Month: March 2025

Bitwise launches Bitcoin corporate treasury ETF

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Bitwise has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding stocks of companies with large Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries, the asset manager said on March 11.  The Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF (OWNB) “seeks to track the Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations Index, a new equity index of companies with at least 1,000 bitcoin in their corporate treasuries,” Bitwise … Read more

Crypto Payments Firm Mesh Raises $82M as Stablecoin Adoption Soars

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Crypto payments firm Mesh announced on Tuesday it has raised $82 million to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network globally. The series B round was led by Paradigm, with ConsenSys, QuantumLight, Yolo Investments, Evolution VC, Hike Ventures, Opportuna and AltaIR Capital participating. Most of the capital raise was settled in PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin, according to … Read more

This Cheatsheet Method Prevents You From Getting Triggered at Work (And Actually Enjoy Your Job)

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Work is 90% communication and 10% trying not to lose your mind over miscommunication. Ever had a coworker who spams you with emails when a simple Slack message would do? Or a manager who loves last-minute meetings that could’ve been an email? Or worse—someone who takes three days to respond to a simple yes/no question? … Read more

Market Volatility Continues After Trump’s Reserve Plans

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The cryptocurrency market has been rocked by recent developments, with Bitcoin (BTC) experiencing significant volatility in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s announcement regarding the U.S. government’s Bitcoin Reserve plans. While traders initially expected this to be a bullish catalyst for the market, the reality has been a mixed bag of uncertainty and continued downward … Read more

Benchmarking Amazon Nova and GPT-4o models with FloTorch

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Based on original post by Dr. Hemant Joshi, CTO, FloTorch.ai A recent evaluation conducted by FloTorch compared the performance of Amazon Nova models with OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price-performance. The Amazon Nova family of models includes Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon … Read more

Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free

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Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where algorithmic-driven content is prioritized and podcasts are kept behind paywalls. Podcasts were built on open technology — the open, decentralized standard RSS, which … Read more

Time To Combat Market Downturn

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The market downturn has affected many established cryptocurrencies, which are currently facing strong headwinds. Meanwhile, Coldware (COLD) is emerging as a promising contender, especially with its focus on Web3 and tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs). The Rise of Coldware (COLD) The cryptocurrency market has recently experienced significant volatility, with Solana (SOL) suffering a 20.31% drop in price. … Read more

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 distilled models on Amazon SageMaker using a Large Model Inference container

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DeepSeek-R1 is a large language model (LLM) developed by DeepSeek AI that uses reinforcement learning to enhance reasoning capabilities through a multi-stage training process from a DeepSeek-V3-Base foundation. A key distinguishing feature is its reinforcement learning step, which was used to refine the model’s responses beyond the standard pre-training and fine-tuning process. By incorporating RL, … Read more

Flower Labs launches a new service that automatically switches from local to cloud AI

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Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming Assist summarization add-on for its Thunderbird email client. What makes Flower Intelligence unique, Flower Labs said in a post on X, is that … Read more

From fridge to table: Use Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Bedrock to generate recipes and combat food waste

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In today’s fast-paced world, time is of the essence and even basic tasks like grocery shopping can feel rushed and challenging. Despite our best intentions to plan meals and shop accordingly, we often end up ordering takeout; leaving unused perishable items to spoil in the refrigerator. This seemingly small issue of wasted groceries, paired with … Read more

Bahrain-Regulated Crypto Exchange Enters $1B Tokenized Gold Market as RWA Demand Grows

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ATME, a digital assets exchange licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), said on Tuesday it has completed its first tokenized real-world asset (RWA) issuance starting with gold-backed tokens. The tokens, available to accredited investors, each represent one kilogram of gold stored in custody, according to the press release. Investors can trade these digital … Read more

CFPB official tells judge he’s still not sure if agency will shut down

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“Big time” confusion has wracked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) staff since last month, the agency’s chief operating officer, Adam Martinez, testified before a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday.  Martinez’s testimony — which will continue on Tuesday afternoon — is meant to address questions around what’s happening at the financial regulation agency, … Read more

Yet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest round

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The intersection of robotics and AI continues to attract attention from investors and Big Tech alike. The latest indicator? Dexterity, a startup specializing in industrial robots with “human-like” finesse, has raised $95 million at a post-money valuation of $1.65 billion, per Bloomberg. The investment, which includes backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sumitomo Corp., highlights … Read more