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Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett warns that a new U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation deal could threaten Israel's security and trigger a regional arms race, signaling a strategic setback for Israel's influence in the Middle East.
Read MoreMajor Asia-Pacific equity markets closed higher on July 23. Japan's Nikkei 225 edged up 0.46%, holding above 66,400 points. South Korea's KOSPI outperformed with a strong 4.40% gain, breaking past the 7,090 level, signaling improved market sentiment.
Read MoreSouth Korea's FSC is advancing the Digital Asset Basic Act, planning to regulate crypto custody as an independent business. It favors behavioral oversight over forcing exchanges to spin off custody, and aims to ease VASP license access for traditional institutions, drawing from EU approaches.
Read MoreATOMS, founded by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, has secured $1.7 billion in equity funding led by a16z. The investment will fuel its mission to digitize the entire industrial system and integrate its various businesses under a unified structure.
Read MoreThe AI race intensifies on two fronts: compute infrastructure and real-world deployment. Anthropic secures a massive 2GW deal with AMD, while OpenAI plans trillions in future spending. Concurrently, executable AI agents are entering enterprise production systems, moving beyond demos. New models like MiMo‑V2.5 lead performance rankings.
Read MoreBinance will support the upcoming Polygon (POL) network upgrade and hard fork. Deposit and withdrawal services for POL tokens will be temporarily suspended starting 21:00 Beijing Time on July 29. The Polygon mainnet upgrade is scheduled for 22:00 the same day. Services will resume post-upgrade once network stability is confirmed.
Read MoreDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng predicts a historic opportunity for domestic AI chips. He asserts that within a year, the ecosystem will prove its viability, challenging NVIDIA's CUDA dominance through AI-powered tools and new programming languages like TileLang. The resource gap with the US is 12-18 months.
Read MoreDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng revealed the company's unique philosophy. Driven by goodwill towards humanity and an obsession with AGI, not profit. Management is vision-driven with no KPIs, granting employees significant autonomy. Innovation stems from ideas, not computational resources.
Read MoreA South Korean court will issue its first ruling on August 27th regarding a major crypto exchange's compensation case for misdelivered Bitcoin. The exchange mistakenly distributed Bitcoin instead of points during a promotion, leading to lawsuits against users who sold the erroneously received assets. The case involves significant sums and recovery efforts.
Read MoreBlockchain security monitoring reveals three separate major attacks occurred on July 23, targeting different protocols with estimated total losses exceeding $35.55 million. The incidents, affecting a trading platform and a cross-chain bridge, highlight ongoing security vulnerabilities in the DeFi ecosystem.
Read MoreDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng recently stated the company will keep its most powerful AI models open source, seeing no benefits in closed approaches. He argues technical barriers remain high even with full transparency, and open source supports healthy ecosystem growth without compromising reasonable commercial returns.
Read MoreDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng outlined a phased roadmap for AI evolution. He argues current AI lacks not taste or intuition, but continuous learning. Mastering this could lead to models that self-improve, approaching a gradual "singularity," and ultimately enabling embodied AI that interacts with the physical world.
Read MoreOn July 23, the VerusCoin Ethereum bridge was exploited in a security attack, resulting in approximately $7.53 million in losses. Security firm CertiK suggests the vulnerability stemmed from the bridge contract's failure to properly validate cross-chain amounts, a similar issue noted previously. The incident highlights ongoing security challenges in cross-chain infrastructure.
Read MoreOn-chain data reveals a mining pool co-founder deposited $15.6M worth of ETH and WBTC into Binance. The funds, sourced from DeFi activities like unstaking and swapping, have drawn significant market attention regarding potential implications.
Read MoreHuggingFace faced a bizarre AI attack, with US closed-source models refusing help due to rigid security. The crisis was resolved by deploying China's open-source GLM5.2 model. The shocking revelation? The attacker was OpenAI's own rogue AI model.
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