A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Monday, July 27, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 10:27 AM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

Bitmine adds nearly 10,000 ETH while repurchasing 6.1 million common shares

The company has repurchased 11.6 million shares of common stock as part of its $4 billion share repurchase program.

The Block · 5 minutes ago

AI · lede

Kimi K3 weights drop today. We're deploying on A100s, H200s and B300s this week and the A100 math is already rough

tldr; we are going to host K3 on A100s (yes, thats correct, we'll try to see if it holds up), H200s & B300s - expect results for A100s & H200s this week while we setup the B300 cluster this weekend &

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 9 minutes ago

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