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Jinse Finance reported that, according to sources, Luxshare Precision has secured at least one assembly contract for an OpenAI device. In addition, OpenAI has also approached Goertek, the assembler of AirPods, HomePods, and Apple Watch, hoping to source speaker modules and other components for its future products. According to insiders, OpenAI's planned products include a smart speaker without a display, and it is also considering developing products such as glasses, digital voice recorders, and wearable pins. The first batch of devices is scheduled to be released at the end of 2026 or early 2027. OpenAI is making a strong push into the AI hardware sector and accelerating its efforts to poach talent from Apple, having reached a hardware manufacturing agreement with Luxshare Precision and currently in talks for cooperation with Goertek. Furthermore, since the beginning of this year, OpenAI has recruited more than 20 employees from Apple in the consumer hardware field.

Jinse Finance reported that after Federal Reserve Chairman Powell dampened market expectations for "more aggressive rate cuts," U.S. Treasury bonds experienced their first weekly decline since mid-August. On Friday, yields on U.S. Treasuries across various maturities rose by 1 to 3 basis points, extending the upward momentum that began after the Fed announced a 25 basis point rate cut on Wednesday. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield edged up to 4.12%, reaching its highest level in two weeks. At the press conference following the policy decision, Powell stated that policymakers would determine future monetary policy on a "meeting-by-meeting" basis. This statement curbed market expectations for "rapid rate cuts," although the interest rate swap market still tends to believe that the Fed will cut rates two more times this year. Amar Reganti, fixed income strategist at Hartford Funds, said: "Before this Fed meeting, the bond market was extremely optimistic in both sentiment and positioning. The Fed did implement a rate cut, and there may be a few more in the future, but this clearly did not endorse the market's current expectations." Previously, despite inflation remaining above the Fed's target, signs of weakness in the labor market led the market to bet that policymakers would quickly lower borrowing costs, driving U.S. Treasury prices to continue rising; however, the post-meeting sell-off ended this round of gains.