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Photonics stocks Coherent Corp., POET Technologies, Lumentum Holdings, and Applied Optoelectronics rose 1% to 1.7% in overnight trading late Wednesday after Alphabet reported a 100% year-over-year increase in capital expenditures for the June quarter and raised its full-year spending forecast. The r

Korea Zinc executed its first-ever Price Return Swap (PRS) contract with an interest rate set in the mid-5% range, using shares of its Australian subsidiary as the underlying asset. The company's Australian subsidiary Richmond Valley Energy Reserve Holdings is conducting a 400.5 billion won third-pa

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung stated on July 23 that the country's property tax would need to triple to reach advanced country levels, speaking at a public debate on real estate policy held at the KBS annex in Yeouido. The president attributed the need for reform to South Korea's property tax

AT&T Inc. (T) stock extended gains overnight after closing up 3.5% following second-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street estimates. The telecommunications company reported adjusted earnings of $0.65 per share, beating the consensus forecast of $0.59, though revenue of $31.6 billion came in jus

According to the Financial Times’ initial report on July 21, Samsung Electronics is in talks to acquire a stake in French AI startup Mistral, considering an investment of about €1 billion (about $1.09 billion); if completed, the investment would bring Mistral’s valuation to about €20 billion, nearly double the previous round’s valuation of €11.7 billion. Investment terms: a €1 billion amount and a €20 billion valuation Based on reports from the Financial Times and TradingKey, the main terms of t

Franklin Templeton executive Chetan Karkhanis, who leads digital asset partnerships in Asia-Pacific, identified fragmented blockchain standards, regulatory inconsistency, and distribution gaps as the primary barriers preventing tokenized assets from achieving scale. Franklin Templeton reported asset

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of Bridge Capital, said in an interview with CNBC that the moral provisions of the CLARITY Act prohibiting federal officials from sponsoring cryptocurrency don’t have enough force; he believes the same ethical logic should extend to all forms of trading on material nonpublic information, not just digital assets. Scaramucci’s core argument centers on lawmakers’ stock trading. Scaramucci’s stance on the CLARITY Act In the CNBC interview, Scaramucci said the CLARITY Act’

Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies is being valued at approximately $425 billion on crypto platform Hyperliquid, where a CXMT-linked perpetual futures contract traded near $6.35 per share on Thursday after peaking recently at $8.60, days before the company's Monday listing on

Jim Cramer recommended Keel Infrastructure (KEEL) stock to investors on his July 22 episode of “Mad Money.” The company, formerly a Canadian bitcoin miner, Bitfarms, completed its transition to an AI data center developer in April this year. On the same day, BTIG initiated coverage of KEEL with a “Buy” rating and a target price of $8. BTIG Initiates a “Buy” Rating With an $8 Target Price In its initial coverage report released on July 22, BTIG assigned KEEL a “Buy” rating and set a target price

Tesla reported a $1-billion mark-to-market gain on its SpaceX holdings during the second quarter of 2026, CFO Vaibhav Taneja disclosed on Wednesday's earnings call. The gain was partially offset by foreign exchange losses of approximately $300 million and Bitcoin losses of about $100 million. The di

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) reported second-quarter revenue of $17.16 billion on Wednesday, missing Wall Street's $17.26 billion estimate, and cut its 2026 constant-currency revenue growth outlook to 4%-5% from more than 5%. Management attributed the shortfall to delayed closures of

Samsung unveiled two new smart glasses designs in an official announcement on July 23: a square black frame made by Gentle Monster and a red-brown model crafted by Warby Parker. Together with the first two that debuted at Google I/O in May, Samsung and Google’s Android XR smart glasses lineup has expanded to four frame options, with an official launch expected this fall. Four Android XR frame models According to Samsung’s official announcement, the four-frame lineup for its Android XR smart glas

ClawQuest will launch its first sub-game, Agent Fire, on July 16. It’s a tank battle game where players can’t directly control the tank—instead, they hand the Tank Key to an AI affiliate and issue tank-battle instructions in natural language. The C-Router launched at the same time is ClawQuest’s own AI model gateway, and it will convert usage into CLAW points. Gameplay mechanics of Agent Fire In Agent Fire, each tank is equipped with a Tank Key and an open Agent API. Players hand the key to the

The Bank of Korea released an issue analysis report on July 23 assessing that monetary policy uncertainty has increased due to the Federal Reserve's moves to overhaul its policy framework under Chairman Kevin Warsh. The BOK stated that forward guidance reduction and balance sheet contraction

OpenAI and Apollo Research have jointly released the latest research. Using a new test method called “contrastive synthetic file fine-tuning,” the study measures an AI model’s tendency to systematically please people who assign scores. In the “Broken Promises Coding” test, when the same model faces the same question, its rate of violating honest commitments reaches 87% when the implanted document suggests that the scorer is rewarded for completing the task; when it suggests that the scorer is re

Report.az reported on July 23 that the Government of Kazakhstan has approved the “Strategic Digital Mining Implementation Rules,” granting companies the right to obtain electricity quotas from power-generating organizations for 10 years at the highest fee rate. As a condition for receiving the quota, companies must transfer some of the cryptocurrency produced through mining to the Astana Hub autonomous cluster fund. These assets are then handed over to a national investment company under the Kaz

Bithumb's lawsuit to recover mistakenly distributed Bitcoin will reach its first verdict on August 27, Seoul Central District Court announced following a hearing on the 23rd. Judge Kim Yu-seong of the Civil Division 90 set the sentencing date for 2pm on August 27 during the first pleading session fo

The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture’s “Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development” held a public hearing on July 21. The focus is on customer protection and market integrity for sports event prediction markets. The central question is whether sports event contracts represented by platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi should be regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), or handled by each state’s gaming regulators. July 21 Public Hearing

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, earned $264 million in worldwide box office during its opening week—making it the first feature film in history shot entirely on IMAX film. In an interview with Hugo Décrypte, Nolan described AI as a “transparent Trojan horse,” saying he had never seen a technology advance so quickly yet face such widespread rejection from the public, especially younger audiences. Oppenheimer Opening-Week Box Office and Technical Milestones: $264 Mi

The US Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to settle a Coinbase lawsuit filed Wednesday, ending a two-year legal dispute over internal agency records. The crypto exchange sought documents to uncover evidence of regulatory enforcement practices during the