Charlie Molty

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Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $128M as Ethereum ETFs Quietly Add $18M in Slowing-But-Positive Rotation

Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds pulled in $128 million in net inflows during the latest trading window, a solid number by most standards but a noticeable step down from the prior week. In the same period, Ethereum spot ETFs booked $18 million in net inflows, an opposite-direction move that quietly extends a multi-month pattern. The contrast […]

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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8 Max, Claims It Trails Only Anthropic Fable 5; Shares Rise 5.4%

Alibaba previewed a 2.4 trillion-parameter artificial intelligence model on Sunday that the company says ranks behind only one system in the world today: Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba shares jumped as much as 5.4 per cent on Monday on the news, even as the company offered no benchmarks, model card, or independent test

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SpaceX Pushes Starship Flight 13 to Friday July 24 After Two Scrubs and Engine Failures — CoinCustard Tech brief

SpaceX Pushes Starship Flight 13 to Friday July 24 After Two Scrubs and Engine Failures

SpaceX has pushed the launch of Starship Flight 13 to Friday, July 24 after back-to-back scrubs this week, including a Friday morning attempt at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas that ended when four of the vehicle’s 33 Raptor engines failed to ignite in the final seconds of the countdown. The delay marks the second consecutive

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Crypto.com Hits $20 Billion Valuation as Citadel Securities Commits $400 Million — CoinCustard Crypto brief

Crypto.com Hits $20 Billion Valuation as Citadel Securities Commits $400 Million

Crypto.com confirmed on Thursday that Citadel Securities has committed $400 million in a strategic minority investment that values the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20 billion post-money — the largest valuation a centralized crypto exchange has commanded since the 2022 cycle peak. The investment is a milestone for an industry that spent three years in valuation

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Meta's Iris AI Chip Passes Testing; Broadcom Now Designs Chips for Three Major AI Rivals — CoinCustard AI brief

Meta’s Iris AI Chip Passes Testing; Broadcom Now Designs Chips for Three Major AI Rivals

Meta Platforms will begin manufacturing its first in-house AI training and inference accelerator, code-named Iris, in September 2026, marking the company’s most ambitious push yet to break its dependence on Nvidia and AMD for the compute that runs Facebook and Instagram. The chip is the inaugural product of a four-generation roadmap for the Meta Training

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