Intel plans to raise approximately $15 billion through a public offering of common stock to support investments in AI computing, self-developed chips, advanced packaging, external wafer foundry services, and physical AI businesses. Underwriters have an additional over allotment option to purchase up to $2.25 billion worth of stock. Affected by fundraising news, Intel's stock price fell 4.62% before trading. This year, the scale of AI capital expenditure is expected to reach $1 trillion, and Goldman Sachs predicts that the capital expenditure of large-scale cloud vendors will rise to $1.4 trillion by 2027.

White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett has stated that if Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is removed from her position due to related allegations, she will not take over her position. Kevin Hassett stated that the allegations against Lisa Cook are a matter of law enforcement investigation and expressed the hope that Lisa Cook is innocent. Kevin Hassett stated that if he were to participate in decision-making, he would prefer to maintain the current interest rate level or implement a rate cut. Kevin Hassett believes that US inflation is easing, while supply side growth momentum remains strong, providing space for a more relaxed policy environment.

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese government is considering using Sakana Fugu for the command and control of the Self Defense Forces and has listed it as a candidate for domestic AI. Sakana acknowledges that the Fugu command model was previously trained on Alibaba Qwen and has now been retrained using Google Gemma 4 E2B, with plans to replace it with a Japanese made model in the future.

Onchain Lens detected that Ethereum Foundation transferred 566.27 ETH worth approximately $1.09 million from its donation wallet to an anonymous address; Transfer 2.62 ETH worth approximately $5000 to another associated address. （Onchain Lens）

BitMine increased its holdings of 7391 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to 5.805238 million ETH as of August 9, 2026, accounting for 4.8% of the total supply of Ethereum. BitMine holds a total value of approximately $11.6 billion in cryptocurrency, cash, and other investment assets, including $104 million in cash and securities, 209 bitcoins, $180 million in Beast Industries equity assets, and $69 million in investment in Eightco Holdings (ORBS). BitMine has pledged an increase of 5.067309 million ETH, valued at approximately 9.8 billion US dollars, with an annualized staking income of approximately 257 million US dollars. BitMine repurchased 3 million shares of common stock during the same period, and has repurchased a total of 19.1 million shares since July 1st.