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Michael Burry, the investor known for his successful bet against the US housing market before the 2008 collapse, reportedly closed his short position on Tesla stock, according to prediction market platform Kalshi on August 14. Burry had opened the short position at $416.22 per share on June 30,

Anthropic disclosed an unreleased internal AI model more capable than Claude Mythos 5 in its August 2026 Risk Report. The model, referred to as Model 2, represents a noticeable improvement over Mythos 5 across many tasks relevant to Anthropic's internal work, though the capability jump is smaller th

Google is activating Gemini AI features in its Classroom app for students starting August 10, 2026, for web users and August 17, 2026, for mobile users. Students in eligible Google Workspace for Education accounts will gain access to AI-powered tools for math assistance, writing feedback, quiz

Cipher Digital endorsed Texas Governor Greg Abbott's data center audit mandate on August 10, and its stock gained 7.37% to close at $17.84 after briefly surging more than 10% intraday. The endorsement came one week after Abbott issued a directive on August 3 ordering the Public Utility Commission

More than 40 cryptocurrency companies published an open letter on August 10 requesting frontier AI laboratories provide vetted Bitcoin security researchers with controlled access to advanced AI models. The Bitcoin Policy Institute coordinated the initiative, which addresses infrastructure securing o

NEAR Protocol's NEAR AI division launched a staking feature on July 30 that allows users to lock NEAR tokens in exchange for recurring AI compute credits, and more than 500,000 NEAR tokens were staked within approximately two weeks. The feature redirects staking yield into confidential AI

Bond markets are now responding more to geopolitical risk and inflation than to traditional signals such as US economic growth, according to AlphaSimplex Group strategist Kathryn Kaminski. Kaminski told Bloomberg Television on Friday that a breakdown in cross-asset correlations has made

The Stellar Development Foundation upgraded its network on July 16, 2026, adding MoneyGram, Figure Markets, and Range as Tier 1 validators. The integration is expected to complete by mid-August 2026. Tier 1 validators operate the core infrastructure of Stellar's consensus protocol,

US corporate bond investors withdrew approximately 36% of their initial orders this week after final pricing tightened, according to Bloomberg data. The withdrawal rate doubled from the previous week and exceeded the 22% average recorded this year. On Thursday, the rate reached 45%, marking the

Baupost Group, led by billionaire investor Seth Klarman, disclosed a new position in Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Inc. (PS) in the second quarter, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Thursday. The Boston-based investment firm purchased nearly $13 million worth of Persh

Peter Schiff highlighted that the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) fell to $81.89 on Friday, marking a fresh 52-week low. The fund, built on US government bonds, has declined more than 50% from its March 2020 peak of $179.70. The decline stems from rising interest rates, which inversely

A hacker broke into France's General Directorate of Public Finances in late June and extracted taxpayer data belonging to approximately 678,000 people, according to the country's Finance Minister and FrenchBreaches platform. The stolen database includes nearly 27,000 individuals with tax income of a

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors on Friday that the company's enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer ChatGPT business, marking an earlier-than-expected milestone. The shift occurred as enterprise revenue accelerated faster than anticipated from a 60-40 consumer-to-ente

Cboe BZX Exchange filed a proposal on Friday seeking U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approval to list six leveraged commodity exchange-traded funds. The proposed suite includes 3x daily bitcoin and ether products alongside 3x Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs. All funds aim to de

Dartmouth College's $9 billion endowment saw its crypto-related investments fall by more than $2 million between March 31 and June 30, according to a Thursday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The value drop from $14.6 million to $12.4 million—a decline of approximately

Korean retail investors experienced significant losses as the Korean stock market exhibited extreme volatility, according to BBC reporting on the 13th. The KOSPI index more than doubled since early this year, breaking the 9000 mark in mid-June before plummeting to the 5500 range within weeks, then r

SharpLink, a Miami-based digital asset treasury company, announced Thursday it will stake $200 million of Ethereum through Lido, the largest liquid-staking protocol on Ethereum. The allocation represents approximately 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the 888,938 ETH SharpLink held as of August 3, 2026. T

The European Central Bank reported on August 13 that just 0.2% of euro area companies selling goods and services online accept cryptocurrency. The finding emerged from a survey of 8,205 businesses across all 21 euro area countries conducted between February 23 and April 10, covering retail,

Gold prices broke above $4,350 on Thursday afternoon following benign CPI and PPI reports released Wednesday and Thursday, trading $100 below the post-CPI peak. The inflation data prompted markets to reprice Federal Reserve rate hike expectations for the September meeting to just 10bps, down

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, reported $508 million in adjusted revenue for the second quarter, representing a 17% year-over-year increase despite a 13% decline in total transaction volume to $310 billion. The company released its earnings report on Friday, showing funded accounts