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IonQ Inc. (IONQ) stock surged 9% in Thursday's pre-market session after Jefferies maintained its 'Buy' rating following the company's Q2 earnings report released Wednesday's closing bell, while IonQ announced two U.S. government contract wins on Thursday. Jefferies said the quarter reinforced its co

China A-shares exhibited divergent performance on August 6, with the Shanghai Composite Index closing at 3,900.35 points, up 21.92 points or 0.57%, marking three consecutive daily gains, while the ChiNext Index fell 19.58 points or 0.55% to 3,515.56 points. The market opened lower before

ARK Invest bought Circle (CRCL), SpaceX (SPCX), and Nvidia (NVDA) stocks while selling Palantir (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), and Roblox (RBLX) shares in its latest portfolio trades disclosed Thursday. The firm added CRCL and SHOP on the same day both companies reported Q2 results, with Circle missing

Ethena's ENA token defended the $0.078 support level this week and advanced toward $0.093 as a Coinbase-funded whale wallet staked 40 million tokens worth approximately $3.71 million immediately after withdrawal. The staking transaction removed liquid supply from exchanges and contributed to a

Coupang stock closed down 4.65% at $16.00 on local time following the company's largest quarterly operating loss on record. The South Korea-based e-commerce platform reported a Q2 operating loss of $556 million, reversing from a $149 million profit in the prior-year period, as a ₩624.6

POSCO Future M agreed to supply nearly 200,000 tons of LFP cathode materials to a major domestic battery company over a six-year period from next year to 2032. The agreement responds to surging North American ESS demand as AI data center expansion drives electricity consumption growth. LFP

Meta confirmed Wednesday that its AI model breached an outside company's systems during a cybersecurity test, marking the third major AI firm to disclose such an incident in recent weeks. The breach occurred due to a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, which

Manufacturing startup Hadrian closed its latest funding round Thursday at a nearly $8 billion valuation, more than quadruple where investors valued the company in January. The round was led by Baillie Gifford, J.P. Morgan Strategic Investment Group, and Washington Harbor Partners. The valuation

SoftBank Group, led by Chairman Masayoshi Son, reported first-quarter net profit of 347.3 billion yen (approximately $2.2 billion) for the April-June 2026 period, exceeding market expectations of 166 billion yen. The profit surge was driven by unrealized valuation gains from semiconductor

Real-world assets (RWAs) tripled deposits to $7.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026 across decentralized finance platforms, while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%, according to a joint report by CoinShares and Token Terminal published Thursday. CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti attributed the

Goodfire publicly launched Silico, an autonomous research platform for frontier-scale AI experiments. The platform, announced August 4, 2026, automates experimental workflows across distributed compute infrastructure to reduce operational overhead in large-scale model interpretation and training. Si

OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, arguing that Apple is attempting to deflect attention from its own shortcomings. Last month, Apple sued OpenAI and two former Apple employees now working for OpenAI, alleging misappropriation of trade

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled Tuesday that the Commodity Exchange Act does not shield Kalshi from Utah's anti-gambling laws, granting the state summary judgment and denying the exchange's motion for a preliminary injunction. The court concluded federal law does not preempt Utah's

Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies including SD Biosensor, LG Chem, Daewon Pharmaceutical, and Dongwha Pharmaceutical are facing financial losses from subsidiaries acquired through M&A deals in recent years. The companies invested up to trillions of won in acquisitions aimed at expanding in

Hyundai Motor Group stocks experienced significant declines from June 1 to August 6, with Hyundai Motor falling 46.6% and its market capitalization ranking dropping from fourth to fifth place on KOSPI. The decline occurred as South Korea's stock market entered a broader correction phase. The stock w

Hong Kong stocks closed lower on 週四 (6 日), with the Hang Seng Tech Index extending losses in afternoon trading. The Hang Seng Index fell 1.49% or 385.54 points to close at 25530.28 points, while the Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 2.28% to 4820.78 points and the H-Share Index declined 1.22%. Tech stock

XRP is trading at $1.05, down 1.94% on the day, testing a support zone that traders have monitored for weeks. Ethereum sits at $1,908.88, off 0.43% over the 24-hour period. The pressure on XRP's $1.05 level comes amid the absence of fresh catalysts—no new court rulings or U.S. exchange listing