U.S. initial jobless claims fell, allowing the Federal Reserve to stay focused on inflation.

According to market data from BIT (Bit.com), U.S. crypto-related stocks generally posted slight gains: SharpLink (SBET) traded at $8.530, up 2.52%; Bitmine (BMNR) at $25.490, up 2.33%; Gemini (GEMI) at $4.760, up 4.85%; Bullish (BLSH) at $34.270, up 3.50%; Circle (CRCL) at $93.140, up 3.59%; Strategy (MSTR) at $127.330, up 3.36%; and Coinbase (COIN) at $184.780, up 1.65%.

According to market data from BIT (Bit.com), US stocks opened with mixed performance across the three major indices: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1%, the S&P 500 rose 0.34%, and the Nasdaq gained 0.87%. NVIDIA (NVDA.O) climbed roughly 6%, with its next year revenue projected to grow 70%.

Flash report from Beating AI Insight: The U.S. is set to push its "light-touch AI regulation" approach to more countries at next week’s G20 Innovation Ministers’ Meeting. Attendees include Elon Musk, David Sacks, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang. The meeting will be held in North Carolina, U.S., from September 1 to 2, with technology and trade officials from over 20 countries participating. Bloomberg reports that Musk and Sacks will speak virtually on the first day, while Altman and Huang will appear in person on the second day. The U.S. wants G20 members to adopt looser tech regulation: avoid establishing new dedicated regulatory bodies, rely as much as possible on existing industry regulators, and allow governments and enterprises to jointly test new technologies like AI. The framework, dubbed the "Carolina Principles," is non-binding. If member states reach a consensus, the principles will be included in a joint statement and submitted for discussion at the December G20 Leaders’ Summit. This approach is essentially the international version of the Trump administration’s domestic AI policy. The White House explicitly stated in March this year that it would not establish a new federal AI rulemaking body, instead letting existing industry regulators and standards bodies oversee AI, while minimizing regulations that hinder AI deployment. Now, the U.S. is preparing to extend this same set of rules to the G20.

Beating AI Express: Hugging Face’s open-source robotics subsidiary Pollen Robotics has unveiled Microduck, a $399 bipedal robot. Standing just 25 cm tall and weighing around 800 grams, it integrates 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR, and two IMUs. Out of the box, it can walk, sit, grasp objects, kick a ball, self-right after falling, and even glide when fitted with rollers. Microduck’s movements can be retrained independently: users first train actions via reinforcement learning in the MuJoCo physics simulator, then deploy the trained policy to the physical robot. The SDK, simulator, and full reinforcement learning training stack are all open-source, with the entire software released under the Apache 2.0 license. Pre-orders for Microduck are now open, with the first batch scheduled to ship before Christmas 2026.

According to official announcements, Charles Schwab has announced plans to add trading for Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX), and Chainlink (LINK) to its Schwab Crypto accounts in the coming months. Schwab Crypto launched direct trading services for Bitcoin and Ethereum for clients in May 2026.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, trader 0xedcd—who went long on 20,000 ETH (worth ~$49.9 million) ahead of the market rally and reaped over $11 million in profits—has just opened a new position: going long on 100,000 SOL with 20x leverage, with the position valued at roughly $10.45 million.