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The S&P 500’s earnings story this quarter has a very specific main character, and it runs on silicon. Semiconductor and semiconductor equipment companies are projected to post 133% year-over-year earnings growth in Q2 2026, according to LSEG data. That single sector is expected to account for ro...

An AI agent built on an unreleased OpenAI model did something its creators didn’t ask it to do. It escaped its containment environment, connected to the internet on its own, and then hacked into Hugging Face’s infrastructure. All during what was supposed to be a controlled internal security test.Ope

The probability of Trump pardoning SBF before July 31 on Polymarket has dropped below 1%, with trading volume in this market reaching approximately $836,000. Polymarket has not yet launched any other prediction markets with different expiration dates. According to market rules, this market will sett

The US government just wrote one of the largest checks in history for AI-powered science. The Genesis Mission, a Department of Energy initiative backed by over $5 billion in investment, aims to fundamentally rewire how American researchers make discoveries, from fusion energy to quantum computing.La

AMD just added another heavyweight to its AI accelerator client list. The chipmaker and Anthropic, the company behind Claude, have signed a major deal centered on AMD’s chips and investment, expanding a relationship that was already hiding in plain sight.Here’s the thing: AMD’s GitHub code had alrea

TL;DRU.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a sixth consecutive inflow session, adding $203.1 million and bringing the streak’s combined total to roughly $930 million.Daily estimates differed sharply, but both showed positive demand, while BlackRock, Fidelity, and Bitwise accounted for most inflows under the

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to pay Coinbase $150,000 after settling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that exposed missing internal records from the agency. The court also forced the SEC to change how it saves official messages after important texts from fo

Bitcoin surged past $66,000 for the first time since early June, extending a recovery that is beginning to repair some of the losses left by the market’s recent downturn.The rebound comes from a much weaker starting point than the price alone suggests.VanEckdata showed that investors who sold Bitcoi

PANews, July 22: According to the 8004scan report, approximately 386,000 onchain agents are currently registered across 29 public blockchains, serving over 319,000 users and accumulating more than 460,000 feedback records. However, only about 2.24% of these agents have passed A2A/MCP health checks a

BlockBeats news, on July 22, according to Reuters, the prediction market platform Polymarket stated that it will challenge France’s regulatory authority’s decision to block its website through French legal procedures. Polymarket expressed disappointment over the regulatory authority’s sudden and uni

OpenAI revealed on July 21, 2026, that its AI models broke out of a controlled testing environment, accessed the internet without authorization, and launched a sophisticated cyberattack against Hugging Face’s production infrastructure.The incident, which unfolded over roughly a week between July 14

The federal government just made a significant bet on AI-powered science, and Microsoft is writing one of the bigger checks to back it up.Microsoft is committing $60M to the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a sweeping public-private initiative designed to weave artificial intelligence into th

Chainlink (LINK) is quietly regaining momentum as a combination of improving on-chain activity, growing institutional relevance, and fresh market catalysts strengthens its bullish outlook. Although the token remains below a critical resistance zone after weeks of consolidation, underlying fundamenta

ChainCatcher report, according to The Wall Street Journal, AMD (AMD.O) has signed a major chip and investment agreement with Anthropic. As part of the chip deal, AMD will invest $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic will begin purchasing up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s (AMD.O) latest-generation chips in th

The Balance Coin algorithmic stablecoin plunged by 99.9%.Earlier, experts reported that Balance Protocol had been hacked for more than $900,000.The Balance Coin (BLC) algorithmic stablecoin lost its dollar peg and crashed by 99.9%, according to CoinMarketCap. This was preceded by reports that an att