Bitcoin extended its rally on Tuesday, hitting the $80,000 psychological level for the first time since May 4. The rally comes as improving liquidity expectations continued to lift the broader cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin has gained nearly 30% in the last week, while Ethereum has risen more than 25% and XRP has advanced almost 30%. The
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise
Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong developed RoboDojo, a benchmark that evaluates physical AI across simulation and real-world robot tasks and found a wide performance gap between current models and humans. The platform combines 30 robot policies, 42 simulation tasks and 18 real-world tasks to test capabilities including generalization, memory, precision
Key takeaways Pepe has gained 25% this week, including a combined 22% advance over the previous two days. Seven whale transactions worth more than $1 million each occurred Thursday, the highest number since March 16. Exchange supply fell by 1.45 trillion PEPE, while top non-exchange wallets added 3.54 trillion tokens since August 12. Pepe maintained
Flowra launches an open auction for Solana blockspace and MEV. Early tests showed a 20.6% increase in compute units per block. Programmable policies give Solana validators more control over blocks. Flowra has launched an Open Orderflow Auction (OOA), a new block-building framework for Solana designed to introduce greater competition into the network’s maximal extractable value
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime Air serves today, extending the option to communities with tens of millions of customers, according to Amazon. Reaching that many
Insider Brief SandboxAQ has made AQPotency generally available as a Large Quantitative Model for predicting drug-target activity and prioritizing candidate molecules. The model can rank molecule-target pairs without requiring a solved 3D structure of the target and provides confidence information alongside its predictions. AQPotency is available through Claude via Model Context Protocol and SandboxAQ’s website,
Key takeaways Zcash dipped 1% on Tuesday following Monday’s rally. day, The Ironwood shielded pool now holds 3.07 million ZEC, representing 70% of total shielded volume. ZEC is approaching the apex of a symmetrical triangle, with resistance near $528. Zcash (ZEC) dipped 1% on Tuesday despite the massive rally on Monday. The surge earlier this
Key takeaways Pi Network edges higher on Monday as buyers defend the $0.0839 support level following two consecutive daily declines. The Pi Core Team released Node version 0.6.2 after successfully testing distributed computing capabilities across the network. A break below $0.0786 could invalidate the recent channel breakout, while a recovery above $0.1000 could strengthen the
Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company discussed its Connected Care vision at the Health Forum during Galaxy Unpacked in July 2026. Samsung described a future of