OpenAI's Stargate UK data center project, announced with a £30 billion investment figure, has been paused after it emerged that OpenAI never visited a key planned site and that roughly £20 billion of …
Moonbeam Network announced on July 3 that it will fully migrate its GLMR token from Polkadot to Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, Base, by July 31, ending its four-year relationship with Polkadot and repos…
Intel pivoted toward energy-efficient AI inference hardware at Computex on June 2, betting that rising data center power consumption will drive demand for Xeon-based systems over Nvidia's training GPU…
FIFA kept England's round-of-16 match against Mexico at its originally scheduled 6 p.m. local time on July 5, 2026, after briefly considering moving the match earlier due to thunderstorm forecasts in …
Securitize, a tokenization infrastructure firm, went public via a SPAC merger and now trades on the NYSE under SECZ, with BlackRock as its key partner for the BUIDL fund. The company sits at the cente…
Micron Technology broke ground on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima, Japan factory to produce high-bandwidth memory chips for AI applications, with construction starting in May…
China launched a coast guard patrol east of Taiwan amid the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, escalating grey-zone tactics and raising market concerns over a potential military clash before 2027. The patro…
Chiliz token (CHZ) surged 28% ahead of Colombia's 1-0 World Cup win over Ghana, driven by fan token speculation and Kraken's FIFA sponsorship. The match also saw activity on Polymarket prediction mark…
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulatio…
A Bitcoin Policy Institute report found that a nonprofit network linked to the Chinese Communist Party has blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI data center projects across 14 U.S. states, including …
UBS raised its DRAM and NAND price forecasts, projecting DDR prices will jump 32% quarter-over-quarter in Q3 2026, nearly double its prior estimate, as AI infrastructure demand tightens memory supply.…
Microsoft announced plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot AI chatbots into a single unified application by August 2026, aiming to streamline its AI assistant strategy and better compete w…
Samsung Electronics is raising prices on commodity DRAM and LPDDR memory chips by over 20% in Q3 2026, marking the third consecutive quarter of significant hikes. The increases, driven by supply bottl…
Block's Square integrated ChatGPT and Claude for direct restaurant orders, allowing consumers to browse menus and place orders without marketplace fees. The AI-powered ordering system uses Square's pr…
Coinbase will suspend trading of IP-PERP perpetual futures and related IP contracts on July 6, following the rebranding of Story Protocol to Data Network and a 1:1 token migration from $IP to $DATA. T…
US stock markets stabilized on July 1, with the S&P 500 holding flat and the Nasdaq slipping 0.3%, recovering some losses after a prior week that saw the Nasdaq drop 4.6% and the S&P 500 fall 2%. The …
The US government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to collaborate with tech giants on security measures, allowing global availability to resume. The …
Uber Technologies dismissed two senior leaders in its AI data labeling division, Uber AI Solutions, according to a Bloomberg report. The unit, launched in November 2024, competes with Scale AI by leve…
Ten stocks, led by Micron Technology, drove nearly all of the Nasdaq-100's 20% gain in the first half of 2026, with Micron alone contributing 26% of the index's returns after its stock quadrupled. The…
Meta Platforms reportedly spends approximately $50,000 per employee annually on AI tokens, driven by a culture that encouraged heavy usage, leading to over 60 trillion tokens consumed monthly. In June…