Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include “largely shutting down” a Vision Pro gaming team and “reducing the size” of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut. Apple said in a statement to … Read more
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn’t that great at the task.
The CFTC ordered a trading ban for former Alameda and FTX executives, and US prosecutors opposed a motion from a US soldier accused of profiting from the removal of Nicolas Maduro.
Bitcoin volatility eased after BTC hit its highest level since mid-May, while gold joined the cryptocurrency in approaching three-month highs.
Reopening a settled provision four weeks before a vote would sink the bill, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.
Solana has activated the first reduction in its block timing since launch, speeding up transactions on the network.
Tesla’s solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company. But does that mean the concept of roof-integrated solar is dead?
Trump urged executives to pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act, the CFTC warned it would write its own rules if the bill stalls, and the SEC abruptly advanced its first crypto fundraising framework.
The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, … Read more
The responses to NHTSA’s questions so far are redacted entirely, citing “confidential business information.”
The Bitcoin treasury giant is sitting on roughly $1.4 billion in unrealized gains after Bitcoin climbed above its average acquisition price.
Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic models, and validating compliance. The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) on AWS is designed to significantly accelerate that timeline. It’s a reference architecture built on Amazon Bedrock and your AI coding tool of choice. Specialized … Read more
In our conversations with customers over the past months, one pattern keeps recurring. Whether they work with coding agents, autonomous agents, or human-interactive ones, and regardless of workload maturity, we start with the same question: “Which AI agents have access to customer data, who granted it, and what would exposure look like if a credential … Read more
Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it’s going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to “select” Walmart and Sam’s Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations … Read more
Input tokens sent to the foundation model (FM) on every call are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. Query-aware compression offers one way to reduce how many of them reach the model. Amazon Bedrock provides the foundation models and features to build RAG applications. RAG retrieval … Read more
Panasonic Avionics Corporation provides in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) systems across a large global fleet serving hundreds of airlines and billions of passengers annually. When a system issue affects passenger experience at this scale, engineers must diagnose the root cause quickly across thousands of unique deployment configurations. Doing this manually, correlating logs, metrics, and ticketing … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested … Read more
Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that “infringes copyrights” held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes “audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements” and it is looking to identify “alleged … Read more
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606 million Thursday, the biggest haul since May. And altcoin funds finally showed up too.
I recently looked back at a photo I’d taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn’t seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. … Read more
The RISE program would use the Canton Network to combine and distribute state-administered benefits across three US states beginning in 2027.
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Bitcoin’s rally above $79,000 lifted miners and treasury companies, with Canaan, Strive and Metaplanet posting double-digit gains as crypto stocks surged.
ENA is rallying on a $1 billion FalconX deal, while HYPE tests its record, though flat dominance shows this is no broad alt season.
The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company — or a group of companies — in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.
You spent three hours debugging a broken ETL script, your data is sitting in five different places in five different formats, and the stakeholder meeting is tomorrow morning. If you’ve ever stared at a pile of raw CSVs, API responses, and database dumps wondering how to wire it all into something that actually works reliably, … Read more
I had a page from Lost Garden, my AI anime series, that read fine on paper. One line said the heroine was torn between trusting the stranger and running. Any script reader would get that instantly. A generation model turned it into a woman standing still, doing nothing, wearing an expression that could mean anything … Read more
Bitcoin rallied as Treasury bond buybacks fueled the “not-QE” trade, while Metaplanet expanded to the US and Cypherpunk made a $33 million Zcash mining bet.
The token spent all August trapped under a bearish crossover. Today it closed above both moving averages for the first time since the pattern formed.