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Luigi Mangione admitted in court that he shot Brian Thompson. No further details on motive or circumstances were immediately available.

Luigi Mangione will plead guilty to federal charges in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson. His lawyer announced the decision in court Friday.

Mangione faces charges related to Thompson's killing outside a Manhattan hotel in December. The guilty plea would resolve the federal case, though he still faces separate state murder charges in New York.

Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah once declared education a matter of "life and death" for the nation. Nearly 80 years later, that warning carries new weight. Countries dominating AI, science, and tech will write the rules of this century—those that don't will live under systems built elsewhere. Pakistan's independence gave it sovereignty. The next fight is for the capability to shape its own future.

SanDisk reaffirms mid-to-high teens volume growth target at investor day. Company's market intelligence projects flash memory market will balloon from $300B+ in 2026 to nearly $500B in 2027—a 60% jump in one year. $SNDK rallying on guidance. Question now: Are these projections aggressive or actually conservative given AI infrastructure build-out?

1789 Capital closed a $1.2B real estate fund targeting Sun Belt states including Tennessee and Florida.

Donald Trump Jr. will sit on the investment committee for this new real estate fund. He does not serve on the committee for 1789's growth equity fund.

Big Tech companies are cutting their tax bills while pouring billions into AI infrastructure. The question: Are they creating jobs or just building more data centers, buying chips, and automating everything?

The tax savings are real, and the AI spending spree is massive. But the employment picture remains murky as companies prioritize hardware and automation over headcount.

Rachel Wolf sat down with Roy Shaham, CEO of Rain Protocol, to discuss where prediction markets are headed.

Key points from the conversation:

• Rain Protocol is building infrastructure for decentralized prediction markets
• Shaham sees prediction markets moving beyond simple yes/no bets into more complex financial instruments
• The tech enables anyone to create markets around real-world events without intermediaries
• Main challenge: getting enough liquidity and participants to make markets accurate
• Regulatory uncertainty remains a hurdle, especially around real-money prediction markets in the U.S.

Shaham argues prediction markets could become a major source of crowdsourced forecasting, competing with traditional polling and expert analysis.

Prediction markets are evolving rapidly. Interview with Roy Shaham from Rain Protocol explores how AI, decentralization, and builder tools are reshaping the space.

Full conversation available on Deep Dive Podcast.

Karoline Leavitt stepping down as White House press secretary.

EU compliance rules are blocking some community members from serving as ambassadors. The restrictions are forcing existing ambassadors in the region to step down from their roles.

Crypto insider claims coordinated group is manipulating meme coin narratives. Alleges same wallet addresses and accounts repeatedly surface, targeting trending tokens where they lack holdings. Says pattern has persisted since last market cycle. Suggests coordination happening via private Telegram channels.

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold for over $12 billion to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger — a record-breaking price for any sports franchise, according to multiple sources at ESPN. The deal marks a massive shift in NBA ownership, with the former Disney CEO and the founder of Thrive Capital taking control of one of basketball's most iconic teams.

US inflation cooled in July. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% month-over-month, matching expectations. Year-over-year headline inflation hit 3.4%, while core CPI (excluding food and energy) climbed 2.5% from a year ago.

Banking's next chapter: AI agents handling wallets, moving funds, allocating savings, executing contracts, and optimizing yields—all through conversation, not apps. The infrastructure? Increasingly on-chain. Instead of tapping through menus, you'll just tell your agent what you need done.

David Ellison is weighing a move of Paramount's headquarters out of California as tensions escalate with the state's attorney general. The potential relocation comes amid an ongoing legal battle with AG Rob Bonta, though specific details of the dispute weren't disclosed. The decision would mark a significant shift for the entertainment giant, which has been based in California for decades.

New York Post launches 'Hamilton' AI chatbot powered by Google Cloud.

The bot debuts on NY Post and California Post apps alongside other AI discovery tools.

NY Post joins Washington Post, Time, and USA Today in the news outlet chatbot race.

Bitcoin Knots developer Luke Dashjr plans to deploy a hard fork changing the proof-of-work algorithm to Blake2b-256 around September 1. The move targets the stalled BIP110 chain, which has produced only two blocks with no mining activity for over two days. The fork would effectively create a new forkcoin. Update posted August 11, 14:30 UTC.

Meta and other social media companies lost their appeal to dismiss thousands of lawsuits alleging their platforms are designed to be addictive. The cases will proceed to trial.

Bitcoin Core developer Aaron van Wirdum addresses concerns about a potential BIP110 chain wipeout scenario. Even if the BIP110 chain somehow overtakes the main $BTC chain—an "extremely unlikely" event—node operators can manually reject it by running a simple command: `invalidateblock` targeting the first BIP110 block. This would mark the entire alternative chain as invalid from their node's perspective. The comment appears aimed at "Bdashers" (likely Bitcoin Cash supporters) who have raised chain reorganization arguments.

Trump Media ($DJT) is backing out of two crypto deals as new leadership shifts focus toward its core media business and the upcoming merger with fusion energy firm TAE Technologies. The company is unwinding ventures that had expanded beyond its traditional media operations.