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Odaily News: Apple has limited the number of vulnerability reports a single researcher can submit at one time because its security team has received a large number of submissions generated by AI, many of which do not actually contain real flaws. Apple stated that researchers can request a higher limit at any time, and the company is also using AI internally to triage submissions.Bynario, a Milan-based cybersecurity startup, said it used OpenAI's ChatGPT to discover more than 50 vulnerabilities in the latest version of macOS within three weeks, including a privilege escalation chain that could give attackers full control of a Mac device.Bynario stated that it was unable to report this vulnerability because Apple had already rejected further submissions. Bynario CEO Alfredo Pesoli estimated the vulnerability's value on the criminal market at $100,000 to $200,000. Apple said it has reached out to the company and reviewed its work. In June, Apple added a submission cap and a 30-day cooldown period to its security portal. In a recent security update, Apple listed vulnerabilities discovered with the assistance of Anthropic and OpenAI software, with the number of fixes approximately five times that of a normal cycle. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: OpenAI has issued a statement responding to Apple's previously filed trade secret lawsuit, calling Apple's allegations "hasty, aggressive, and factually flawed," and released email records as supporting evidence. OpenAI stated that Apple previously claimed it had contacted the company in February and received no response, but in reality, Apple's external counsel had sent the email to the wrong recipient due to a name mix-up. Additionally, Apple also acknowledged that it had not engaged in any relevant communication with OpenAI's General Counsel.Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining confidential information through former Apple employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan. OpenAI denied the allegations and stated that Apple employees proactively sought advice from Liu on documents and technical issues after his departure, because Apple had failed to promptly revoke the departed employees' system access. (Business Insider)
According to The Block, a Telegram spokesperson stated that Telegram has been relisted on the Apple App Store and will soon be open to all users again.
Bitget launches a new round of CandyBomb, with a total prize pool of 10 rSNDK. This event is exclusive to new stock contract users, and the participation period is from 21:00 on August 3 to 21:00 on August 13 (UTC+8). During the event, users trading designated stock contracts such as TSLAUSDT and AAPLUSDT can unlock corresponding candies once cumulative trading volume requirements are met, with a maximum of 0.1 rSNDK per user. Detailed rules have been published on the Bitget official platform; eligible users must click "Join Now" to complete registration before participating.
Bitget Launches VIP Exclusive Stock Contract Event. The participation period runs from 18:00 on August 3 to 18:00 on August 16 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 88 Apple stock tokens (rAAPL). During the event, VIP users who have not previously completed any stock contract transactions can receive rAAPL equivalent to 20 USDT upon completing their first trade and meeting the cumulative trading volume requirement. Additionally, if the cumulative stock contract trading volume reaches specified thresholds, extra rewards can be unlocked, with a maximum of rAAPL worth 300 USDT. The prize pool is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
Bitget launches Phase 8 of the Contract VIP "Ten Million Club" event. The event snapshot rules are "Calendar Month Cumulative Target Achievement + End-of-Month Status Confirmation". Based on account data from August 31, the platform will award esports-themed gift boxes of different tiers based on users' US Stock rToken trading volume or Contract trading volume from August 1 to August 31. Rewards include: Razer Gaming Chair, PS5 Pro, Colorful RTX 5090 Graphics Card, and other great gifts. Previously, Bitget announced an upgrade to its Contract VIP service system and launched the "Ten Million Club" plan. Eligible users can receive platform-customized high-end physical gift boxes on a monthly basis. Previous gifts to users have included Moutai, Hermes, Apple gift boxes, and Luk Fook Jewellery. Specific benefits are subject to the monthly announcement.
According to CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated during the latest earnings conference call that Apple's hybrid AI strategy—where some AI tasks run locally on-device and complex tasks are processed via Google Cloud—is a "competitive weapon", distinct from the data center investments of tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, which often exceed $100 billion. Apple's capital expenditure in the second fiscal quarter was only $2.46 billion, lower than the market expectation of $3.44 billion. Cook also revealed that Apple plans to make AI a core selling point for iCloud+ subscription upgrades, offering paid expansion options for users with higher AI usage, but the specific pricing plan has not been finalized yet.
on Polymarket, Apple has around a 79% probability of becoming the world's most valuable company by the end of July, while Nvidia's probability has dropped to approximately 22%. The cumulative trading volume for this prediction market is about $4.7 million. At Tuesday's close, Apple's market cap was approximately $4.995 trillion, and Nvidia's market cap stood at about $4.768 trillion, giving Apple a lead of roughly $227 billion. This contract will be settled based on the market caps of the two companies at the close of trading on July 31. Apple is scheduled to release its third fiscal quarter earnings on July 30 at 5 PM Eastern Time. Nvidia's latest fiscal quarter saw data center revenue grow by 75% to $62.3 billion.
According to TechFlow Research, on Monday (July 27), Apple rose over 1%, with its market cap reaching $4.94 trillion, surpassing Nvidia's $4.78 trillion to return to the top spot in global market cap. Over the past month, Apple outperformed the Nasdaq 100 Index by 23 percentage points, marking the largest single-month excess return since 2005. Goldman Sachs raised the target price from $330 to $370 on the same day, maintaining a Buy rating, citing increased confidence in the iPhone upgrade cycle and AI strategy. Apple will release its Q3 earnings report on Thursday, with the market expecting EPS to be $1.89. This market cap overtaking occurred against the backdrop of growing investor concerns over the ROI on huge AI capital expenditures, with Google's FCF turning negative and Nvidia facing sell-offs, while Apple became a safe haven instead due to restrained AI spending.
MoonPay has announced that users in the United States can now use Discover Network cards to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. With this integration, Discover becomes the third major US bank card payment network supported by MoonPay, following Visa and Mastercard. Additionally, MoonPay also supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, bank transfers, and various regional payment channels. (The Block)
crypto payment infrastructure company Moonpay has integrated Discover Network payments. Discover Network cardholders can now buy and sell cryptocurrencies through the Moonpay platform. Discover Network becomes the third major card brand supported by Moonpay in the United States, alongside Visa and Mastercard. Moonpay stated that this support is now available across its network of over 500 enterprise partners, including wallets, exchanges, and applications. Moonpay also supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo, bank transfers, and regional payment channels. Founded in 2019, Moonpay serves over 30 million customers across 180 countries and holds the New York BitLicense, a New York limited purpose trust company charter, money transmitter licenses in multiple US states, and an authorization under the EU's MiCA framework.
According to Wintermute OTC trader @Jjay_dm, June CPI fell 0.4% month-over-month, the largest single-month drop since April 2020, overall inflation decreased from 4.2% to 3.5%, the market immediately priced in a hold for the July FOMC, and the probability of a rate hike in September also dropped from over 75% to 63%. However, the US restarted a naval blockade on Iranian ports and conducted air strikes for the fourth consecutive night, Brent crude surged 15.54% in a single week, reaching a high of $87 per barrel, pressure for energy inflation to rebound is accumulating, casting doubt on the sustainability of this CPI decline. Meanwhile, China's Moonshot released the open-source model Kimi K3, claiming performance comparable to frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, directly impacting the AI compute narrative, TSMC fell 7% in a single day, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index recorded its worst weekly performance in 15 months, the Nasdaq dropped 4.16%, and Nvidia temporarily ceded the top spot in global market cap to Apple. The crypto market, however, strengthened against the trend, becoming the best-performing risk asset of the week. Within minutes of the CPI data release, BTC surged from around $62,000 to $64,900, ETH jumped 7% in a single day to $1,884, CoinGlass data showed approximately $134 million in short positions were liquidated within the first hour. BTC ETF
: Arcus, a decentralized exchange supported by Robinhood, launched tokenized stocks and perpetual futures on the Robinhood Chain on Tuesday. Arcus is built by the team behind the decentralized exchange dYdX and is supported by Robinhood Crypto. Arcus previously launched its spot market on July 1st when the Robinhood Chain went live. The platform offers over 95 stock tokens, perpetual markets, and crypto assets via self-custodial trading accounts, using USDG, a stablecoin issued by Paxos, as the primary collateral and settlement asset. The tokens launched on Arcus include stock tokens for major US companies such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon, as well as perpetual markets linked to stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, and crypto assets. Arcus stated that its stock tokens are not available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other restricted jurisdictions. The platform utilizes a self-custody model, allowing users to retain control of their assets and connect self-custodial wallets such as MetaMask, Ledger, and WalletConnect.
according to official sources, OKX Wallet has now launched "Social Login," allowing users to create a wallet in seconds using their email, Apple, or Google accounts, without the need to record or back up a seed phrase throughout the process. Wallets created via social login remain self-custodial; the seed phrase and private key will be generated, stored, and used for signing within a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment). OKX cannot access or export the user's private key, ensuring users always maintain control over their assets. Users can export their private key or convert to a standard seed phrase wallet at any time.It is reported that OKX Wallet's "Social Login" adopts a unified account system. One account can seamlessly connect across the App, browser extension, web platform, and Agent, automatically restoring the same wallet upon login. The initial launch supports 19 chains, including X Layer, Solana, among others, and natively supports trading scenarios such as Swap, cross-chain transactions, limit orders, copy trading, and RWA.
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor said in an interview with CNBC that the company currently has no update on its Initial Public Offering (IPO) plans. Taylor's interview centered on OpenAI's newly launched AI agent tools, and discussed topics including the outlook for enterprise AI spending, a lawsuit related to Apple, and development trends in the artificial intelligence industry.As OpenAI's valuation continues to climb and competition in the AI industry intensifies, the market has maintained a high level of attention on its listing timeline. However, Taylor's statement indicates that OpenAI has no new IPO arrangements to announce in the near term.
Odaily reports, Ondo Perps announced that since its public launch one week ago, total trading volume has exceeded $3 billion, while 24-hour trading volume has doubled to $200 million compared to the first day of launch.The platform has also added two new Korean stock tokenization targets: SK Hynix (SKHY) and Samsung Electronics (SMSN). Ondo Perps allows users to directly use tokenized stocks and ETF holdings as margin for perpetual contracts, offering non-U.S. users up to 20x leverage on assets such as Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, as well as gold and silver.The Ondo Perps team previously stated that using U.S. stocks as collateral is just the starting point, and future AI-driven trading flows will become a key focus area.
Odaily Bitget has launched a Unified Trading Account (UTA), incorporating over 370 assets, including 100 US stock tokens (rTokens), into a unified margin pool. Under this mechanism, users' held US stock tokens (rTokens) not only entitle them to stock dividends but can also serve as margin and collateral for borrowing, further enhancing capital efficiency.The first batch of US stock tokens included in the margin system covers 100 mainstream underlying assets such as Apple (rAAPL), Nvidia (rNVDA), and Tesla (rTSLA), with discount rates set according to asset tiers, reaching up to 95%. As the product evolves, Bitget will continue to expand the list of assets eligible for margin and leveraged trading, further bridging the liquidity gap between traditional financial assets and the crypto trading ecosystem.
According to Odaily, the persistent memory supply shortage driven by AI demand continues to exert upward pricing pressure on smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics, Apple, and Xiaomi in the second half of the year. Industry sources indicate that Samsung Electronics' upcoming Galaxy Z8 series, set to be released this month, has an increased likelihood of price increases based on storage capacity. The price of the 256GB base model is expected to remain at a similar level to its predecessor, approximately 3.05 million won, while the 512GB and 1TB models may see price increases of around 120,000 won each. This pricing strategy aims to minimize the price increase for the base model while prioritizing adjustments to higher-capacity models, which are more affected by memory cost pressures.
Apple is shifting its reliance to NVIDIA GPUs to support its artificial intelligence operations, as the company's self-developed M2 Ultra chip has failed to meet expectations when running advanced AI workloads.Sources indicate that Apple previously attempted to use its own servers to run Google's Gemini model to power AI capabilities for the new Siri. However, the performance of its chips fell short of requirements, ultimately forcing the company to turn to NVIDIA GPUs deployed on Google Cloud. Additionally, the development of Apple's next-generation AI server chip, "Baltra," has been delayed, while the M7 Ultra chip, which is expected to rival the performance of NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, is unlikely to be launched before 2029 at the earliest. (Coin Bureau)
The official WeChat account of the Cyberspace Administration of China released an announcement regarding the filing information of 7 generative artificial intelligence services provided on the mobile end-side. Among them, the "Apple Intelligence" large model of Apple Technology Development (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was filed on July 8, 2026, with the applicable scenario being Apple phones, which means the AI features of mainland China version Apple phones are expected to accelerate their launch.