Odaily Planet Daily reported on the 7th, citing sources, that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Kane is seeking a way out of the war with Iran. The report stated that three sources familiar with the matter revealed that in recent weeks, Chairman Kane has privately made it clear to other senior Trump advisors that the United States needs to find a way out of the war with Iran, because the military options on the table may be counterproductive, and air power alone is unlikely to achieve Trump's goals. Sources revealed that Kane has discussed military options for escalating the conflict with other senior government officials, including Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio, and CIA Director Ratcliffe, and proposed ways to end the war. Kane has also recently met privately with several like-minded Trump advisors to ensure they reach a consensus before meeting with the president. Furthermore, the report mentioned that in a recent meeting with Trump, Kane expressed concern about the dwindling U.S. arms arsenal, and the two sides also discussed potential options for escalating the conflict. (CCTV News)

According to an article published on the X platform by The Kobeissi Letter, published by Odaily Planet Daily, the US may be currently in the midst of the largest technological revolution in its history. As of now, 88% of the companies in the S&P 500 have released their earnings reports, with the index showing a 50.4% year-over-year profit increase, far exceeding the market's previous expectation of 23.1%. This marks the second consecutive quarter that the S&P 500 has achieved profit growth exceeding 25%, and the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit profit growth. The Kobeissi Letter stated that the last time the S&P 500 experienced similar strong profit growth was in the second quarter of 2021, when the US economy was in the post-pandemic recovery phase, accompanied by over $4 trillion in fiscal stimulus.

Anthropic upgraded Claude this week, releasing four major updates to Claude Managed Agents to further enhance the controllability, deployment flexibility, and task execution capabilities of enterprise-grade AI agents. These updates include: 1. A new session budget control feature, allowing users to set budget caps for agent sessions for more precise cost management. When a session reaches its budget limit, the system will trigger an event and pause execution; users can increase the budget to resume task execution. 2. Open inference region control capabilities, allowing users to choose the running location of Claude Managed Agents, scheduling and running them among globally available resources at standard prices. Restricting operation to the US region meets regional deployment requirements but costs 1.1 times the standard price. 3. Support for automatically loading Skills capability modules from user repositories. 4. A new advisor model feature. Users can configure a more powerful model as an "advisor," allowing the agent executing tasks to invoke the advisor model for second-opinion analysis during sessions, improving the quality of handling complex tasks.

According to a post on the X platform by CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr., Bitcoin is currently trading below the Short-Term Holder (STH) cost basis, which is the average purchase price of Bitcoin held for less than 155 days. As of August 8, 2026, Bitcoin was trading at $64,952, while the realized price for short-term holders was $67,523. The spot price is 3.8% lower than this level, with a gap of $2,571, the narrowest since July 21. In the past 284 days, Bitcoin has closed below its STH realized price on 279 days. This time may be no exception, as short-term holders will begin selling to close their positions at breakeven.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Dan Katz, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), stated that when local currency stablecoins and US dollar stablecoins operate on the same blockchain infrastructure, users can exchange them through decentralized exchanges, liquidity pools, or peer-to-peer exchanges, potentially accelerating the adoption of US dollar stablecoins. Katz pointed out that users may prefer these tokens due to their liquidity, network effects, and cross-platform and cross-border acceptance. In South Africa, the adoption of US dollar stablecoins is limited, and demand for rand-pegged stablecoins is even lower; he urged countries to include deposit and withdrawal channels and on-chain transaction points within their regulatory frameworks.