Russia issued an international arrest warrant against the creator of Telegram Pavel Durov, who has lived outside the country for years, is accused of complicity in terrorism for failing to remove content linked to acts of sabotage against the country.
This Wednesday, Russia announced that it is seeking the detention of Telegram founder Pavel Durov based on accusations of complicity in terrorism, claiming that he allowed the platform to be used for recruitment by Ukraine’s security services.
Born in Russia, Durov is a serial tech entrepreneur who has lived outside the country for years and holds French and United Arab Emirates passports. He has frequently clashed with Russian authorities as Moscow tightened its control over the internet.
His Telegram messaging app is one of the country’s main communication platforms, and authorities have repeatedly tried to block access or curb its success, in an attempt to pressure Durov into handing over user data or to push Russians to use an unencrypted state alternative.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had launched an international search process against Durov, who is also Telegram’s chief executive officer. An international search notice was issued... for the head of Telegram’s administration, P. Durov, he said in a statement. It was not clear what kind of search notice Russia issued, nor whether other countries or law enforcement agencies would accept or comply with it.
War on social media Moscow often accuses its political opponents of supporting terrorism or extremism, including those who left the country. The FSB claimed that Telegram had been used as a recruitment platform for Ukrainian security services seeking to coerce Russian citizens into carrying out sabotage acts, and that Durov had not removed information prohibited by Russia and Ukraine. $GRAM
Jensen Huang anticipates the end of programming and reveals what to learn to work with AI The founder and CEO of NVIDIA said that writing code will become increasingly automated. At Startup School 2026, he explained why systems thinking, the hard sciences, the ability to learn, and resilience will be the decisive skills of the new economy.
Writing code will no longer occupy the central place it has held for the past few decades in the tech industry. For Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, artificial intelligence will automate much of that work and force professionals, students, and entrepreneurs to develop a different set of capabilities.
In the case of software, most of it will be done by agents. That’s why you’ll need to be much better at thinking about systems in an abstract way, Huang said during a conversation with Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, at Startup School 2026, held at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
$LO0P impressive LOOP by sengun in my data—if LOOP could reach 500k of Oldert, it could get to about 1000 USD per coin, since the supply is low; that means it’s a scarce coin. But people are asleep—I don’t know why they haven’t bought it yet. Buy it, take advantage!
SpaceX shares images of the successful Starship splashdown in the Indian Ocean Miami (U.S.) (EFE).- SpaceX published this Tuesday several images of the thirteenth test flight of the Starship spacecraft, which successfully splashed down in the Indian Ocean last week, days after the launch was postponed due to a malfunction during engine ignition and bad weather.
Elon Musk’s company shared, on the social network X, some photographs and videos of the moment of the splashdown, which took place almost an hour and a half after the Starship lifted off from Texas last Friday.
In the shared footage, you can see how the powerful rocket descends vertically and in a controlled manner toward the surface of the sea, landing on it before tipping over onto its side in the water and remaining afloat.
SpaceX clarified that the spacecraft is still in the Indian Ocean, while the recovery team is collecting images of the rocket.
The two delays of Starship In addition to the thirteenth test launch of the powerful rocket, it was also the second for the Super Heavy booster, which constitutes the first of the vehicle’s two stages, and the first in which the Starship was equipped with twenty next-generation Starlink V3 satellites.
Aside from fine-tuning the performance of the third version of Starship and the booster, the test also placed the V3 satellites into orbit.
Nvidia is willing to guarantee $250 billion so that OpenAI can have its own data center, according to the WSJ. The deal, which is expected to be the largest in this sector to date, will be the first step for OpenAI to have its own data center According to the WSJ, Nvidia would guarantee $250 billion as part of a deal of up to $500 billion, even though OpenAI is not the only interested party.
Nvidia is considering becoming the main financial engine behind one of the biggest AI infrastructure projects so far. As The Wall Street Journal has reported, Jensen Huang’s company is negotiating to offer a guarantee of around $250 billion so that OpenAI can lease a massive data-center campus in Ohio, in the United States. All of this, even though the agreement hasn’t been finalized yet.
What exactly is the deal about. Nvidia’s guarantee would not be direct money for OpenAI, but a financial backstop. According to the outlet, it would be used to allow the people behind ChatGPT to lease a 10-gigawatt project being built in southern Ohio by SoftBank’s energy subsidiary, SB Energy.
With Nvidia’s backing, the project could secure financing through debt on better terms, something particularly relevant because OpenAI, being a private company that still hasn’t reached profitability, does not have a credit rating high enough to invest in this type of project on its own.
Bitcoin slips below USD 64,000, but whales keep buying The U.S. Senate’s pause of the Clarity Law stalls the rise in bitcoin’s price.
On-chain data suggests a BTC accumulation pattern by large investors. Technical analyst Nicholas Kitonyi says bitcoin has formed a double-bottom pattern.
Bitcoin (BTC) has lost the USD 64,000 level. As of the time of this publication, on the morning of Tuesday, July 28, 2026, the digital coin is trading at approximately USD 63,460, which is nearly 50% below its all-time high reached last October.
At first glance, the chart shows weakness. But the on-chain data tells a different story than what the price reflects.
Analysts project Bitcoin at $200,000 if the CLARITY Act is approved, but 7 obstacles still remain Some analysts say Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $200,000 if the CLARITY Act becomes law. That’s a big if
Right now, seven obstacles stand in the way of the project and a Senate vote.
Why does $200,000 depend on a single law? Let’s think about the figure. Describe a scenario, not a guaranteed forecast. The FM Intelligence research team sees Bitcoin between $135,000 and $200,000 in the coming year.
This gives a one-in-four chance of that outcome, and only if the law is passed before the November elections. Its main scenario is much lower, between $95,000 and $130,000, according to its published scenarios.
Now let’s look at the difference. Bitcoin is trading at $64,671, up 0.48% in a day, with a market value of $1.29 trillion. $BTC
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO: My parents were very strict with me; I was never good enough for them' The childhood of the head of the most valuable technology company in the world was marked by strict schooling and parents with iron-discipline.
Nvidia has reached a historic milestone by surpassing $5 trillion in market valuation, establishing itself as the reference company in the development of hardware for artificial intelligence. Behind that meteoric growth is Jensen Huang, cofounder and CEO of the company, who attributes much of his way of running the business to the strict education he received during his childhood.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s chief executive officer, shared that his parents were very demanding and that he never managed to meet their expectations. Born in Taiwan in 1963, Huang immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a child. That life change came with iron discipline, typical of many Asian families, which, according to the executive, ended up shaping his character and the way he understands work. In numerous interviews and conferences, he has explained that his parents never considered an achievement to be final: there was always room to improve, and self-satisfaction was simply not an option.
Bitcoin faces a key test in the US and the market anticipates two price scenarios. Legislative work in the US increases crypto volatility, adding pressure to the bearish trend and investor appetite for digital assets.
The Clarity Act, a key crypto regulation in the US, is at risk of not being approved before Congress’s recess.
Key point The law aims to define the regulation of digital assets between the SEC and the CFTC, but the Senate lacks the necessary votes.
Key point Not being approved would remove a major institutional catalyst, leading to uncertainty and a possible negative impact on Bitcoin.
Wallet of Satoshi puts BTC on the line for a Mario Bros match Whoever manages to reach 4:54.265 —perfect execution time— will be awarded the 0.21 BTC prize.
The world record is held by a human player known as LeKukie. Anyone can add additional funds to the prize.
Wallet of Satoshi, one of the most widely used apps for sending and receiving payments with bitcoin (BTC) on both the main network and the Lightning Network (LN), launched a financial and video game challenge by offering a 0.21 BTC reward (equivalent to $13,472 based on current market rates) to the person who can complete a mathematically and physically flawless run of the classic Super Mario Bros in exactly 4 minutes, 54 seconds, and 265 milliseconds.
The proposed record corresponds to the absolute physical limit imposed by the game’s code and architecture released in 1985 for the Any% category, a discipline focused on finishing the video game in the shortest possible time using any allowed shortcut, the competition website explains.
SpaceX delivers its future to Starship with the retirement of Falcon 9 SpaceX limits commercial reservations for Falcon 9 beyond 2028 and focuses its strategy on a Starship that still has no operational track record.
An article by Sana Pashankar and Ed Ludlow. - SpaceX has begun rejecting satellite operators seeking exclusive launches beyond 2028 aboard Falcon 9, according to people familiar with the situation. The decision reflects the size of Elon Musk’s bet on Starship, a vehicle that is still not operational.
The company has also stopped manufacturing some non-reusable components from the Falcon family, including the rocket’s large upper stage, according to one of the sources.
SpaceX loses more than half its value from its peak The euphoria surrounding SpaceX gave way to a violent disappointment. In just a few weeks, the SPCX stock went from being the biggest initial public offering in history to a correction that wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in valuation. This drop doesn’t only affect shareholders. It also trims Elon Musk’s fortune and revives doubts about the valuations of tech giants—several of which have turned bitcoin into a strategic asset on their balance sheets.
A historic correction in SpaceX’s SPCX stock in the markets This Thursday, July 23, marks a grim turning point for the aerospace giant’s public listing. During the morning session, SpaceX’s stock (SPCX) slid to hover near the $110.99 mark, trading around $111, before stabilizing slightly above $112. That level represents a net pullback of 18% from the originally set IPO price of $135
Beyond Bitcoin: banks are seriously investing in tokenization Banks, exchanges and payment companies are accelerating the use of digital assets, such as Bitcoin, even though the new infrastructure still needs to prove that it lowers costs and risks.
Ten years ago, Australia’s largest exchange decided that its future lay in using blockchain technology to clear and settle equity trades. The idea was to leverage the useful parts of cryptocurrency technology, such as Bitcoin, without getting close to the speculation surrounding digital money.
The project ended up like Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse: it was expensive, progressed slowly, and was ultimately abandoned.
Why it matters: that failure has not kept blockchain out of the spotlight in finance. The difference is that it is no longer just startups or crypto advocates promising transformation. Big banks, exchanges and payment companies are investing real money in the tokenization of securities, 24-hour open markets and dollar-backed digital currencies.
Current situation: JPMorgan Chase converts financial assets into digital tokens; the London Stock Exchange is trying to compete with cryptocurrency platforms through nonstop trading; and Visa is participating in a broad group of financial firms preparing a stablecoin, so called because its value is kept linked to the U.S. dollar.
Robert Ophèle, the former chairman of France’s securities regulator, argues that tokenization is here to stay. In his view, the technology is no longer immature, it is backed by the Trump administration, and financial institutions are devoting substantial resources to its development.
The first blockchain experiments, such as the one in Australia, were an industrial failure, not an intellectual one, he says.
SpaceX again delays an important flight test after going public Musk added in a separate post that two of the vehicle’s engines would be replaced and removed before the company tries the flight test again.
SpaceX postponed until Friday its next major test of its huge Starship rocket, after it also called off last week’s launch, underscoring the importance of this crucial milestone.
SpaceX had planned to launch at 5:45 p.m. local time on Thursday from its Starbase facilities in southern Texas, but the company delayed the liftoff by a day due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Once it launches, the rocket will carry improved Starlink satellites that, as part of the test mission, will later burn up in the atmosphere.
Starship is central to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s ambitions to install data centers in space, expand the Starlink communications network, and send humans to the Moon and Mars. However, its development has been rocky, marked by major setbacks, malfunctions, and delays.
The Starship test is the rocket’s thirteenth flight and the first since SpaceX’s successful initial public offering in June, which raised a record US$86 billion.
Last Thursday, the company halted its flight attempt right at the moment of liftoff, as columns of smoke rose around the launch tower, but the rocket remained in place. Musk later said in a post on X that some of the Starship engines did not ignite, triggering an automatic abort.
Musk added in a separate post that two of the vehicle’s engines would be replaced and removed before the company tries the flight test again.
Binance Coinglass data has revealed that Ripple’s open interest (OI) on Binance has grown, which could lead to a rebound in its value.
On-chain metrics are the best tools for assessing where a cryptocurrency price may be headed. With the growth of Ripple’s (XRP) open interest (OI) on Binance revealed by Coinglass, the price could see a rebound, according to Tadas Klimasevskis at Dailycoin.
Market participants such as Xaif Crypto on X note that the increase in leverage in the futures and derivatives markets occurs at the expense of spot market inactivity—almost as if it were on vacation. The analyst offers a clear example: open interest (OI) surpassed $500 million on Binance in mid-June.
On that occasion, millions of dollars were liquidated before XRP’s price stabilized at $1. The current leverage ratio on Binance is 0.163, the analyst says. Most traders are betting on the upside for XRP, judging by the ratio between long and short positions. Binance customers appear to be the most optimistic, reaching a long-to-short ratio of 2.92.
XRP bears lose $2 million: Is a major move coming? On the other hand, overall sentiment is ranging from mildly bullish to mildly bearish. With XRP’s price now at $1.14, this has also wiped out some bearish positions, as some crypto investors didn’t expect XRP to stabilize at this level. As a result, $1.95 million of the $2.83 million liquidated over the past 24 hours were tied to short positions.
Micron provided Tesla with a significant amount of memory chips, Musk claims. Tesla continues to rely on Micron to supply it with memory chips while it develops its own semiconductors for its artificial intelligence projects.
Bloomberg — According to Elon Musk, Micron Technology Inc. (MU) recently provided Tesla Inc. (TSLA) with a “significant allocation” of memory chips, which has helped meet the automaker’s demand for an increasingly scarce product.
At a time when memory chips are hard to come by and prices are high, Micron distributed the supply to Tesla under reasonable terms, Musk said during the automaker’s quarterly results conference on Wednesday.
The global expansion of artificial intelligence systems has boosted demand for memory chips, which help computers store and manage data. This frenzy has triggered a widespread shortage that has spread to other industries, driving up prices and testing production capacity.
In the long term, Musk is working to produce his own semiconductors. The billionaire has launched an ambitious program called Terafab, aimed at manufacturing computing and memory chips at an unprecedented scale. The initiative is a joint effort between Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX), two companies where Musk serves as CEO.
For now, Tesla needs Micron and does not have the purchasing power of other customers. Neither Tesla nor SpaceX appears on Micron’s list of the top ten customers, the largest U.S. memory chip maker, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Micron representatives did not respond to a request for comment.
Tesla shares fall after missing earnings expectations despite record deliveries and AI investment (NASDAQ:TSLA) Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares fell more than 5% in pre-market trading this Thursday after the electric vehicle maker posted results below market expectations, as lower profit margins in its auto business and negative free cash flow overshadowed record vehicle deliveries and heavy spending on artificial intelligence.
The results reinforced investors’ concerns about the company’s ability to finance its ambitious technology projects without affecting near-term profitability.
Artificial intelligence investment drives spending Tesla reported capital expenditures of $5.8 billion during the second quarter as part of its strategy to develop autonomous driving, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
CEO Elon Musk acknowledged the scale of these investments by saying: "This is a year of enormous capital spending, though he said it will be necessary to generate incredible returns" in the future.
The company recorded negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion during the quarter, the first in two years Deliveries improve, but margins disappoint The auto business showed a major recovery thanks to a strong rebound in vehicle deliveries, which reached a record 480,126 units and far exceeded market forecasts.
The short sellers of SpaceX accumulate unrealized profits of $15.5 billion while the stock falls below its IPO offering price (NASDAQ:SPCX).
Investors holding short positions in SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) have accumulated estimated unrealized gains of $15.5 billion, as the aerospace company’s shares continue to move away from their all-time highs following its stock market debut, according to Ortex Technologies data cited by Reuters.
The stock is already trading below its initial public offering (IPO) price, reversing much of the enthusiasm that drove its strong performance during its first days on the market.
The stock gives back the gains from the IPO SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, 2026, and reached an intraday high of $225.64 just five days later.
However, by the close of July 22, the stock finished at $115.26 after falling 6.7% during the session. That places the price approximately 49% below its all-time high and around 15% below the IPO price.
This pullback has driven a substantial increase in bearish bets against the company.
Kaspa accelerates its quantum-proof shielding with zero-knowledge proofs The Kii organization claims it has compressed the verification of quantum-resistant signatures into seconds on Kaspa.
The heaviest signature, which took more than 28 minutes to test, dropped to just over 16 seconds. The function is currently running on Kaspa’s testnet, not on the main network.
A quantum computer powerful enough could, in theory, break the cryptography that today protects Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
This is not an imminent threat and not fully resolved yet, but it is one the industry is taking seriously: every bitcoin (BTC), every ether transaction (ETH), or any network based on elliptic curve cryptography relies on certain mathematical problems remaining, for now, impossible to solve for a conventional computer.
On the other hand, a sufficiently advanced quantum computer could change that equation—and with it, the security of the private keys that control funds.
That’s why the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardized three families of digital signatures designed to withstand that scenario: ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, and a variant of Falcon known as FN-DSA, the latter still in draft form.
NVIDIA has found a way to curb the energy use of AI data centers: liquid hotter than a jacuzzi. New Rubin servers can run with coolant at 45°C.
The key is to reduce mechanical refrigeration, fans, and water consumption. A 100% liquid design aims to pack more computing into less space.
For years, we’ve associated efficient data centers with cold rooms, icy air aisles, and roaring machines to keep servers under control. The expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing us to rethink that image. The next generation of infrastructure doesn’t just have to house more powerful chips—it also needs to keep them running without energy consumption growing at the same pace. In that scenario, NVIDIA is betting on a counterintuitive solution: using a coolant at 45°C, a temperature higher than that of many jacuzzis.
The reason for this shift lies in the scale that AI is reaching. Data centers need to run more and more operations and pack more compute capability into less space, which increases both electricity demand and the amount of heat their systems must manage. Jensen Huang’s company explains that energy efficiency isn’t only about using less power, but about completing more computing work per kilowatt-hour consumed. This metric has become one of the biggest challenges for digital infrastructure.
The technical answer comes with Rubin, NVIDIA’s next-generation AI infrastructure, which the company says is the first to achieve 100% liquid cooling. This means that not only accelerators or CPUs are cooled with liquid, but all chips and network components in the system, within a closed loop. In this architecture, fans disappear and air is no longer the element that keeps the machine stable. Heat is captured much closer to where it’s generated.