Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) growth strategy targeting 17 strategic sectors by 2040, with major investments in AI and semiconductors. The plan aims t…
British Columbia's Attorney General Niki Sharma announced on July 7 that the province has retained legal counsel to explore legal action against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to alert authoritie…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.18% on June 5, its worst single-day drop since April 2025, as a trillion-dollar selloff in semiconductor stocks dragged the Dow and S&P 500 lower and spilled into crypto ma…
Hyperscale Data, a NYSE American-listed company, acquired 50.65 Bitcoin, increasing its total holdings to 899.65 BTC valued at $57.2 million, as it pursues a $100 million Bitcoin treasury while expand…
Artificial Analysis launched Harvey LAB-AA, an independent benchmark testing AI models on 120 legal tasks across 24 practice areas. Claude Fable 5 led with a 14.2% all-pass rate, though results highli…
Bitcoin mining stocks fell roughly 20% in early July 2026 due to cooling AI sentiment, while Bitcoin remained resilient near $63,042. Miners like Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital have pivoted to AI…
Memory chipmakers SK Hynix, Micron Technology, and Samsung Electronics are riding a surge in AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory, but investors remain skeptical that the industry has broken fre…
Meta debuted Muse Spark, its first major AI model since restructuring its AI lab into Meta Superintelligence Labs, on April 8, 2026. The multimodal system offers tenfold compute efficiency gains over …
The US Energy Information Administration projects record-high electricity demand in 2026 and 2027, driven by data centers, AI workloads, and cryptocurrency mining. The surge marks the strongest multi-…
Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith launched a $1 AI-powered smart contract audit service on July 7, using the x402 protocol for microtransactions and ERC-8004 for onchain record-keeping. Th…
Ondo launched Ondo Perps, a derivatives platform offering up to 20x leverage on equity, index, and commodity perpetual futures with tokenized stocks as collateral. The platform is live for pre-alpha u…
AI mentions on global earnings calls surged 310% in the first half of 2026, reaching 780 mentions compared to 190 in the second half of 2025, according to a report. A record 337 S&P 500 executives dis…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a productivity tool within its Claude Desktop app, positioning it as a workplace assistant rather than a job replacer. The company softened its earlier warnings about…
SK Hynix's $28 billion American Depositary Receipt offering on Nasdaq was oversubscribed, with underwriters closing order-taking early on July 8. The South Korean memory chip maker's listing taps into…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins announced the 2026 Regulatory Agenda, focusing on crypto rulemaking, tokenized securities, and public market reforms to modernize financial regulation while protecting investors …
OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% equity stake valued at $42.6 billion, part of a broader regulatory framework proposed by CEO Sam Altman to preempt AI regulation. The move has already impacte…
AI stocks Micron and Samsung fell 8% and nearly 10% respectively despite posting massive earnings, as overcrowded positioning led to a sell-the-news reaction. Meanwhile, Bitcoin gained 9.1% over the p…
Democratic lawmakers are investigating whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's family profited from a $1.6 billion federal investment in USA Rare Earth, a deal arranged by Cantor Fitzgerald, the f…
AC Limited, the family office of Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has built a multi-billion-dollar portfolio including stakes in Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and TSMC, and inve…
Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok warned that massive AI spending is not boosting profits for non-tech companies, creating a risk of a painful repricing of Big Tech valuations. Pro…