Month: March 2025

South Carolina dismisses its staking lawsuit against Coinbase, joining Vermont

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South Carolina has become the latest US state to dismiss its lawsuit against crypto exchange Coinbase over its staking services, which had accused the crypto exchange of offering unregistered securities. The lawsuit was officially dismissed in a joint stipulation between the crypto exchange and the South Carolina Attorney General’s securities division on March 27. “South … Read more

GameStop stocks hit restrictions on NYSE after short volume rockets 234%

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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has imposed a Short Sale Restriction (SSR) on GameStop after volume spiked to levels reminiscent of GameStop’s famous 2021 short squeeze. GameStop (GME) short sales volume — the total number of shares sold short within a specific timeframe — rose 234% over 24 hours, reaching 30.85 million shares sold … Read more

GameStop (GME) Prices Bitcoin Notes at $29.85

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GameStop (GME) has priced its previously announced private offering of $1.3 billion in convertible senior notes, setting the stage for the company’s foray into having bitcoin (BTC) on its balance sheet. The zero-coupon notes, due in 2030, will initially convert at a rate of 33.4970 shares per $1,000, representing an initial conversion price of approximately … Read more

EU watchdog wants insurers’ crypto holdings 100% covered, citing volatility

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The European Union’s insurance authority has proposed a blanket rule that would mandate insurance firms to maintain capital equal to the value of their crypto holdings as part of a measure to mitigate risks for policyholders. The new proposal — made by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority in a Technical Advice report to … Read more

France’s state bank earmarks $27M for crypto with ‘strong French footprint’

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France’s state-owned bank says it will spend 25 million euros ($27 million) buying cryptocurrencies that support local crypto and blockchain projects. Bpifrance said in a March 27 press release that it would back newly formed projects “with a strong French footprint” where it will receive tokens in return for its investment and will look to … Read more

Initializing the Doyle-Fuller-Newman (DFN) Battery Model

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Mathematical Description and 2.1. Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinear Equations 2.2. Globalization Strategies 2.3. Sensitivity Analysis 2.4. Matrix Coloring & Sparse Automatic Differentiation 3. Special Capabilities 3.1. Composable Building Blocks 3.2. Smart PolyAlgortihm Defaults 3.3. Non-Allocating Static Algorithms inside GPU Kernels 3.4. Automatic Sparsity Exploitation 3.5. Generalized Jacobian-Free … Read more

How We Evaluated Our Solvers on Three Numerical Experiments and Benchmarked Them

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Mathematical Description and 2.1. Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinear Equations 2.2. Globalization Strategies 2.3. Sensitivity Analysis 2.4. Matrix Coloring & Sparse Automatic Differentiation 3. Special Capabilities 3.1. Composable Building Blocks 3.2. Smart PolyAlgortihm Defaults 3.3. Non-Allocating Static Algorithms inside GPU Kernels 3.4. Automatic Sparsity Exploitation 3.5. Generalized Jacobian-Free … Read more

Meet HackerNoon Top Writer: the frog society – Discussing Tech and The Highs and Lows of Writing

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Thank you for having elevated our evergreen community, We cannot wait to hear your story 💚 Introduction “the frog society” started as an experiment—a space to document the chaos of the internet, technology, and human behavior in a world that’s evolving faster than we can process. I created it not just as a blog, something … Read more

Generalized Jacobian-Free Nonlinear Solvers Using Krylov Methods

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Mathematical Description and 2.1. Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinear Equations 2.2. Globalization Strategies 2.3. Sensitivity Analysis 2.4. Matrix Coloring & Sparse Automatic Differentiation 3. Special Capabilities 3.1. Composable Building Blocks 3.2. Smart PolyAlgortihm Defaults 3.3. Non-Allocating Static Algorithms inside GPU Kernels 3.4. Automatic Sparsity Exploitation 3.5. Generalized Jacobian-Free … Read more

CoreWeave Goes Public at $40 Per Share, Raises $1.5 Billion

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Artificial intelligence-focused firm CoreWeave raised $1.5 billion for its initial public offering (IPO), valuing the company at roughly $23 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday night, confirming earlier reports that it had downsized its IPO. The cloud provider sold 37.5 million shares at $40 each. It had initially planned to sell 49 million shares at $47 … Read more

SEC has officially closed its investigation into Crypto.com, says CEO

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has officially closed its investigation into Crypto.com, with no action taken against the crypto exchange, according to the firm’s CEO Kris Marszalek. It comes around seven months after the SEC issued a Wells notice to the crypto platform in August 2024, signaling its intention to take legal action against … Read more

Testing the Depths of AI Empathy: Q1 2025 Benchmarks

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This is my third set of benchmarks on empathetic AI. Since the last round of benchmarks, DeepSeek, Gemini Flash 2.0, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and OpenAI ChatGPT o3-mini have arrived on the scene. The new value leader for empathy is a Deepseek derivative, Groq deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-specdec. DeepSeek itself was not included in the benchmarks because it had … Read more