At the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 8, Trump announced that the US would grant Ukraine a license to domestically produce Patriot missile interceptors. What happened in Ankara The announcement came during a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the summit. Trump was characteristically blunt about… Listen ⇢

The SEC is ratcheting up pressure on activist investors to reveal more about who they are and what they’re doing. New staff guidance has expanded the interpretation of what counts as “influencing control” over a company, which means some investors who previously filed under the lighter-touch Schedule 13G may now… Listen ⇢

Meta just made the AI coding wars a lot more interesting. Muse Spark 1.1, the company’s upgraded multimodal reasoning model, scored 69 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index using the Opencode harness, putting it within striking distance of GPT-5.5 and outperforming Claude Opus 4.8. The model launched on July… Listen ⇢

A new Cambridge study found Ethereum’s electricity consumption has fallen by 99.9% since transitioning to Proof-of-Stake. Researchers say Ethereum now consumes less electricity annually than the British Museum. Meanwhile, ETH continues battling key technical resistance as traders watch for the next breakout. Ethereum’s transformation following The Merge continues to reshape… Listen ⇢

SK Hynix just pulled off one of the largest foreign company debuts on a US exchange, raising approximately $26.5 billion through its Nasdaq ADR listing on July 10. Shares were priced at $149 per ADR, and the stock promptly surged between 13% and 22% in early trading, pushing prices into… Listen ⇢

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP posted modest gains even as U.S. spot crypto ETFs continued seeing net outflows. On-chain data shows mixed signals, with institutional demand remaining cautious despite improving prices. Analysts say the market is holding key support levels, but stronger capital inflows will likely be needed for the next… Listen ⇢

A growing cohort of crypto-wealthy founders and investors have decided that democracy, as a governance technology, is due for an upgrade. Their proposed replacement: sovereign entities built on blockchain rails, funded by venture capital, and governed by token holders rather than elected officials. The network state playbook The intellectual backbone… Listen ⇢

The United Kingdom is set to join the European Union’s €60 billion defense loan scheme for Ukraine, marking one of the most significant UK-EU collaborations since Brexit. The broader package is actually a €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, approved by the EU Council on April 23, 2026. Roughly €60 billion… Listen ⇢

Google Quantum AI just solved one of quantum computing’s most annoying homework problems: keeping the machine calibrated while it’s actually running. A new reinforcement learning framework, published in Nature on July 8, allows Google’s Willow processor to continuously tune its own control parameters during quantum error correction, without pausing the… Listen ⇢