According to Beating AI News, South Korea is preparing to test a "free AI for all" service starting in September. SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao have won the bid to launch the service, with an official launch scheduled for the end of the year. South Korean citizens can use it for free, with no token cap. The government will initially provide the three companies with a total of 512 Nvidia B200 cards this year. Based on an estimated 4 questions per person per day, with each answer costing 500 tokens, this batch of cards could theoretically support approximately 18.4 million daily active users.

The government also requires that at least half of the AI services be provided by domestically developed Korean models, with the remaining 30% allocated to models from other Korean companies. Motif 3, which was previously eliminated in the Korean "national team" selection process, has now been included in the model pools of both SKT and KT.

Motif 3 scored 47 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest among the participating Korean models, but it was eliminated in the "National Team of Domestic Basic Models" review on August 18th. Ten days later, it was moved to the National AI Project, where both SKT and KT included it in their model pools. Not making it into the national team didn't prevent it from being made available to users nationwide.

South Korea currently has approximately 23 million generative AI users, but the majority still use overseas products such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Therefore, this review did not prioritize model performance: service reach and user acquisition accounted for 50 points, while model quality, stability, and security combined only accounted for 30 points. The winners were ultimately companies like SKT, KT, and Kakao, which hold access to communication, portals, and super apps. Model companies primarily served as suppliers.

According to BlockBeats, on August 31st, a16z crypto reported that approximately one-fifth of Argentinians use cryptocurrency, with 94% of peso crypto transactions flowing to stablecoins, the highest among major currencies tracked by Artemis. Despite declining inflation and relaxed restrictions on dollar purchases in Argentina in recent years, stablecoin usage has not significantly decreased, the proportion of people receiving wages in stablecoins has stabilized, and downloads of the crypto wallet Lemon continue to grow.

a16z crypto suggests that stablecoins may no longer be just a tool for Argentinians to hedge against inflation, but are gradually becoming a habit.

According to BlockBeats, on August 31, during the rapid overnight rise in WTI crude oil prices, Polymarket trader "tetrose" continued to add to his tail-end bets that would reach $90, $95, and $100 by the end of August.

During the surge in crude oil prices from 3:35 AM to 4:07 AM on August 31st, the company completed six consecutive buy orders, adding approximately $3,182 in new investment. The implied market probabilities at the time of these buy orders at the $90, $95, and $100 targets were approximately 3.63%, 1.50%, and 0.70%, respectively; the current probabilities are 4.5%, 1.6%, and 0.5%, respectively.

Tetrose currently has a total cost of approximately $38,900 for its three Yes positions, with a current value of only about $8,291. Overall, it is still in a floating loss of about $30,600, or about 78.7%, with the $95 position alone in a floating loss of about $26,900.

Following the rise in oil prices, this morning, a Tetrose-linked address placed a buy order for 3,618.13 contracts at $88.70 after taking profit on 5,349.14 contracts of Brent crude oil long positions, intending to wait for a price pullback before re-entering long positions, amounting to approximately $320,900. This order remained unfilled due to the continued rise in crude oil prices and was cancelled at 1:22 PM.

Meanwhile, the short position in the S&P 500 established on August 28 remains intact. Currently, this address is fully leveraged with a 50x leveraged short position of 274,773 contracts in the S&P 500, with a position value of approximately $2.113 million. The average entry price was 7759.6 points, resulting in a floating profit of approximately $19,200. A take-profit order covering the entire position has been placed at 7600 points.

Historical records show that "tetrose" had 274 closed positions in oil price and geopolitical themes such as Iran and Hormuz, of which 150 were profitable and 124 were loss-making, with profitable positions accounting for approximately 54.7% and accumulating a profit of approximately US$641,900.

According to BlockBeats, on August 31, a "20x ETH whale" continuously added to its ETH long positions in the early hours of the morning, accumulating approximately 5,088.97 ETH at an average price of approximately $2,449.18, corresponding to a notional value of approximately $12.46 million.

As of press time, the address held 30,282.40 ETH long positions, with a position value of approximately $73.14 million, making it the third largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid. The average opening price was $2,134.45, the current unrealized profit is approximately $8.508 million, and the liquidation price is approximately $1,749.24.

It is understood that this whale's initial long position in ETH was established on the evening of August 19th, with an average transaction price of approximately $2,028.14. Additionally, the address has a reduce-only limit sell order of 25,193.44 ETH at a price of $4,000.