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BitGo's Q2 Revenue Surges 80% to $4.3B — Yet Swings to $19M Net Loss
BitGo released its Q2 earnings, with revenue jumping 80% year-over-year to $4.3 billion. However, net income flipped from a $38.3 million profit in the same period last year to a $19 million loss, a swing of nearly $57 million.
Baltimore Sues Kalshi, Polymarket — And Drags Coinbase, Robinhood Into It Too
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council have filed suit against prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, naming trading platforms Coinbase, Robinhood, and Webull as well, alleging illegal sports betting.
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund's Bitcoin Exposure Hits Record High, 86% via Strategy Stake
Research firm K33 revealed that NBIM, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund, has seen its indirect Bitcoin exposure climb to a record high, driven mainly by its Strategy stake. The fund also newly disclosed an $88 million investment in Ethereum treasury company Bitmine.
Trump and CFTC Chair Selig to Appear at White House Wednesday, Meeting Crypto and Prediction Market Executives Beforehand
The White House has scheduled a meeting for 2:30 PM ET Wednesday, with Trump and CFTC Chair Selig expected to attend, serving as a warm-up ahead of the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the following day.
Harvard Stays Put: No Change to IBIT Stake This Quarter After 43% Cut
Harvard held its IBIT position steady in Q2, continuing a wait-and-see stance after slashing its holdings by 43% the previous quarter. Meanwhile, two Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds holding a combined 22.9 million IBIT shares also made no moves during the same period.
Search "app store" and Only Get Walmart? Judge Catches Google Playing Dumb
The judge overseeing the Epic antitrust case has determined that Google rigged the game on third-party app stores—search results got diluted and the "install" button got swapped for "view." Google now has one week to fix it.
Samsung Puts Two Health AI Models on Your Watch: PPG Learns to Read ECG, Runs in Under 1 Millisecond With No Cloud Needed
Samsung Research America has unveiled xMAE and HiMAE, two wearable health foundation models that let watches derive cardiovascular data from PPG alone—no manual ECG measurement required—while completing on-device analysis in under 1 millisecond.
Nuclear Referendum Merges with Local Elections: Five Demands Trimmed Down to One Make-or-Break Question
The Legislative Yuan voted 59 to 51 to greenlight a referendum on restarting nuclear power, to be held alongside the nine-in-one local elections on November 28, with a threshold of 4,887,133 votes. The question has been condensed from five demands into a single sentence, and AI's growing power demand is the real wild card.
The AI Godmother's Other Past: Dario Amodei's Wife Cami Clark Was Once an Adult Site Entrepreneur
According to a report from BlockTempo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife Cami Clark has a background as an adult website entrepreneur, and is now referred to as a godmother in AI circles — though she holds no formal position at the company.
Sandisk Investor Day Unveils HBF: Management Vows to Defend 80% Gross Margin, Price Target Called Up to $1,900
At its annual investor day, Sandisk unveiled its in-house HBF technology, with management setting an 80% gross margin floor. The market is now eyeing a stock price as high as $1,900, though further details are still pending.
Citi CEO Backs the Clarity Act? She Said a "Good" Bill—And That Word Is Doing All the Work
Citi CEO Jane Fraser publicly said she wants to see a crypto bill pass, but she's still pushing for changes to provisions around stablecoin rewards—one sentence that reveals the banking industry's real stance.
Oxenfree's Home Is Gone: Netflix Shuts Down Two Game Studios, Pivots Hard Into TV Party Games
Netflix has shut down Night School Studio, developer of the Oxenfree series, along with Helsinki-based studio Moonloot Games, while also cutting the only accessibility design role on its games team — shrinking its gaming footprint yet again.
Gemini 3.7 Flash Goes Live Everywhere, While OpenAI's Speed Demon Stays on the Waitlist
Google and OpenAI both played the "speed" card on the same day—but one is already downloadable in 160+ countries, while the other remains locked behind an invite-only preview. Beyond the benchmark numbers, the real gap is who's actually putting it in developers' hands.
Just One Year After Its Debut, Sonos's First Headphones Get a Successor: FCC Filing Leaks Five-Color "Ace Ultra"
An FCC filing for model number S52a points to Sonos unveiling its next-generation headphones, the Ace Ultra, this September — jumping from a single black-and-white colorway to five new hues, while adding voice control and smart home integration.
Your Google Storage Isn't Full — You're Just Backing Up the Same Files Twice
WhatsApp backs itself up to Drive, then Google Photos saves the same photos all over again. The author digs into the most overlooked duplicate and junk backups buried in Android's backup settings, showing how to free up space without paying for a storage upgrade.
Federal Workers Get TikTok Back: One Memo Reverses the 2022 Ban
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has issued a memo officially allowing TikTok on government devices, closing the book on a four-year tug-of-war that began with the 2022 ban.
Spotify Is Finally Labeling "Fake Artists"—But That's Not Where the Real Problem Is
Spotify is rolling out an "AI Persona" label, letting creators self-disclose or get flagged by the system as suspected AI artists starting August 11. The tag officially goes live in the app by mid-September, though by default it won't stop tracks from being uploaded.
Why Won't PS5 Pair with Bluetooth Headphones? This USB-C Dongle Is the Only Fix
The PS5 can push 4K visuals but still can't handle Bluetooth audio — and the culprit is latency. If you want to use Bluetooth headphones for game sound, you'll need to work around it with a USB-C Bluetooth dongle, though the audio delay never fully goes away.
Screenless Fitness Bands Face Off: Is Garmin Cirqa's $100 Premium Over Fitbit Air Worth It?
Both are screenless health bands, but Garmin Cirqa runs $200 while Fitbit Air is just $100. Is that price gap buying you better battery life, a physical button, or an entirely different training philosophy?
From 12-Day Church Occupation to Anthropic's 800-Seat Office: King's Cross's AI Glow-Up
London's King's Cross was once a hotbed of drugs and sex work — now it's ground zero for OpenAI and Anthropic thanks to the "DeepMind effect," with rents up nearly 20% in three years and a fierce talent war heating up.
From Producer to TIDEZINE Founder: Raymond Kuan's AI-Powered Bet on the Future of Streetwear Media
Not just telling you what's trending, but making culture part of everyday life—Raymond Kuan branches into media, video, and e-commerce, redefining what's next for Taiwan's streetwear media
Framework, Known for "Repairable & Upgradeable" Laptops, Suffers User Data Leak via Third-Party 0-Day Exploit
Framework has notified all users that names, login IPs, addresses, phone numbers, and emails were accessed during a breach at third-party database provider Metabase. Payment information was not exposed.
Ray-Ban Meta's Privacy Maze: Photos Stay Local, But Ask AI a Question and It's Uploaded
Photos don't upload, but AI queries get saved. Voice can't be turned off in the US. And that LED light? It can be physically disabled. Ray-Ban Meta's privacy situation isn't one simple toggle—it's four completely different sets of rules.
DOJ Says OpenAI Buried Job Postings in Late-Night Radio Ads to Shut Out Local Applicants
The U.S. Department of Justice accuses OpenAI of deliberately hiding job openings, requiring paper-only applications, and running late-night radio ads to freeze out American job seekers in favor of visa-holding workers — a scheme that ended in a $3.2 million settlement.
AI Floods Bug Bounty Inbox, Forces Apple to Cap Submissions
Apple has revamped its bug bounty program, capping submissions through its internal security portal and adding a 30-day cooldown period — all because AI is finding bugs so fast that human researchers' reports are getting buried in the flood.
SpaceX's First-Ever Earnings Call Buries X's Ad Business in a Single Line — Revenue Down to a Third From Three Years Ago
SpaceX just dropped its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, and X's ad revenue made a surprise cameo: $367 million, compared to $1.08 billion in the same quarter of 2022. The numbers speak for themselves.
AI Is Hoarding All the Memory Chips — Now Even the MacBook Air Is Sold Out (and Pricier)
AI companies are buying up memory chips so aggressively that even Apple's best-selling MacBook Air is getting caught in the crunch, with delayed shipping dates and a price hike. Apple's site now shows availability pushed to late August or September, and some stores have zero stock.
Tim Cook's Final Earnings Call: When Record Numbers Still Cost Apple $390 Billion
On the red carpet, they wore matching suits and matching "Believe" pins. On the earnings call, every number hit a record high. But Wall Street needed just 60 minutes to erase nearly $390 billion from Apple's market cap. This was Cook's curtain call — and the last report card before Ternus takes over.
From Xbox Live Roast Battles to Fortnite Festival Headliner: Lil Tecca's Gaming Roots Run Deep
Lil Tecca takes the torch from Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, and Laufey as the headliner for Fortnite Festival Season 15, while opening up about how GTA: Vice City's radio stations shaped his 2023 album Dopamine.
Hackers Hijack Water Plant Controls, Lock Out Operators — Flooding and Pressure Drops Hit Seven US States
The FBI and EPA have issued a rare joint warning: hackers targeting water treatment PLC controllers are changing IP addresses and passwords to lock operators out of their own systems. Facilities across seven states have already reported flooding and sudden pressure drops, with the attack pattern pointing toward Iran-linked actors.