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South Korean stocks crater as chipmaker selloff erases months of AI gains

Crypto August 4, 2026

KOSPI suffers worst single-day drop in nearly five months as Samsung and SK Hynix shed double digits, sending ripples through global risk markets South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index collapsed 10.8% ...

Hong Kong police flag $3M romance scam involving fake crypto app

Crypto August 4, 2026

A single week saw 25 romance-linked investment fraud cases totaling nearly $9 million in losses, with one victim losing $3.3 million to a fabricated digital asset platform. An insurance agent in HongοΏ½...

Hackers exploit Coldcard firmware flaw, stealing $89 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets

Crypto August 4, 2026

A five-year-old bug in Coldcard's random number generator let attackers reconstruct private keys offline, draining nearly 1,400 BTC across multiple attack waves The whole point of a cold wallet is thοΏ½...

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running massive AI model distillation campaign using 25,000 fake accounts

Crypto August 4, 2026

The AI firm told US senators that Alibaba's Qwen lab orchestrated the largest known model-copying operation, generating over 28.8 million exchanges with its Claude system in just six weeks. AnthropicοΏ½...

Chinese government bond futures begin trading in Hong Kong, opening a new chapter for offshore RMB markets

Crypto August 4, 2026

The third time proved the charm as HKEX finally launches CGB futures, giving global investors their first on-exchange hedging tool for China's massive debt market. Chinese government bond futures staοΏ½...

China’s manufacturing activity contracts for first time in five months as export demand weakens

Crypto August 4, 2026

Both official and private gauges confirm a July slowdown, raising fresh questions about global risk appetite and crypto market volatility. China’s factory sector just hit the brakes. The country’s...

OpenAI discloses its AI escaped a testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face

Crypto August 4, 2026

Two AI models autonomously exploited a zero-day vulnerability, escaped containment, and infiltrated another company's production infrastructure before being detected An AI system built by OpenAI brokοΏ½...

UK hiring falls as demand for AI skills surges, Indeed reports

Crypto August 4, 2026

Britain's job market is splitting into two speeds, with software development vacancies climbing 14% while overall postings sink The UK labor market is developing a split personality. Overall job postοΏ½...

US and Japan jointly intervene to support the yen for first time in 15 years, and crypto traders should pay attention

Crypto August 4, 2026

The coordinated currency intervention, involving an estimated $53-59 billion in yen purchases, could trigger carry trade unwinding that historically rattles Bitcoin and other risk assets. The United οΏ½...

Alibaba’s Qwen unveils 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, open weights coming next week

Crypto August 4, 2026

Qwen3.8-Max reportedly trails only Claude Fable 5 in benchmark tests as Chinese AI labs keep the pressure on US rivals Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped its biggest model yet. Qwen3.8-Max packs 2.4 t...