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Bytedance signs first AI copyright truce with Hollywood
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association have signed a memorandum of understanding to build copyright guardrails into the company’s Seedance and Seedream AI generators, the first deal of its kind between Hollywood’s main studio lobby and an AI firm, according to the Los Angeles Times. Dispute started after popular Tom Cruise video The truce ends...
Mon, Aug 17
Groq raises $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation after Nvidia deal
Groq has finalized a $350 million funding round valuing the AI chip startup turned data center operator at $3.5 billion, which equals almost half of the $6.9 billion the startup was worth only last September before Nvidia licensed its technology and hired away its founder. Groq fall began from Nvidia poach Groq started in 2016,...
Mon, Aug 17
Nvidia to invest $1.5 billion in SB energy under OpenAI data center deal
Nvidia has announced plans to invest $1.5 billion into SB Energy, the SoftBank-backed developer building a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio. OpenAI has already committed to lease the data centre for 20 years to run its AI workloads. Nvidia becomes SB Energy shareholder The stake makes Nvidia a shareholder in SB Energy alongside...
Mon, Aug 17
Trump's World Liberty Financial partners with restricted Chinese company to offer AI
Crypto company backed by President Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial, is connected to WorldClaw, a Hong Kong platform that offers access to Chinese AI models that have been marked by the U.S. government as security risks, according to a report by Reuters on Monday. Flagged Chinese labs fill WorldClaw AI menu WorldClaw has a catalogue...
Mon, Aug 17
Harmony Protocol moves to reverse downtrend with rollback plan announcement
Harmony has published a detailed rollback plan that would rewind its blockchain to cancel the effects of an attacker who forged billions of ONE tokens. The move will discard every transaction confirmed on the network since the incident, deleting legitimate user activity along with the fraud. What is Harmony doing to its blockchain? The Harmony...
Mon, Aug 17
Russia’s leading stock exchange to offer perpetual futures on BTC and ETH
Russia’s largest stock market, the Moscow Exchange, is going to add perpetual futures on Bitcoin and Ethereum to its crypto derivatives lineup. The news comes ahead of the enforcement of the “digital currency” law next month, which thoroughly regulates investment in coins and related products. MOEX to offer new futures contracts on BTC and ETH...
Mon, Aug 17
Ethereum opens Glamsterdam open to public testing with Platåberget launch
The Ethereum Foundation up the ante ahead on the upcoming rollout of its Glamsterdam upgrade earlier today when it announced Platåberget, a public testnet where anyone can get an preview of the upcoming upgrade before it formally goes live on mainnet. The Foundation emphasized the urgency of early action for wallets, blockchain indexers gas estimators...
Mon, Aug 17
No BTC sale this week as Strategy builds USD reserve to $4.8B
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) did not have fresh Bitcoin sales to report this week, with the main changes to the Saylor-led firm’s books coming from common stock sales that earned it $333.7 million, which it directed into paying dividends, buying back its own STRC preferred share and building its USD reserve to $4.8 billion. The firm’s...
Mon, Aug 17
Knaken bought crypto in its own name, so customers own a euro claim and not the coins
Dutch prosecutors sold Knaken's seized crypto for €2.2 million, the only money in an estate where customers put in €10 million to €12 million.
Mon, Aug 17
Rented Macs hand attackers root access through a Screen Sharing login
CISA raised macOS Screen Sharing flaw CVE-2026-65400 from 7.1 to a critical 9.8 after attackers took root on exposed Macs and installed Monero miners.
Mon, Aug 17
SODA Now Trading on Kraken Worldwide as SODAX Clears MiCA Compliance in the EU
SODA, the successor to ICX, is now live worldwide on Kraken as SODAX secures MiCA-compliant standing in the EU. ZUG, SWITZERLAND, Aug. 17, 2026 — SODAX, the cross-network execution and liquidity infrastructure that succeeded the ICON Network, saw its token SODA begin trading worldwide on Kraken today across the Sonic and Arbitrum blockchain networks, following...
Mon, Aug 17
HIVE bets $185 million on 2,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs to chase a $200 million ARR target
HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year $350 million GPU cloud contract, adding $70 million in annualized revenue and targeting $500,000 in daily AI revenue.
Mon, Aug 17
China adds eight banks as digital yuan operators, lifting the roster to 30
China’s central bank has approved eight more lenders to run digital yuan services. Beijing is attempting to make the currency an option for everyday and cross-border use. With the addition of these banks, the number of authorized digital yuan operators has risen to 30. What banks can offer digital yuan services? The People’s Bank of...
Mon, Aug 17
Blockstream Swaps enters beta testing phase, fills Boltz gap in BTC ecosystem
Blockstream announced that its trustless service for moving Bitcoin across the main chain, the Lightning Network and the Liquid sidechain has entered the beta testing phase. The Blockstream Swaps service, which was announced as the solution to the Boltz-shaped hole that appeared in the Bitcoin ecosystem, arrives about one week after Boltz shut down its...
Mon, Aug 17
Higgsfield raises $400 million, betting creators will make ads with AI
Higgsfield, an AI video startup for social media creators and marketers, has raised $400 million, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. This funding is focused on products that help everyday people create high-quality advertisements and short-form videos without the need for a film crew. Reports suggest that some of the contributors include Goldman Sachs and...
Mon, Aug 17
China’s CXMT gets Binance listing as traders chase IPO gains
Changxin Memory Technology (CXMT) remains one of the highly active on-chain traders. The stock is also coming to Binance, with a new contract expected to launch on August 18.
Mon, Aug 17
Binance helped Russia build case against IT specialist over $700 Ukraine donation, Reuters
Binance’s compliance and cooperation policy is once again drawing scrutiny after a Reuters report fingered the exchange’s role in helping authorities in Moscow build a criminal case against a Russian IT specialist accused of donating roughly $700 to Ukraine. The biggest exchange in the world has found itself in an all-too-familiar spot where it is...
Mon, Aug 17
BitMart shutdown gets messy as staff speak out over unpaid wages
The closing down of BitMart has turned into a test of trust for the crypto exchange industry as a whole. Current and former employees and users already locked out of the exchange are demanding to know where their unpaid salaries and funds stand. The conflict arises as traders monitor the indicators of stress among mid-size...
Mon, Aug 17
State of the Crypto Industry 2026 report with Sumsub VP North America, Danielle Labarbera
The crypto industry is entering its era of regulated maturity, shaped by new frameworks such as the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts. At the same time, fraud is evolving into AI‑driven, lifecycle‑based attacks that demand smarter defenses. In this interview, Danielle Labarbera, Sumsub VP North America, shares more insights from its State of the Crypto Industry...
Mon, Aug 17
Chainalysis takes on US government over $95M TRM Labs contract
Chainalysis is contesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $94.7 million contract award to TRM Labs in federal court. The company filed the lawsuit on July 27, with TRM Labs joining the case on the government’s side. A court order issued four days later allowed the complaint to remain sealed and set forth an expedited briefing process....
Mon, Aug 17
