The SEC meeting that wasn’t: State of Crypto
There were hopes that regulators could move if the Clarity Act didn’t advance, but those, too, may be paused.
There were hopes that regulators could move if the Clarity Act didn’t advance, but those, too, may be paused.
On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site’s terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class action waiver. Amazon framed this as a “fast and efficient” way to resolve issues, but it notably would … Read more
Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
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Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn’t produce a working file, Google’s budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can’t reason, and a free 27B model still writes better.
Development of Neural Networks and Deep Learning The fields of neural networks and deep learning represent some of the most significant advancements in artificial intelligence, revolutionizing how machines learn and process information. This development has been pivotal in enabling machines to perform a wide range of complex tasks, from image and speech recognition to natural … Read more
Investors are starting to judge crypto tokens on usage, economics and value capture rather than market-cap rank, industry executives said.
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have traditionally relied on protocols that expose operational state through registers, coils, or cyclic polling mechanisms. BACnet follows a fundamentally different design philosophy. Rather than representing automation systems as collections of memory locations, BACnet models an installation as a distributed object database. Sensors, actuators, schedules, alarms, trend logs, and even the … Read more
The pattern repeats across large companies. A year of enthusiasm produced agents everywhere. One team built an agent to summarize tickets. Another built a near-identical one. A third wired an agent into a workflow, shipped it, and moved on, and now nobody owns it. Each agent calls a model, so each one has a bill … Read more
ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature … Read more
Hi, this is Alexey Belozerov, author of PerfectPixel, a pixel-perfect design comparison tool used by 350k people. At some point of product growth an owner needs to launch experiments and measure impact against a reference group – i.e. A/B testing. Browser extensions are no different. Unfortunately there isn’t any lib or tool tailored for Chrome/web … Read more
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Two-factor authentication was supposed to make our lives online safer. Instead, it has turned logging into an account into a small administrative procedure. Enter password.Receive code.Find phone.Unlock phone.Open authenticator.Find code.Enter code.Code expires.Request another code.Receive code.“Too many attempts. Try again later.” The theory is simple enough. Enter your password, prove you have your phone, and you’re … Read more
While the data breach exposed the personal order details of thousands of customers, all private keys, seed phrases, and crypto assets remain completely safe.
A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to “place guardrails” around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.
Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate their accounts after the EU’s MiCA deadline are on the rise.
The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it’s existed for generations, and their argument is gaining ground.
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DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents … Read more
Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.
The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.
Ask anyone who has sat through a failed healthcare integration what went wrong, and the answer almost never traces back to the interface engine or the network layer. It traces back to data mapping decisions made too early, with too little information, and never revisited until something broke in production. Having watched enough of these … Read more