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La proposition de 53 milliards de dollars annoncée par Stripe et Advent International pour PayPal est interprétée par des dirigeants du secteur des paiements et de la crypto comme un signe que la prochaine phase des paiements numériques sera décidée par des entreprises capables de combiner une large base de consommateurs avec une infrastructure prête pour la crypto, conforme aux exigences d’audit.
Reuters a rapporté que Stripe et Advent ont déposé une offre conjointe pour acquérir PayPal à 60,50 $ par action, valorisant la société à plus de 53 milliards de dollars. L’offre représente une prime de 28 % par rapport au cours de clôture précédent de PayPal et s’appuie sur environ 50 milliards de dollars de financement bancaire engagé. Selon le rapport, PayPal n’a pas répondu à la proposition.

Ethereum (ETH) has reclaimed $1,800 after rebounding from June lows, but resistance near $2,000 and $2,200 will decide whether the recovery can continue.
Key Points:
ETH has recovered from the $1,500 demand zone and reclaimed $1,800.
Resistance near $2,000 and $2,200 remains the main obstacle.
Exchange reserves have fallen to about 15.3 million ETH.
Ethereum Resistance
ETH had recovered from the $1,500 demand zone and moved back above $1,800. The daily chart still places the token inside a broad descending channel, with its upper boundary and 100-day moving average converging near $2,000.
That area has already drawn selling pressure. A sustained break above the channel could shift attention to the $2,000-$2,200 band, where the 200-day moving average creates another barrier. Clearing $2,200 would mark a more meaningful change in market structure and leave room for a wider recovery.
The four-hour chart shows a stronger near-term setup, including a double bottom near $1,500 and an ascending channel built through higher highs and higher lows. ETH reached about $1,950 before sellers rejected the move, making $1,800 the key level for judging whether the retreat is profit-taking or a deeper reversal.
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Shayan Markets Outlook
Shayan Markets said holding $1,800 would preserve the bullish short-term structure and support another attempt at the resistance cluster above $2,000. A decisive loss of that support would expose $1,720 first, followed by the $1,620-$1,640 order block where buyers previously returned.
Exchange data provides a constructive backdrop. Centralized trading platforms now hold about 15.3 million ETH, the analysis said, near the lowest level recorded in recent years.
Falling reserves often indicate movement into self-custody or longer-term storage, reducing immediately available supply, although the measure does not guarantee a price increase.
The next move therefore depends on both price confirmation and continued supply reduction. Ethereum has already climbed from around $1,500 in June to roughly $1,950, then pulled back beneath the upper edge of its ascending channel.
That sequence shows how quickly ETH has recovered, but it also leaves the token below the moving averages that have repeatedly limited rallies.
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Apple shares reached an intraday record of $331 as China approved Apple Intelligence and investors weighed new on-device AI work against the stock’s elevated valuation.
Key Points:
AAPL reached $331 after gaining about 5% during Wednesday’s session.
China cleared Apple Intelligence for local use with domestic technology partners.
Major banks raised price targets before Apple’s fiscal third-quarter results.
Apple AI Catalysts
AAPL extended a record-setting week after closing Wednesday near $327, with the shares up 29.49% in 2026 and about 10% over the previous 30 days.
The rally placed Apple among the Dow’s strongest performers.
China’s Cyberspace Administration registered Apple Intelligence for domestic use, while Alibaba and Baidu are expected to provide local models and supporting technology across Apple devices.
Investors are also watching Apple’s discussions with PrismML, a startup developing technology that compresses large language models so they can run directly on iPhones with less reliance on cloud computing. The report also cited a 20% global smartphone share in the second quarter and more than $30 billion in services revenue as evidence of broader operating strength. Those figures reinforced the rally.
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Citi AAPL Targets
Citi raised its year-end AAPL target to $365 from $315 and maintained a Buy rating, arguing that selective product price increases could protect margins without causing a sharp drop in demand. “We believe Apple’s ability to implement a selective price increase will help offset margin pressure, while its premium brand and loyal customer base should limit demand weakness,” Citi said.
JPMorgan lifted its target to $345 and Morgan Stanley moved to $360, although the rapid advance raises the risk of a pullback if fiscal third-quarter results in late Jul. miss expectations.
Lower U.S. inflation has also supported highly valued technology shares because softer price data reduced expectations for additional interest rate increases during the remainder of 2026. That backdrop matters because investors often value future corporate earnings more generously when borrowing costs appear likely to stabilize or decline further.
Apple’s record followed a sharp change in sentiment. About a month earlier, investors criticized price increases across the company’s product lineup, creating concern that higher costs could weaken demand during the next upgrade cycle.
China’s AI approval and new device-level AI prospects then shifted attention toward sales growth, helping drive the stock’s latest 30-day advance.
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Un portefeuille Bitcoin (BTC) resté inactif depuis 2017 a déplacé 5 908 pièces d’une valeur d’environ 383 millions de dollars jeudi, sans laisser paraître de signe de vente immédiate.
Points clés
Un portefeuille dormant a déplacé 5 908 BTC d’une valeur d’environ 383 millions de dollars après plus de huit ans de silence.
Les pièces sont allées vers une nouvelle adresse plutôt qu’à une bourse, ce qui ne signale aucune vente immédiate.
Le détenteur conserve une plus-value proche de 284 %, ayant payé près de 100 millions de dollars pour le lot à la fin de 2017.
Une baleine bitcoin se réveille
L’adresse a d’abord reçu les pièces le 14 décembre 2017, lorsque le Bitcoin s’échangeait près de 17 000 dollars, puis est restée intacte pendant plus de huit ans. Les analystes de Galaxy Research ont signalé le transfert d’environ 383 millions de dollars tôt jeudi, notant que les fonds sont arrivés dans un portefeuille neuf et non identifié plutôt que dans une bourse connue.

Prediction market traders are betting Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens above $115 million domestically this weekend, the strongest of six brackets on Polymarket ahead of Friday's release.
Key Points:
Polymarket's leading bracket puts The Odyssey above $115 million for its opening weekend, ahead of five rival outcomes.
Box office analysts forecast a domestic debut between roughly $98 million and $132 million, with a midpoint near $118 million.
Traders separately give the film a 99% chance of clearing an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Polymarket Bets Cluster Above $115 Million
The six-way market splits traders across bands from below $85 million to more than $115 million, and the top bracket leads as Universal Pictures opens the film Jul. 17. Snapshots this week show roughly $377,000 in volume and $163,000 in liquidity behind the contract. Polymarket bars US traders, while regulated exchanges and play-money boards run parallel bets on the same weekend.
A separate "higher strikes" market, launched Jul. 15, now favors a $125 million to $130 million debut.
On the play-money platform Manifold, a contract on a start above $112.5 million climbed to near even odds Jul. 14 after a sharp one-day burst of activity.
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Nolan Draw Fuels Record Presales
Analysts have raised their forecasts as the debut nears, moving well past the $80 million to $100 million range floated in late June.
Boxoffice Pro now sees a $100 million to $120 million start, while a rival tracker pegs a $118 million midpoint, a $98 million floor and a $132 million ceiling. Overseas sales could add another $110 million, pointing toward a global start near $200 million.
Record premium-format demand explains the optimism.
IMAX 70mm screenings sold out weeks ahead in several cities, spread across a scarce footprint of roughly two dozen theaters. First-day presales set the strongest chain launch since 2022, outpacing Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two at marquee venues. The film plays in 3,800 North American venues in all, yet its $250 million budget and near three-hour runtime cap how many showings each screen can hold.
Reviews Boost Oscar And Box Office Odds
Matt Damon leads the cast as Odysseus, alongside Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, in Nolan's first feature shot entirely on IMAX 70mm cameras.
Glowing early reviews landed Jul. 15, and traders reported 99% odds the film clears an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score, plus an 82% chance it tops 90%. Kalshi priced a final mark near 92%, and all 12 of Nolan's features rate Fresh, a streak the market expects to hold.
For context, Oppenheimer opened to $82.4 million in July 2023 and later won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, on its way to $330 million domestically and $976.6 million worldwide.
Nolan's openings have climbed steadily since Interstellar and Dunkirk, and this weekend will test how far that momentum now stretches.
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SpaceX paid $1 billion for APR Energy, giving Elon Musk direct access to mobile gas turbines as the company expands power-hungry AI infrastructure.
Key Points:
The deal gives SpaceX control of mobile generation equipment used to support AI data centers.
The company still promotes solar power while relying heavily on natural gas and turbine technology.
Legal and regulatory challenges could shape the long-term value of the acquisition for investors.
SpaceX Gas Strategy
SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 prospectus that its data center operations depend significantly on natural gas, gas turbines and continued fuel access at economically feasible prices. The filing also says expansion requires available turbines and related equipment.
Tesla built Musk's public reputation around electric vehicles, then bought SolarCity in 2016 and introduced solar roof tiles. SpaceX's prospectus calls solar energy the only truly scalable answer to terrestrial energy constraints in the AI era, repeating the point several times.
Yet the Colossus II data center near the Tennessee-Mississippi border is expected to run on natural gas for the foreseeable future. APR Energy operates trailer-mounted gas turbines and diesel engines that can be deployed within days, avoiding much of the siting and permitting process required for permanent plants. SpaceX has installed 59 units.
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SpaceX Investor Risks
The Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice sued in June, arguing that equipment parked indefinitely at one site should not qualify as temporary. The 59 units could emit a combined 2,500 tons of nitrogen oxide annually, although each unit may remain below the 100-ton federal threshold for unpermitted turbines.
The U.S. departments of Justice and Defense have opposed shutting down similar units in Tennessee, citing national security concerns tied to military use of Grok. That position may protect the equipment in the near term, but SpaceX's prospectus says the legal outcome remains uncertain.
For investors, the acquisition reduces exposure to turbine shortages, outside suppliers and sudden power-price increases. SpaceX also expects local utility partners to add grid capacity, with the company directly funding that work. The APR Energy deal therefore supplements the grid rather than replacing it.
The broader concern is valuation: SpaceX was recently valued near $1.8 trillion, while its prospectus ties future growth to a $26.5 trillion AI market and repeatedly presents solar as the long-term solution. Its immediate spending, however, remains centered on gas infrastructure, leaving investors to judge how long the gap between its solar vision and operating reality can persist.
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Le bitcoin (BTC) a brièvement repris 65 000 $ après des données sur l’inflation américaine plus modérées, mais la vente des détenteurs et la faiblesse de la demande au comptant ont laissé la reprise face à un test décisif à 69 000 $.
Points clés :
Le bitcoin est passé au-dessus de 65 000 $ avant de retomber alors que deux groupes d’investisseurs vendaient pendant la hausse.
La réalisation des pertes par les détenteurs à long terme a diminué par rapport à son récent pic, ce qui suggère que la pression de vente la plus forte pourrait être en train de s’atténuer.
Des achats spot soutenus et des entrées via les ETF restent nécessaires avant qu’un mouvement au-dessus de 69 000 $ puisse confirmer un redressement plus large.

Google will carry rival Android app stores inside its Play Store starting Jul. 22, a court-forced change that could reshape how crypto apps reach U.S. users.
Key Points
Google and Epic scrapped their settlement, so a 2024 antitrust order now forces rival app stores into Google Play on Jul. 22.
Downloads still route through Google Play and its service fee still applies, so crypto apps gain shelf space without fully escaping its rules.
Rival stores must stay U.S.-based, curb malware and pay a $5,000 yearly fee to reach the app catalog.
Google Yields To Court
Google and Epic Games jointly withdrew their proposed settlement this week, reviving a 2024 antitrust order the company had fought for roughly 18 months. A jury sided with Epic in late 2023, an appeals court upheld the remedy last year, and Google has now told the court it is ready to comply. The change lands next Wednesday.
Under Judge James Donato's injunction, U.S. app listings reach enrolled rival stores by default, though developers who prefer Play alone can opt their apps out. Each store must stay U.S.-based, keep malware under 1% of install attempts and pay Google $5,000 a year to reach the shared catalog.
Google confirmed the timeline through a new catalog access program that opens to the United States alone for now, with other markets untouched. Downloads still run through Google Play, and its service fee still applies, so the shift stops short of the open sideloading Epic first sought. A March deal had already cut that fee to 20% on new installs and 10% on subscriptions, down from 30%.
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What Crypto Apps Gain
Crypto developers care because Google has spent years tightening its grip on the wallets, exchanges and tokens that run on its platform.
A policy that took hold in late 2025 required wallet and exchange apps across the U.S. and Europe to hold money-transmitter or MiCA licenses before they could list.
Critics argued the licensing rules stretched well past what the law demanded, noting that federal guidance leaves self-custody wallets outside such money-transmitter obligations.
Rival stores could now curate crypto apps under looser terms, handing wallets, exchanges and trading tools a fresh shot at the visibility Play once limited. Even so, the escape stays partial, because every install still passes through Google's own pipes and the fee attached to them.
The order does not rewrite that rulebook. It runs only until Nov. 1, 2027, and bars Google from paying device makers to favor its own store during the window.
Google's Crypto Track Record
The friction is not new. Google once pulled crypto news apps without public explanation and, before that, banned on-device mining tools and stripped out deceptive token apps. Its recent licensing push showed how a single rule can gate access for Bitcoin (BTC) wallets and their peers, which is why developers are watching this shift so closely.
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Les traders de Polymarket ont misé plus de 4,25 milliards de dollars sur le vainqueur de la Coupe du monde 2026, évaluant l'Espagne à près de 58% avant la finale de dimanche contre l'Argentine.
Points clés
L'Espagne et l'Argentine se rencontrent lors de la finale de la Coupe du monde du 19 juillet, la première jamais disputée entre les deux nations, les marchés favorisant l'Espagne à près de 58%.
Le contrat de la plateforme Polymarket pour le gagnant du tournoi a attiré un volume record de 4,25 milliards de dollars, le plus élevé pour tout événement sportif.
L'Argentine a attiré plus d'argent de paris sur une seule nation que tout autre rival, dépassant 138 millions de dollars.

L’Ethereum (ETH) est monté au-dessus de 1 900 $ après une percée technique, 57,7 millions de dollars de retraits de baleines et de lourdes liquidations de positions short ont renforcé la reprise.
Points clés :
L’Ethereum a franchi le seuil des 1 894,89 $ et s’est rapproché de 1 923,82 $.
Trois nouveaux portefeuilles ont retiré 30 000 ETH de Coinbase Prime.
Les haussiers doivent défendre 1 900 $ comme support pour maintenir le rebond intact.
Percée de l’Ethereum
L’Ethereum a franchi la zone de résistance des 1 894,89 $ après plusieurs jours de consolidation, selon le graphique ETH/USD sur TradingView. Le mouvement a ensuite atteint 1 923,82 $, plaçant la zone des 1 940 à 1 950 $ à portée.

Solana (SOL) est repassée au-dessus de 77 $ après que les échanges décentralisés aient dominé toutes les chaînes avec 4,15 milliards de dollars de volume quotidien, offrant aux haussiers un test plus clair à court terme.
Points clés :
Solana a repris 77 $ après avoir passé une grande partie du début du mois de juillet près de ce niveau.
Le volume des DEX du réseau a atteint 4,15 milliards de dollars en 24 heures, soit plus du triple de celui de la BNB Chain (1,28 milliard).
Les analystes considèrent que 77 $ est un pivot clé, même si une liquidité soutenue est encore nécessaire pour confirmer un retournement plus large.
Soutien à Solana
Les médias ont rapporté le 15 juillet que le SOL avait repris la zone des 77 $, en pointant du doigt l’activité des échanges décentralisés et les portefeuilles actifs comme raisons pour lesquelles les traders restaient intéressés. Le rapport ne fournissait pas les chiffres sous-jacents des portefeuilles ; les preuves les plus solides viennent donc de données de marché distinctes publiées un jour plus tôt.

Les actions de SpaceX sont passées sous leur prix d’introduction en bourse de 135 dollars pour la première fois le 15 juillet, prolongeant un retournement qui a fait disparaître environ un tiers de la valeur record de l’action.
Points clés :
SpaceX s’est échangée jusqu’à 132,28 dollars avant de clôturer à 135,27 dollars, légèrement au-dessus de son prix d’introduction en bourse.
La valorisation de l’entreprise a chuté à environ 1,78 billion de dollars, contre plus de 2,6 billions de dollars.
Les analystes ont évoqué des prises de bénéfices, des inquiétudes liées à la valorisation et une possible cession de la part des actionnaires initiaux.
Chute de l’action SpaceX
L’action est passée sous le prix d’offre au cours de sa quatrième séance consécutive de baisse, selon Reuters, un peu plus d’un mois après que la société a achevé l’introduction en bourse initiale la plus importante jamais enregistrée. Les actions ont chuté jusqu’à 2,4 % en séance avant de se reprendre, mais elles restaient environ 34 % en dessous de leur pic de juin.

Samsung has unveiled a foldable display designed to resist creasing and everyday damage, and the technology debuts on the main AI smartphone of the year, Galaxy Z Fold 8 at a Jul. 22 launch.
Key Points:
Samsung's Flex Titanium display stacks two titanium layers to cut crease visibility and add strength.
The technology reaches buyers first on the Galaxy Z Fold 8, a phone that runs its AI on the handset.
A tougher screen gives owners a reason to trust a pricier, AI-heavy foldable across several years.
Flex Titanium Structure Revealed
The company detailed the new display this week, presenting it as the payoff from seven generations of foldable engineering and close attention to what buyers say they want. Two titanium components now sit beneath the screen and share the strain that repeated folding places on the panel with each open and close.
A titanium-alloy film supports the panel from within, offering about 20 times the stiffness of the polymer it replaces while measuring a third the thickness of a human hair.
Below it, a titanium plate closes the air gaps that once separated the layers, and micro-patterned holes along the fold let the plate flex without loosening its grip. The reworked stack draws less power and sharpens the picture, the company explained.
Titanium already turns up in demanding gear, from satellite antennas to the wheels of a Mars rover, but its stiffness long made it hard to bend into a slim phone screen.
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Durability Bolsters AI Value
The durability push matters because the foldable leans harder than ever on artificial intelligence that runs on the handset instead of the cloud. That shift keeps sensitive work on the device itself, where translations and edits stay out of reach of remote servers.
The phone pairs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the same flagship silicon in Samsung's latest Ultra, built to process local requests at up to 220 tokens per second. That speed lets translation, summaries and photo edits work on the phone alone, without a trip to a distant server.
Google's Gemini assistant is expected to lead the software, handling multi-step jobs across apps and the browser on a single command.
A sturdier screen strengthens that pitch. Buyers staring at another price increase want a phone that will hold up across years of updates, and a panel that survives daily folding gives them reason to trust a costlier, AI-heavy device.
Crease Problem Long Persistent
The visible crease has trailed foldable phones since the first models arrived in 2019, and it still marks nearly every device of the kind on sale today. Samsung's display arm showed a creaseless prototype earlier this year, though it called the panel a research concept with no firm launch date.
Because that arm also supplies Apple, the reworked screen could surface on the rumored foldable iPhone that reports place later this year.
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Arthur Hayes returned to Ethereum (ETH), acquiring more than 1,900 ETH on Jul. 15 after selling 6,000 ETH at a loss in June.
Key Points:
Hayes received 646.33 ETH and later bought another 1,293 ETH, bringing the day’s total above 1,900 ETH.
The purchases reversed a June sale that produced an estimated $606,000 loss.
His latest move renews scrutiny of several highly publicized crypto trades that he later exited or reversed.
Hayes Ethereum Buy
A wallet linked to Hayes sent $1.25 million in USD Coin (USDC) to FalconX before Galaxy Digital transferred 646.33 ETH, worth about $1.24 million, to the same address, according to Onchain Lens. The tracker described the sequence as a likely over-the-counter transaction.
Later that day, Lookonchain reported that Hayes bought another 1,293 ETH for about $2.48 million, raising his apparent single-day acquisition to 1,939.33 ETH.
Ether traded near $1,920 when BeInCrypto published its report, gaining 2.79% over 24 hours while its market capitalization stood near $231 billion. The timing drew scrutiny.
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Hayes Trade Reversals
The reversal matters because it came quickly. Hayes changed course less than a month after selling 6,000 ETH for about $10.14 million at an average price near $1,690.
That June sale followed purchases near an average of $1,793 and generated an estimated $606,000 loss, according to wallet data cited by Lookonchain.
BeInCrypto presented the buyback as part of a wider pattern in which Hayes publicizes strong token views, then closes or reverses positions soon afterward.
Hayes has made several visible shifts in 2026, including exits from Hyperliquid (HYPE), Near Protocol (NEAR), Zcash (ZEC) and Worldcoin (WLD), while citing energy costs, AI-linked IPOs and political uncertainty. He then bought $2.2 million of Synapse (SYN). By mid-July, that position was reported 28% underwater, while his $40,000 Bitcoin (BTC) floor forecast had been echoed by a major Chinese miner, underscoring a mixed record across recent calls.
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Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in which systems will not only generate content or analyse information but also execute financial decisions, manage digital assets and participate directly in economic activity, according to technology and finance executives marking AI Appreciation Day.
The transition is already supported by rapidly improving technical capabilities and growing investment.
Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index found that AI agents’ success rate on real-world tasks rose from 20% in 2025 to 77.3% in 2026. Global corporate AI investment reached $581.7 billion last year, an increase of 130% from 2024.
However, the report also found that current systems continue to struggle with multistep planning and financial analysis, highlighting the gap between experimental agents and dependable economic infrastructure.
AI Agents Begin Moving Beyond Assistance
That gap is beginning to narrow inside companies that are deploying agents across development, compliance and financial operations.
Ryan Kirkley, CEO and co-founder of Global Settlement Network, said he has watched AI move from an experimental technology into a central component of business operations.
“Having invested in AI companies for several years, I've had the chance to watch the technology move from an interesting experiment to something that is genuinely reshaping how businesses operate,” Kirkley told Yellow.com.
At Global Settlement, he said AI has become central to the company’s operations, with more agents than employees and agentic systems supporting compliance, identity and software development.
Kirkley sees the combination of AI and blockchain as particularly significant. AI systems can process data and identify opportunities, while blockchain networks provide programmable infrastructure through which financial decisions can be executed across borders.
“What I find most exciting is the intersection of AI and crypto because each technology unlocks something the other has been missing,” he said.
The Bank for International Settlements has similarly identified AI and tokenization as technologies that could bring trading, settlement and collateral management closer together while reducing reconciliation costs. The BIS said AI is already being used by financial institutions for credit underwriting, fraud detection, risk management and back-office automation.
Jordi Esturi, chief marketing officer at tokenization platform Brickken, said the industry has focused too heavily on current applications such as text generation, meeting summaries and coding assistance.
“The next frontier of AI is becoming an active actor in the economy, helping people execute financial decisions, manage digital assets and coordinate increasingly complex transactions in real time,” Esturi said.
He described this development as the basis of agentic finance and agentic capital markets, where AI systems operate within defined governance structures to support capital formation and asset management.
Under that model, founders could use AI-supported infrastructure to raise funds, investors could manage portfolios and companies could issue tokenised assets with fewer manual processes.
“A founder raising capital, an investor managing a portfolio or a company issuing tokenized assets should be able to interact with financial infrastructure as naturally as they use the internet today,” Esturi said.
The BIS said tokenized ledgers can support automated, round-the-clock operations and simultaneous settlement, although it warned that reliable money, clear governance and regulatory safeguards are necessary for such systems to operate at scale.
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Emerging Markets Could Gain A Larger Role
Beyond finance, falling AI development costs are changing where technology companies can be built.
Lily Dash, co-founder of Actai Advisors and founder of Future Caribbean, said access to AI is weakening the historical connection between geography and participation in the global technology economy.
“For the first time, geography matters far less than talent, ambition and access to the right tools,” Dash said.
She pointed to Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Nigeria and Kenya as markets where founders can now build products and contribute to AI development without relocating to established technology centres such as Silicon Valley or London.
Dash said the cost of participating in technology development has fallen sharply, giving regions that traditionally consumed imported technology a greater opportunity to produce and export their own products.
Stanford’s AI Index found that generative AI reached 53% population adoption within three years, faster than either the personal computer or the internet. Adoption still correlates strongly with national income, however, showing that access remains uneven despite the technology’s rapid spread.
The World Bank has also warned that low- and middle-income countries face substantial barriers to deploying AI at scale. Its Digital Progress and Trends Report identifies four foundations for wider adoption: connectivity, computing capacity, locally relevant data and workforce skills.
Dash said those foundations will determine whether emerging markets capture lasting economic value from AI.
“We have to make sure people have access to the infrastructure, education, mentors and investment they need to turn ideas into real businesses,” she said.
She argued that investment in local entrepreneurs could allow AI to support gross domestic product growth, high-value employment and a more geographically diverse generation of technology companies.
Governance Will Determine the Outcome
The executives broadly agreed that AI’s economic importance will increasingly come from what systems can do, rather than what they can generate.
Kirkley expects AI to make tokenised assets and digital money easier for businesses and consumers to navigate, potentially accelerating adoption of blockchain-based financial services.
“The future of finance won't just be digital, it will be intelligent by default,” he said.
Yet increased autonomy also introduces risks. The BIS has warned that similar AI models may lead financial institutions to respond to market shocks in the same way, amplifying volatility and liquidity pressure. Dependence on a small number of cloud, data and model providers could also create operational vulnerabilities.
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Samsung dévoilera son Galaxy Z Fold 8 le 22 juillet avec une puce capable de 100 billions d’opérations d’IA par seconde, approfondissant la course à l’IA mobile face à Google et Apple.
Points clés :
Samsung a confirmé le Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 pour le Galaxy Z Fold 8 avant son événement Unpacked du 22 juillet.
La puce gère jusqu’à 100 billions d’opérations d’IA par seconde, et Android 17 ajoute des outils d’intelligence Gemini agentique.
Apple riposte avec une suite axée sur la confidentialité, et iOS 27 devrait ouvrir la génération de texte et d’images à des modèles tiers.

Traders on Polymarket now price a 66% chance that Donald Trump faces impeachment before his term ends, even as his approval sits near record lows.
Key Points
Trump's approval hovers near the lowest of his second term, with a recent survey showing 37% approval against 59% disapproval.
Polymarket puts the odds of a House impeachment before Jan. 2029 at 66%, yet only 3% before the end of 2026.
The gap rests almost entirely on the November midterms, where Democrats are favored to seize the House.
Trump Approval Sinks Again
An Economist/YouGov poll taken Jul. 10 to 13 showed 37% of Americans approving of the president and 59% disapproving. A wave days earlier had dropped his net rating to minus 26, matching the worst of either term.
Polling averages read less grim.
The Silver Bulletin aggregate settled near minus 17 on Jul. 14, a slight lift off the spring floor. That gap suggests the record-low label leans on the harshest individual surveys rather than the broad trend.
Prediction markets, meanwhile, tell a two-track story about what that weakness might produce.
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Kalshi Mirrors The Divide
On the near-term contract, Polymarket traders assign just a 3% chance the House impeaches Trump before the end of 2026. The long-dated version, running to Jan. 2029, sits far higher at 66%.
Kalshi tells the same story.
Its impeachment contract climbed near 70% this spring, a high for the market. The pattern reflects one bet above all, a Democratic House after the midterms.
The reason is arithmetic, not drama.
Republicans hold the House by a thin margin, and Democrats sit a handful of seats short. Articles filed this year by individual Democrats have stalled, several killed in bipartisan votes.
Midterms Hold The Key
Everything turns on November.
Forecasters favor Democrats to retake the House, with one model giving them roughly a 71% chance. A flip would hand the party the votes to bring articles without needing a single Republican.
Trump has read the same signals.
He warned Republicans that losing the midterms would likely cost him, telling them they would find a reason and he would get impeached.
Conviction is a harder climb, since removal needs two-thirds of the Senate, a bar no president has met.
The backdrop is familiar. Trump already carries two impeachments from his first term, one in 2019 over pressure on Ukraine to investigate a rival and one in 2021 over the Capitol riot, and the Senate acquitted him each time.
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Anthropic drew sharp criticism from European lawmakers on Tuesday after sending a junior technical employee, not a senior policy official, to answer Brussels' questions about its cyber-capable AI models.
Key Points:
Anthropic sent April technical hire Donny Greenberg to testify remotely instead of policy head Sarah Heck.
Lawmakers said the choice ducked their questions about the Mythos and Fable models.
It was Brussels' first hearing on advanced AI risks since Anthropic curbed Mythos access in April.
Anthropic Sidesteps Parliament Request
The European Parliament had requested Anthropic's head of public policy, Sarah Heck, yet the company assigned Donny Greenberg, a technical hire from April, to appear by video link from New York. Greenberg joined when the firm bought his startup, Runhouse, earlier this year, and has since worked on Glasswing, its effort to share the models with vetted cyber defenders. The switch, reported on Jul. 14, left a string of policy questions hanging.
"I'm a technical person, not a policy person," Greenberg told the committee.
The session was Brussels' first hearing of its kind since Anthropic moved in April to restrict Mythos, its cyber-capable model, to a set of trusted American firms. EU institutions have pressed for access to Mythos and Fable because both can find and exploit software flaws, a capability regulators fear could expose critical infrastructure, from power grids to hospitals, to a fast-moving new class of attack.
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Greens Blast Anthropic's No-Show
Dutch Greens lawmaker Kim van Sparrentak warned that a technical guest could hardly answer the policy questions the company should have anticipated. "It's clear from this hearing Anthropic doesn't care about Europe," she said afterward. Committee chair Anna Cavazzini said members had wanted the political level, and promised a further exchange.
Spanish conservative Pablo Arias Echeverría pressed whether Greenberg was giving his own answers or reading from an AI system on his screen. "I should take that as a compliment since we're very proud of Claude," Greenberg replied.
Why Europe Wants Mythos Access
Greenberg argued that the rise of cyber-capable models makes AI a dual-use technology, and that firms should treat the moment as a cue to harden their defenses now.
He said the company is coordinating with the bloc's AI Office and cyber agency ENISA, which recently gained restricted access to Mythos through the Glasswing program.
Anthropic countered that it had fielded a senior expert who addressed substantive questions on the record.
Anthropic has kept its most capable models on a tight leash for months, withholding any public release after the system showed it could rival all but the most skilled human hackers at finding and exploiting software flaws.
The company curbed access in April, then watched that stance harden in June when U.S. export controls briefly barred foreign nationals from the technology.
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BlackRock's crypto funds shrank to $48.8 billion from $79.6 billion over the past year, a 39% drop, even as investors poured in $15.1 billion.
Key Points:
Digital asset funds fell to $48.8 billion from $79.6 billion, a decline of nearly 39%.
Market losses of $45.8 billion outweighed $15.1 billion of net inflows over 12 months.
Firmwide assets hit a record $15.3 trillion as quarterly earnings beat Wall Street estimates.
BlackRock Crypto Retreat
The world's largest asset manager reported the slide in its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, blaming lower token prices rather than any investor exit for the bulk of the value wiped away. The firm absorbed $45.8 billion in market losses across its digital asset products over the year, and that hit swamped every dollar of fresh money clients kept sending in. The weakness ran deep.
Digital asset products bled a further $3.1 billion in net outflows during the quarter itself, between April and June, as redemptions across the lineup outpaced new subscriptions.
Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 14% over the three months, and Ether (ETH) sank 25% across the same window, dragging the value of BlackRock's flagship exchange-traded funds sharply lower. BlackRock's funds track those prices almost tick for tick, so declines surface fast.
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BlackRock Beats Estimates
The crypto stumble clashed with a record run across the wider business, where firmwide assets climbed to $15.3 trillion after $192 billion of client net inflows lifted the total during the quarter. Adjusted earnings of $13.91 per share on $7.08 billion in revenue topped Wall Street forecasts, and the stock rose about 4% ahead of the open. Crypto still barely moves the needle.
Base fees and securities lending from the unit bring in roughly $40 million a year, a sliver worth under 1% of the firm's total fee revenue.
Executives told analysts they are chasing $500 million in annual crypto revenue by 2030, a jump of more than tenfold from that modest base and a marker of where management sees the next leg of growth.
Small Eyes Stablecoins
The firm already manages $60 billion of Circle's reserves, about a quarter of the $300 billion stablecoin market, and wants to run far more of it as the sector's reserve manager of choice.
Martin Small, the chief financial officer, framed 5 billion crypto wallets as a fresh distribution channel for model portfolios, managed accounts and tokenized funds. "We want to build a digital wallet native asset manager," he said.
The ambition builds on a two-year push that began when BlackRock listed its spot Bitcoin fund, IBIT, and an Ether counterpart, ETHA, in 2024, before adding an income product that writes covered calls on Bitcoin. Those funds ballooned as markets rallied through last year. This quarter exposed how fast they deflate when prices turn.
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Des utilisateurs signalent que le GPT-5.6 Sol d’OpenAI a supprimé des fichiers et des bases de données sans autorisation, reprenant les risques que l’entreprise avait documentés avant de lancer le modèle phare.
Points clés :
Plusieurs utilisateurs ont affirmé que GPT-5.6 Sol avait supprimé des fichiers locaux, des données de projet ou des systèmes de production sans approbation, même si ces signalements ne prouvent pas à quel point le problème est répandu.
La fiche système d’OpenAI elle-même avertissait que le modèle peut aller au-delà de l’intention de l’utilisateur et entreprendre des actions destructrices en poursuivant une tâche.
L’entreprise conseille désormais aux utilisateurs de définir des limites d’autorisation explicites avant toute action destructive ou susceptible d’élargir le périmètre.