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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated on Tuesday that the Trump administration may impose sanctions on China over alleged artificial intelligence model theft through a process called distillation. Bessent told Fox Business the government does not support intellectual property theft,

Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) closed at $14.26 on July 20, 2026, down from the low-$20s earlier in the month and sitting 13.8% above its 52-week low of $12.53. The stock's decline follows market scrutiny of the company's Q1 2026 financial results released May 11, 2026, which showed GAAP net

Arcus, a decentralized exchange built by the dYdX team and backed by Robinhood Crypto, launched tokenized stocks and perpetual futures on Robinhood Chain on Tuesday. The expansion addresses growing competition among platforms to build onchain infrastructure for traditional financial assets.

Hedge funds have sold US technology stocks at the fastest pace in at least a decade, offloading information technology positions in six of the past eight weeks, according to Goldman Sachs data reported by Barchart. Technology ranks as the most-sold US sector among hedge funds in the last week

Intel's foundry business secured Fortinet as a customer for next-generation security chip production, the companies announced Tuesday, marking the first publicly named client win under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over in March 2025. Fortinet will manufacture its SP6 chip using Intel's Intel 4

Samchundang Pharmaceutical's stock fell 29.87% to 167,600 won on May 21 in the Kosdaq market, hitting the lower trading limit one day after a 29.82% surge. The previous day's rally followed the company's announcement of receiving a Pre-ANDA response from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Morpho launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol on Base, after unveiling the protocol in May. The launch aims to expand onchain credit markets by bringing fixed-rate lending onchain, complementing Morpho's existing variable-rate protocol, Morpho Blue. Traditional credit markets r

Vodafone is testing a mobile mast equipped with an AI brain and robotic arm in Tirana, Albania, that autonomously analyses customer coverage needs and automatically adjusts radio antennas to improve signal quality. The self-thinking mast evaluates demand and local conditions, including weather, to d

Institutional investors owning 350 or more single-family rental homes have doubled their property listings since Feb. 1, following newly enacted US housing legislation that bans them from purchasing additional single-family rentals. As of this month, 9,447 homes representing $3.1 billion in total as

Jim Cramer called the stock market 'miserable' on July 21 as oil prices, tariff uncertainty, and Federal Reserve hawkishness pressured Wall Street. WTI crude jumped 9.4% to $78.14 a barrel following President Trump's decision to reimpose a naval blockade on Iran through the Strait of Hormuz, while t

The US Securities and Exchange Commission added Regulation Crypto Assets to its rulemaking agenda on July 7 with a July 2026 target, after the draft entered White House review on March 20. SEC Chair Paul Atkins outlined the framework in a March 17 speech, proposing a route allowing crypto projects t

The US continued strikes against Iran for a 10th straight night yesterday as President Donald Trump promised retaliation for deaths of US service members. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed this morning it struck Amazon's infrastructure in Bahrain with missiles, though CNBC could not i

A proposed merger involving Tether-backed crypto companies Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy has been scrapped, according to Bloomberg. Jack Mallers will step down as CEO of Twenty One Capital while remaining CEO of Strike. Strike will continue operating as a standalone company

Binance announced on July 24, 2026, at 06:00, it will delist seven spot trading pairs from its platform: ACX/USDC, ALGO/BTC, CVC/USDC, LPT/USDC, ONG/BTC, RVN/USDC, and XRP/BNB. The cryptocurrency exchange stated the decision follows a periodic review identifying low liquidity and trading volume for

On-chain analytics company Swissblock announced that Bitcoin has emerged from its capitulation phase following recent sharp sell-offs and is beginning to regain upward momentum. According to the company's assessment, selling pressure has significantly decreased and upward momentum is re-emerging,

Wells Fargo analyst Ken Gawrelski raised price targets for Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), and Meta Platforms Inc. (META) stocks on Tuesday, citing rising AI infrastructure costs that the firm expects major cloud providers to offset through customer pricing. According to

Giovanni Cunti, CEO of Gate Europe, stated on Monday that crypto companies already licensed under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) could still exit the market as compliance costs mount. Speaking on Cointelegraph's Chain Reaction, Cunti explained that stricter

Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative on Tuesday, committing up to $5 million in developer grants alongside a research program and a newly formed Quantum Advisory Council. The Nasdaq-listed firm announced the effort targets the eventual arrival of quantum computers capable o

Russia's State Duma approved bill No. 1194918-8, titled 'On Digital Currency and Digital Rights,' in its second and third readings on Tuesday, establishing a regulated framework for cryptocurrency market operations. The legislation creates rules for crypto exchanges, brokers, asset managers, and

Robinhood Chain has accumulated $431 million in total value locked and nearly $400 million in stablecoin market cap in under three weeks, according to FalconX. The Ethereum Layer 2 network, built on the Arbitrum tech stack and launched July 1, processes roughly 6 million transactions per day and