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Ant’s Falcon FX AI lands Citi, HSBC and StanChart
Artificial intelligence in the sphere of finance is moving from the stage of experimentation into the level of a component of the operation of global currency trade. Ant International announced on Thursday that it upgraded its Falcon forecasting program to version 2.0 and signed contracts with six major banks, which will use its model in...
Thu, Aug 20
FalconX sends $14 million in HYPE to Gate as institutional selling fears grow
On August 19, FalconX transferred 198,750 HYPE to Gate, which represents roughly $14 million, leading blockchain intelligence company Onchain Lens to hypothesize that this sends signals of a probable sell. The mere existence of one big exchange deposit may not say much. However, as it turns out that many institutional wallets seem to be lowering...
Thu, Aug 20
Bitcoin jumps 8.7% after Treasury buyback plan sends yields lower
On August 19, the U.S. Treasury announced that starting September 9, it will at least double its long-end buybacks, and Bitcoin surged as much as 8.7%, reaching an intraday high of $69,749. Bitcoin’s biggest daily move since March 4 occurred not because of a cryptocurrency-related development, but due to a government announcement regarding debt management....
Thu, Aug 20
OpenAI CFO tells employees the company will go public in 2027
OpenAI will go public in 2027, chief financial officer Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting on Wednesday, per CNBC, which cited two people familiar with her remarks who were not authorised to speak publicly. Friar said the company “will be a public company in 2027” and could debut earlier if the business continues...
Thu, Aug 20
Crypto PAC money sweeps four primaries, then stalls in Miami
Fairshake-backed candidates won four of five primaries Tuesday, but Oliver Gilbert beat more than $2 million in crypto PAC attack ads in Florida's 24th.
Wed, Aug 19
Winklevoss Capital sells its Zcash rigs to a company it backs and takes stock
Cypherpunk paid $33.33 million for a Zcash mining fleet with a warrant for 43.3 million shares instead of cash, diluting CYPH holders. The fleet runs 18% of ZEC hashrate.
Wed, Aug 19
The founder behind Waymo unveils new stealth robotics startup, Dulo
Sebastian Thrun, the engineer behind Google’s self-driving program that became Waymo, revealed on Tuesday that he is starting a new robotics company called Dulo. Thrun mentioned the new company only briefly at the end of his keynote at Actuate, a robotics conference, in San Francisco. He named the venture but did not share any further...
Wed, Aug 19
A $12 million Shanghai insurer just took in 2,380 Bitcoin for stock
Zhibao Technology closed a $154.7 million PIPE on August 17 funded entirely with 2,380 Bitcoin.
Wed, Aug 19
US OCC commits to November GENIUS Act finalization date
Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, has said that the office will publish its final rulebook for payment stablecoins by November. Gould delivered the GENIUS Act commitment during a fireside chat at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole on August 19. He said, “So we are very intent on...
Wed, Aug 19
Nvidia weighs a $20 billion bet on Mercor, its own AI data supplier
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) wants to put money into Mercor, a company that it buys training data for AI models from. The deal could value Mercor at $20 billion, but some experts worry that Nvidia’s “circular financing” could create risks for the financial system. Is Nvidia funding its suppliers? Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest...
Wed, Aug 19
FalconX and Ethena launch $1 billion institutional lending facility
Cryptocurrency broker FalconX and stablecoin protocol Ethena have partnered to launch a secured lending facility. The launch was announced by the two firms, which gives large crypto investors a new credit channel built around bank-style custody controls. How will Falcon X and Ethena’s facility work? FalconX and Ethena have announced that they are partnering to...
Wed, Aug 19
Berachain announces BUSD stablecoin rebrand in attempt to revive network activity
Today, 19th August, 2026, Berachain renamed its HONEY stablecoin to Bera USD (BUSD), essentially changing the token’s name and symbol but keeping the same token and contract address. This new change comes as on-chain activity on the Layer 1 drops to near record lows. New name, same token The Berachain Foundation announced the news on...
Wed, Aug 19
Grayscale makes fourth amendment to NYSE Arca-bound Zcash Trust
Grayscale is making moves that, if successful, will make Zcash Trust a US spot exchange-traded fund that would trade on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. The latest move is that the digital asset-focused investment platform filed a fourth amendment to its Form S-3 registration statement for Grayscale Zcash Trust (ZEC) on August 18 to...
Wed, Aug 19
Nvidia plays "matchmaker" in Nordics as region becomes more attractive, connects GPU companies with data center operators
Nvidia is introducing companies that hold its GPUs to Nordic data center operators with room to house them, sources have told CNBC, a sign the chipmaker wants to increase its influence spanning the entire AI buildout well beyond just selling chips. Chipmaker turned matchmaker According to CNBC’s reporting, published Wednesday, Nvidia reached out to at...
Wed, Aug 19
Mozilla ships an AI window with a kill switch and an Exa search deal
Mozilla added Exa-powered search, auto tab grouping and visual history previews to Firefox Smart Window on August 18, in an English beta for the US and Canada.
Wed, Aug 19
Marvell gives Google $12.2 billion stake in custom Ai chip deal, stock surges
Marvell Technology has given Google the right to purchase up to 58.97 million of its shares, a position said to be worth about $12.2 billion if fully exercised, with most of the stake being related to Google’s spending on custom chips until fiscal year 2033. The deal deepens Google’s push to build its own AI...
Wed, Aug 19
SK Hynix launches $28.6 million buyback after stock devalues
SK Hynix’s board has approved a 40 trillion won (about $29 billion) buyback and cancellation of its own stock, representing the largest treasury cancellation ever initiated by a listed South Korean company. The chipmaker’s management claims the action is guided by its view that the market prices the company below its actual worth. Largest stock...
Wed, Aug 19
Samsung unveils price hike, plant expansion plans as TSMC reaches capacity
Samsung has moved to cash in on the AI demand that has buyers scooping up more chips than production lines can deliver after reports that it is raising prices by as much as 15% on some of its advanced contract chipmaking. Filings seen by news outlets also confirm that the South Korean giant has ambitions...
Wed, Aug 19
An unreleased model called Astra pushed OpenAI to brake its own training
OpenAI says its largest frontier RL run stays paused, and new safety monitoring adds about 20% to compute weeks after an agent hacked Hugging Face.
Wed, Aug 19
Origin ships to Cursor's paying customers hours before GitHub's seven-hour failure
Cursor opened Origin to paid users Monday, hours before a 6-hour-42-minute GitHub outage. GitHub logged 257 outages in a year across 180 million developers.
Wed, Aug 19
