Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction, Christian Trummer said MiCA has increased trust in regulated platforms and called for stricter enforcement against noncompliant firms.
Many of Netflix’s biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like David Fincher and Shawn Levy. In the past few weeks, though, the streamer has brought some of those partnerships to an end in a way that feels indicative of a larger strategic shift. With rival … Read more
Ethereum’s zkAPI lets users prepay in USDC and query AI models through cryptographic proofs, so no single party sees both who they are and what they ask.
Apple will add new limits for “full disk access” on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it’s rolling out new controls to “ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do … Read more
Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk. The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-long pass option to be able to … Read more
The USDC issuer told the European Commission that MiCA’s reserve mandates and concentration caps keep the largest global stablecoins outside Europe’s perimeter—siding with the ECB in calling for more flexible rules.
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Tavus says 26 of 54 people on a one-minute video call thought its new Griffin model was human. The results are the company’s own, and the model isn’t going to retail customers yet.
The reported cuts come as Anchorage expands its institutional footprint, including stablecoin issuance and a $100 million investment from Tether.
Once among Ethereum’s largest layer-2 networks by total value locked, Blast is urging users to move their assets to mainnet ahead of the shutdown.
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
New helpful little guy just dropped. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge It’s a tale as old as last week: OpenAI’s new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to … Read more
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money … Read more
Blast said operating costs now exceed the revenue its Ethereum layer-2 generates and asked users to withdraw their assets to mainnet before Oct. 26.
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted … Read more
The potential agreement could span digital assets, custody, trading, payments and other financial-market infrastructure.
The AI chipmaker’s stock topped its May peak on Friday, helped by a record $150 billion buyback and a weak jobs report that cooled bets on Fed rate hikes.
Once home to more than $2 billion in crypto assets, Blast is shutting down as activity fades, costs rise, and bigger platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood build networks of their own.
Rivian had high hopes for its more affordable R2 vehicle – and so far, those hopes appear to be paying off. The company released its third-quarter production and delivery numbers today, reporting 19,751 vehicles produced and 19,248 delivered. That represents an 85 percent year-over-year increase in production and a 45 percent jump in deliveries. (For … Read more
The former SEC chairman who may be tapped to oversee the Trump administration’s AI work has a potentially divisive history as a watchdog of tech innovation.
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created “crash-test dummies” to solve that.
Beehiiv, a creator platform that has risen in popularity as an alternative to Substack, is increasing its prices – and many users aren’t happy. In a post explaining the increase, Beehiiv co-founder and CEO Tyler Denk says it will allow the company to “continue investing in our core platform experience.” As part of the change, … Read more
A jobs report miss just erased the odds of an October rate hike, and BTC is now knocking on the door of its yearly ceiling.
Nacon announced what the company is claiming is the world’s first officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller with a built-in screen for adjusting settings like joystick sensitivity or remapping buttons right on the gamepad. The Revolution 5 Unlimited‘s screen can also be used to mix audio from multiple sources so while using a pair of headphones … Read more
A Lloyds survey found that faster payments and settlement are the most significant perceived benefits of tokenization, as the UK builds infrastructure for tokenized finance.
September 25. I pointed my app at the Pokémon Red box on an Amazon page. It found Pokémon Red Version. Under “Read from the photo,” it says “EAME BOYI.” On September 17, a photo of the Japanese box, ポケットモンスター赤 (Pocket Monsters Red), came out as 「新トレスター」 (“New Trestar,” a game that does not exist). Duo … Read more
The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.
Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of them, has been beyond the reach of most compliance teams. But with generative AI in Amazon Quick, paired with the right backend, it’s now possible. In this post, we introduce a design pattern called Adjudicated … Read more
OpenAI’s answer to Muse arrived this week, and it looks a whole lot like Muse dressed up in a suit and tie. Dots is a business-first product – for now, at least – costing a minimum of $100 per month. And sure, you can make a cute little Dot character, just like you can make … Read more