According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, Swiss banking giant UBS significantly increased its call option exposure to BlackRock's Bitcoin Spot ETF (IBIT) in the second quarter of 2026, from 80,000 underlying shares at the end of March to 1.95 million shares on June 30th, an increase of over 24 times. At the same time, UBS's direct holdings of IBIT shares also increased by 12%, reaching 407,890 shares, worth approximately $13.6 million. Its put option exposure, however, decreased by approximately 53% to 143,300 shares.

According to a SemiAnalysis client report citing market sources, Google is collaborating with AMD on one of its 10th-generation TPUs. This would mark AMD's first true involvement in a custom AI ASIC project. Analysts believe that Google, with nine generations of TPU development experience and a long history of Broadcom handling the actual silicon design, doesn't traditionally require AMD for TPU design. Therefore, the core appeal of the collaboration lies in AMD's CPU IP, advanced packaging, and interconnect technologies.

The report specifically points out that Google and its customers are pushing for the integration of CPU cores within TPU packages to address the demands of CPU-intensive workloads such as reinforcement learning. While traditional LLM training still relies heavily on accelerators, reinforcement learning for inference and agent-based models requires more general-purpose computing resources to run around accelerators.

This trend is already evident in Google's recent hardware configurations. The TPU 8i system, designed for inference, reasoning, and reinforcement learning workloads, pairs two TPUs with one Google Axion CPU; while the 7th generation TPU servers pair four TPUs with one Intel Xeon processor. Reports suggest that a 1:1 CPU-to-accelerator ratio is optimal in certain scenarios, implying that the future of AI computing may be far more CPU-dependent than currently perceived. If the collaboration with AMD materializes, Google will combine its self-developed TPU accelerators with AMD's general-purpose computing cores to create a hybrid AI ASIC, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape of data center chips.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, Bitunix won the "Best Chart Trading Platform" award at the Peru Blockchain Conference 2026. This award is a high recognition of the platform's continuous efforts to improve the chart trading experience and create more professional and intuitive trading tools for global traders.

Behind this award lies Bitunix's series of significant initiatives in the chart trading field: the platform recently launched the Ultra Chart Trading landing page, deeply integrating market analysis, order execution, and risk management into a single interface; the exclusive Super Alerts feature supports multi-dimensional alert conditions including price, technical indicators, and candlestick patterns, helping traders capture market signals in real time. Data shows that users who have used Super Alerts have significantly higher average trading volume than non-users. Currently, the Bitunix Super Alerts Challenge is in full swing, with a prize pool of 10,000 USDT open for sharing; traders worldwide are welcome to participate.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, Bitget market data showed that A-share liquor stocks collectively fell at the opening, with Kweichow Moutai opening 3.9% lower and its share price falling below 1300 yuan. This was due to news that China Central Huijin and China Securities Finance Corporation withdrew from Kweichow Moutai's top ten shareholders, and the company's interim report showed increased revenue but decreased profit.

On the evening of August 14th, Kweichow Moutai released its 2026 semi-annual report, disclosing that Central Huijin Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Huijin) and China Securities Finance Corporation Limited (CSF) had both exited the list of top ten shareholders. At the end of the first quarter, Huijin held approximately 10.3971 million shares (0.83% of the total share capital, making it the fifth largest shareholder at the time), while CSF held approximately 4.0375 million shares (0.32%, making it the tenth largest shareholder). By the end of the second quarter, their combined holdings had fallen below the threshold for the top ten shareholders, with the tenth largest shareholder holding approximately 3.48 million shares, thus leading to their exit from the list.

Kweichow Moutai also released its first-half results: revenue of 90.703 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.47%, but net profit attributable to the parent company of 44.517 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.95%, marking the first time in many years that Moutai's half-year net profit has declined. The combination of state-owned funds reducing their holdings and the lack of profit growth despite increased revenue led to today's stock price decline. It is worth noting that exiting the top ten shareholders does not equate to a complete sell-off; both may still hold a small number of shares, and this is more likely seen as a portfolio adjustment rather than a simple bearish view on Moutai.

Furthermore, on August 13th, Duan Yongping posted on social media that he dared to bet 100 million RMB against any domestic fund (imitating Buffett's original agreement) on Moutai shares, with a ten-year timeframe. Duan Yongping stated: "The premise is that it must be agreed beforehand that the recipient of the winnings will approve it. I will donate to BBK Experimental School. There are too many details involved that are unclear. Unless a highly credible institution steps forward to do this. If both parties agree, the money will be donated first, and the loser will pay the other party after 10 years."