ByteDance raises option prices by approximately 5%.

According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam is seeking to gain control of at least three oil fields in Venezuela. The U.S. government is reshaping Venezuela’s oil industry and plans to replace some operators from the Maduro era with investors close to the Trump camp. The fields, currently operated by Alvorada Heavy Industries Ltda, are located in the Boca, Guico and Guara blocks of Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt. U.S. officials are considering revoking the existing operating contracts for these fields. As the relevant negotiations have not been made public, the insiders requested anonymity. Additional adjustments to existing oil contracts are expected this week, during which U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will visit Caracas and is set to showcase up to 17 oil and gas agreements.

According to an official announcement, crypto exchange Binance will launch bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs for CrowdStrike (CRWDB), Moderna (MRNAB), ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQB), and Seagate (STXB) on September 2, 2026, at 20:00 GMT+8. The platform will also activate spot algorithmic trading bots and smart position bot services concurrent with the launch. Furthermore, within one hour of bStocks going live on Binance’s spot market, users can redeem their bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other tokens supported by the flash swap platform, with zero redemption fees.

Beating AI News Flash: Doubao Work Finally Adds Multi-Agent Parallelism. A complex task can now be split into multiple sub-agents to process different modules in parallel, with results aggregated for final delivery. Another update: Mac now supports local "computer operation". Previously, Windows already supported GUI operations, while Mac was restricted to browser control only. Now, Mac can directly recognize local interfaces, enabling it to complete operations based on the UI even in software without MCP, APIs, plugins, or CLI.

Figure Technology Solutions completed the $717 million acquisition of Kiavi on Tuesday, bringing one of the largest residential real estate investor lenders in the U.S. into its blockchain ecosystem. Both Figure’s acquisition announcement and its 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed the deal closed on September 1. Per Figure’s prior acquisition announcement, Kiavi is expected to add over $7 billion in annual first-lien mortgage volume to Figure Connect, while more than $100 million in monthly funds will flow into Figure’s on-chain lending platform Democratized Prime.

Beating AI News: Google has started the gray-scale rollout of Gemini 3.8 Flash to its Gemini App. When users directly inquire about the current model in the Gemini App, it responds with "Gemini 3.8 Flash". Last week, Business Insider obtained internal screenshots showing Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview appearing on Google’s internal coding platform Jetski. A testing employee said the new model is noticeably better than Gemini 3.7 Flash. Gemini 3.8 Flash’s internal codename is "skimaki". The update mainly fixes issues exposed in Gemini 3.7 Flash, while also cutting down on templated, verbose "AI fluff". Gemini 3.7 Flash was released only on August 13, meaning the interval between the two versions is less than three weeks.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a whale’s execution wallet has accumulated purchases of 155,980 HYPE tokens, valued at approximately $12.91 million, at an average price of around $82.77. The tokens were subsequently transferred to another wallet and staked. The wallet currently holds roughly 4.34 million USDC and continues to buy HYPE.