Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate more than 61,800 Bitcoin tied to a $5.7 billion fraud scheme, days after a U.K. court ruled Chinese law governs victims’ claims to the coins.
“Plenty will be ponzis. Plenty will get exploited. Plenty will insta die. There will be ridiculous gains, and people will get absolutely f***ing rinsed,” says Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick.
The new voting system targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds, potentially shortening waits for payments and deposits. Users can keep their existing wallets.
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Past steep rallies ran on about $235 million a day of net inflows into ETFs. The funds are yet to match that pace, according to data analyzed by CoinDesk.
The fix lost its two-week countdown less than two days from the finish after support slipped to 26 of 35 validators. It’s now back at 31.
BTC broke through its $84,000 ceiling late Wednesday, then slid back to the $82,500 support analysts are watching as tech futures fell.
Government websites and online services were disrupted after concerns about a PHP bug that could allow attackers to take control of vulnerable servers.
Tesla said Wednesday it will start selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of the year, even as federal regulators investigate whether the vehicle meets vehicle safety standards. The gold-hued, autonomous two-seater lacks a steering wheel and other traditional controls. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call, Lars Moravy, vice president of engineering at Tesla, … Read more
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On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least two users on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu. But a YouTube spokesperson, in a Wednesday statement to The Verge, confirmed that YouTube is “not testing hiding … Read more
When enterprise data sits behind a corporate firewall or in a private on-premises data center, there’s no direct network path from AWS, even though the AI agents and dashboards in Amazon Quick can query virtually any data source. Administrators must make sure their sensitive enterprise data isn’t exposed to the public internet while being accessible … Read more
Building a multi-agent system is now pretty straightforward. Taking it to production is where the real challenges begin. Thanks to open source frameworks and cloud services, you can set up an agent in a matter of days. A few tool calls, a few lines of prompt, and you have something that looks impressive. But the … Read more
For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company’s robotaxi fleet. During today’s third-quarter earnings call, the company finally gave itself a deadline. According to Tesla VP for Autonomous Driving Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla owners will be able … Read more
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn’t panicked by market jitters.
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand – with gas … Read more
Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.
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Image source: Pixabay.com/Placidplace TL;DR Unlike traditional SaaS, AI agents deliver uncertain value at a cost that keeps shifting, and that combination breaks the pricing logic SaaS was built on. Every pricing model on the market today is a bet on a different definition of value, and each bet creates its own unit-economic problem. Your pricing … Read more
Banking advocacy organizations are pushing back against the OCC’s finalized rules on a stablecoin law, arguing against changes to provisions on yield.
Wanna be grossed out for a sec? Just days ago, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) published a landmark study. A team of two dozen scientists successfully mapped the mitochondria of five notorious parasites—including the nightmare bugs responsible for sleeping sickness and giardiasis. When they looked under the microscope, they found something remarkable: … Read more
How product teams can make verification feel clearer without weakening the controls behind it By Quadri Ismail I have watched compliance managers spend days moving between government portals and internal systems to confirm information their own company already held, while an international business payment waited. The exact time and number of portals vary by case, … Read more
Citadel’s founder says investors are almost certainly in an AI bubble, warns a chip glut could crash prices like empty airline seats, yet expects the survivors to lead for decades.
Meta says it’s issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027. “The scale of investment required to compete, sustain growth, expand infrastructure, … Read more
Organizations building AI agents face a common challenge: Every request, whether a routine status check or complex analysis, typically gets routed to a single large, expensive model. This one-size-fits-all approach can drive up API costs, introduce unpredictable latency, and remove the possibility of offline operation. Even routine queries that could resolve locally end up requiring … Read more