Month: March 2025

Bitcoin apparent demand reaches lowest point in 2025 — CryptoQuant

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Apparent demand for Bitcoin (BTC) has hit the lowest level in 2025, dropping down into negative territory, as traders and investors take a cautious approach to risk-on assets due to macroeconomic uncertainty. According to CryptoQuant’s Bitcoin Apparent Demand metric, demand for Bitcoin has dropped down to a negative 142 on March 13. Bitcoin’s apparent demand … Read more

The Electric State can’t hold a charge to save its life

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It is hard to describe how utterly joyless and devoid of imaginative ideas The Electric State is. Netflix’s latest feature codirected by Joe and Anthony Russo takes many visual cues from Simon StÃ¥lenhag’s much-lauded 2018 illustrated novel, but the film’s leaden performances and meandering story make it feel like a project borne out by a … Read more

The Coldware Edge

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Solana (SOL) has been one of the most significant success stories in the cryptocurrency market. Known for its fast transaction speeds and innovative consensus mechanism, Solana had established itself as a dominant player. However, as we move deeper into 2025, questions arise about whether Solana can maintain its crypto dominance, especially when newer projects like … Read more

Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini

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Google will replace Google Assistant on Android phones with Gemini later this year, the company announced on Friday. Google said in a blog post that it’ll upgrade more users from Google Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months.” Later this year, Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available from app … Read more

The Coldware Surge

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Ethereum (ETH), one of the largest and most established cryptocurrencies, has recently seen its price fall below critical support levels, sparking a shift in investor sentiment. As Ethereum continues to face price corrections and struggles to hold above the $1,900 mark, investors are increasingly turning to emerging projects like Coldware (COLD), which has seen explosive … Read more

OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own

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OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material. Both companies outlined their stances in proposals published this week, with OpenAI arguing that applying fair use protections to AI “is a matter of national security.” The proposals come in response to a request from the White … Read more

Anthropic’s plan to win the AI race

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Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesn’t plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. “I hope Claude reaches as many … Read more

Star Wars: Hunters will go offline in October

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So soon after Specter Divide, a multiplayer shooter developed by Mountaintop Studios, announced its pending shut down which will take its studio with it, is yet another live-service game going offline. Today, Star Wars: Hunters developer Zynga announced the game will be sunset on October 1st. Hunters is a class-based arena shooter featuring original characters … Read more

XRP flips Ether’s FDV amid change in market dynamics

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XRP’s fully diluted valuation (FDV) has surpassed Ether (ETH), according to March 14 data from CoinGecko.  The FDV flip signifies a reversal of fortune for both layer-1 (L1) blockchain networks behind the tokens, as XRP Ledger’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem gains traction and Ethereum grapples with competition from rival L1s, such as Solana. As of … Read more

TechCrunch Mobility: Testing the Uber-Waymo robotaxi, Rivian goes hands-free, and Travis Kalanick has AV FOMO 

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! For regular readers of TechCrunch Mobility, you may be wondering, “Why did this newsletter land in my inbox on Friday?” Folks, we’re moving days in an effort … Read more

‘Scale or fail’: RLNC technology can boost Web3 adoption — MIT Professor

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After 15 years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is ready for commercialization in the Web3 industry, according to Muriel Médard, an MIT professor and founder of blockchain infrastructure developer Optimum. Optimum emerged from stealth on Feb. 28 as a decentralized memory infrastructure that can be utilized … Read more

US House kills IRS DeFi broker rule, Solana won’t cut 80% inflation rate: Finance Redefined

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In a significant regulatory development for the crypto industry, the United States House of Representatives voted to nullify a bill that threatened the privacy-preserving properties of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. In the wider crypto space, one of the Solana network’s most significant governance proposals was rejected; it sought to implement a mechanism to reduce Solana’s … Read more

House GOP subpoenas Big Tech for evidence that Biden made AI woke

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On Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, upped his investigations into Big Tech by sending subpoenas to 16 major tech companies, asking whether the federal government had pressured them into using artificial intelligence to “censor lawful speech” – a new front in his long-running quest to prove the tech … Read more