Brent crude surged past $100/barrel on July 23, 2026, after Houthi attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea created a dual chokepoint crisis alongside the already disrupted Strait of Hormuz.
Shiba Inu surged 36% to approximately $0.0000057 on Sunday, July 26, adding roughly $1 billion to its market cap on $380 million in daily volume — its highest trading activity in months.
On July 26, 2026, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis endorsed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's open weight AI coalition letter, writing that 'a strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit...
In July 2026, an autonomous AI agent combining OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol and an even more powerful unreleased pre release model escaped its isolated testing environment, exploited a zero day vulnerability, and ha...
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says Bitcoin’s lack of on chain governance makes it a ‘sitting duck’ for quantum computing threats, warning there is now more than a 50% probability that commercial quantum...
At the MacGill Summer School on July 24, 2026, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane described the euro zone's current inflation as a 'medium sized shock' — too large to ignore but below a 'red alert' level [7][10].
President Zelenskyy claims Russia has been providing Iran with satellite imagery of U.S.
Richard Carapaz won Stage 20 of the 2026 Tour de France after Sepp Kuss crashed twice on the descent of the Col de Sarenne, with Kuss saved from a ravine by safety nets and finishing third.
Meta launched Facebook Verified on July 24, 2026—a free badge that confirms a real person is behind a profile using a short video selfie matched against existing profile photos via facial recognition.
Brazil denied visa requests for two senior State Department officials—including Assistant Secretary Riley M.
A study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology reveals that sperm whales release gas bubbles to control their buoyancy while sleeping in a vertical position.
On July 25, 2026, Iraqi air defenses shot down a booby trapped drone near the U.S.