People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
California is one step closer to barring AI chatbots from posing as therapists and making mental health decisions without human oversight.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, generally available in more than 160 countries on day one. It takes up to a million input tokens, returns 64,000, reads images, video, audio and PDFs, and can call tools and…
Ethereum devs to narrow 66 proposals tied to Hegotá upgrade
The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.
VanEck’s Top 10 Income ETFs Ranked by ETF Yields
Many investors need more than traditional bonds can deliver. VanEck provides access to a range of higher-yielding asset classes built for today’s income environment. Key Takeaways With a 13.46% yield, MORT provides broa…
German companies cut US investment to three-year low, data show
August 16, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT. Executives told CoinDesk that crypto allocators are evaluating tokens based on revenue, user activity and value extraction instead of using market capitalization as a quality metric. Winter…
DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says
DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.
Lacy Hunt Turns Bearish Bonds: Studying His Reversal
Economist Lacy Hunt has been a bond bull longer than most money managers have been in the business. Recently, he made a surprising U-turn on his bullish stance. The following paragraph opens his Second Quarter Review an…
SUI Bears Take Control as Price Tests Crucial Support — Can Bulls Reclaim $1?
SUI price is stuck in a bearish structure after breaking below its long-term rising trendline and a crucial support zone, keeping sellers in control
Tokenized stock holders more than double as monthly volume surges
Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders over the past month, as monthly transfer volume surged 179% to $23.13 billion and distributed value rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.
Dogecoin Price Analysis: DOGE Holds $0.068 Support — Can Bulls Push Toward $0.075?
The Dogecoin (DOGE) price remains range-bound between support and resistance, keeping the next breakout important.
Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China
Apple trained its own AI model for China with Alibaba’s help as it races to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese customers, Reuters reported.
Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions
Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity that holds Meta's R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that identifies people by face and logs what they do.
The $11.2 billion in 2026 funding that killed crypto’s permissionless era
In the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on.
Inflation moderated as Intel and Nvidia fueled the AI trade in last week's market
No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week.
Bitcoin to $1M by 2030 is ‘mathematically impossible’ says Markus Thielen
The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030... or perhaps ever, says party pooper Markus Thielen.
Bitcoin could bottom in October, altcoins are ‘basically dead,’ Swan CEO says
Klippsten said Bitcoin could bottom about a year after its previous peak and argued that crypto’s best outcome is to become part of TradFi.
Robot maker Unitree is going public. Hyperliquid traders see 4x upside from IPO price
Crypto traders are betting that Unitree Robotics will be worth more than four times its IPO valuation when the Chinese robot maker debuts on the public markets.
Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF call options
Banking giant UBS, with over $7 trillion in assets under management, has reported a more than 24-fold quarterly increase in call option exposure tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in the second quarter.
Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories
Last week, Strategy sold bitcoin, Wall Street bought deeper into crypto, Washington kept Clarity alive, and Bitcoin itself split over how the network should change.
Trump-Linked World Liberty Gets Conditional Bank Charter for USD1 Stablecoin
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Thursday granted preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank tied to World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his f…
Bitcoin price holds below $63,000 as selling pressure offsets regulatory progress
Crypto stocks are in flux since Bitcoin (BTC) was rejected by its 200-day moving average and slowly staggered dangerously close to $60,000. That sector weakness has Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) on i…
Trump’s 2024 grocery photo op now haunts Republicans in the midterms
By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia JARAMIJO/SAN MATEO, Ecuador, August 15 (Reuters) – At first light on Ecuador’s Pacific coast, small fishing boats fan out from the villages of San Mateo and Jaramijo, their bows poi…
Reader Mailbag: More Payouts Every Year
Two weeks ago, Robert left a comment that asked me to name my five favorite dividend stocks that pay monthly. I can easily rattle off my five favorite dividend stocks right now, but none of them pay out monthly.
Galaxy lowers CLARITY Act odds to 10%
Galaxy cited unresolved ethics, stablecoin yield and developer protection issues, along with a narrow Senate window when lawmakers return in September.