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Meta Platforms reported second-quarter revenue of $60.8 billion, exceeding Wall Street expectations of roughly $60.2 billion, while earnings per share declined to $6.18 from $7.14 a year earlier as massive AI infrastructure investments, legal charges, and restructuring costs weighed on

The US Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List on July 28, prohibiting imports of humanoid robots, four-legged robots, and certain robot vacuum cleaners manufactured abroad. The Trump administration's FCC justified the ban by

Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that met analyst expectations but issued lighter-than-expected guidance for the current quarter, citing an ongoing supply crunch for computer parts, particularly memory. The chipmaker posted adjusted earnings per share of $2.21 on

Binance.US plans to apply for a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Designated Contract Market (DCM) license next month, CEO Stephen Gregory announced at the RareEvo conference. The exchange aims to launch regulated prediction markets as part of a broader comeback strategy centered on l

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on 29th (local time) proposed that the Korea-Chile Free Trade Agreement must evolve to reflect the changed economic environment. He called for modernization to incorporate digital trade, artificial intelligence, clean technology, and critical minerals supply

Korean retail investors suffered an estimated 56.3 trillion won in losses as the KOSPI index plunged 1,092.51 points over two days and declined 32% over the recent month. The crash wiped out buying power as investor deposit accounts shrank 16.5% from 128.4 trillion won on the 18th of last month to 1

MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault integrated into Claude and ChatGPT that enables AI agents to execute transactions autonomously. The product uses multi-party computation (MPC) and trusted execution environment (TEE) cryptography to secure wallet keys, ensuring no single party—including MoonP

Starbucks is expected to report its quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG forecast earnings per share of 66 cents and revenue of $9.16 billion. The coffee giant's turnaround strategy, which prioritizes faster service and welcoming cafes over

Pump.fun's token graduation rate reached 6.7% last Friday, approximately eight times higher than the platform's average throughout June. The increase followed the launch of BOOST, a new default mechanism that redirects previously locked liquidity into automatic market purchases during the first

Peter Mintzberg, CEO of Grayscale, filed a request with the SEC to sell 2,611 shares of the Grayscale XRP Trust (GXRP) ETF for $53,394.95 at $20.45 per share. The shares were acquired through a private purchase from the trust on October 3, 2024, before GXRP converted to an exchange-traded XRP ETF. M

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 600 points Wednesday morning as selling accelerated across Wall Street, with the S&P 500 falling about 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite moving roughly 0.8% lower. The move was much sharper than the opening suggested, as the Dow began the session

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday, meeting near-universal market expectations. Bitcoin dipped around 1% to $63,890 following the announcement while Ethereum fell by about 1%, trading just above $1,900. The hold reflects persistent inflation above the Fed's 2%

A CryptoQuant analyst suggests Bitcoin's bear market may be nearing its end, with an ultimate bottom expected at the $51,336 level. Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $126,000 in October 2025 before entering a bear market and falling more than 50%, reaching levels as low as $57,000. The analyst

K33 Research and analyst Michaël van de Poppe stated ahead of the FED meeting in July that the upcoming interest rate decision may have a limited impact on Bitcoin. K33 Research head Vetle Lunde noted Bitcoin's correlation with Nasdaq has approached

The stablecoin market capitalization fell 4.3% from its May peak of $322.41 billion to $308.5 billion, with June recording a $7.7 billion monthly decline—the largest drop since the Terra collapse in May 2022. Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.83 trillion in June, 60%

xAI filed a complaint Monday against Minnesota's enforcement of a ban on nudification technology, seeking to block a law set to take effect August 1 that threatens fines up to $500,000 per harmful output. The lawsuit follows arrests of Grok users accused of creating child sex abuse materials and

Citadel Securities, a US financial giant managing $67 billion in assets, argues the Fed will surprise markets by raising interest rates by 25 basis points ahead of the Fed's interest rate decision. Frank Flight, Head of Macro Strategy at Citadel Securities, stated that Federal Reserve Chairman

Anthropic scanned millions of used books to train its AI model Claude by purchasing physical copies, removing covers, and digitizing every page before destroying the originals. In June 2025, Judge William Alsup ruled this practice legal under the first-sale doctrine in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, d