Month: February 2025

As One State Gets Closer on a Crypto Reserve, Others Jump Into the Fray

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As Utah became the first state to get a bill through a legislative chamber that would allow the investment of public money into crypto assets, lawmakers in two other states joined the hunt this week: Kentucky and Maryland. Though broadly identified with the Republican-led charge toward a so-called “bitcoin strategic reserve” at the federal level, … Read more

FEMA’s website started deleting ‘climate change’

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Photo: Getty Images The term “climate change” has started to vanish from Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) website. Its former “climate resilience” website has been rebranded under the title “future conditions.” There are still subtle references to climate change … Read more

Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 4: Scaling MLOps with security and governance controls

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Data science teams often face challenges when transitioning models from the development environment to production. These include difficulties integrating data science team’s models into the IT team’s production environment, the need to retrofit data science code to meet enterprise security and governance standards, gaining access to production grade data, and maintaining repeatability and reproducibility in … Read more

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

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Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. “I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an onstage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this … Read more

Decentralized AI Opportunity Is ‘Bigger than Bitcoin,’ Says DCG’s Barry Silbert

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Crypto investment magnate Barry Silbert is betting big on decentralized AI, calling it “the next big era of crypto” that could be bigger than even bitcoin. In a letter to shareholders of his crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group, Silbert went long on deAI: the crypto industry’s effort to fuse AI innovations with blockchain tech. He … Read more

Democratized, Depoliticized and Decentralized AI, by the People, for the People

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We are entering a new epoch where the ability to use and to work with artificial and synthetic intelligence is a human right. Access to intelligence – the prerogative to innovate, work with, and benefit from higher levels of synthetic intelligence – belongs to the people. Building on increasingly inexpensive compute, abundant data, and low-cost, … Read more

How small businesses are leveraging tech to unite generations

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Today’s workplace stretches four generations. The oldest members of Generation Z are reaching their mid-20s, while the youngest baby boomers are turning 60. That leaves employers to account for a range of backgrounds and ways of working. It’s become vital that companies use technology to enable more seamless collaboration and productivity. But it’s not just … Read more

Startup Founded by Citi Alumni to Launch XRP-Backed Securities

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Receipts Depositary Corp. (RDC), a start-up founded by a group of former Citigroup executives, is planning to launch XRP-backed securities, according to people familiar with the matter. This will give institutions access to XRP (XRP) securities through U.S. regulated market infrastructure. The company will offer depositary receipts similar to the American depositary receipts (ADRs) that … Read more

Coalition ‘concerned’ over UK appointing ex-Amazon exec as antitrust regulator chair

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A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government’s decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The group, which includes U.S. tech outfits such as Yelp, DuckDuckGo, and Mozilla, says that the CMA must be “free from political … Read more

RWA Tokenization Is Going to Trillions Much Faster Than You Think

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What if I told you that the experts are wrong? Over the years several prestigious consulting firms and financial institutions have put out forecasts about the growth of tokenization by the end of the decade. It’s interesting how between all that “expertise,” their ranges vary between $2 trillion (McKinsey) and $16 trillion (BCG). Fourteen trillion … Read more