After Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in March 2026, China quietly cut its crude oil imports from a 5 year average of 11.5 million bpd to roughly 8 million bpd, with seaborne arrivals falling as low as 5.96...
A7A5 was a ruble pegged stablecoin launched in January 2025, designed without a freeze function to be 'sanctions proof.' By July 2026, coordinated U.S., UK, and EU sanctions had driven its monthly transactio...
ASMPT reported H1 2026 net profit of HK$583.5 million, up 169% year on year, driven by AI infrastructure demand for advanced packaging, thermal compression bonding, and photonics equipment.
On July 29, 2026, a coalition of major labels led by Universal, Sony, and Warner called for global chart authorities to disqualify unlicensed AI generated songs from rankings, arguing synthetic tracks distor...
On July 29, 2026, Brent and WTI crude prices surged roughly 5%, snapping a three session losing streak, driven by a dramatic escalation in U.S.
On July 29, 2026, BTS announced they will not submit any music for the 2027 Grammys, calling out the Recording Academy's new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category as a form of regional segregation.
As of mid 2026, OpenAI confirmed 900 million weekly active users and 50 million paying consumer subscribers, with an annualized revenue run rate of $25 billion and enterprise now accounting for more than 40%...
On July 29, 2026, Google added two voice modes to the Gemini macOS app: intelligent dictation (free, long press the Fn key to dictate polished text into any window) and an opt in screen awareness mode that l...
At the 2026 season's midpoint, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali described the sport as being in a 'really great' place: all 11 races sold out, nearly 3.7 million attendees (up 6%), record global TV audiences in Bra...
Semiconductor stocks lost over $1 trillion in market value on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, as a multi factor storm — including SK Hynix's profit miss despite record earnings, deepening AI valuation fears, new C...
Sandfall Interactive CEO Guillaume Broche called Sony's plan to end PlayStation disc production in 2028 'super sad,' arguing that physical editions are 'part of the beauty of art' and that tangible ownership...
A 2024 LiDAR survey published in Nature on July 29, 2026, identified 396 previously unknown geoglyphs in southwestern Amazonia and estimates the Aquiry civilization built up to 30,000 earthworks, supporting...