxes.

Trump says this is the greatest oil deal in history (and yes, the U.S. is making a killing).

Didn’t think the rumors about iFLYTEK were true? In the evening, multiple media outlets confirmed that Han Yuchen, Deputy General Manager of Public Relations at iFLYTEK, has been dismissed from his position.

And during the day, a post about an affair involving an iFLYTEK female employee—her husband revealing chat records showing his wife had an affair with her boss—spread across various social groups.

Today is Cook’s final day as Apple CEO.

Starting tomorrow, September 1, hardware veteran John Ternus, 51, will officially take over Apple.

And the last time Apple underwent a change of this kind was in August 2011, when Cook formally took over from founder Steve Jobs.

Strategy, the world’s largest Bitcoin reserve company, after a gap of 2 months, finally disclosed another Bitcoin purchase. Over the past period, the company had cumulatively sold 6,916 Bitcoins, but this time it bought back 4,603 Bitcoins from the market, increasing its reserves to 845,000 Bitcoins.

The cash for this round of buying still comes in an ATM format—selling off its own common stock of MSTR.

Some people in the comments said that overseas companies use remote monitoring like this, and that this approach is too conservative. In fact, the version from domestic top-tier companies is definitely more advanced.

A classic example is from a platform previously mentioned: in an office restroom, outside the card-access turnstile, time was not counted once you went out.

ByteDance AI team is really in trouble. Multiple media outlets have confirmed that the virtual incentive shares ByteDance has granted to the Doubao team have risen from $13 in April to $17, an increase of 30%. Meanwhile, over the same period, the company’s internal stock options—within the broader group—only moved slightly from $229.5 to $235.5, a gain of just 2.6%.

These virtual shares are priced based on the valuation of the Doubao business. Upon maturity, they are repurchased at the internal price. With gains like this continuing, it will make a batch of people financially independent.

Chinese-made chips really have a price advantage! In GLM’s mid-term report on the company’s release of its Zhipu, it admits that by using domestic chips at large scale, the company has significantly reduced the inference cost of its AI models.

Currently, it has deployed about 100,000 Chinese-made chips. Combined with its own infrastructure and software optimizations, the cost in compute required to generate each Token has dropped by 80% compared with the beginning of the year.

Just found out on WeChat that once you add 10,000 people

you can check who deleted you as a friend

It seems that the official accounts in China are cooling down the hype. Since they created the entry themselves, they rebut and deny it themselves, and they repeatedly meme about Tong Tian’s trending popularity.

The founder of the sexual repression theory, Feng Ge, was temporarily banned from speaking by the platform.

To prevent package swapping, e-commerce merchants overseas have recently been adopting a new approach to shipping packaging.

In addition to standard anti-counterfeit codes, they have introduced a set of special tamper-evident heat-sensitive adhesive labels. If someone uses a hot-air gun to try to untie the labels and open the package during delivery, the labels on the packaging will permanently turn pink.

According to the latest display on Google Maps, the former Lake Ontario has been renamed the United States Lake. This is the second time Google has cooperated with Trump on renaming, following the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States.

Next, if the Pacific Ocean is also renamed by Trump, we will soon see the text “United States Ocean” on Google Maps.

Finally know who’s been sweeping up all the Macs. A report confirms that ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, is mass-buying Mac minis and Mac Studios on the market—already reaching tens of thousands of units—while urgently hoping to purchase more.

As for Claude, its parent company Anthropic leases Macs through Amazon Web Services (AWS). This sudden surge in demand has driven overall Mac sales revenue up 29%, making it Apple’s fastest-growing business.