Trendly digest — 2026-08-31
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Excerpt from TheStreet: “Oil prices surge as the U.S. launches strikes near the Strait of Hormuz.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump plans to seize direct control of Venezuela’s oil reserves, announcing that a deal had been reached with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez in which the US will control more than 65 billion barrels of oil “through a partnership with private…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The lightweight, sensitive skin-friendly earrings go with anything.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s surprise cabinet overhaul appears aimed at strengthening his control of the policy agenda amid mounting public discontent over housing, justice and widening inequality despite an accelerating economy.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Assets in single-stock ETFs tied to Samsung and SK Hynix have been cut in half.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Monday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan, their first meeting since the start of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “ChatGPT, Reddit Inc. and video game company Roblox Corp. will face stricter European Union scrutiny after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China’s president has a busy week on the international stage.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Huawei Technologies Co. posted a deep profit decline after the Chinese tech champion grappled with rising memory costs and poured more resources into semiconductor research.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The United Arab Emirates called for a “more realistic approach” to end the six-month Iran war after fending off an Iranian drone attack.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “China laid out conditions for artificial intelligence talks with the US, striking a strident tone ahead of a much-anticipated meeting while accusing American AI company Anthropic PBC of bad behavior.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Zambia’s majority state-owned mining investor is considering selling a stake in the business that owns minority interests in most of the nation’s biggest copper mines, its chief executive officer said.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “About $5 billion in US-backed investment and financing is converging on an open-pit mine in the forested hills of Brazil’s central state of Goias, part of Washington’s push to break its dependence on China for rare earths.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Fed Chairman’s Jackson Hole inflation warning has traders pricing in new odds of a rate hike as early as September.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Singapore has earmarked S$220 million ($173 million) over three years to fund financial technology and innovation, as it seeks to stay competitive with other rival hubs including Hong Kong that are also investing in this area.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Ireland unveiled details of new savings accounts that aim to encourage retail investment with tax incentives and unlock some of large proportion of household assets held in cash.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s advantage over Flávio Bolsonaro decreased ahead of Brazil’s October election, as the leftist leader faces fallout from corruption allegations against one of his sons.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"Reminds me of a Royal Oak."”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"This is like having a laptop, but it's more portable and has better battery life."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The yen’s breach of 160 versus the dollar underscores the Japanese currency’s vulnerability to further weakness and the heightened risk of authorities entering the market again to slow its decline.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Japanese bond yields have climbed so sharply that analysts say Government Pension Investment Fund may be justified in eventually raising its domestic debt allocation target from 25% to seek higher returns.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"I could not be happier with the price and quality."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “SK Hynix Inc. is studying the feasibility of potential sites for memory chip manufacturing expansion in Japan, adding to efforts to meet surging AI demand while controlling production costs.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Nvidia’s AI demand isn’t the problem anymore”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “US stock futures slipped in thin trading and oil prices jumped on the back of renewed hostilities in the Middle East.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bond investors at firms including ABN AMRO Investment Solutions and Brandywine Global Investment Management are voicing skepticism about mounting speculation that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is poised to raise interest rates.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “PetroChina Co.’s rising profits from trading and chemicals point to how China’s oil majors are adjusting to a new era of declining demand for gasoline and diesel.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Open Multi-Agent Interactive Classroom — Get an immersive, multi-agent learning experience in just one click”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams—self-contained HTML with motion and crisp export.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 190,000+ scientists worldwide. 165 ready-to-use validated skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude…”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Advanced UX and interoperability extension for Wand (WeMod) app”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages (known as ipa files) for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS from the App Store.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “🧠 Train a 64M-parameter LLM from scratch in just 2h!”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into an AI server. LLM inference, chat UI, voice, agents, workflows, RAG, and image generation.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Reverse Engineering / Authorized Penetration Testing / Security Research Skill Router Pack AI-powered routing + On-demand toolchain bootstrapping + Self-evolving knowledge base Supports Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Cline, and other AI coding clients 逆向/渗透/安全技能路由包 - AI 自动路由 +…”
Excerpt from GitHub: “The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.”
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