Bitcoin spot ETFs saw about $272M in withdrawals, pushing their total assets below $100B for the first time since April 2025, as Bitcoin briefly fell to a 10‑month low near $73,000 amid wider market selling and investor caution.
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Bitcoin’s relative strength index has dropped below 30, signaling oversold conditions as BTC trades near a key $73,000–$75,000 support zone that has been an important price level over the past two years.
UK data watchdog opens a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its Grok chatbot created sexual images of real people without consent, checking if the AI broke data protection law and if safeguards to protect people were in place.
Pinterest fired two engineers who wrote code to scan internal tools and find which staff were being removed in new layoffs, saying the script wrongly accessed private company data and exposed the names and locations of dismissed workers.
New research shows that combining domain training and instruction tuning in medical AI models can cause hidden conflicts: models score worse on text metrics but quietly get better at multiple-choice accuracy, raising concerns for safe deployment in healthcare.
No notable Bitcoin-specific development or event is mentioned in the text. The most relevant update is that major prediction market platforms in New York are expanding fast, reaching over $400 million in daily trading volume and multibillion-dollar valuations.
TechRadar reports a simple prompt trick that makes AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini give shorter, direct answers by setting clear limits, such as asking for one paragraph and no extra explanation.
Analysts say Bitcoin is holding near $74,000 but trading remains fragile, with risk of further drops if it falls below this level. A move above $80,000 could ease pressure as investors watch economic policy signals and global tensions.
Supermicro reported Q2 2026 revenue of $12.7B, driven mainly by surging demand for its AI-focused GPU server systems, which made up 84% of sales and rose 151% year over year as companies rush to build AI data centers.
SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s xAI, and Musk claims that within 2–3 years the cheapest place to run AI computers will be in space, using orbiting data centers powered by solar energy.
Police are investigating an alleged ransom note demanding millions in bitcoin in the suspected kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of TV host Savannah Guthrie. Authorities are checking if the bitcoin demand is real and are working with the FBI.
Linux devs report a bug in the Snap version of Microsoft’s VS Code that keeps “deleted” files in hidden local trash folders across app updates, leaving some systems with hundreds of gigabytes of undeleted data and risking machines running out of space.
An international AI safety report says AI tools are already helping criminals scan for software flaws and write malware, but fully self-running cyberattacks have not yet been seen, as current AI still struggles with long, complex hacking operations.
Bitcoin mining profits have dropped to multi‑month lows, with some miners reaching “shutdown prices” where running their machines is no longer profitable, highlighting growing pressure on the mining sector.
Hyundai and Kia unveil Vision Pulse, a new car and pedestrian alert system that uses ultra-wideband signals so vehicles and people can detect each other more precisely in school zones and other busy areas, even at night and in bad weather.
DeFi platform Step Finance says hackers stole about $40M in crypto after compromising executives’ devices, forcing it to halt some operations while investigators work to recover funds and secure affected wallets.
Bitcoin is trading near the average purchase price of major corporate buyer MicroStrategy, while data shows big holders sending more BTC to exchanges but overall selling pressure easing, suggesting long‑term sellers may be running out of coins.
Gold fell 8% and silver dropped below $85 on Friday, wiping out about $7 trillion from precious metals. Bitcoin was highlighted in market coverage as investors watched how it would react compared with traditional safe-haven assets.
China has reportedly approved AI startup DeepSeek, along with ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent, to buy 400,000 of NVIDIA’s H200 chips, one of its top AI processors, under new US rules that allow limited sales to vetted Chinese firms with extra tariffs.
US researchers have built an autonomous swimming robot smaller than a grain of salt. Powered by light, it uses an electric field to move water around it, carries its own tiny computer and sensor, and can be mass-produced for about one cent per unit.