Saturday July 25, 2026

◾ Senate Majority Leader says Clarity Act unlikely to pass before summer recess (CoinDesk)

◾ US slaps 25% tariff on Brazilian goods over Pix payment system (CoinDesk)

◾ SEC’s Peirce: crypto vaults, lending strategies can trigger securities laws even onchain (SEC)

◾ Gemini $GEMI donates $10M in bitcoin to Trump’s MAGA PAC after joint motion with CFTC to reverse $5M settlement (Cointelegraph)

◾ Twenty One Capital $XXI, Strike and Elektron Energy merger called off (Bloomberg)

◾ BitMEX to close exchange after 11 years (BitMEX)

◾ Bitcoin mining pool Poolin files Chapter 11 (PacerMonitor)

◾ Telegram to roll out non-custodial crypto wallet (Telegram)

◾ OpenAI says AI model went rogue in testing, compromised Hugging Face (Reuters)

◾ White House accuses China’s Moonshot of copying Anthropic models to build Kimi K3 (Barron’s)

◾ Reps. Lieu (D-CA), Moran (R-TX) introduce bill mandating AI kill switches (Rep. Lieu)

◾ Anthropic calls for industry-wide AI safety standards amid rising rogue-model risks (Fox Business)

◾ DeepSeek to keep top models open source, prioritizing AGI over profit (Reuters)

◾ Reports suggest OpenAI missing sales goals (Futurism)

◾ US judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5B author settlement (Reuters)

◾ House Ag Committee probes CFTC authority over sports prediction markets (InGame)

◾ Nevada lawmakers introduce bill banning sports betting via prediction markets (Nevada Independent)

◾ Trump Media $DJT discussed charging Wall Street $100K/month for faster access to president’s Truth Social posts (Reuters)

◾ California wins temporary restraining order delaying Paramount purchase of Warner Bros (CNBC)

◾ Jack Dorsey introduces Buzz, open-source decentralized Slack competitor (TechCrunch)

◾ Apple $AAPL to introduce device leasing program with Klarna (Bloomberg)

◾ Annual US video game spending fell 21%, hardware sales down 62% (Mat Piscatella)

◾ Alphabet $GOOGL Q2’26: Revenue $119.8B +24% y/y | Op income $40.8B +30% y/y | Net income $112.1B +298% y/y (Alphabet)

◾ Tesla $TSLA Q2’26: Revenue $28.2B +26% y/y | Op income $398M -57% y/y | Net income $1.1B -5% y/y | aEBITDA $3.3B -4% y/y | $112M loss on digital assets (SEC Filing)

◾ Intel $INTC Q2’26: Revenue $16.1B +25% y/y | Op income $1.8B | Net loss $11.0B (Business Wire)

◾ SpaceX $SPCX sets Q2’26 earnings for Aug 4; first 20% insider share tranche unlocks Aug 6 (SpaceX IR)

◾ Citadel Securities’ $400 Million Deal Marks Digital-Asset Era (Bloomberg)

◾ The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days (Wired)

◾ OpenAI’s High-Stakes, High-Touch Push to Make AI Work for Business (WSJ)

◾ Will your job be replaced by AI? Here are the roles most affected (BBC)

◾ Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future (Fortune)