Nvidia GTC 2025 Updates, Ernie 4.5: 100x cheaper than GPT 4.5, Google AI meets robots, and more

Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the eleventh edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! NVIDIA unveiled its Blackwell platform delivering 40x Hopper performance, Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 outperforms GPT-4o at 1% of the cost, Mistral Small 3.1 achieves leading benchmark scores with just 24B parameters, and Google’s Gemini Robotics brings advanced AI to physical systems. Plus, … Read more

The Renewables Energy Market Can Still Thrive in 2025

2025 appears to be a challenging year for renewable energy stocks and ESG initiatives as a whole. As geopolitical policy shifts and suspicions of greenwashing impact environmental, social, and governance investing, some of the industry’s brightest stocks are showing remarkable signs of resilience. Even before the famously climate-sceptical Donald Trump returned for his second term … Read more

23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO steps down

The company says it will remain in operation during the bankruptcy process. | Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images DNA testing firm 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help the company sell itself after years of financial difficulties. Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe’s co-founder and CEO, announced on X that she has resigned with immediate effect … Read more

Bitunix Becomes the Center of Attention at Web3 Amsterdam, Dominating as Title Sponsor

Singapore, March 21st, 2025 – In an extraordinary atmosphere at the unique Circa Amsterdam venue, the Web3 Amsterdam Conference took place on March 13th and 14th in the Dutch capital, where Bitunix exchange captured the spotlight as the Title Sponsor of the event. The booth of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange attracted significant attention, with … Read more

Dohrnii Labs accuses Blynex of illegally liquidating token assets

Learn-to-earn platform Dohrnii Labs has filed a police report in the United Arab Emirates, accusing local crypto exchange Blynex of liquidating its tokens without authorization and failing to deliver a promised loan.  According to a statement shared with Cointelegraph, Dohrnii Labs deposited 12,649.99 Dohrnii (DHN) tokens — valued at more than $500,000 — with Blynex. … Read more

Educational Byte: Banned, Partially Banned, or Legal—How Crypto Laws Differ Worldwide

In the early days of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin was often viewed as an obscure coin designed for criminals. The darknet marketplace Silk Road brought it a lot of popularity, but also a lot of bad rep. Its decentralized nature (not issued or controlled by any government or company) was constantly misunderstood, but that wouldn’t last for … Read more

Building a Robust JS/TS Monorepo: Best Practices with Yarn, NX and Changesets

Introduction Why Monorepo? Nowadays, the rapid evolution of software development cannot be denied. The teams are growing, projects tend to be more complex. Companies spend significant resources to maintain a distributed codebase consisting of many fragments. Enter the monorepo – a single, unified repository that brings together all of your code. Far from being a … Read more

C++ Metaprogramming: Compilation of Calculations, from Basic Techniques to Advanced Methods

This is the second article in series C++ Metaprogramming series, you can find the first article here C++ Metaprogramming: Variadic Templates & Fold Expressions. This article will unveil the practical usage of templates and constexpr for compile-time code execution. Introduction Compile-time calculations in C++ allow some operations to be performed during compilation instead of at … Read more

XRP, DOGE Rise, Ether Burn Falls to Record Low as Traders Eye This Week’s U.S. Data

Bitcoin (BTC) topped $87,000 early Monday with solana (SOL), xrp (XRP) and dogecoin (DOGE) adding more than 4% to start the week in the green as traders eyed the release of further U.S. economic data for cues on further positioning. Bitcoin mostly hovered around $85,000 over the weekend, restrained by concern over inflation and the … Read more

Ex-Network International execs raise $6M for Enza, an African fintech serving banks

Over the past decade, Dubai-based Network International has become one of the dominant payment processors across the Middle East and Africa, thanks in part to a pair of acquisitions. However, many large incumbents can fall prey to slower innovation, opening the door for smaller, faster-moving startups. The latest development is Enza, a fintech founded in … Read more

Metaplanet Adds 150 Bitcoin to Tally, Days After Eric Trump’s Advisor Appointment

Tokyo-based investment firm Metaplanet said Monday it had acquired an additional 150 bitcoin (BTC) to bring its total holdings to 3,350 BTC, valued at approximately $291 million at current market rates. The purchase comes just days after the company made Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, to its newly formed strategic advisory board. … Read more

How to use ChatGPT to predict crypto market trends

Key takeaways To generate crypto market insights via ChatGPT, collect accurate historical and real-time data on prices, trading volumes and market capitalization. Organize data into clear formats, such as tables with consistent date formats and labeled columns, to help ChatGPT identify patterns and trends. Use precise and focused prompts to guide ChatGPT in generating actionable … Read more

DNA testing company 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection, CEO resigns

Genetics testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to initiate the sale of its assets. Alongside the announcement, the company’s co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki separately said she is leaving the company to become an independent bidder for the company. “After a thorough evaluation of strategic alternatives, we have … Read more

Achieving Fair AI Without Sacrificing Accuracy

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Preliminaries 3.1 Fair Supervised Learning and 3.2 Fairness Criteria 3.3 Dependence Measures for Fair Supervised Learning 4 Inductive Biases of DP-based Fair Supervised Learning 4.1 Extending the Theoretical Results to Randomized Prediction Rule 5 A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach to DP-based Fair Learning 6 … Read more