XRP Price Dips to ‘Battlefield’ Zone, but Analysts See Major Reversal Opportunity
XRP has dropped below $1.05 for the second time in the past several days. Perhaps due to the quickly re-escalating tension in the Middle East, the cryptocurrency market has posted fresh losses over the past few hours, with BTC dropping to $62,000 after failing to reclaim the $63,000 support during the day. XRP was…
Meta’s Personal AI Agents Face EU Data and Profiling Rules
Meta AI can now connect to calendars and email, build plans, and complete multistep tasks — an early move toward the personal agents CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed during the company’s July 29 earnings call. Meta’s network of social and messaging services could make those agents more useful by supplying personal context. In Europe, the same…
Japan, US Plot Yen Rescue as Speculators Face Reckoning
Key Takeaways Japan and the U.S. may unveil a joint yen policy next week, Kyodo News and CNBC reports. Japan sold up to $58.97 billion on July 30 in its largest one day yen move since 2022. Bessent’s notepad showed plans to buy $5-10 billion in yen, Reuters photographed. Japan Strikes First, Buying Nearly $59…
Strategy stock sinks as Saylor puts Bitcoin buys on hold
Strategy shares fell 4.56% to $93.28 on July 31 after the company reported an $8.22 billion quarterly loss and prioritized restoring its STRC preferred stock to its $100 par value. Summary Strategy stock closed at $93.28, approaching its lower Bollinger Band at $90.31. The company reported an $8.22 billion net loss after recording an $8.32…
Sam Altman suggests parents generate AI podcasts about their kids
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is trending on X for suggesting that parents use ChatGPT to generate podcasts about their children’s lives in lieu of… listening to them. “cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night,” he shared on X in all lowercase. “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests.”…
Japan’s First Listed Company to Hold Hyperliquid, Eyes ¥100M Position
Eole Inc., listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market under ticker 2334, has become the first Japanese public company to formally hold HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid DeFi protocol, disclosing the purchase through Japan’s TDnet (Tokyo Stock Exchange’s official corporate disclosure system) on July 28, 2026. The initial buy of 1,078.25469311 HYPE…
China’s EV Market Is Booming. There’s Just One Problem
Because retired batteries retain economic value, they seldom go directly to landfills. In principle, batteries that remain in good condition can be repurposed for less demanding uses, while others can be recycled into raw materials for new batteries. Repurposing, however, requires recyclers to test and grade batteries, modules, and sometimes individual cells. It is a…
Coinbase Exec ‘Relentlessly Optimistic’ on CLARITY Act Odds
Key Takeaways John D’Agostino, Coinbase’s Head of Institutional Strategy, says he is relentlessly optimistic the CLARITY Act passes. JPMorgan puts CLARITY Act passage odds at 37%, while Polymarket bettors assign just 31%. The Senate Banking Committee advanced the bill 15-9, but it still needs 60 votes before the August 8 recess. A Coinbase Exec’s Case…
Analyst Blasts Strategy After CEO Signals New Priority Beyond Bitcoin
Strategy’s CEO warned on Friday that the company might sell up to $5 billion in BTC. It was precisely six years ago when a rather unknown company in the cryptocurrency industry at the time made a revolutionary change to its asset reserve strategy and adopted Bitcoin. The entity in question, called MicroStrategy back then,…
This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore. Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a physical device. It’s an NFC key that…
