Slow morning as we head into the final weekends of summer, but the news doesn’t take a day off. Bitcoin, AI, gaming and space all kept moving overnight. This is a 24-7 digital world.
◾ Trump signs policy targeting 1,000 orbital launches yearly by 2030 (White House)
◾ CFTC unveils crypto and prediction market regulation roadmap, vows to act without Congress (CFTC)
◾ Bitcoin hits $79k after Treasury boosts bond buybacks (CoinMarketCap)
◾ CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee debates prediction market manipulation risks, self-certification rules (CNBC)
◾ Texas sets December deadline for grid access reviews on data centers, crypto miners (Bloomberg)
◾ Financial updates:
BTCS $BTCS Q2'26: Revenue $2.4M | Net loss $34.9M | Cash $0.3M (SEC Filing)
◾ Broadcom $AVGO seeking $60B+ in AI chip debt financing (Bloomberg)
◾ Anthropic adds Citigroup $C to IPO banking team (Bloomberg)
◾ Judge tosses ex-Googler’s espionage conviction over stolen AI trade secrets (Bloomberg Law)
◾ Binance launches Agent OS, lets users grant AI access to trading, wallets (PR Newswire)
◾ Payward eyeing full bank structure outside US (The Block)
◾ Nvidia $NVDA denies plans for China-specific AI chip (Reuters)
◾ OpenAI gaining on Anthropic with US enterprise business (TechCrunch)
◾ Hudson River Trading signs multibillion-dollar AI cloud deal with CoreWeave $CRWV (Bloomberg)
◾ Alibaba $BABA CEO expects AI ARR to hit $10B by September (The Information)
◾ Nvidia $NVDA paying $6B in Poolside AI acquihire (The Information)
◾ Bitdeer $BTDR lands $400M Malaysia AI cloud deal (Bitdeer)
◾ Waymo opens autonomous rides to all customers in Houston (Waymo)
◾ Perplexity’s Computer agent now works via email (Perplexity)
◾ $GOOGL Gemma model hits 1 billion downloads (Google)
◾ $GOOGL gives US college students free year of Google AI Pro (Google)
◾ $META launches free Mac desktop AI app (Engadget)
◾ US Army offers 4-day GTA VI leave for reenlisting soldiers (Newsweek)
◾ US physical software sales fall to $85M in July, lowest since 1995 (GamesIndustry.biz)
◾ X considers stablecoins to pay influencers, content creators (CoinDesk)
◾ 150+ Polymarket accounts allegedly bet on US military activity (Reuters)
◾ $META launches AI game-creation app (TechCrunch)
◾ SpaceX $SPCX, AST SpaceMobile $ASTS reportedly bidding $6B for Grain Management’s 800 MHz satellite spectrum (Bloomberg)
◾ USSF selects 11 companies to scale technologies for military space (SpaceNews)
◾ SpaceX $SPCX achieves 11,000 satellites in LEO (Spaceflight Now)
◾ Stoke Space completes Nova rocket’s first-stage engines, tests second-stage fit checks (NASASpaceflight)
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