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1872 raises $15 million to automate steel welding for AI data centers
Three ex-SpaceX engineers raised $15 million to open 1872, a Cincinnati steel factory using robotic welding to supply AI data centers and nuclear reactors.
Tue, Aug 18
Bitcoin lands on the same custody rails Citi uses for equities and bonds
Citi will hold bitcoin for institutional clients later this year through Custody+, the same Investor Services platform it uses for traditional securities.
Tue, Aug 18
Paris keeps its cyber testing at home as Mistral gets the work OpenAI cannot
France will hire sovereign AI firms such as Mistral, not OpenAI, to probe government systems after a tax agency breach exposed 700,000 taxpayers.
Tue, Aug 18
Airtel's free year of Perplexity Pro ends, and the auto-renewal charges begin
Perplexity's India mobile revenue hit $156,000 a month in July 2026 as free Airtel Pro subscriptions expired and downloads fell more than 90%.
Tue, Aug 18
Trump's SEC and CFTC move to write crypto rules as CLARITY Act stalls
Two of the United States’ financial regulators, headed by Trump-appointed chiefs, are planning to write cryptocurrency rules on their own while the CLARITY Act remains stuck in the Senate. Lawmakers have only about 14 working days after they return from recess to pass the CLARITY Act before the October election break. What are the proposed...
Tue, Aug 18
Justiin Sun dismisses 'made up' HTX address poisoning rumors
Justin Sun, the founder of TRON and owner of the HTX exchange, has dismissed a wave of reports that exchange wallets had been spraying small crypto transfers at unrelated addresses. Sun said that the claims were fabricated, writing in Chinese on X on August 18, which, when translated to English, reads, “The investigation is clear:...
Tue, Aug 18
OpenAI launches teen ChatGPT with tighter limits for under-18s
OpenAI has started rolling out a version of ChatGPT built specifically for Teens aged 13 to 17. The rollout comes after OpenAI has been dragged through the courts over lawsuits tying ChatGPT conversations to teen suicides. How will the teen ChatGPT work? OpenAI is rolling out a new version of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, which...
Tue, Aug 18
Metaplanet takes Super League stake for US Bitcoin treasury Superplanet
Superplanet (Nasdaq: SLE) opened trading hot on Tuesday, August 18, after Metaplanet revealed its plan to take over roughly 95.7% stake in Super League Enterprise’s (Nasdaq: SLE) business in exchange for 2,100 Bitcoin and $2.5 million in cash. The deal closed with the Nasdaq-listed gaming firm getting a rebrand as a US Bitcoin treasury company,...
Tue, Aug 18
Crypto Fundraising in July 2026
Crypto companies raised $1.36B across 41 VC rounds in July. Investment fell only 6.8% from June, but round count dropped 28%, and one $400M strategic round supplied almost a third of the total. Key Takeaways Introduction Headline investment was resilient, but market breadth weakened. Crypto companies raised $1.36B in venture capital, only $100M less than...
Tue, Aug 18
AI startup Etched valuation doubles to $20B in one month with fresh $700M raise
Etched is already eyeing a fresh funding round that will more than double the AI inference chips startup’s valuation at around $21 billion, barely one month after its late July Sequoia-led $300 million Series C round that valued the firm at $10.3 billion. The new numbers cited in the Wall Street Journal’s August 18 report...
Tue, Aug 18
Baidu's AI gains not enough as Q2 revenue misses analysts estimates
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) missed Wall Street’s second-quarter revenue estimate on Tuesday, August 18, reporting 31.3 billion yuan ($4.62 billion) for the three months to June, which is a 4% drop from a year earlier. Analysts at LSEG had expected about 31.96 billion yuan, and Baidu came in under that mark. The company recorded a quarterly...
Tue, Aug 18
Ripple lands a Korean bank as Seoul moves to block Polymarket
South Korean regulators approved Ripple’s integration with the country’s banking system on the same day a media watchdog voted to cut off access to the prediction market Polymarket. South Korean regulators have joined a widening crackdown against Polymarket while approving Ripple’s partnership with Jeonbuk Bank. Jeonbuk Bank is Ripple’s first regional lender in Korea Ripple...
Tue, Aug 18
Nvidia enters South Korea's humanoid robot push as LG hosts Madison Huang
South Korea’s AI and robotics push came to the fore again after LG Electronics hosted Nvidia senior director Madison Huang during a Tuesday trip to its robot data factory in southern Seoul. The younger Huang’s visit to the Yangjae campus in Seocho District came after her father, Jensen Huang, who is also Nvidia’s chief executive...
Tue, Aug 18
Circle’s EURC hits €400M in a slow push against dollar stablecoins
Circle revealed that its euro stablecoin (EURC) has now crossed the mark of €400 million in circulation within around four years since it was launched. Although this amount is still insignificant compared to the dollar stablecoins, this gap is part of the overall picture. Establishing a serious payment rail that doesn’t rely on the dollar...
Tue, Aug 18
HTX-linked transfers trigger fears of wallet screening and freezes
Wallets linked to HTX have sent out USDT to multiple addresses, and some owners have already reported having their account frozen due to the recent ban on HTX interactions. The spam attack is also considered a compliance poisoning attack, turning legitimate users into targets for account freezes.
Tue, Aug 18
Uniswap founder pitches AMM as efficient alternative for RWA boom
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has presented his own argument for why automated market makers (AMMs) should be at the center of the tokenization wave that has taken over global finance as markets continue to shift to meet the demand for always-on infrastructure. Hayden’s comments land as Uniswap has gone all out in its own push...
Tue, Aug 18
Ondo’s QQQon gets $2.3M Ethereum bet as tokenized stocks expand
One trader used $2,328,595.73 to buy 3,167.53 QQQon in one Ethereum transaction this week, a seven-figure purchase that Ondo Finance pointed out as proof that tokenized stocks are no longer in the experimental phase. The announcement of the trade was made by Ondo on August 17, and its alerts confirmed the same number of tokens...
Tue, Aug 18
US charges alleged $165M crypto Ponzi operator after Fiji extradition
Authorities in the United States have accused Edward Zimbardi, age 59, of orchestrating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme amounting to $165 million, contributing to the list of several high-profile cases of scams in the current year. According to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, the man faced charges in...
Tue, Aug 18
RWA DeFi Deposits Near $4 Billion After 6x Growth in One Year
Real World Assets that are actively deployed inside DeFi protocols are on the verge of reaching $4 billion. As of August 18, DefiLlama shows this number is at $3.98 billion. This same number stood at $650.88 million just a year ago and around $12 million three years ago. That is a 6x in twelve months...
Tue, Aug 18
Jane Street’s $990M Bitcoin ETF stake puts a top market maker back in the price spotlight
Jane Street informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it possessed more than $990 million worth of spot BTC ETFs, which equals approximately 15,394 BTC at now existing prices. This is an important position because Jane Street is not merely another institutional investor. Indeed, it is also one of the largest market makers of...
Tue, Aug 18
