Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion hack incident, secures an asset freeze order

According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, BlackRock (BLK.N) disclosed that as of June 30, it held 51 million Class A common shares of SpaceX (SPCX.O).

According to ABC News, after suffering a setback at the Supreme Court, Donald Trump is still pushing forward with his attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

OpenAI published a new blog post noting that internal tests have shown its upcoming Astra model has made significant advances in agent coding and cybersecurity. Evaluated against its Preparedness Framework, OpenAI stated it cannot rule out that the model has reached the "critical" cybersecurity capability threshold. Additionally, the company clarified in the post that the Astra model was not involved in the recent Hugging Face security incident, and is continuing benchmark tests under the Preparedness Framework to manage frontier cybersecurity capabilities. As a result, OpenAI has suspended internal activities related to Astra that do not yet meet these enhanced security control requirements. The "critical" capability is defined as: a model can, without human intervention, discover and exploit all severe functional zero-day vulnerabilities across a large number of real, hardened critical systems; or independently design and execute end-to-end novel cyberattack strategies against hardened targets based solely on high-level objectives. Prior models, such as GPT-5.6-Sol, were only rated at the "high" level.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), U.S.-listed optical module stocks extended their strong rally, with intraday gains widening. COHR jumped more than 16%, AAOI climbed 12.12%, and LITE advanced 6.47%. The optical module stock ETF (LYTE) operated by prominent investment management firm Roundhill rose 4.66%.

OpenAI has delayed the launch of its new flagship model Astra due to cybersecurity concerns. Astra, OpenAI’s next-generation primary model, features robust capabilities including long-duration autonomous operation, multi-agent collaboration, and solving long-unresolved mathematical problems, and has recently been validated in internal builds. (Axios)

According to Bloomberg data, traders are heavily buying S&P 500 call options as market optimism builds. The Cboe Skew Index fell to its lowest level since December 2024 on Friday. A lower skew indicates that call options are rising in price relative to put options, signaling growing demand for bets on further market gains.