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Apple AI deal sends Alibaba and Baidu shares higher on China integration plans
Shares of Alibaba and Baidu climbed on Tuesday after Apple secured regulatory approval to roll out Apple Intelligence in mainland China. The approval clears a major hurdle for the iPhone maker’s long-awaited AI expansion in the world’s largest smartphone market. The approval confirms that the iPhone maker will rely on local partners Alibaba and Baidu...
Thu, Jul 16
ASML says AI chipmaking bottlenecks are beginning to ease as it expands capacity
On Wednesday (July 15), ASML announced to investors its intention to boost production capacity by 30% in each of the coming two years, and to increase its forecast revenues for 2026 for the second time already this year. This suggests that the machinery for making advanced AI chips may no longer serve as the tightest...
Thu, Jul 16
AI demand frames TSMC’s Q2 earnings as chip supply stays tight
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the contract producer of most advanced AI chips in the world, reports on its second quarter earnings today (July 16). The results could serve as one of the clearest indicators of how the AI boom is shifting the semiconductor industry since the production capabilities of TSMC still define the level...
Thu, Jul 16
SpaceX stock slips under its IPO price as listing hype cools
Shares of SpaceX went below their offer price of $135 on Wednesday for the very first time since its IPO in June, demonstrating that no record-setting IPO can remain untouched once the excitement of the first day of trading has passed. Anyone who purchased the stock after its IPO might find the ride painful. On...
Thu, Jul 16
xAI sues Grok user over explicit deepfakes of minors
Elon Musk’s xAI has taken a South Carolina man to federal court in Texas, accusing him of using the Grok chatbot to create sexually explicit deepfakes of minors, marking the very first time an AI company will sue one of its own users over content generated using its platform. The defendant, Terry Harwood, was arrested...
Thu, Jul 16
Kalshi traders price 88% chance of $4 US gas by July end
Kalshi traders now price the odds of the US national average gas price exceeding $4 per gallon by the end of July at 88%, per CNBC’s Wednesday market tracking. The same contract sat at 56% two days ago. Traders also give a 64% chance that the average crosses $4.10 and less than 5% odds of...
Thu, Jul 16
Strategy CEO says Bitcoin buys depend on STRC rebound
Phong Le, CEO of Strategy CEO, said on Tuesday that it is not planning to start purchasing bitcoin until its Stretch preferred stock reaches the $100 mark. It will re-evaluate its debt risk position only when the price of Bitcoin drops to $8,000. The statements are important not only for Strategy investors but also for...
Thu, Jul 16
Alberta and Quebec formalize AI coordination, one week after Meta and Claude deals in Alberta
Quebec and Alberta signed a five-year memorandum of understanding on July 14 to collaborate on deploying artificial intelligence in public administration. France-Élaine Duranceau, Quebec’s minister of cybersecurity and digital technology, and Nate Glubish, Alberta’s minister of technology and innovation, announced the agreement alongside Jean Boulet, Quebec’s minister responsible for Canadian relations. The agreement entails the...
Thu, Jul 16
Researchers have engineered an enzyme called CMLase that removes a common age-related protein modification
Scientists have cracked open one of the most neglected corners of aging research, proving in principle that a certain molecular damage that accelerates biological aging is reversible. Researchers at Revel Pharmaceuticals, working with Calico and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, have been able to create an enzyme that strips advanced glycation end products...
Wed, Jul 15
Xiaomi humanoids hit 98% success rate on factory tasks
Tech giant Xiaomi has revealed that its humanoid robots have hit 98% success rate, closing the gap with human workers, after four months of factory work and tuning. Xiaomi deployed the robots inside its car production facility in March. In the trial, the robots were tasked with picking screw nuts and fastening them to points...
Wed, Jul 15
BlackRock ended Q2 with $15.3 trillion in assets after receiving $192 billion in net inflows
BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) shares closed 7% higher Wednesday after second-quarter earnings beat forecasts, even as clients pulled cash from its crypto funds. The company ended June with $15.34 trillion under management, up 22% from $12.53 trillion a year earlier. Average assets rose 24% to $14.85 trillion, and net inflows reached $191.7 billion, versus $67.7 billion...
Wed, Jul 15
China approves Apple Intelligence after two years
China has given the green light for Apple’s AI service to be used on iPhones, removing the final major obstacle that had prevented the company from introducing its artificial intelligence features to millions of users across the country. On Wednesday, China’s internet regulator announced that Apple Intelligence has officially completed its registration and is authorized...
Wed, Jul 15
Google is fighting to keep a €1.49 billion EU antitrust fine scrapped over old AdSense contract rules
Google is having one of its worst weeks in Europe. The company is fighting to kill a $1.7 billion fine in court, bracing for new EU penalties, and facing a sharp report on how its AI treats children. At Europe’s top court Wednesday, Google asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to reject...
Wed, Jul 15
Revolut receives in-principle approval to offer crypto services in the UAE
Revolut has officially gotten past the first regulatory hurdle to offer crypto services in the United Arab Emirates. The fintech announced to its customers on Wednesday that Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has granted in-principle approval for its Virtual Assets Service Provider licence. This opens a path to regulated crypto trading in the Arab...
Wed, Jul 15
China moves to electric taxis to ease Hormuz oil scarcity issues
China imported 41.3% less crude oil in June this year compared to the same month a year earlier, with this posing as the country’s fuel import weakest month since October 2016. Electric taxis have helped to absorb a huge slice of the shortfall since the Strait of Hormuz crisis began. China’s import figures and petrol...
Wed, Jul 15
Ostium RWA perpetual DEX suffers $18M exploit
An attacker has drained 18 million in USDC from the Ostium vault on Arbitrum. Security firm Blockaid flagged the incident on X, blaming the attack on a manipulation of Ostium’s price feed. According to the security firm, the attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder and submitted authorized oracle reports dated into the future. That allowed...
Wed, Jul 15
Aave V4 launches on Avalanche in first deployment beyond Ethereum
Aave Labs confirmed through its blog that, for the first time since its deployment on the Ethereum blockchain, Aave V4 is now live on Avalanche. The deployment is part of the founder Stani Kulechov’s plan to route tokenized real-world assets through the network. What is different about V4? Aave, one of the largest decentralized lending...
Wed, Jul 15
UK review proposes whistleblower rewards among digital asset anti-fraud measures
Jonathan Fisher KC published a UK government-commissioned review on July 14. The review encourages paying whistleblowers to combat economic crime and training judges on crypto laundering and AI-enabled fraud cases. The report is titled “Fraud in the Digital Age,” and is the second and final part of the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences....
Wed, Jul 15
ORO Puts Avalanche in the Spotlight as Its Fluency Campaign Enters the Final Days
The clock is now officially ticking on ORO’s “Clarity for Avalanche” campaign, with the team confirming that only a few days remain for users to finish the program and claim a share of its 500,000 ORE Points pool before the July 22 cutoff. For those who haven’t been following, ORO is an AI-powered execution layer...
Wed, Jul 15
Musk ties full X open-source release to a security review
Elon Musk has announced that X will publish its entire codebase once the company finishes checking it for security vulnerabilities. The CEO wants outside reviewers to confirm that the released code is the same code running in production. Musk is promising a level of scrutiny no major social platform has offered in order to provide...
Wed, Jul 15
