World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.
As AI inference grows into a significant share of cloud spend, understanding who and what are driving costs is essential for chargebacks, cost optimization, and financial planning. Today, we’re announcing granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock inference. Amazon Bedrock now automatically attributes inference costs to the IAM principal that made the call. An IAM principal … Read more
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Individuals and groups would be required to register with the Bank of Russia before offering certain crypto services, or potentially face fines and prison time.
Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team’s leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid “side quests,” and Peebles’ departure is just one of many recent changes as the company … Read more
Traders on the Polymarket prediction market platform place the odds of the Strait returning to normal traffic by May 31, 2026, at 73%.
The price of Bitcoin breaks a seven-month downtrend as geopolitical shifts and prediction markets point to $84K next.
What happens when you can no longer tell, at a glance, whether the person on the other end is real? That is the premise World built its Lift Off, pushing its biggest World ID protocol upgrade since launch, a dedicated World ID app in public beta, and more than a dozen partnerships spanning Zoom, Tinder, … Read more
What if the quantum attack on today’s encrypted internet had already started, and nobody told you? That was the framing Fhenix pressed during its recent X Space on post-quantum cryptography, hosted by Founder Guy Zyskind with Ethereum Foundation developer Nicolas Serrano, Fhenix researcher Doron Zarchy, and Michael Cowart of VenturemindAI. The panel’s argument was uncomfortable … Read more
Tinder users who prove they’re a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app – and it’s just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through … Read more
More than $1.2 million worth of wrapped XRP tokens (wXRP) have been minted on Solana as the Ripple-linked asset gains greater DeFi utility.
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.
“[The] proposed changes are intended to stabilize price, dampen cyclicality, drive liquidity, and grow demand,” said Executive Chairman Michael Saylor.
Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims’ personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment.
The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It’s dubbed the company a “RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY” full of “Leftwing nut jobs” and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic’s buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. … Read more
Rep. Sheri Biggs purchased up to $250,000 worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF last month, padding a position she entered into last July.
What happens when a Layer 1 built for real-world finance stops letting builders pick their own stablecoin and picks one for them? That is the question Pharos Network answered, naming USDC the core stablecoin for its Native-to-Pharos Incubation Program. The announcement looks thin on paper and lands heavy in practice. Every project funded through the … Read more
Optimizing models for video semantic search requires balancing accuracy, cost, and latency. Faster, smaller models lack routing intelligence, while larger, accurate models add significant latency overhead. In Part 1 of this series, we showed how to build a multimodal video semantic search system on AWS with intelligent intent routing using the Anthropic Claude Haiku model … Read more
Video semantic search is unlocking new value across industries. The demand for video-first experiences is reshaping how organizations deliver content, and customers expect fast, accurate access to specific moments within video. For example, sports broadcasters need to surface the exact moment a player scored to deliver highlight clips to fans instantly. Studios need to find … Read more
Iris-scanning crypto project World expands with Tinder’s U.S. human verification rollout and Zoom’s Deep Face feature.
A letter from US Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was concerned about “mounting allegations of dangerously lax anti-money laundering prevention by Binance.”
Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.
A confirmed cup-and-handle breakout on Ether’s chart and a double-digit increase in ETH accumulation wallet balances could be earlier signs of a longer-term rally for the altcoin.
Senator Elizabeth Warren said Paul Atkins may have intentionally misled Congress by pushing back over the SEC’s dwindling enforcement actions.
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There’s a lot more code — but it’s a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.
Nearly a billion dollars in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours as the Bitcoin price rallied above $78,000.