Ken Leishman
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Month: August 2024
Is the Honeymoon With Generative AI Over or Just Beginning?
The advent of Generative AI was presumably the most paradigm-redefining event for not just the technology industry but humanity itself. From industries across the board to governments seeking to leverage its abilities, Generative AI promised to make unheard-of productivity and efficiency levels possible. The fact that it was able to analyze humongous quantities of data … Read more
ByBit exchange halts operations in France
ByBit has been at odds with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) since 2022 when the regulator blacklisted the exchange.
Coinbase Posts $1.4 Billion in Q2 Revenue, Claims Improving ‘Regulatory Clarity’
Coinbase quarterly transaction revenue was $781 million, down 27% from the first three months of 2024.
Bitcoin long liquidations hit $300M as BTC price falls to $62K
A flash crash in Bitcoin price on shorter timeframes induces panic among leveraged long traders, but analysts believe it’s a short-term pullback.
AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’
Following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against music generation startups Udio and Suno, Suno admitted in a court filing on Thursday that it did, in fact, train its AI model using copyrighted songs. But it claimed that doing so was legal under the fair-use doctrine. The RIAA filed the lawsuit … Read more
Information Overload: How AI With Research Content Curation Could Lead the Way
Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded with such a high volume of information from various sources. This massive influx of data, coupled with the development of content generation from AI, undoubtedly gives us greater access to knowledge than we’ve ever had before. However, it also brings in the problem of information overload. Think of a typical … Read more
Jack Dorsey’s Block sees Bitcoin revenue grow 9% to $2.6B
Block’s Bitcoin revenue exceeded $2.61 billion during the second quarter of 2024, contributing to a total net revenue of $6.16 billion for the period.
North Carolina lower chamber overturns governor’s veto of CBDC ban
The bill received strong support in the General Assembly. Now the state Senate will consider overturning the veto.
iPad sales help bail out Apple amid a continued iPhone slide
In spite of a drop for the quarter, iPhone remained Apple’s most important category by a wide margin. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Security Risk Advisors Announces Launch of VECTR Enterprise Edition
PHILADELPHIA, United States, August 1st, 2024/CyberNewsWire/–Security Risk Advisor(SRA) announces the launch of VECTR Entreprise Edition, a premium version of its widely-used VECTR platform for purple teams and adversary management program reporting and benchmarking. VECTR Enterprise is designed to support organizations that want to mature and communicate the success of their purple team exercises with benchmarking … Read more
How I Built an AI Programmer to Automate GitHub Issue Fixes 🤯
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been diligently working on a rapidly growing repository at Composio. We soon realized that tasks such as updating ReadMes, fixing docstrings, and making minor bug fixes—though repetitive and mundane—were consuming much of our bandwidth. So, I thought, why not build an AI-powered autonomous agent to handle these grunt works? … Read more
BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund on Ethereum Pays Out $2.1 Million
Monthly dividends continue to climb, as the tokenized fund has paid out more than $7 million since launch.
Google’s new Gemini AI model dominates benchmarks, beats GPT-4o and Claude-3
This is the first time Google’s taken the top slot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard.
Bitcoin Miner Marathon’s Shares Tumble After Revenue Unexpectedly Misses Wall Street’s Estimates
The miner said its adjusted EBITDA swung to loss, compared to previous quarter’s profit.
16 Key Principles for Tech-Led Startups to Scale Efficiently
After a few years at a start-up turned scale-up, learning a few hard lessons along the way, I decided to share some principles I think are universal. I’m sure there’ll be exceptions, like start-ups with near-unlimited runways funded by a generous benefactor, but for the rest of us, we have only so much time before … Read more
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iPad sales rebound as Apple nears big push into AI
Apple announced its latest iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets a few months ago, and after several quarters of soft sales, the new products led to a significant boost for the company’s iPad division. Combined with strong performance in services and Mac, Apple posted quarterly revenue of $85.8 billion, up 5 percent from the year-ago … Read more
The Twelve South AirFly Duo in-flight earbud adapter is down to its best price yet
The Twelve South AirFly Duo has dropped to $29.99, which is a new all-time low. When you’re flying, noise-canceling earbuds like the AirPods Pro are great for tuning out the world, but they come with one drawback: they don’t work with the in-flight entertainment systems on airplanes. Luckily, Bluetooth transmitters like Twelve South AirFly Duo … Read more
How to Improve Your Blog Posts by Proofreading With ChatGPT
Why Spend Time on Proofreading? Should accuracy and attention to detail be important even under tight deadlines? Well, yes. But a limited time frame won’t be a problem once you learn how to conduct proofreading quickly and efficiently. Checking blog posts’ accuracy is a part of my job, but the proposed techniques work for any … Read more
How FIFO Mechanisms in Message Brokers Ensure Message Order
First In First Out (FIFO) in Message Brokers Message brokers are a crucial part of many asynchronous distributed systems. Just like blood vessels transport blood throughout the human body, message brokers transmit streams of countless messages between applications. Today, we’re going to take a quick look (as always) at a very useful yet often forgotten … Read more
Bitcoin price crumbles to $62K support, but derivatives metrics show bullish signs
Bitcoin’s price continues to correct, but BTC options markets reflect traders’ interest in the $62,000 level.