Gemini crypto exchange adds USD payment rails for European institutions

Gemini crypto exchange, founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, is expanding its trading capabilities for institutional clients in Europe by introducing US dollar payment support Gemini has partnered with Liechtenstein-based Bank Frick to enable US dollar payment rails for institutional customers in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the firm said in an announcement shared with … Read more

Crypto Daybook Americas: Risk-Off Vibe Lifts Bitcoin With CPI Data Looming

By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Macroeconomic factors continue to drive bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term price volatility as it holds steady above $80,000, with a wave of significant news emerging over the past 24 hours. Still, there’s a risk-off feeling in the air as the divergence between bitcoin and the broader crypto … Read more

Google is fixing broken incoming images and videos in Messages

The issues may not be resolved for everyone, however. Google Messages has been updated to address slowdowns, failures, and other issues that are preventing some users from receiving images and videos. Some users have reported RCS issues related to incoming media files, saying the Messages app slows down or freezes while loading attachments, photos cannot … Read more

Mercado Bitcoin, Polygon Labs Look to Issue $200M Worth of Tokenized Assets in Latin America

Mercado Bitcoin, one of Latin America’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is teaming up with Polygon Labs to expand the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) in the region. The initiative aims to issue more than $200 million in tokenized assets this year, more than doubling the platform’s current total. The partnership focuses on integrating Polygon’s blockchain infrastructure … Read more

Every Truth (And Lie) Told in Netflix’s ‘Zero Day,’ Ranked

By Mykhailo Pazyniuk, Malware Research Engineer at Moonlock, the cybersecurity division of MacPaw. Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’ places viewers in the midst of a massive cyberattack that cripples the United States. With Robert De Niro starring as a former U.S. President investigating the attack, the series explores themes of political intrigue, digital warfare, and the fragility … Read more

Salesforce to invest $1B in Singapore to boost adoption of AI

Salesforce plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years as it seeks to fuel the adoption of its AI agent development platform, Agentforce. Salesforce claimed that Agentforce can help alleviate Singapore’s ongoing labor issues and augment the country’s workforce and enterprises by creating “digital workforces” that combine humans with autonomous AI … Read more

Data Transformation and Discretization: A Comprehensive Guide

Data transformation and discretization are critical steps in the data preprocessing pipeline. They prepare raw data for analysis by converting it into forms suitable for mining, improving the efficiency and accuracy of data mining algorithms. This article dives deep into the concepts, techniques, and practical applications of data transformation and discretization. 1. What is Data … Read more

AI Wants to Fix Your Network Before It Breaks—But Can You Trust It?

Not that long ago, the experience in managing networks and data centers was one of humans doing the effort, as admins entered commands, configured routers, balanced loads, and hunted down outages. Fast forward to today, and the AI revolution is a game changer — automating fast decision-making, predicting failures before vibrations cause them, and optimizing infrastructure … Read more

How to Teach a Tiny AI Model Everything a Huge One Knows

Table of Contents Introduction Dark Knowledge Distillation Procedure Experiment on MNIST Additional experiment on MNIST 1. Introduction In this article, I will explore the knowledge distillation process in AI —how it works in general, its significance, and the reasons for using it. How can we compress and transfer knowledge from a bigger model or ensemble … Read more

Bitcoin’s Four-Year Compounded Annual Growth Rate Drops to Record Low of 8%

Bitcoin’s (BTC) four-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) has dropped to its lowest recorded level of 8%, according to Glassnode data. The four-year period was chosen to align with bitcoin’s (BTC) halving cycle while also capturing the typical bull/bear market cycle, which tends to follow a similar timeframe. In March 2021, four years prior, bitcoin … Read more

Bitcoin whales hint at $80K 'market rebound' as Binance inflows cool

Bitcoin (BTC) whales are back buying BTC while “panic” keeps smaller investors away, new research reports. Data from onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant shows sell-side pressure from Binance whales cooling. Bitcoin whales reset market approach Bitcoin at $80,000 is proving attractive for large-volume investors — or at least a poor-value selling proposition for those wishing to … Read more

Here Are the 7 Productivity Tips Pro Software Engineers Use to Stay Ahead

Modern software engineering is highly competitive and ever-changing space that requires many different skills. It’s not nearly enough just to know how to code well and implement tasks as you are asked to. You better know well your company’s business side, its important money-making metrics, learn how to cut corners to achieve results faster, find … Read more

Metaplanet Increases Bitcoin Holdings With $13.5M Purchase and Bond Issuance

Japanese hotel company Metaplanet (3350) has acquired 162 bitcoin (BTC) for $13.5 million at an average price of $83,123 per bitcoin, achieving a year-to-date bitcoin yield of 53.2%. The BTC yield represents the percentage change in the ratio of bitcoin holdings to fully diluted shares outstanding over a given period. As of March 12, Metaplanet … Read more

Building Enterprise Angular Apps? You’re Doing It Wrong (Unless You Use Standalone Components)

Building scalable, enterprise Angular apps comes with some challenges, one of which is to organize project in a way, that something maintained by two-three developers will be good to be developed by several teams like this. So the organisation of the project is really important. Especially because an enterprise app can consist of anything between … Read more

America must back pro-stablecoin laws, reject CBDCs — US Rep. Emmer

US Representative Tom Emmer argued for prioritizing pro-stablecoin legislation in a March 11 House Financial Services Committee hearing, while calling central bank digital currencies (CBDC) a threat to American values. On March 6, Emmer reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act in the House of Representatives. Emmer renewed his call for Congress to pass the legislation … Read more

Founder of China’s New AI Model Says His Agent is More Autonomous Than Rivals’

In the ever-changing world of artificial intelligence, there’s always buzz about the “next big thing.” Yet every now and then, something revolutionary appears that totally just rewrites the rules. Right now, that innovation is Manus AI, a groundbreaking creation by a Chinese startup called Monica. Since its official launch on March 6, 2025, Manus has … Read more

OpenAI Launches $50 million AI fund

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the ninth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! OpenAI launched a $50M funding connecting 15 research institutions, Inception Labs released Mercury with speeds 10x faster than current LLMs, Cohere For AI unveiled Aya Vision for multilingual capabilities, and Alibaba’s QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with far fewer parameters. With this, we’ll … Read more