Month: July 2026

Meta halted its $19.99 monthly subscription plan for Ray-Ban smart glasses after backlash over charging for a feature that runs locally on the The post Meta pauses subscription plan for smart glasses after backlash appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Capital Group’s SMALLCAP World Fund now holds 2.93M shares of Strive Inc. worth $33.6M, signaling institutional confidence in Bitcoin treasury The post Capital Group’s SMALLCAP World Fund boosts Strive stake to 2.93M shares worth $33.6M appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 launches at half the cost of Fable 5 with better benchmarks, using one-seventh the reasoning tokens of its predecessor. The post Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 5, and AI-powered trading just got a lot cheaper appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Liga MX appoints Francisco Iturbide as president and restructures governance after the Premier League model ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The post Liga MX overhauls governance with new president ahead of 2026 World Cup appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Meta shifts from Llama to proprietary Muse Spark 1.1 for its AI assistant’s new task automation features, raising questions for AI token The post Meta pivots to autonomous AI with Muse Spark, signaling a new front in the Big Tech AI arms race appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Strive’s SATA preferred shares have recovered nearly 16% from their June low to about $97, prompting Jan3 CEO Samson Mow to predict that the rebound could help Strategy’s STRC return to its $100 par value. Yahoo Finance data show SATA…...

Nvidia, Microsoft, and 23 other companies urge US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models, with major implications for crypto and The post Nvidia, Microsoft lead 25-company coalition defending open-source AI models in letter to US policymakers appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Uber and Waymo are dissolving their exclusivity agreement in Atlanta and Austin, with analysts projecting a complete partnership unwinding by Q1 The post Uber and Waymo end exclusivity deal in Atlanta and Austin, signaling shift in autonomous vehicle strategy appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Bluerock Acquisition Corp. raised $172.5M in its SPAC IPO with no industry restrictions, and its existing crypto fund makes a Web3 acquisition The post Bluerock Acquisition Corp. files for $150M SPAC IPO with potential Web3 applications appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

US forces disabled the M/T Lavine in the Gulf of Oman. Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by September 30 at 21.5% YES. The post US forces disable M/T Lavine merchant ship in Gulf of Oman: AP appeared first on Crypto Briefing....