Tudor Investment has increased its BlackRock Bitcoin ETF stake by 18.9% in the second quarter, ending a year-long run of reductions while cutting most of its reported call-option exposure to the fund. The Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted on Aug. 14 showed that the macro hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones held
Bitcoin price recovered from the $62,700 area as buyers defended a key support zone, but ETF outflows, weak trend signals, and heavy overhead liquidity continue to limit the rebound. Bitcoin price action today According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price traded near $63,650 on Aug. 17, up about 1.2% on the day after recovering
In brief Stripe finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. OpenRouter routes traffic from around 8 million developers to more than 400 AI models and takes about 5% on the inference spend passing through it. Stripe already processed OpenRouter’s payments, so the deal folds AI metering and AI billing into a
Venom Foundation, the platform backing the Venom blockchain, has reportedly expressed support for a single blockchain TPS standard model. In this respect, the Venom Foundation has urged the blockchain market to adopt an inclusive and verifiable model for transaction-per-second (TPS) standards. In the official press release, the platform pushed L2 and L1 networks, auditors, institutional
US stock futures pointed to a tech-led start on Monday as investors returned from a third straight week of S&P 500 gains with another record in sight. Nasdaq 100 futures rose about 170 points or 0.6%, S&P 500 futures added 0.1% and Dow futures slipped around 0.1% in early trading. The immediate backdrop looks supportive:
Defence budgets across the euro area are climbing fast, and the European Central Bank is now putting numbers behind what that shift could mean for growth, prices, debt and financial markets in the years ahead. In a speech delivered in Dublin on 17 August 2026, ECB Executive Board member Philip R. Lane laid out a
OpenAI has quietly pulled apart one of its most important internal safeguards, disbanding the team responsible for spotting the most dangerous risks its artificial intelligence models could pose. According to the Financial Times, the OpenAI team disbanded at the end of July 2026 was the company’s preparedness group, the unit tasked with flagging whether its
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 has climbed to the top of the AI intelligence rankings, and the company behind it is now commanding roughly 65 percent of all AI spending, according to industry tracking cited in recent reporting. The milestone lands just months after Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round that pushed its
Bitcoin is hovering near $63,000 as traders focus on whether $BTC can reclaim the crucial $63,400 resistance area or first sweep lower support before attempting another move toward $65,000. While Michaël van de Poppe sees potential for a rebound after a liquidity sweep, Matthew Dixon’s Elliott Wave analysis suggests a recovery could still precede one