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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that measures to increase gasoline supply will remain in effect through September 15, 2026, marking the end of the summer gasoline control season.

According to HyperliquidNews, Hyperliquid's open interest reached $12.5 billion, marking the highest level since October 10.

According to John Hoffman, Ondo Finance's managing director and head of product portfolios, speaking at Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026, tokenized assets are following the same adoption trajectory as exchange-traded funds. Hoffman, who spent 18 years in traditional finance leading Invesco's ETF business, noted that early skepticism around tokenization mirrors past doubts about ETF technology. Ondo's tokenized Treasury product OUSG holds approximately $2 billion in total value locked, while its

According to ChainCatcher, Anthropic plans to file IPO application documents as early as late August and is expected to reach or exceed SpaceX's record IPO scale. The AI company reported Q2 revenue surpassing $11.5 billion, with annualized revenue hitting $65 billion in July.

According to Onchain Lens, a whale has cumulatively purchased and withdrawn 6,920 ZEC from Coinbase Prime, valued at approximately $3.93 million.

According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to allow enterprise customers to maintain greater control over their data when using its most advanced AI models, marking a major shift from its original data retention policy. The company expects to roll out a new system later this year that will still require enterprise customers to retain data for 30 days but will enable them to choose storing data on their own cloud infrastructure instead of Anthropic's servers.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has noted recent missile launch activities in the region and is maintaining close communication with allies and partners, according to a statement from the command.

Gate News message, a whale wallet that accumulated HYPE tokens 10 months ago has moved a total of $5.96 million worth of $HYPE . The wallet transferred 42.5K $HYPE (approximately $3.12M) to GSR Markets, 25K $HYPE (approximately $1.82M) to a centralized exchange, and 14K $HYPE (approximately $1.02M) to another centralized exchange. The main wallet address is 0xa6BF6D829712E31E5aD7bc13Ee5a60FC436a1A20.

According to Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov, President Trump appeared bullish on the Clarity Act during a Wednesday afternoon Oval Office meeting with crypto and finance executives. The gathering included CEOs from Nasdaq, Robinhood, Kraken, Coinbase, ICE, and Ripple, alongside blockchain industry leaders. Nazarov said the discussion focused on feedback needed to advance the cryptocurrency legislation, with a Senate procedural vote scheduled for September 15. "The main discussion was really

Today, Elon Musk shared a chart predicting U.S. government debt will reach $50 trillion by 2030, captioning the post "Precisely accurate" with a laughing emoji.

Brazil's Petrobras announced that the Alexandre de Gusmao floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel recently achieved peak production at the Mero subsalt oil field, reaching 180,000 barrels per day.

According to Syrian Kurdish leaders, Kurdish armed forces and security agencies have completed their integration with the Syrian government system. The announcement reflects ongoing political consolidation efforts in the region.

According to comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a CNBC interview on Aug. 20, the U.S. Treasury will increase long-term Treasury bond buyback limits to at least $4 billion per operation, more than doubling from the previous $2 billion cap. Bessent stated the Treasury regularly conducts buybacks and plans to expand the program, which applies to bonds with 10-30 years remaining to maturity. He attributed recent market activity to reduced trading in longer-dated bonds and ele

According to Bloomberg, Waymo unveiled a custom 5-nanometer ASIC chip on Thursday (Aug 20) designed to process sensor data and run advanced AI models for its robotaxis. The chip delivers more than 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of machine learning performance, with specialized accelerators that extract critical information from lidar, radar, and camera streams to improve low-light perception through temporal denoising. The chip is already in production. The announcement coincides wi

According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo data released Thursday, U.S. housing affordability deteriorated in the second quarter of 2026 for the first time since 2023. Monthly mortgage payments for a median-priced home of $410,700 now consume 34% of a typical household's income, up from 32% in the first quarter, reversing improvements recorded since early 2025.

Google has made ANTIGRAVITY available as part of its qualifying Gemini Enterprise application subscriptions. The offering includes built-in management and spend control features available out of the box.

According to Tradeweb, the institution completed the first live on-chain US Treasury settlement in 2026 using Canton Network, with transactions involving Franklin Templeton and Virtu Financial settled against tokenized cash. The milestone marks the first real-time government debt settlement on a public blockchain. A Polymarket prediction contract created on June 29, 2026, now questions whether the US Treasury will conduct an official blockchain transaction before December, signaling market convi

Tempus AI Inc (TEM) shares jumped 9% on Thursday following BTIG analyst Mark Massaro raising the firm's price target to $80 from $70, implying 31% upside potential. Massaro cited the company's plan to handle gene sequencing once Moderna and Merck's personalized cancer vaccine receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, opening a new pharma services revenue line. The stock rally reflects optimism surrounding Tempus's agreement last month to acquire Personalis for $1.5 billion. Personalis

OpenAI has made the computer web feature available today for Mac users running ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans in the Eurozone, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The feature enables ChatGPT to remember users' activity across applications and websites, allowing future conversations to feel more personalized and require less context.

The U.S. government issued a new general license on August 20 authorizing transactions related to Lukoil International Limited's sale negotiations, contingent agreements, and maintenance activities.