HONG KONG, September 8th, 2026 — Liquidity Arena 2026, an AI quantitative trading competition organized by global institutional prime broker LTP, will enter its dual-track main competition on September 9, bringing together AI developers, research teams, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, high-frequency trading
An Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, said he resigned from the company, alleging that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with human lives. The researcher said he spent the last three years on pre-training work at both companies. He made the claims in a series of posts
Hedge funds are stacking bets that the Japanese yen keeps climbing, with options positioning pointing to a dollar-yen rate below 150 by year-end and, in some longer-dated trades, as low as 140. That positioning reaches well past currency desks. Cheap yen borrowing has bankrolled years of leverage across global risk