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Top Stories

BTC $63,727 (-1.1%) | ETH $1,881 (-1.8%) | SOL $73 (-0.5%)

• The S&P 500 gains over 1.6% on the day as over $1.1T gets added to the US stock market on the day

• Microsoft closes up 15.5% in its best day since 2008

• US Q2 GDP rises just 1.5%, missing forecasts — June PCE inflation hits expectations as it falls to 3.7%

• Chip stocks surge as Sandisk soars 26% — SK Hynix and Samsung gain over 20%

• Apple forecasts Q4 revenue growth of just 9% to 11% YoY as AAPL craters over 5% after hours — Cook warns supply-constraint impact will "increase significantly"

• Strategy reports $8.2B Q2 losses

• Amazon beats earnings estimates, gains 7% overnight

• Cold Card BTC wallets get exploited for over 500 BTC

• OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80%, trims GPT-5.6 Terra prices 20% to $2 per million tokens

• Leopold Aschenbrenner "capitulates" and and sells his public stock holdings to Citadel

• Anthropic releases report that Claude hacked 3 outside organizations

• Chinese military researchers distill OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems for defense

• Treasury Secretary invokes Satoshi Nakamoto in plea for the CLARITY Act — SEC vows to set crypto rules if Congress stalls on CLARITY

• Coinbase misses Q2 estimates but hits record market share — COIN down 7% after hours

• Researchers find AI can't do science