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SpaceX shares jumps 11% to about $148, putting the stock 10% above its IPO price
SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) shares had a big Wednesday, jumping 11% and ending the session at around $148. That puts the stock well above where it started trading after its IPO. SpaceX is now sitting roughly 10% higher than its $135 IPO price and about 41% above the low it hit on Aug. 3. The stock...
Wed, Aug 12
Fake deposits emptied the tx bridge while 17 relayers signed every payout
An attacker drained 99.7% of the tx XRP bridge reserve on August 9, taking 199,916 XRP worth about $200,000 by feeding the software fake deposits.
Wed, Aug 12
Pennies on the dollar: BubbleMaps recalls warnings as LAB crashes 99%
LAB token, which the blockchain analytics firm BubbleMaps warned holders about, has fallen 99%. The token’s combined value of an early presale group has dropped from about $1 billion to roughly $6.8 million. Why did LAB crash? The LAB crash started in early June, just days after it hit its all-time high of $27.22. BubbleMaps...
Wed, Aug 12
Menlo Ventures doubles down as Lovable hits $13.3B in eight months
Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling in eight months, with the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund joining as co-lead investor.
Wed, Aug 12
Uber dumps its entire stake in Serve Robotics
Uber has sold all its shares in Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot company it spun out five years ago. Serve only learned about the sale when the regulatory filing became public. Regulatory filing details Uber’s Serve divestment Uber revealed the sale in a regulatory filing last week. The document shows the sale happened between...
Wed, Aug 12
New York Council sends letters to Kalshi, Polymarket in prediction markets ad probe
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin issued letters to Kalshi, Coinbase, Polymarket, and Gemini Titan, informing each company that the council has begun investigating allegations of “false, deceptive, unconscionable, and objectionable marketing practices.” The announcement comes right as the city’s fight with prediction markets made headway with both a major lawsuit and a federal...
Wed, Aug 12
Google DeepMind expands AI, search access with sign-language-to-text launch
Google DeepMind has released a sign-language-to-text model called SL2T, and it will be inside Gboard and Live Transcribe on the new Pixel 11. The company says it is the first sign language AI to ship in a real consumer product. Signing to the phone instead of typing People who can hear and speak have been...
Wed, Aug 12
Goldman Sachs to expand ETF offerings with acquisiton of US ETF provider NEOS investments in $2.25 billion deal
Top U.S. banking and investment firm, Goldman Sachs, has agreed a deal to purchase NEOS Investments, a Connecticut firm that runs options-based income ETFs, in a cash-and-equity deal worth up to $2.25 billion. The transaction, announced Wednesday, deepens Goldman Sachs’ push into one of asset management’s fastest-growing corners and lands the firm among the ten...
Wed, Aug 12
Fake $TSLA presale uses wallet screening to target victims for draining
A $500 scam kit sold on a cybercrime forum builds a fake $TSLA presale, harvests 12-word recovery phrases, and inflates fake balances to bill victims twice.
Wed, Aug 12
CoreWeave, SueprMicro surge boosts AI stocks
Shares across the AI infrastructure industry rose on Wednesday after CoreWeave, Super Micro Computer and Nebius Group all reported quarterly results eclipsing analyst forecasts. This rally also dragged server makers, memory suppliers and optical component firms to higher numbers in one single session. Nebius leads gainers, CoreWeave closes behind Nebius Group (NBIS) was up there...
Wed, Aug 12
Tencent sees 11% gain in Q2 revenue due to AI-driven gains, profits fall short
Tencent Holdings reported Q2 2026 revenue of RMB204.8 billion, a figure up 11% from a year earlier. However, reported net profit barely moved as the Chinese tech giant poured even more funding into AI infrastructure. The revenue figure, equal to about US$30.4 billion for the three months ending 30 June, came in just ahead of...
Wed, Aug 12
Codex lands on Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora as OpenAI closes its last desktop gap
OpenAI shipped a preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux with Codex, covering Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora about a month after Anthropic reached the platform.
Wed, Aug 12
Hyperliquid is seeking a compliant path to launch perp trading in the U.S
Hyperliquid has ramped up its lobbying of U.S. regulators in search of a compliant way to bring perpetual futures to the country. The Information reporter, Yueqi Yang, who interviewed Hyperliquid Policy Center on the matter, revealed that the perp exchange “has stepped up outreach to U.S. regulators as it looks for path to U.S. markets.”...
Wed, Aug 12
TRON Powered $2.1T in Q2 USDT Transfers; Messari and Nansen Report Record Activity and Institutional Adoption
Geneva, Switzerland, August 12, 2026 — Messari and Nansen, leading platforms in blockchain research and analytics, have released independent reports examining activity across the TRON network during the second quarter of 2026. The reports highlight record transaction and address activity, continued protocol development through governance upgrades and progress toward post-quantum capabilities, as well as broader...
Wed, Aug 12
San Mateo County pushes to create rules for humanoids
San Mateo County may soon become one of the first places in the United States to regulate the commercial use of humanoid robots. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to start creating local rules that would require businesses to get a permit before using humanoid robots for work. San Mateo...
Wed, Aug 12
Bank of England taps Polygon for Phase 2 of digital pound trials
The Bank of England has selected Polygon Labs, NOBO Finance, and business-data provider Dun & Bradstreet to run the next round of its Digital Pound Lab. These companies are testing how a central bank digital pound and private stablecoins could settle different parts of the same cross-border trade deal. What problem is the Bank of...
Wed, Aug 12
A data-licensing claim against Kalshi collapsed in 24 hours without a ruling
Kalshi still runs its flight-cancellation markets. It relabeled the settlement source as Primary Source Agency, and FlightAware's lawsuit vanished in a day.
Wed, Aug 12
China-linked hackers use open-source AI to breach Taiwan government systems
Suspected Chinese operators turned freely available AI agents into an autonomous hacking tool that broke into Taiwanese government networks over four days in early July, according to the Financial Times. The Israeli AI firm Dream said the attack broke into at least 85 accounts and stole more than 2500 personnel records. How were Taiwanese government...
Wed, Aug 12
Solana came 86% of the way to a halt as 28% of stake went dark
Solana’s network came within 14% of crashing to a halt early on Wednesday, August 12, after 28.83% of the network’s staked SOL fell out of consensus. The delinquency that occurred on Teraswitch, and reported by the Marinade Finance staking protocol, would have ended Solana’s 30-month uptime streak. However, the network only got 86% of the...
Wed, Aug 12
Oracle is adding Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer to OCI for direct cloud access
Larry Ellison’s company Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) announced on Wednesday that it is bringing Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, so OCI customers can use commercial quantum hardware through the cloud instead of having to buy and run the machine themselves. The two companies have signed a deal that will last several years. Helios...
Wed, Aug 12
