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According to Jinshi reports, the Israel Defense Forces launched operations in multiple areas of the Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning, successfully dismantling four Hamas weapon storage facilities.

According to Jinshi News, Amazon employees have discovered that due to errors in the company's deployment of AI and a lack of expenditure control measures, some projects have experienced "catastrophically high" cost overruns. A senior engineer stated at an employee meeting that attempts to shift tasks from traditional programming to using AI models have resulted in "unplanned" expenditures.Amazon expects its capital expenditures to reach $200 billion this year, primarily invested in AI and data center infrastructure construction.

According to Jinshi reports, market sources say that Ukrainian drones attacked the grain export terminal in Russia's Taman Port, causing significant damage.

According to Jinshi reports, the Kish Free Zone Organization announced that the attack by the United States on Kish Island a few minutes ago did not cause any damage to the urban areas or residential areas of Kish Island.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) company Zama CEO Rand Hindi stated on X on Monday that the company has achieved benchmark results of 1,000 confidential transactions per second on GPUs, an increase of about 5,000 times compared to the 0.2 transactions per second demonstrated at ETHcc in 2022. Hindi mentioned that the cost of running an FHE node is approximately $0.000004 per ERC7984 transaction, significantly lower than zero-knowledge proofs, but this comparison has not been independently verified. The benchmark has not yet been activated on any mainnet, is self-reported data from the company, and the testing methods have not been published, with plans to go live by the end of the year.Hindi also set long-term goals: 10,000 tps by 2028 and 100,000 tps by 2030. Zama has been active recently: on July 24, a confidential RFQ exchange product was launched, which within weeks shielded over $121 million USDT on Ethereum, collaborated with Elliptic to enhance compliance screening for confidential transactions, and co-founded the Confidential Token Association with OpenZeppelin and Inco to standardize encrypted ERC-20 tokens. Zama previously completed a $57 million Series B funding round.

According to Bloomberg, satellite images show that two Amazon.com Inc. data centers located in Bahrain were damaged, which aligns with Iran's claim last week of using missiles to attack these facilities.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran released high-resolution satellite images through the official background media Tasnim News Agency, showing that the two data centers in Bahrain's Zarqa and Askar areas suffered severe damage, stating that they were targeted because Amazon supports U.S. military operations. Independent low-resolution images captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite constellation, reviewed by Bloomberg, also show signs of damage at both facilities.

According to Business Insider, Amazon is making a comprehensive adjustment to its AI strategy, gradually phasing out most of its self-developed flagship Nova models, including the high-end Premier and Omni models, the Reel video generation model, and the Canvas image generation model, with the remaining products only maintaining a "Keep The Lights On" (KTLO) status. Resources are being shifted from the existing Nova series to the new frontier model project led by researcher Pieter Abbeel (who joined through the acquisition of Covariant), with the new flagship model expected to debut at this fall's re:Invent conference.This adjustment is accompanied by organizational restructuring. Amazon laid off employees in the AGI department last week and closed the AGI Lab established in 2024 by absorbing the AI startup Adept team. AGI head Rohit Prasad left in December 2025, and AGI Lab head David Luan stepped down in February of this year. The AGI organization was integrated under Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis in December of last year, merging with chip development and quantum computing. An Amazon spokesperson responded that the company "has long supported AI models in production environments" and emphasized that "AI models remain one of the company's most important work directions," with the model lineup continuously evolving based on customer needs.

The 2026 Fortune Global 500 list was released on July 28, with the total revenue of the listed companies amounting to approximately $43.1 trillion, exceeding one-third of the global GDP, with a year-on-year growth of about 3.2%. Amazon topped the list for the first time, ending Walmart's twelve-year streak; State Grid ranked third. Alphabet took the title of "most profitable company in the world" from Saudi Aramco with a net profit of $132.17 billion. NVIDIA ranked second in profits, and TSMC was the only Chinese company to enter the top ten in profits.A total of 141 companies from the United States made the list, 122 from China (including Taiwan), and 40 from Japan. The total revenue of Chinese listed companies is approximately $10.4 trillion, with an average profit of $4.5 billion, about 40% of the average profit of U.S. companies ($11.24 billion). JD.com (41st) ranked first among private companies in mainland China, while Alibaba (56th), Tencent (97th, entering the top 100 for the first time), Pinduoduo (255th), and Meituan (311th) all saw improvements in their rankings.In the high-tech sector, 38 listed companies had an average profit of $21.98 billion. NVIDIA jumped 38 places to rank 28th, TSMC rose 44 places to rank 82nd, SK Hynix ranked 210th, and Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices returned to the list after many years. The automotive industry saw increased differentiation, with BYD ranking 91st, CATL significantly rising 43 places to rank 260th, and Chery Automobile making the list for the first time as a publicly listed company. The company with the largest increase in ranking was Wistron, which surged 298 places to rank 198th.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Zama (ZAMA) will unlock approximately 27.958 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on August 2, worth about 15.11 million USD.

According to Reuters, Amazon conducted layoffs in its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) department on July 22, marking a new round of smaller-scale adjustments following the company's reduction of 16,000 employees in January of this year. A company spokesperson stated in response to Reuters' inquiry that AGI remains one of the company's most important directions, but it had to make the "difficult decision" to eliminate certain positions to focus on customer priority projects.The layoffs involve the teams overseen by AGI Data Services Vice President Adeeb Shanaa and AGI Information Vice President Vishal Sharma, with specific details on the scale of the cuts not yet disclosed. Previously, Amazon AGI head Rohit Prasad left at the end of last year, and AGI Lab head David Luan departed in February of this year. AGI-related operations were integrated under Senior Vice President Peter DeSantis in December of last year, along with departments such as chip development and quantum computing.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, the "2026 Ballon d'Or Winner" event is currently among the hottest trading topics on the prediction market Polymarket, with a total pool size reaching $134 million. The option with the highest market consensus is "Lamine Yamal," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 36.15%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "UFC Fight Night: Kamaru Usman vs. Dricus Du Plessis," the sub-market "Will the match be won by KO/TKO?" has seen a drastic fluctuation in the probability of the "Yes" option, dropping from 62.5% an hour ago to the current 37% (a fluctuation of 25.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Ethereum Foundation (EF) researcher Francesco D'Amato (fradamt) announced his departure from EF to join the newly established protocol development organization Ethlabs. D'Amato worked at EF for 5 years and was involved in several core research areas including MEV, consensus mechanisms, data availability sampling (DAS), and execution layer pricing.

According to official news, the Solana ecosystem 3D clay dinosaur NFT project Claynosaurz has recently launched an animated short film on the mainstream streaming platform Amazon Prime Video.Its floor price surged to 24 SOL today, currently reported at 23.25 SOL, with a 24-hour increase of 43.59%.

According to official news, MetaMask announced that Robinhood Chain is now live on MetaMask.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Iasi Open: Ilinca Amariei vs Elsa Jacquemot", the "Over" option in the sub-market "Iasi Open: Ilinca Amariei vs Elsa Jacquemot Match O/U 23.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 6.15% an hour ago to the current 25.65% (a fluctuation of 19.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Iasi Open: Ilinca Amariei vs Elsa Jacquemot", the "Over" option in the sub-market "Iasi Open: Ilinca Amariei vs Elsa Jacquemot Set 2 O/U 8.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50.4% an hour ago to the current 74.9% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to CoinDesk, the Genlayer Foundation, in collaboration with 27 companies including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs, has launched the "Internet Court" protocol, aimed at providing a unified dispute resolution mechanism for payments, custody, and contract disputes between AI agents.The project seeks to address the current issues of fragmentation in payment, identity, and interoperability standards within AI business systems, providing a more suitable adjudication infrastructure for transactions between machines.