The AI coding benchmark wars just got a new entry, and the scoreboard is already reshaping how enterprises think about which models to deploy. xAI’s Grok 4.5 has secured second place on the Mercor APEX-SWE leaderboard, posting a 51.2% Pass@1 accuracy score. That sounds impressive until you look one row… Listen ⇢

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $90.4 million in net inflows on July 10, while their Ethereum counterparts added $18.4 million. That translates to roughly 1,791 BTC and 10,550 ETH worth of fresh capital flowing into regulated crypto investment products in a single day. The recovery after a record-breaking exodus… Listen ⇢

Solana has become one of this week’s weakest-performing major cryptocurrencies as bearish sentiment reaches its highest level of 2026. Continuous selling from Pump.fun has added pressure to SOL, but on-chain metrics continue showing strong network activity. Analysts believe a breakout above key resistance could pave the way for a move… Listen ⇢

After weeks of watching money walk out the door, US spot Bitcoin ETFs finally caught a break. On June 12, roughly $86 million flowed back into the funds, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) doing most of the heavy lifting. IBIT alone pulled in approximately $57.7 million of that total,… Listen ⇢

Argentina’s defending champions are one win away from the World Cup 2026 semifinals, and coach Lionel Scaloni is projecting calm confidence ahead of Saturday’s quarterfinal against Switzerland. The $ARG fan token, built on the Chiliz blockchain and tied to the Argentine Football Association, has seen trading spikes that align closely… Listen ⇢

Hundreds of thousands of mourners flooded the streets of Tehran and Mashhad for the funeral of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the message they delivered was not subtle. Banners calling for the death of US President Donald Trump. Chants of “We will kill Trump” reverberating through packed avenues.… Listen ⇢

If you want to know what people actually do with AI models, and not what benchmarks say they should do, OpenRouter just dropped the receipts. The company, in collaboration with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published a sprawling analysis of over 100 trillion tokens of anonymized LLM interaction data, covering roughly a… Listen ⇢

Robinhood has launched 24/7 tokenized stock trading and crypto perpetual futures, choosing Arbitrum instead of Solana. Solana remains the dominant blockchain for tokenized equities, but Robinhood’s massive user base could reshape the market. Institutional partnerships may become the key factor in determining whether Solana can maintain its leadership. Robinhood has… Listen ⇢

Lamine Yamal, the 18-year-old FC Barcelona winger who has become the face of Spain’s 2026 World Cup campaign, has made it clear he cares about one thing: lifting the trophy. With one goal scored and a team-first mentality that has helped Spain reach the semifinals unbeaten, Yamal’s on-pitch priorities are… Listen ⇢