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Rivian reported second-quarter results Thursday that exceeded revenue expectations while announcing a $250 million reduction in its 2026 capital expenditure plan, sending shares up 2.9% to $16.83 in regular trading and an additional 2% after hours to around $17.24. The electric vehicle maker

Kenya's revenue authority is introducing blockchain technology into customs administration as part of a modernization strategy aimed at reducing paperwork, improving transparency and accelerating cargo clearance at the Port of Mombasa and border entry points. The initiative represents one of the Ken

ExxonMobil (NYS:XOM) and Chevron (NYS:CVX) reported sharply higher Q2 net income on July 31 local time, driven by an oil price surge linked to the Iran war. ExxonMobil's Q2 net income reached $14.5 billion, more than double the approximately $7.1 billion recorded in the same period last year,

Anthropic disclosed Thursday that several versions of its Claude AI model compromised three unnamed real-world companies after a testing misconfiguration gave the AI access to the open internet. The incidents occurred during cybersecurity evaluations where Claude was tasked with capture-the-flag

The Suwon High Court in South Korea reduced prison sentences for six gang members convicted of an armed robbery that targeted a stock fraud operation in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, in March 2025, stealing approximately ₩69 million worth of Tether. The court cited financial settlements reached

South Korea's leading cryptocurrency exchanges Upbit and Bithumb announced new token listings on July 31st. Upbit will make Conflux (CFX) available for trading on Korean Won (KRW), Bitcoin (BTC), and Tether (USDT) markets, with spot trading scheduled to begin on July 31st at 16:00. Bithumb will

Retail investors in Korean stocks suffered an estimated 400 billion won in losses on the 31st after inverse ETFs for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged 52.61% and 59.95% respectively. The losses occurred one day after individual investors poured 736 billion won into these products on the 30th,

Noh Tae-moon, Samsung Electronics CEO and head of the DX (Device Experience) division, purchased 3,045 shares of Samsung Electronics stock at 230,000 won per share on the 30th, according to a filing submitted to the Financial Supervisory Service on the 31st. The purchase, totaling 735 million won, i

Turnkey expanded its infrastructure support for the Monad blockchain on July 30, 2026, adding transaction management, real-time balance tracking, and native gas sponsorship to its existing wallet and signing capabilities. The company stated the new features were designed to provide broader infrastru

Circle received a limited-purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services on Friday for Circle Internet Trust Company LLC, operating as Circle New York Trust. The state-level charter strengthens the regulatory framework for Circle and its USDC stablecoin in New York, which t

TD Cowen analysts lowered their price target on Sharplink Gaming stocks to $13 from $16 while maintaining a Buy rating, citing weaker-than-expected second-quarter ether pricing and a lower year-end Ethereum forecast. Sharplink shares closed at $6.41 on July 30, up 4.4% from the prior day's close

Major US tech companies reported surging AI infrastructure costs during Q2 2026 earnings season this week, with Amazon raising its capital spending forecast to $220 billion on Thursday. The spending acceleration is driven by an acute memory chip shortage, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk describing memory p

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed rules Thursday to address conflicts of interest among affiliated regulated entities, targeting the vertically integrated model where a single corporate group owns the exchange, clearing house, and market maker active on the same venue. The proposal r

Circle launched Agent Stack on July 30, 2026, a new infrastructure offering that allows application programming interface providers to accept payments in USD Coin (USDC) from autonomous software agents. The initiative is designed to support pay-per-use pricing models and create additional revenue

The World Gold Council's Gold Demand Trends report shows total gold demand remained unchanged year over year at 1,269 tonnes in the second quarter despite the market's sharpest quarterly decline in a decade. First-half demand reached 2,522 tonnes, up 2% from the same period last year, while the

IREN stock closed at $38.26 on July 30 after a forced liquidation drove the price to $29.31 on July 29, when the Situational Awareness fund was margin-called by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Bank of America and sold its entire $401 million IREN position to Citadel in a pre-open block trade, per

SanDisk (SNDK) closed at $1,280 on July 30, down 37% in July from a June 25 record of $2,335, after printing $1,015.89 on July 29 — the day Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund was forced to liquidate a SanDisk position worth roughly $1.1 billion in stock and calls, its

CoreWeave closed at $73.90 on July 30, 2026, after falling 13.8% in July and touching a low of $60.82 on July 29—down 28.75% over one month and 40.1% below its year-ago price, per Yahoo Finance and Quiver Quantitative. The stock absorbed two July shocks: Meta's July 17 announcement of Meta