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United States Trade Representative Greer: New tariffs will have no additional economic impact

On 28 July, United States trade representative Greer local time indicated on Monday that the new 301 tariff measures would not have new effects on the economy beyond what is currently being endured. According to Greer, the new tariffs imposed by United States President Trump on 60 trading partners may not have an economic impact, partly because 10 per cent, or 12.5 per cent, are similar to previous global tariff actions. Greer indicated that the new 301 tariff was more country-wide than the 10 per cent interim tariff that had been universally applied. However, the Agency indicated that new tariffs would still cover 99.4 per cent of United States imports. Kim Xian

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THE FORECAST MARKET PREDICTS THAT GPT-6 WILL INCREASE TO ABOUT 78 PER CENT BY 30 SEPTEMBER

On 28 July, market traders were projected to set the probability price of OpenAI to be published by 30 September at about 78 per cent for GPT-6. Polymarket ' s associated market volume is approximately US$ 73.31 million, an increase of about US$ 32 million over the previous index snapshot, with the probability of a contract being issued by 30 September rising to 77 per cent, the probability of a contract being issued by 31 August at 30 per cent, and the probability of publication by 21 August falling to 15 per cent. The probability of myriad being released in September also rose to 77 per cent, up from 64 per cent last week. As of 27 July, OpenAI had not publicly announced GPT-6, technical design or release date, and its current flagship generic model GPT-5.6 Sol was released on 9 July. OpenAI has previously confirmed that GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-publishing model broke Hugo Face during the cybersecurity assessment. The company has also announced 250 new jobs in Dublin, and soft silver is financing its OpenAI-related advancement through a $40 billion bridge loan。

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Anthropic clarified its position: it never advocated a ban on open weight AI models

On 28 July, Anthropic stated that it had never advocated a ban on the open weight AI model and refuted recent statements. Dario Amodei, its chief executive officer, stated that the company did not share the view that the open weight model was natural and more conducive to AI ' s safety and security development. This statement highlights the ongoing debate within the industry on the balance between open AI development and security。

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Anthropic Claude shared conversations are indexed by Google, exposing sensitive information such as encrypted wallet notes

On July 28, a Reddit user discovered hundreds of fully read Claude shared conversations via Google on July 25. These include encrypted wallets, suspected social security numbers, and sensitive information such as legal discussions. The problem is that Anthropic does not add a nonindex meta tag to Claude 's shared page. Its robots.txt has prevented Claude from sharing URLs, but Google can still index relevant pages when shared links appear on a public website. The same question relates to Claude Open Arts, including applications, dashboards and financial instruments created by users in Claude. The results of the search showed pay scales with names of employees, internal customer relationship management chats and unpublished product road maps. Before July 26th, after Anthropic updates the configuration and adds a noindex label, Google starts removing Claude's results. Bing still shows partial shared links; a GitHub repository has filed 453 Claude Dialogues and 519 Grok Dialogues with 11241 explicit messages。

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THE FIRST WEEK OF CME GOLD FUTURES ONLINE IN THE UNITED STATES IS HOME TO ALMOST 15,000 CONTRACTS

On 28 July, CME Group Inc., the United States of America, indicated that its 1 ounce of gold futures round-the-clock (24/7) transactions were on line during the first weekend, albeit with low volatility, but demand was stronger than expected and market liquidity was adequate. During the first weekend of the launch of the new 24/7 trading schedule, nearly 15,000 ounces of gold futures contracts, with a nominal value of approximately $60 million, were concluded. The participants at the Chiffon Institute constitute a similar group of one ounce of gold clients to its existing, and demand continues to come mainly from scattered investors。

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BITCOIN BIP-110 MANDATORY SIGNAL WINDOW OPENED FOR LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, WITH A CURRENT SUPPORT RATE OF APPROXIMATELY 2.64 PER CENT

On 28 July, the Bitcoin BIP-110 mandatory signal window will be open at block 961632, which is expected to be around 9 August 2026. As at 27 July, 8,40 (EDT), with a chain height of 95,9842, there were approximately 1,790 blocks remaining, with a BIP-110 signal support rate of approximately 2.64 per cent. The BIP-110 official name is Reduced Data Temporary Softfork and proposes to limit the size of some data fields in bitcoin transactions, mainly for the Ordinals class, large OP RETURN payloads and similar high data volume applications. If activated, the restriction will enter into force on block 965664 and automatically expire after 52416 blocks for about one year. Current signal support comes mainly from Ocean, independent miners and small operators, and major mines such as Foundry, Antpool, ViaBT and F2pool have not yet been turned to support. Foundry has requested the client to vote on average, and only if the “support” vote exceeds 51 per cent of the participation in the weighted calculation will the mine pool switch all blocks to support the signal. If the current signal level continues to block 961632, the implementation of the BIP-110 node will reject blocks that do not send a version bit 4 and follow a few that send a signal. The non-upgraded nodes will continue to accept blocks that send signals and those that do not and follow the chain of highest proof of cumulative workload。

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The Fed's probability of keeping interest rates constant this week is 63.7 per cent

ON 28 JULY, ACCORDING TO THE CME FEDERAL RESERVE WATCH: THE FED'S PROBABILITY OF MAINTAINING INTEREST RATES IN JULY WAS 63.7 PER CENT AND THE PROBABILITY OF A CUMULATIVE INCREASE OF 25 BASIS POINTS WAS 36.3 PER CENT. THE FED HAD A PROBABILITY OF MAINTAINING INTEREST RATES CONSTANT BY 18.5 PER CENT BY SEPTEMBER, A PROBABILITY OF A CUMULATIVE INCREASE OF 25 BASIS POINTS OF 55.7 PER CENT AND A PROBABILITY OF A CUMULATIVE INCREASE OF 50 BASIS POINTS OF 25.8 PER CENT。

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Franklin Templeton for Clarity Act, Beled, Fuda, etc

On July 28th, Franklin Templeton announced his support for Clarity Act on July 27th. Franklin Resources previously disclosed that, as at 30 June, the size of the assets managed under the flag was $1.79 trillion, up from $1.78 trillion a month ago. Franklin Templeton states that the CLARITY Act will establish clearer rules for digital assets, help investors understand the protection available and enhance firm certainty in the division of federal regulatory responsibilities. Blackrock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs and Crusader previously publicly supported the market structure bill. The Senate Republicans released an updated version on 22 July, in which they proposed to divide the responsibility for the regulation of digital assets between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the United States Commodity Futures and Exchange Commission (CFTC)。

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Trump says he's patient in reaching a new deal with Iran

On 28 July, United States President Tripp stated to the media on 27 July, en route to Michigan on a plane entitled Air Force I, that the current negotiations between the United States and Iran were “good”, that he had enough patience and time to reach an agreement with Iran, but that, if a new ceasefire agreement was not reached, the United States would resume its military strike against Iran — and that “the United States forces currently have a large stock of ammunition of various types”。

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The value of apples is above the value of Britain

ON MONDAY, 28 JULY, LOCAL TIME, APPLE (AAPL.O) SURPASSED NVDA.O AND WAS RE-ESTABLISHED AS THE HIGHEST GLOBAL MARKET VALUE FIRM AT A CLOSING PRICE, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE APRIL 2025. THE MARKET VALUE FELL TO $4.77 TRILLION ON MONDAY, WHEN BRITISH WIDA STOCK PRICES FELL BY NEARLY 5 PER CENT, AND THE AI CHIP PLATE AS A WHOLE WAS LOW OWING TO INVESTORS ' CONCERNS ABOUT THE HUGE COST OF AI INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION. AT THE SAME TIME, THE PRICE OF THE APPLE STOCK HAD RISEN BY 1 PER CENT AND THE MARKET VALUE HAD REACHED $4.95 TRILLION, AND THE COMPANY WOULD PUBLISH A WELL-REGARDED FINANCIAL STATEMENT AFTER THURSDAY. YOUNG WEIDA HAS MAINTAINED THIS POSITION SINCE JUNE 2025, WHEN MICROSOFT TOOK THE FIRST SEAT OF GLOBAL MARKET VALUE, AND BRIEFLY TOUCHED THE MARKET VALUE OF $5 TRILLION LAST OCTOBER. SO FAR IN 2026, THE SHARE PRICE IN WEEDA HAS INCREASED BY ONLY 4 PER CENT, WHILE APPLES HAVE RISEN BY 24 PER CENT. APPLES PERFORM BETTER THAN BIG MARKETS, AS THEY TEND TO BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT AI CAPITAL SPENDING AND TEND TO RENT COMPUTING RATHER THAN SELF-BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE, A STRATEGY THAT IS ACCEPTED BY INVESTORS。

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Castle securities: Walsh's interest rate may have increased by accident this week

On July 28, Citadel Securities predicted that the Fed would increase interest rates this week – an unexpected move that would strengthen President Kevin Walsh’s credibility in the fight against inflation. In a report, the agency ' s macro-strategy manager, Frank Fryt, wrote that an increase of 25 basis points on Wednesday would consolidate the repeated commitment of Walsh to restoring price stability, while demonstrating that policymakers no longer relied on early signals for each policy initiative. “The market may again underestimate the extent to which the Fed Eagles have shifted.” This week’s interest rate hike will “decisively put an end to the future guidance era” and highlight the Fed’s independence。

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WONG IN-HOON WILL GO TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS HILL TO DISCUSS AI LEADERSHIP AND OPEN-SOURCE ISSUES

On 28 July, local time, NVDA.O, indicated that his Chief Executive Officer, Hoang In-hoon, would travel to Washington to meet with parliamentarians to discuss the leadership status of the United States in the area of artificial intelligence. According to the spokesman for Young Weida, Hoang In-hoon will meet with the leaders of the two parties at Hill to discuss the latest developments in the technology, including the importance of keeping the lead in the open-source area. Huang In-hoon plans to meet Tuesday with Mark Werner, Chief Democratic Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Werner expressed serious concern about security threats following last week's attack on Openai's autonomous network. His office had confirmed the arrangements for the meeting. The meeting coincided with Huang In-hoon's voice on social media X as an open source AI, when he wrote that such models “can enhance security and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and popularization, and achieve sovereignty”. The visit of Huang In-hoon also coincided with the scheduled meeting of OpenAI founder Ortmann with members of Parliament in Washington, D.C., but the Speaker of Warner stated that the meeting was organized separately。

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