Polymarket is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of over $20 billion.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), US stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.17%, the S&P 500 rising 0.4%, and the Nasdaq gaining 0.78%. Palantir (PLTR.N) surged 14.7% after the company significantly lifted its full-year revenue forecast. SpaceX (SPCX.O) and AMD (AMD.O) are scheduled to release their earnings reports post-market, with their shares climbing 2.8% and 3.7% respectively. Micron Technology (MU.O) rose 4%, while Corning (GLW.N) advanced 5.6%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Amazon (AMZN.O) fell 2.07% to a current price of $278.135, and its founder Jeff Bezos intends to sell 15 million shares.

According to NVIDIA’s blog, as the annual Black Hat Security Conference kicks off today in Las Vegas, members of the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) are developing new guidelines to strengthen cybersecurity protections for agent AI. The alliance now has over 120 institutional members. The Linux Foundation today released a draft for comment of the Shared AI Discovery and Exchange (SAFE) Guide, a set of proposed guidelines aimed at turning cybersecurity incidents in the agent AI space into shared protective capabilities for the entire ecosystem. The SAFE Guide was drafted by the Open Secure AI Alliance working group. Alliance members including NVIDIA, Cisco Systems, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Red Hat are collaborating with the Linux Foundation to support the initial proposal. The SAFE Guide includes several recommended measures: confidentially collecting and analyzing AI security incidents and "near-miss events"; notifying affected stakeholders; identifying recurring failures in security controls; and publishing evidence-based operational recommendations to reduce risks across the entire system.

According to Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV, arrangements for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will be announced within hours or tomorrow.

According to Bitget market data, Brent crude oil’s decline has widened to 4%, currently trading at $79.71 per barrel. WTI crude oil is now down 4.2%.

Trader Bonk Guy took to social media to share: "A major mistake I made in the past was blind loyalty to my holdings and the communities surrounding them. During the last crypto cycle, I gave back all my eight-figure gains chasing social influence. I won’t make the same mistake this cycle. Vanity metrics like social influence might feel good in the moment, but rarely last long. It’s important to regularly take profits on any coin, as long as the moves are legal and ethical."