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The common view says open-weight AI is bad news for frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood argues the opposite. An open-weight AI model is one in which the creator releases the underlying parameters publicly. It allows anyone to download, run, and modify it on their own hardware without paying for access.

Asian stocks edged higher Monday and the probability of a September US rate hike dropped sharply, giving global markets room to extend last week’s record run. The calm has one clear expiry date: Wednesday’s inflation report. Japan’s Nikkei and South Korea’s KOSPI added marginally as the new week began. The MSCI Asia-Pacific index outside Japan

Airbnb stock hit a four-year high on Friday, gaining 17% after its CEO made one of the clearest corporate arguments yet for what AI can actually deliver. Brian Chesky did not just claim AI mattered: he showed investors the number. Second-quarter revenue rose 17% to $3.61 billion, beating Wall Street’s estimate of around $3.57 billion,

Institutions are concentrating liquidity into fewer tokens instead of spreading capital across the wider market.

Kraken is entering the final stage of its latest delisting cycle, giving holders of 21 tokens until August 27 at 14:00 UTC to withdraw their assets. Afterwards, the exchange begins automatically liquidating remaining balances into markets it warns may have limited or no liquidity. The scheduled delisting, first announced in May, affects assets that no