Month: March 2025

Crypto ETPs See Record $2.9B Outflow With Bitcoin Leading Three-Week Streak: CoinShares

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Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) suffered their largest weekly sell-off on record, with investors pulling approximately $2.9 billion from these funds, according to a report by CoinShares published on Monday. The massive outflows mark a significant shift in sentiment after a prolonged period of steady investment into digital asset products. This latest wave of withdrawals extended … Read more

How Custom Web Apps Are Driving Innovation in Supply Chain Management

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Introduction Today, the world of business, economies, and supply chains are interconnected, and this interconnectedness leads to a chunk of tangles about managing multiple operations. Alongside factors like geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, and sudden market shifts add extra complexity to the situation. Result? Many businesses feel overwhelmed, and it is not their fault! What did … Read more

Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions

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AI startup Anthropic on Monday announced it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The Series E, which also had participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, brings the company’s total … Read more

Fintech startup Ramp nearly doubles valuation to $13B in secondary share sale

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Expense management startup Ramp has nearly doubled its valuation to $13 billion after a $150 million secondary share sale, the company announced Monday morning. New and existing backers including VC Stripes, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, 137 Ventures and Definition Capital bought the secondaries from employees and early investors. … Read more

Building Generative AI for Everyone: Lessons From Kaustav Das Sharma and Gumloop

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Generative AI is everywhere. Chatbots and virtual assistants respond to customers, Large Language Models (LLMs) help make blog posts, viral videos, and even teach students. But just because it’s widespread doesn’t mean it’s easy to use. Many businesses struggle to adopt generative AI because of its technical complexity, high costs, a shortage of talent needed … Read more

Meet Spacecoin: HackerNoon Company of the Week

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Welcome to HackerNoon Company of the Week – a weekly series where we give the spotlight to an awesome tech company that is actively making its evergreen mark on the internet through great innovations and extreme resilience. All the data and information are taken from HackerNoon’s tech company database, where we rank S&P 500 companies … Read more

Coldware Intensifies Blockchain Adoption Game

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The race to dominate the next era of blockchain adoption is intensifying, with Ripple (XRP) facing competition from emerging networks like Coldware (COLD). While Ripple (XRP) has long been positioned as the blockchain for global financial transactions, newer projects are aiming to redefine scalability, decentralization, and accessibility for billions of users. Ripple (XRP) remains one … Read more

TSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilities

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Chipmaker TSMC said it aims to invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company’s global network of semiconductor factories. President Donald Trump announced the news during a press conference Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether all or a portion … Read more

Open Source Isn’t Dead…It’s Just Forked

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Introduction Open source software has always been a delicate balance of ideals and practicality, and in 2024, this balance was upended. With an increasing trend of relicensing projects and a corresponding surge in forks, the open source community faces questions about what it means to be truly open. Following the heated discussions around the HashiCorp … Read more

Reduce conversational AI response time through inference at the edge with AWS Local Zones

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Recent advances in generative AI have led to the proliferation of new generation of conversational AI assistants powered by foundation models (FMs). These latency-sensitive applications enable real-time text and voice interactions, responding naturally to human conversations. Their applications span a variety of sectors, including customer service, healthcare, education, personal and business productivity, and many others. … Read more

Pixtral-12B-2409 is now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

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Today, we are excited to announce that Pixtral 12B (pixtral-12b-2409), a state-of-the-art 12 billion parameter vision language model (VLM) from Mistral AI that excels in both text-only and multimodal tasks, is available for customers through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is a new capability in Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to discover, test, and … Read more

DePIN and PayFi: Coldware’s Web3 Community Approach

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Hedera (HBAR) has long positioned itself as a leading blockchain for institutional adoption, thanks to its governance council model featuring companies like Google, IBM, and Boeing. While this structure offers stability and enterprise credibility, it has also raised concerns about decentralization, with critics arguing that decision-making is concentrated in the hands of corporate giants. In … Read more

One Trader Made Millions Betting $200M on BTC Just Before Trump’s Crypto Reserve News

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A trader on decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid used 50x leverage to open a $200 million long position on bitcoin (BTC) on Sunday, netting a gain of around $6.8 million after U.S. President Donald Trump spurred a market-wide rally by announcing the nation’s crypto reserve. The trader used $4 million worth of collateral to place a … Read more

Coldware Community Jump For Joy

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The Coldware community is celebrating a meteoric rise in adoption, while XRP is facing increasing competition despite major regulatory breakthroughs. With Brazil greenlighting XRP ETFs and the U.S. potentially following suit, XRP is gaining traction, but its ability to maintain dominance in the evolving crypto landscape is far from guaranteed. Meanwhile, Coldware (COLD)’s rapid expansion … Read more

BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform

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EV maker BYD unveiled “Lingyuan,” a vehicle-mounted drone launching system developed in collaboration with DJI that is available for all of the company’s vehicles, reports Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. The system is only available in China, like BYD’s vehicles, and costs 16,000 yuan (or about $2,197). BYD’s video below, reposted by YouTube channel ShanghaiEye, … Read more

Tim Cook teases a new Apple ‘Air’

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Apple CEO Tim Cook just teased the launch of a new device coming to its Air lineup this week. In a post on X, Cook posted a short video with the text, “There’s something in the air” alongside a caption saying “this week.” Though Cook doesn’t specify which device Apple plans to launch, it’s likely … Read more