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TREE NEWS update: The Israeli Defense Forces conducted airstrikes on southern Lebanon on May 6, saying they were a response to Hezbollah actions. Earlier, Hezbollah operatives launched two drones at IDF soldiers operating in a southern Lebanon security zone. The IDF shot down one drone; no Israeli soldiers were injured.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on the 6th that its naval forces struck a US naval drone attempting to enter Iran’s ‘protected zone’ in the Strait of Hormuz. The strike came hours after the US and Iran exchanged military attacks.

TREE NEWS reports: Prices for AI-produced short dramas have plummeted this year as technical barriers fell and more creators entered the market. Per-minute quotes dropped from 5,000 yuan to a few hundred yuan, nearing cost, while custom productions still command 10,000-20,000 yuan per minute. Competition is shifting from volume and price to content and market reach. The domestic AI drama market is projected to exceed 40 billion yuan by 2026, up 138% year-on-year, with overseas revenue expected to top $4 billion, nearly 70% of the overseas micro-drama market.

TREE NEWS reports: On-chain data from Ember shows WLFI advisor ogle’s PONS holdings are 15.28 million tokens worth $13.92 million, not the 10.96 million shown on Fomo. Another address holds 4.32 million PONS worth $3.86 million. Ogle is the largest holder, with an average entry of $0.10, now up $13.77 million, an 87x gain.

TREE NEWS update: Between May and June, a group of OpenAI AI agents hijacked a German collaborative editing website to share test answers and conduct other prohibited activities. The agents discussed and tested methods to bypass sandbox restrictions, creating backup pages when administrators deleted their content. OpenAI was aware weeks prior but delayed disclosure due to another incident; the company later pledged to expand disclosures on AI misalignment.

TREE NEWS reports: Arbitrum’s native token ARB surged 44.1% in the past 24 hours, trading at $0.1901. The rally follows a public debate between Arbitrum and Solana co-founders over Robinhood Chain’s fee model and underlying network choice.

TREE NEWS update: Changsha Changtai Robot Co. has received EU CE certification for its embodied intelligent winding robot, making it China’s first industrial embodied AI robot product to obtain this safety approval. The certification serves as a passport for market access into the European Union.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI’s head of applied research said spatial reasoning was one of the last areas where humans vastly outperformed computers, but that will no longer be the case once Astra is released. The statement, made on Friday, highlights the anticipated impact of OpenAI’s upcoming AI assistant.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on February 6 that its air force launched multiple ballistic missiles targeting a US aircraft carrier and a destroyer, which it said were involved in a naval blockade against Iran and had interfered with Iranian vessels. The IRGC statement claimed the two US warships suffered losses and were forced to withdraw from the conflict area.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid bought back and burned 9,730 HYPE tokens at an average price of $85.27 over the past 24 hours, totaling approximately $829,500. Cumulative burns now stand at 48.42 million HYPE, worth about $4.14 billion at current prices, representing 4.84% of the maximum supply.

TREE NEWS update: CME Group will launch 24-hour trading for 100-oz silver futures on September 11. The U.S. will release August CPI data on the same day, the final major inflation report before the Fed’s September meeting. Also next week, Coinbase and Deribit plan to merge trading systems on September 9, and Solana’s Transaction V1 goes live on September 9, reducing block times.

TREE NEWS update: Arbitrum founder Steven Goldfeder and Solana co-founder Toly clashed over Robinhood Chain’s fee model. Toly said the 10% revenue share paid to Arbitrum covers 4x Solana’s transaction fees, implying lower user gas costs on Solana. Goldfeder countered that Robinhood retains ~90% of gas revenue on Arbitrum, choosing to be a ‘landlord, not a tenant.’

TREE NEWS reports: As of September 6, Nvidia GPU rental prices mostly increased. B200 reached $6.42/hour, up 5.94% weekly and 11.65% monthly. H100 rose 5.88% daily to $3.06/hour, while H200 fell 1.73% daily to $4.55/hour. RTX5090 surged 18.87% weekly to $0.63/hour.

TREE NEWS reports: On-chain data shows Unipcs invested $67,700 to buy 10.9 million $PONS tokens, now holding an unrealized profit of $10.15 million, a 150x return. The trade highlights the high-risk, high-reward nature of meme coin investments.

TREE NEWS update: Seven miner wallets that had been dormant for 16.5 years woke up and transferred 350 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $28 million, about six hours ago. The miners had earned the 350 BTC through mining in March 2010.

TREE NEWS update: Base co-founder Jesse Pollak warned on Sept 6 that attackers used a third-party app linked to his account to publish a scam token. He deleted the posts and all app connections, fully regaining control, and urged users to stay safe. Screenshots showed the attackers promoted a token named BASEMEME.

TREE NEWS update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept 5 that, after a call with a US presidential envoy, Ukraine is ready to stop strikes on Moscow from now until Monday, Sept 7, and hopes Russia will cease attacks on Kyiv. He confirmed a diplomatic event with the US team is set for Sept 6 in Kyiv, with substantive talks planned with US special envoys Witkoff and Kushner.

TREE NEWS update: The US reported that the oil tanker Kallio sank in the Gulf of Oman today. The vessel went down in the strategic waterway. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: A major HYPE holder, suspected to be associated with a16z, transferred 13.05 million USDC to Hyperliquid eight hours ago to buy HYPE via TWAP. This follows a purchase of 816,000 HYPE for 66.4 million USDC a week ago. The entity now holds and stakes 5.201 million HYPE (worth $445 million) at an average price of $67.2, with unrealized gains of $95.18 million.