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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on July 24 (local time) at a San Francisco hotel to discuss AI cooperation expansion. The meeting marked President Lee's first engagement with Big Tech executives since taking office, aimed at conveying South Korea's

Ethereum transaction fees have decreased while network usage remains stable, according to new research by Bitwise. The findings indicate that lower fees are enhancing network efficiency and user appeal rather than reflecting reduced activity. Staking activity on the Ethereum network has reached

Samsung announced that Samsung Wallet will add native stablecoin support at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, displaying a mockup featuring Circle's USDC. The company did not specify a launch date, confirm Circle as a partner, or identify which blockchain the tokens would operate on. The announc

Bitcoin dropped below $64,000 on Friday after climbing to nearly $67,000 mid-week, triggering $87 million in bitcoin liquidations and $312 million in total crypto liquidations. The sell-off occurred after the cryptocurrency reached $65,705 by 3:15 a.m. EST Friday, then tumbled to an intraday low of

Risk Labs' Solana relayer lost approximately $4.5 million on July 17, 2026, when an attacker exploited a missing eight-byte check in offchain event-parsing code to forge 1,627 deposit events that never occurred on-chain. The vulnerability allowed fraudulent withdrawal requests totaling

Gold and silver prices rose ahead of the North American market open Friday, with spot gold trading near $4,055.00 an ounce, up 0.16%, and spot silver near $58.31, up 1.35%. Precious metals steadied after Thursday's selloff as traders assessed a stronger U.S. labor-market signal, the European

Individual investors in the Korean stock market sold 6.8 trillion won worth of stocks over three trading days from May 21 to May 23, according to Korea Exchange data released on May 25. The mass selling followed extreme volatility that saw the KOSPI index fall more than 30% from its May 19 high of 9

Wise plans to resubmit its U.S. national trust bank charter application under the GENIUS Act framework, according to a William Blair note on Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency denied Wise's original application in a July 21 letter, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve p

The European Union has implemented a 24-hour delay in releasing satellite images of shipping lanes near the Strait of Hormuz, responding to a May 26 request from the US government. The Council of the EU formalized this decision on July 13, applying the restriction to data from the Copernicus Earth o

Moody's Ratings warned this week that unprecedented AI infrastructure spending threatens the credit quality of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave. In a research note released Wednesday, the ratings firm said the spending surge is forcing even cash-rich corporations like Alphabe

China completed its first cross-border payment to Singapore using the digital yuan, with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Shanghai branch and ICBC Singapore transferring approximately 10 million yuan in import shipping fees on the same day. The transaction was conducted via China's

Morgan Stanley reiterated its Overweight rating on SpaceX (SPCX) with a $300 price target ahead of the company's lockup expiry on Aug. 6, 2026, according to analyst Adam Jonas, who described SpaceX as 'uniquely positioned across launch, connectivity, and AI.' The brokerage cited a 'disconnect'

Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) informed clients on Friday that it will increase component prices by double-digit percentages starting September, according to an official customer communication viewed by Bloomberg. The San Diego-based semiconductor giant stated it has fully exhausted its ability to absorb

Memory stocks including Micron Technology Inc. (MU), SK Hynix Inc. (SKHY), Seagate Technology Holdings (STX), and Western Digital Corp. (WDC) fell on Friday, declining between 3% and 7%. The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) was down nearly 7%, while the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) dropped over 2%.

Anthropic announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, on Friday, positioning it as the company's best-performing and most cost-effective offering across industry benchmarks. The model is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens—half the cost of t

Evernorth Chief Business Officer Sagar draws a clear distinction between Bitcoin and XRP, arguing that while both are valuable digital assets, they serve fundamentally different purposes. Sagar describes Bitcoin as digital gold built to preserve wealth, not to move money efficiently, stating that

S&P Global released July preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI) data on July 24 (local time), showing US service sector activity expanded to an 8-month high of 53.6 while manufacturing sector activity slowed to a 4-month low of 53.8. The service PMI rose 2.4 points from June's 51.2, while manu

BlackRock, Coinbase, and seven other major companies have formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium to address long-term Bitcoin security challenges. The consortium will donate $15 million over three years, focusing on post-quantum cryptography research to counter potential quantum computing threats. B

Newmont (NYSE: NEM), the world's largest gold miner, reported second-quarter earnings Thursday after the North American market close, delivering net income of $2.2 billion and record quarterly free cash flow of $2.2 billion despite a 13% correction in gold prices during the period. The

Japan's Financial Services Agency is establishing a regulatory framework for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund following the enactment of a bill on July 15, 2026 that classified cryptocurrencies as financial products. The legislation integrates digital assets under the Financial Instruments and