$1.3 trillion U.S. asset manager Blackstone has agreed to invest in South Korea’s supplier of high-precision actuators, Futronic.  Blackstone said Monday private equity funds affiliated with the company entered a definitive agreement to “make a significant investment” in Futronic.  The firm didn’t disclose the size of the investment. However, the deal values the South Korean...

America spends 23 times more than China on private AI. Yet one Chinese model, Kimi K3, has Washington talking about bans again.Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report counts $285.9 billion in US private AI in

Grayscale filed with the SEC on July 20 for a spot Worldcoin (WLD) exchange-traded fund. The fund would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD.Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart confirmed the filing

Bitcoin (BTC) has climbed above $65,000 on Monday as improving onchain activity, recovering US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows, and stabilizing derivatives point to a more balanced market, according to Glassnode.

Kenya restored President William Ruto’s official website on Sunday, following an attack from unknown hackers who hacked and defaced its homepage, demanding a ransom of 5 Bitcoin, and threatening to leak alleged stolen files if payment was not made.  Visitors to president.go.ke on Saturday were met with a cryptocurrency wallet address, insulting messages directed at...

Crypto wallet company Exodus is laying off 25% its workforce as it looks to restructure its business towards stablecoin payments. Exodus announced the cut on Friday, saying the decision is intended to align the company’s cost structure and priorities with its ongoing efforts to become a card issuance and payments platform through its recently acquired...

Chris Fall has resigned as the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after about three months in the job.  The Commerce Department confirmed his departure on Monday. Now the federal government’s main AI-testing body is left without a permanent chief.  Why did Chris Fall leave CAISI? Axios was the first outlet to...

US spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pulled in $75.7 million last week, their second winning week in a row. Bitcoin also reclaimed $65,000 on Monday as hopes grew that US-Iran talks may

The hottest thing in artificial intelligence (AI) is not a chip or a chatbot. It is an IOU. Morgan Stanley expects AI companies to raise $570 billion from the bond market in 2026.Nvidia and Kimi K3, M

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told his followers on X that his posts do not serve as an endorsement of any kind. Regardless, traders ignored his “warnings” with many pushing back.  On July 20, Armstrong responded to the buzz around his social media activity, particularly his profile picture, and reiterated the disclaimer on his X bio....

AMD’s stock increased by almost 5% on Monday following the chip company’s announcement that it and Microsoft were strengthening their business partnership, with Microsoft agreeing to integrate AMD’s new rack-scale AI technology into its data centers. Investors now have more motivation to support AMD as a legitimate rival since the move is perceived as a...

With the cryptocurrency exchange scheduled to report data on July 30, traders on prediction market platforms are wagering that Coinbase’s trading volume in the second quarter fell significantly below projections. Part of the reason the bets are getting attention is that the platforms that handle them have expanded significantly in the last 12 months. In...

The Chinese robotics market had a blast in the first half of the year, with sales topping the rest of the world. Data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday says Chinese quadruped robots accounted for nearly 70% of global sales in H1 2026. China has also now built 400 humanoid...

A real German rail timetable has now been processed with a quantum system, giving the industry a test using railway data rather than a classroom example. IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX) cooperated with Deutsche Bahn in running 190 train paths in five cities. This scheduling problem offered 98,500 combinations, making the task impossible to check...

Key takeaways KuCoin Token (KCS) is the native utility token of the KuCoin ecosystem, and our KuCoin price prediction points to a maximum of $18.00 in 2026, with longer-term projections reaching an average of $74.20 and a high of $96.80 by 2032. Introduced in 2017, KCS gives holders discounts on trading fees, daily rewards from...

Alphabet (GOOGL) stock climbed about 3% on Monday. The trigger was a report from The Information that Google is building a new AI chip, called Frozen v2, to run its Gemini models up to 10 times more e

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares climbed roughly 3% after news emerged that Google is developing a new server chip, internally called Frozen v2, which is designed to run its Gemini AI models more efficiently. Class C shares closed at $346.12 on Friday, which put the intraday move at roughly $11 per share. According to reports, the...

Ethereum (ETH) is hovering near $1,900 following a drop in accumulation by BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) in favor of $85 million worth of share buybacks and continued recovery in ETH exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The Trump administration is considering placing restrictions that could stop US companies from running cutting-edge Chinese open-source AI models, a step that would hand OpenAI and Anthropic a stronger hold over the domestic market, Axios reported Monday. The trigger is said to be the arrival of Kimi K3 from the Chinese lab Moonshot AI. The...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says the leverage washout that crashed crypto markets is over. Bitcoin (BTC) now shows “more stability at these levels,” he told CNBC on July 15.Fink spoke after BlackRock rep

Vietnam will fine individual investors as much as 50 million dong (about $1,900) for buying or selling crypto through platforms the Ministry of Finance has not licensed.  The rules are set to take effect on September 1 and are an attempt by the government to bring the millions of Vietnamese citizens who currently trade on...

Sweden’s BTC AB listed Europe’s first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock on Monday. The shares, called BTC PREF, trade on the Spotlight Stock Market and pay a fixed 10% yearly dividend that lands in inves

Hut 8 signed another 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion on Monday to fill the remaining capacity at its 1-gigawatt Beacon Point data center campus in Texas, with the company’s shares rising by about 5% in premarket trading as a result. The lease is expected to cover 352 megawatts of capacity. The megawatt has become a...

The cryptocurrency market broadly struggles to gain momentum on Monday, with Shiba Inu (SHIB) trading around $0.0000042, while Dogecoin (DOGE) slides toward the nearest $0.072 support.

Apple stock (AAPL) is within roughly 4% of a $5 Trillion milestone after a rapid rally. The next earnings report will test whether fundamentals can support the move.Apple shares currently remain 9.8%

Ethereum’s validator exit queue has fallen to zero again this year, signaling that no existing stakers are unwilling to leave the network. The exit queue has been empty for three days now, between July 18 and 20th, according to on-chain data from ValidatorQueue. The data indicates there is currently no rush among Ethereum stakers to...

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Shiba Inu (SHIB) price sits near multi-year lows, and its biggest recent headline, a physical collectible coin from Japan’s Rakuten, does nothing to change the token’s weak on-chain reality.The data t

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