Ledger fixes vulnerability in Ethereum app’s signing flows
A vulnerability in Ledger's Ethereum app's signing flows has been fixed. The company addressed the security issue through a proactive update to its signing processes.
$92 Billion Nvidia Earnings Could Make or Break the AI Trade
Nvidia will report earnings Wednesday with $92 billion in sales expected. Wall Street analysts are divided on whether the AI trade can maintain momentum following the results.
Laser Digital Japan Secures Regulatory Approval for Institutional Crypto Services
Laser Digital Japan obtained regulatory approval to operate as a cryptocurrency exchange service provider under Japan's Payment Services Act. The Tokyo-based subsidiary of Nomura's digital assets division announced this registration status on August 21, 2026.
Nvidia discusses funding with Perplexity AI at $30B valuation
Nvidia is discussing a potential funding investment in Perplexity AI, which is valued at $30 billion. The partnership could reshape competition in the technology sector.
Pendle’s USDC vault on Morpho pulls in $50M in under two weeks
Pendle's USDC vault on Morpho accumulated $50 million in deposits within two weeks of launch. The vault demonstrates growing institutional interest in modular lending models within decentralized finance.
Peter Thiel’s Fund Shows the Next Big AI Bet Is Power, Not Chips
Peter Thiel's fund filed an 8-stock portfolio heavily weighted toward utilities, signaling a bet that AI development requires power infrastructure more than semiconductor chips. The filing shows a strategic shift in investment focus toward energy companies rather than traditional technology hardware providers.
SoftBank plans record ¥1T bond sale to fund OpenAI investments
SoftBank is conducting a record one trillion yen bond sale to fund OpenAI investments. This financing demonstrates SoftBank's commitment to significant capital deployment in artificial intelligence ventures.
Crypto Card Spending Jumps Threefold in a Year, Paymentscan Data Shows
Cryptocurrency card spending exceeded $1.04 billion in July, more than tripling over the past year as consumers purchased everyday items like groceries. Dollar-backed stablecoins accounted for 70% of the more than 10 million tracked transactions.
Grayscale Research Identifies Key Reasons Bitcoin (BTC) Could Be Worth Buying Right Now
Grayscale Investments identified several conditions suggesting Bitcoin may appeal to long-term investors considering increased holdings, according to analysis by the firm's head of research Zach Pandl. The analysis emphasized that future price movements remain uncertain and market timing cannot be predicted.
Prominent Bitcoin Miner Bets on Ethereum, Predicts ETH Will Beat BTC This Cycle
A prominent Bitcoin miner plans to move remaining capital into Ethereum, predicting ETH will outperform BTC this cycle. The miner previously held a strongly bearish stance on the market before reversing his position.
Private Equity Groups Begin Placing AI Experts in Portfolio Companies
Private equity firms are placing artificial intelligence experts in their portfolio companies to drive business growth. Blackstone and Hellman Friedman partnered with Anthropic in a $1.5 billion deal to support this strategy.
Helcim Raises $38 Million to Fill Small Business Banking Void
Helcim raised 38 million dollars in Series C funding to expand its small business banking platform. The Calgary payments company aims to serve Canadian merchants as major banks divest or outsource their merchant services operations.
Bitwise Just Took $1.8 Billion in a Bear Market, Tom Lee Noticed
Bitwise received $1.8 billion in net inflows during a bear market. The inflows were driven by yield opportunities rather than expectations of price appreciation.
Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them
Multiple AI applications independently processing the same enterprise documents create inconsistent knowledge representations through separate embeddings and indexes. Organizations deploying more AI agents face breakdowns in this approach because knowledge becomes fragmented across different teams rather than managed as a unified enterprise asset.
Apollo Economist Says AI Affecting Wages More Than Employment
Artificial intelligence is reducing wage growth rather than causing widespread job losses, according to Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok. AI's measurable impact appears in weaker wage growth across the labor market rather than in overall employment numbers.
Asia-Pacific Central Banks Step Up Cooperation on AI, Scam Prevention
Asia-Pacific central banks agreed to strengthen cooperation on artificial intelligence and scam prevention to address emerging financial risks. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Eli Remolona Jr. and counterparts approved initiatives to protect consumers and regional financial systems.
Chinese Fintech Lianlian DigiTech Targets Agentic Payments With AI-Powered Wallet
Lianlian DigiTech is developing an Agent Wallet to enable AI-powered agentic payments. The company's global payments business achieved double-digit growth in the first half of 2026.
Employers are quietly rehiring the people AI replaced, and paying them less to come back
Fifty-five percent of employers regret laying off workers for AI, and roughly half of those AI-attributed layoffs are expected to be reversed through rehiring at lower wages or offshore positions. A European directive now requires employer consultation before such decisions, with financial penalties for noncompliance.
Frustrated Lewis Hamilton claims Ferrari strategy cost him F1 Dutch GP podium
Lewis Hamilton finished fourth at the Dutch Grand Prix and blamed Ferrari's strategy decisions for costing him a podium position. Hamilton criticized the team for being too slow to pit Charles Leclerc when Hamilton was running quicker on a different tire strategy.
Galbot Robots Complete 100 Consecutive Autonomous Tennis Rallies
Galbot humanoid robots completed over 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against human athletes on August 23, 2026. The robots tracked high-speed balls and positioned themselves on the court during the live match at the World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony.
Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey developed a post-trained model based on Kimi K3 using Fireworks that nearly doubles LAB task completion rates for legal agent work. Only one benchmark number has been independently verified from the announcement.
Liverpool’s Szoboszlai spot-on with late, late leveller to salvage point at Newcastle
Dominic Szoboszlai scored a late equalizer to earn Liverpool a draw against Newcastle. The match featured attacking football from both sides under managers Matthias Jaissle and Andoni Iraola.
Oldest human brain cells grown in lab 'recorded passage of time'
Human brain cells grown in laboratory conditions for seven years showed aging patterns similar to those in living brains. The peppercorn-sized cell clusters demonstrated they could track the passage of time.
How to use AI to give yourself a head start at a new job
Employees starting new jobs can use enterprise AI platforms to accelerate their learning during the first eight to ten weeks. Companies may provide licensed AI access, pre-built bots, and agents designed to answer questions and automate repetitive tasks for new hires.
JWST peeks at Callisto's ancient scars
The James Webb Space Telescope detected activity on Callisto, Jupiter's moon with an ancient crater-covered surface previously thought to be geologically inactive. JWST observations revealed that Callisto undergoes more geological processes than scientists previously believed possible.
Hot temperatures can dull blue morpho butterflies' iridescent scales
High temperatures during development reduce the brightness of blue morpho butterfly iridescence by altering the scales' light-reflecting structures. Birds and other butterflies would perceive a noticeable color change in butterflies exposed to warming conditions.
The dental crown of the future could be 3D-printed while you wait
Researchers reduced 3D-printing time for zirconia dental crowns from 100 hours to under 30 minutes. This advancement could enable dentists to produce customized permanent crowns during a single patient appointment.
Physicists create a tiny “Big Bang” with surprisingly small atomic nuclei
Colliding small atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light produced quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot matter from the early Universe. The collision particles revealed the shape of the nuclei that created them, providing new insights into both nuclear physics and the cosmos's earliest moments.
Quantum computer microscope is set to significantly improve electron microscopy
A quantum computer microscope will utilize quantum information carried by electrons to improve electron microscopy imaging. The new approach captures data that conventional microscopes discard when they merely count electrons.
Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU
FreeToken splits mixture-of-experts cache misses between PCIe data transfers and CPU execution to run a 753 billion parameter GLM-5.2 model on a single workstation GPU. The system uses measured bandwidth rates to optimize which computations execute on the CPU versus GPU memory hierarchy.