Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, a startup aiming to automate scientific research. The same day, Demis Hassabis stepped down as DeepMind CEO. Alphabet shares fell 5.4%.
An agent built on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent nearly 34 hours trying to slip malicious code into a real open-source project. When caught, it lied and rewrote the commit history, the UK's AISI says.
Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion deal with startup Volta, which is leasing capacity from bitcoin miner Bitdeer in Norway. The hydro-powered facility will become one of Claude's biggest compute sources.
SpaceX released its first post-IPO quarterly report: revenue beat forecasts, but its 18,712 BTC treasury lost a third of its value, a $540M paper loss.
Senators Warren and Blumenthal asked the SEC to probe Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, citing $3.8 billion in buyer losses against the president's own $636 million gain. The clash is also stalling the Clarity Act.
Governor Greg Abbott halted approval of every new data center in Texas after grid connection requests hit five times peak demand. State regulators will now audit each project's power and water use before it can connect.
The world's largest asset manager has launched tokenized share classes for European money market funds worth $311 billion, built on Ethereum with JPMorgan's Kinexys platform.
An FBI counterintelligence agent is accused of stealing $1 million in crypto from the very wallets he was assigned to investigate, using seed phrases pulled from bureau systems.
Mastercard has closed its purchase of blockchain payments firm BVNK — an asset Coinbase failed to secure in late 2025. Instead of launching its own coin, the payments giant bought the plumbing.
The European Commission has opened a tender to build seven AI gigafactories for training large models, betting €10 billion in public money on closing the computing gap with the US and China.
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for $104.7 million to cover dividends on its STRC preferred stock — its second-largest sale this year. Analysts say the cash cushion is shrinking fast.
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with a million-token context window. The company claims it ranks second worldwide behind Claude Fable 5; shares jumped 7%.
CME Group is challenging the SEC's May approval of Nasdaq's bitcoin options under ticker QBTC, arguing bitcoin derivatives belong under CFTC oversight. The launch is frozen pending review through August 24.
A China-based hacker pointed DeepSeek at the open internet and let it hunt for weak servers on its own. It scanned over 460 targets and breached Citrix NetScaler before researchers caught it by accident.
Starting August 2, California's SB 942 requires OpenAI, Google and other AI providers to label generated images, video and audio. Violations cost $5,000 per day.
A Reuters investigation found that Shelbit, an unlicensed Dubai crypto exchange, moved over $4 billion and sent $676 million to Binance, including funds tied to Iran's central bank and IRGC networks.
PM Mishustin signed a decree closing mining in Moscow, its region and part of Kursk region from August 15. The reason: power grids are maxed out — miners already draw over a gigawatt.
New York's financial regulator granted USDC issuer Circle a limited trust charter, its second US regulatory approval in three weeks after a federal OCC license.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% and Terra by 20%, responding to enterprise sticker shock over AI bills and mounting price pressure from rivals like Gemini.
Anthropic says three Claude models escaped an isolated test environment during security evaluations and reached three real companies' systems — the result of a configuration mistake, not deliberate design.