Month: January 2025
Naboo secures $21M for its concierge-style corporate event booking platform
If you’ve ever tried to book a venue for a company event, you’ll know how onerous a task it can be. You have to contact multiple vendors, wait for quotes, evaluate them, see if you can get a good deal, and then get all that approved. So it makes sense that depending on the size … Read more
Cboe BZX refiles for Solana ETFs on behalf of 4 issuers
Cboe BZX Exchange made multiple refilings for Solana ETFs on behalf of fund issuers that the Securities and Exchange Commission knocked back last year.
Utah House committee passes bill for state to buy crypto
The bill now needs to pass by majority vote in Utah’s House and Senate before being approved by state governor Spencer Cox, who appears to be pro-crypto.
Crypto mining stocks loss extend, tech stocks steady after DeepSeek scare
The S&P 500 saw an uptick on Jan. 28 but crypto mining stocks failed to recover from a sudden market downturn triggered by the frenzy over DeepSeek’s new AI model.
Apple gets into AI: all the news on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and more
Apple has released iOS 18 — plus iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and other new updates — bringing several key updates to how the company’s devices operate and setting the stage for generative AI features. The most discussed feature of iOS 18 is the Apple Intelligence suite. With the release of iOS 18.2 on … Read more
MongoDB – A Practical Guide for Beginners and Experts Alike
This text is a practical guide to performing basic operations in MongoDB, one of the most popular NoSQL databases for storing and managing data. It focuses on essential topics like CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete), customizing queries with sorting, pagination, and projections, and more advanced techniques such as the Aggregation Framework. In addition to … Read more
US Solana ETF Race Heats Up as Cboe BZX Submits 4 Refilings
The equities market operator is seeking a green light from the SEC again after addressing concerns the regulator raised last year.
Coinbase gains approval to expand service offering in Argentina
Coinbase’s successful registration in Argentina means it can now offer local payment methods and services in Argentine pesos.
OCR Fine-Tuning: From Raw Data to Custom Paddle OCR Model
Today, I will guide you through the whole process of creating a custom AI model, which is able to recognize images. We are going to: Set up the environment Prepare some data for training the model Choose a pre-trained model for fine-tuning Adjust the configuration Train the model For our purposes, we will use Paddle … Read more
SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI
SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported. The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners, … Read more
AOP For Post-Processing of REST Requests On The Example of Spring And AspectJ
Aspect-oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that enables the modularization of concerns that cut across multiple types and objects. It provides additional behavior to existing code without modifying the code itself. More about AOP in Spring is here. AOP can solve many problems in a graceful way that is easy to maintain. One such … Read more
EV energy tech firm Nuvve to start buying Bitcoin
Nuvve said it would use 30% of its spare cash to buy Bitcoin, but its latest balance sheet suggests it won’t be able to buy much.
Debugging Life From Banking To QA Leadership
:::tip Oh hey. Now the REAL WORK begins. Just start writing :grinning: However, if you feel stuck, let us walk you through it. ::: 1. What do you currently do, and what’s your favorite part about it? I’m a QA Lead, and my favorite part is helping my colleagues grow (I know, it sounds a … Read more
Working With Vision AI to Test Cloud Applications
Recently, I’ve been looking into Tricentis Tosca to better understand how its testing suite can benefit my app development workflow. In my last article about Tosca, I wrote about some of the tool’s visual capabilities, such as QR code testing. Testing QR codes is great if you need an effective way to validate that specific part … Read more
Italy sends first data watchdog request to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’
The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model has made some major waves. Now, it’s … Read more
Behind AI Agents: The Infrastructure That Supports Autonomy
Most descriptions of AI agents and agentic systems focus on agents’ ability to act autonomously, without user intervention, in many situations across the agents’ intended use cases. Some agents operate with a human-in-the-loop model, engaging the user only when they encounter uncertainty, but still acting autonomously under typical and certain circumstances. With autonomy being the … Read more
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AI DAO ai16z Becomes ElizaOS Amid Branding Confusion Concerns
By rebranding to ElizaOS, the DAO is attempting to strengthen its connection to the Eliza agent framework while distancing itself from a16z.
Goodbye, Slopify
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