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View More NewsIn brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $225.2 million in net outflows on July 23, ending a seven-day streak that had pulled in nearly $1 billion, according to SoSoValue data. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for the bulk of the exit at $202.5 million, while Morgan Stanley’s MSBT was the only Bitcoin fund to add money, taking in $5 million. Spot Ethereum ETFs moved the opposite direction, adding $26.3 million to stretch their own inflow streak to five straight days. It was nice while it lasted. Bitcoin ETFs just had their first bad day in more than a week.U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs—stock…
In brief Claude Opus 5, released July 24, costs $5 per million input tokens—identical to its predecessor Opus 4.8 and exactly half the price of Fable 5—while outperforming Fable 5 on most major benchmarks. Opus 5 scored 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1, an agentic coding evaluation, versus 33.7% for Fable 5 and 34.4% for OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol; on ARC-AGI-3, a novel problem-solving benchmark, it scored 30.2% against GPT-5.6 Sol’s 7.8%—a gap that’s not close. The new model is the default on Claude Max and the strongest on Claude Pro, effectively replacing Fable 5 as the go-to for most subscribers. Claude Opus…
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Three thousand years ago, Homer gave us the face that launched a thousand ships. This weekend, Christopher Nolan gave us the film that launched a million grifts, and he buried them.His Odyssey opened to $124 million domestically and a whopping $264 million worldwide. The haul does not prove the film is good. It does prove that the seven-month social-media campaign against it face-planted the moment real people bought tickets.Their indictment ran on three charges. Nolan cast Lupita Nyong’o, a black actress, as Helen of Troy, the legendary beauty of the ancient world. Elliot Page, the transgender star, was said to…
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust shed $527.84 million on Wednesday, the second-largest single-day net outflow since the fund launched in January 2024, per SoSoValue data.The…