BlackRock's head of digital assets Robert Mitchnick says Bitcoin and Ethereum are the only two cryptocurrencies attracting meaningful investor demand; IBIT saw $26B inflows in 2025 despite BTC's price decline; new staking ether ETF ETHB adds yield capture.

In a rare 3.5-hour interview, Xiaomi's LLM head Luo Fuli declared AI has fully shifted from Chat to Agent era, with 'self-evolution' as the next critical milestone. She revealed Xiaomi's compute ratio change from 3:5:1 to 3:1:1 and said pre-training gap has shrunk to months.

Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, saying it can run locally on devices with 16GB of RAM or VRAM. The model uses about 8.1GB in practice and targets the gap between mobile-class models and larger server-oriented versions.

Mitchell Hashimoto warned that AI-assisted development is amplifying systemic software risk. The report says blockchain attacks rose 30% over the past six months, while AI-generated code shows a defect rate 1.7 times that of human-written code.

Annie Altman has filed an amended civil complaint in federal court, accusing Sam Altman of long-term sexual abuse between 1997 and 2006. A judge said standalone assault claims were time-barred but allowed the case to proceed under Missouri’s child sexual abuse law.

Perplexity has rolled out Personal Computer to Max subscribers, bringing its AI agent from the cloud onto local Macs with access to native apps, files, and major cloud services for $200 per month.

PayPal will forfeit about $30 million in transaction fees to settle DOJ investigation into its minority business support program that allegedly excluded Asian applicants.

Taiwan stocks surged on July 14, with the index hitting 36,235 and TSMC reaching NT$2,040. The rally followed comments from Donald Trump saying Iran had called the U.S. seeking a deal.