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China’s Xpeng brings budget Tesla rival to Europe with robots and flying cars
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng flew into Munich this week with more than just a new car. The company used the European launch of its L03 SUV to tell the world it is building robots and flying cars too. The launch event was branded a “Physical AI” event, a term Xpeng uses to describe its...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
BubbleMaps: 63% of top Robinhood memecoin traders are losing money
The on-chain analytics firm BubbleMaps reports that most people trading the biggest memecoins on Robinhood Chain are underwater. Reportedly, only 37% of the 164,538 traders active across the network’s top 50 tokens have made a profit, while the remaining 63% have lost money. Are traders making money on Robinhood Chain? “Robinhood trenches are brutal,” BubbleMaps,...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
David Sacks warns on US AI lead as China's Kimi K3 tops coding arena
Kimi-K3 has claimed top spot on a closely watched coding leaderboard. Kimi-K3 is a Chinese-built AI model, and this has prompted David Sacks, President Trump’s former AI czar, to believe that American AI labs are being hindered by US rules. Moonshot AI built Kimi-K3, and the AI model became number one on July 16. It...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
Chamath Palihapitiya asks who's really cashing in on the AI boom?
Chamath Palihapitiya is asking if the money being poured into artificial intelligence is paying off for anyone beyond the small group of companies already collecting it. The Social Capital founder, in two posts made on X on July 17 and 18, called out AI labs over how they trained their own models versus how they...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
Cheaper Chinese AI models overtake US rivals in developer usage
OpenRouter, the aggregation platform that routes developers’ API calls across dozens of AI systems, reports that open-weight models built by Chinese labs now run more than three times the weekly token volume of American models. The reason is because Chinese models that are nearly equivalent to their U.S. counterparts cost a fraction as much. Price...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
The coal-powered Asian AI engine driving Wall Street’s record run
For a while, stock trading in Asia appeared to be unstoppable and has grown to be one of the largest sources of income for American banks. Then, practically overnight, the atmosphere was altered by a Chinese artificial intelligence business. Asian equity markets have been bringing in large sums of money for Wall Street’s main banks,...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
TrustedVolumes attacker returns 1,122 ETH, keeps $2M in bounty deal
A negotiated settlement has once again outpaced a long asset recovery process as one of the attackers of TrustedVolumes, a liquidity resolver linked to 1inch Fusion, has returned 1,122.12 ETH in an Ethereum transfer, more than two months after the incident. The hacker has allegedly retained a similar amount as part of a negotiated bug...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
AI’s IPO boom is creating venture capital’s biggest winners
Venture capital’s biggest winners are changing the rules of the exit game, and 2026’s IPO boom is allowing them to cash in. US IPOs have reportedly already raised more than $141.2 billion this year. This puts the market within striking distance of the $142.4 billion record set in 2021. The biggest artificial intelligence listings are...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
Coinbase admits trust gap as Base faces crypto backlash
The controversy regarding Base’s loss of credibility in the crypto community has now moved into the higher levels of Coinbase, creating doubts that go beyond social media. This controversy is important because today Base isn’t just another layer-2 blockchain anymore. Now it is processing more of the onchain stablecoin volume than any other blockchain and...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
Pump.fun’s SOL sell-offs weigh on Solana as memecoin trade fades
Pump.fun transferred another 81,712 SOL, worth roughly $6.15 million, to crypto exchange Kraken on July 18, 2026, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. On its own, the move is just another wallet transfer. But in the context of slowing memecoin activity and weakening Solana network revenue, it offers another glimpse into how one of crypto’s biggest...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 18
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