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Bitcoin fell 20% over the last 90 days, while equities rose
Bitcoin is steeply lagging behind equities, and until it begins to regain strength, the current market will remain dominated by stocks, according to Glassnode. Over the past 90 days, Bitcoin has dropped by 20%, four times as much as the S&P 500, which rose by 5% in the same period. Looking further back, the crypto...
Tue, Aug 11
Intel’s $20B raise reveals the hidden cost of the AI boom
On August 11, 2026, Intel launched a sale of $20 billion worth of common stock, making it one of the largest stock releases by a chip manufacturer during the current AI spending fever. The transaction reveals the amount of capital that companies think they must raise to meet the increasing demand for AI computing. This...
Tue, Aug 11
Bitcoin’s 10,000-BTC wallets hit 6-month high, what’s next?
Santiment data shows that the total number of Bitcoin wallets registered with a minimum balance of 10,000 BTC has reached 90, the highest level in 6 months, even as the smallest wallets have continued selling. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $64,322 at the press time. The divergence might provide a hint about the next...
Tue, Aug 11
US-based Dyna Robotics has released its DYNA-2 robot trained on human videos
Dyna Robotics on Monday introduced a new robot foundation model DYNA-2, which it says was trained on over a million hours of human video and no robot data. The US-based company believes this approach could help solve the cost issues that have limited general-purpose robots. Why robot builders keep running out of training data DYNA-2...
Tue, Aug 11
Trump Media passes Tesla in Bitcoin holdings, posts $238M quarterly loss
Trump Media & Technology Group (Nasdaq: DJT) told investors it lost $238 million in the second quarter, even as its Bitcoin stash grew large enough to overtake Elon Musk’s Tesla. The $238 million loss is more than ten times the company’s reported loss in the same period last year. The main cause of the losses...
Tue, Aug 11
Ravencoin consensus bug puts exchanges and bridges on reorg alert
Ravencoin, a proof-of-work chain worth around $57 million, warns about an attack exploiting a critical consensus flaw in which the compromised nodes will be able to validate blocks that shouldn’t be accepted. However, the problem with the attack isn’t limited to Ravencoin. Chain reorganization in a coin that’s worth relatively little could result in freezing...
Tue, Aug 11
Riot Platforms signs a $9 billion AI data center deal with Anthropic
Riot Platforms shares jumped over 20% before U.S. markets opened on Tuesday, following reports that Anthropic is the buyer behind a $9.1 billion, 20-year deal to lease AI computing capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Texas campus. When Riot Platforms announced the deal on Monday, it did not reveal the other party, calling the tenant only...
Tue, Aug 11
Musk's SpaceX continues surge above $135 IPO price as Vietnam comes onboard
An Elon Musk victory lap could be on the horizon as SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) backed its first close above its $135 IPO price for the first time in a while with news that it will help Vietnam’s VinSpace launch its first satellites in 2027. The Tuesday announcement puts Musk’s rocket firm solidly in another country’s...
Tue, Aug 11
South Korea removes Travel Rule threshold, tightens crypto operator vetting
South Korea’s Cabinet has approved an amendment that gets rid of the requirement for exchanges to report crypto transfers over 1 million won. The amendment also mandates financial-health tests for exchange operators. What is changing about reporting requirements for South Korean exchanges? The Financial Intelligence Unit of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has approved a...
Tue, Aug 11
China turns to local AI labs top beef up extreme weather monitoring
China has found a new route in its push to become a global AI powerhouse as the country’s weather agency and research institutes have put domestically built AI models at the frontline of its typhoon monitoring and forecasting system. Asia’s largest economy also already has its eyes on expansion routes as it is now planning...
Tue, Aug 11
iOS 27 code shows Apple building a way to prove a photo is not AI
Apple Reference Image, found in iOS 27 beta 5, would let iPhone owners prove a photo came from their camera sensor.
Tue, Aug 11
Lawmakers warn banks refusing crypto clients could paralyze UK market growth
Around 40% of domestic crypto transfers are currently delayed or outrightly rejected by British banks. Moreover, four-fifths of exchanges have seen an increase in the number of blocked transactions over the past 12 months. Some lawmakers are now questioning the trend. They have cautioned that high-street banks refusing crypto clients could potentially paralyze UK market...
Tue, Aug 11
Kalshi hit with FlightAware suit over airport cancellation betting markets
FlightAware sued Kalshi in New York federal court on August 10, seeking an injunction to kill the prediction platform's flight cancellation betting markets.
Tue, Aug 11
Hangzhou opens a robot school where 30 humanoids sit certification exams
China opened its first vocational school for humanoid robots in Hangzhou, enrolling 30 machines that train across four tracks and sit certification exams.
Tue, Aug 11
OpenAI hands staff $7 billion cash exit as IPO timeline slips
OpenAI repurchased $7 billion in employee stock at an $852 billion valuation, the same price set in its March round, as its confidential IPO filing waits.
Tue, Aug 11
An OpenClaw agent deleted a stranger's gym booking
An OpenClaw agent running Claude Opus 4.6 exploited a gym booking API, deleted another member's waitlist reservation, and moved its owner to the third spot.
Tue, Aug 11
Pump.fun Takes 98% of Launchpad Revenue as Daily Volume Hits $542 Million
There’s been a noticeable resurgence in the memecoins space over the past couple of weeks and the numbers become apparent when we look at launchpad metrics. In fact, Blockworks data shows that last week saw over 587,000 tokens created on launchpads, the largest number of tokens launched in a single week. That said, there is...
Tue, Aug 11
AI capex wave pushes Singapore to double its 2026 growth outlook
Singapore GDP grew 5.9% year-on-year in Q2 2026, and MTI raised its full-year forecast to 4.5% to 5.5% as AI capital spending lifted electronics exports.
Tue, Aug 11
Best AI Agent Builders in 2026: 8 No-Code and Low-Code Platforms Compared
McKinsey’s latest State of AI report revealed that 62% of organizations have started experimenting with AI agents in some form. However, Gartner expects over 40% of these projects to be scrapped by 2027. This is mainly because among the thousands of vendors promising to provide ‘agentic AI’. Gartner reckons that only 130 of them provide...
Tue, Aug 11
OpenAI hands vetted security firms a model that answers 95% of hacking prompts
OpenAI split Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers and released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a hacking-focused model that answers 95% of advanced cyber prompts.
Tue, Aug 11
