Friday August 14, 2026
Kicking off this morning with the latest across crypto, AI, gaming, and space.
◾ SEC cancels today’s meeting on proposed crypto rules (SEC)
◾ Apple $AAPL trains own LLM with Alibaba $BABA support for China market (Reuters)
◾ Tether completes first independent audit by KPMG US (Tether)
Government & NGO Actions
◾ White House to host crypto and prediction market meeting next week (Politico)
◾ CFTC to discuss crypto, AI, prediction markets at Innovation Advisory Committee’s first meeting Aug 20 (CFTC)
◾ ECB reports cash usage at 92% in region (ECB)
◾ New Zealand says China attempted to install satellite-tracking infrastructure (Reuters)
◾ South Korea sentences former Delio CEO to 15 years in $50M crypto lending fraud (Tether)
◾ Bulgaria to develop terrestrial space defense hub near Sofia (SeeNews)
◾ Baltimore sues Kalshi, Polymarket over illegal sports betting (Baltimore)
Financial Notices & Public Company Releases
◾ Financial updates:
Figure Technology Solutions $FIGR Q2’26: Revenue $225.6M +113% y/y | Op income $77.7M | Net income $87.4M +192% y/y | aEBITDA $119.4M +126% y/y | Cash $1.4B (Figure Technology Solutions)
Bullish $BLSH Q2’26: Adjusted revenue $92.6M +62% y/y | Net loss $280.0M | aEBITDA $29.5M | Cash $86.6M (Bullish)
Gemini Space Station $GEMI Q2’26: Revenue $45.5M +37% y/y | Op loss $76.9M | Net loss $107.7M -19% y/y | aEBITDA loss $74.0M | Cash $188.6M (Gemini)
Bit Digital $BTBT Q2’26: Revenue $32.1M | Op loss $82.6M | Net loss $107.2M | Cash $83.6M (PR Newswire)
FIRY $FIRY Q2’26: Revenue $31.0M +23% y/y | Op loss $21.6M | Net loss $24.5M | aEBITDA loss $2.7M | Cash $164.0M (FIRY)
Caliber $CWD Q2’26: Revenue $4.2M | Net loss $3.4M | aEBITDA $23K | Cash $1.8M (Globe Newswire)
KULR Technology Group $KULR Q2’26: Revenue $2.1M -43% y/y | Op loss $11.2M +19% y/y | Net loss $22.0M | Cash $12.8M (Globe Newswire)
Space-Eyes (Private) Q1’26: Revenue $31k, Net loss $1.3M (Bloomberg)
◾ Anthropic expected to IPO in October (Fortune)
◾ Elon Musk discloses 48.4% stake in SpaceX $SPCX (Reuters)
◾ Reddit $RDDT to join S&P 500 (CNBC)
◾ Hyperscale Data $GPUS sells 685 bitcoin, cuts debt $30M (PR Newswire)
◾ OpenAI reveals ARR at $40B (Bloomberg)
◾ SharpLink $SBET to deploy $200M ETH staking allocation (Globe Newswire)
◾ Hyperscale Data announces 1-for-5 reverse split (PR Newswire)
Crypto Protocols, Applications & Business News
◾ MUFG tests blockchain-based Japanese bond repo trades (MUFG)
◾ Perpetuals $PDC gets Cyprus MiCA license (BusinessWire)
AI Models, Applications & Developments
◾ $IREN delivers first data center to Microsoft $MSFT, achieves Nvidia exemplar cloud status (Globe Newswire)
◾ OpenAI unveils ultrafast GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI)
◾ Z.ai to release new coding model, aims to catch Anthropic, OpenAI (Bloomberg)
◾ $GOOGL launches Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google)
◾ DeepSeek announces price hike for flagship AI model (The Information)
The Attention Economy, Gaming & Interactive Shifts
◾ JPMorgan debanks Polymarket over regulatory concerns (FT)
◾ Kalshi ordered to cease betting in Washington state (MyNorthwest)
◾ Novig raises trading age to 21, bans marketing to minors (Dealroom)
Space Systems, Satellites & Cosmic Activity
◾ Elon Musk arrives in Louisiana amid spaceport speculation (KPLC)
◾ CesiumAstro acquires Jariet Technologies (CesiumAstro)
◾ Impulse Space wins two Space Force transfer missions (Satellite Today)