Generative AI is rapidly transforming the modern workplace, offering unprecedented capabilities that augment how we interact with text and data. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we recognize that many of our customers rely on the familiar Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook, as the backbone of their daily workflows. In this … Read more
The United States needs to establish a competitive moat around highly secure tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) to remain competitive in the age of borderless, permissionless finance, according to Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov. In an interview with Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright at the Digital Asset Summit in New York, Nazarov said that blockchain is a global phenomenon … Read more
Privy, a provider of cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure, raised an estimated $15 million in a funding round led by Ribbit Capital. The company, which announced the funding on Wednesday, offers application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to manage and integrate user data, allowing its customers to offer crypto services and other on-chain functions so that end … Read more
ETH Outperforms again, FOMC today, Tentative Russia Ceasefire FOMO HOUR EP316 BTC stable, ETH outperforms ahead of FOMC. Strategy to raise $500m via preferred stock. FUD over the $50m annual dividend on offering. Coinbase launches LPs for DeFi trades. US wants as much BTC as it can get: Hines. 83% of institutions to increase crypto … Read more
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Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by EU Commission enforcers of the bloc’s flagship market contestability law, who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google’s parent) … Read more
Data center infrastructure provider Hive Digital is doubling down on its long-term Bitcoin treasury strategy and is using the recent market sell-off to expand its mining capacity and acquisition targets, signaling a growing shift among public miners to retain their mined assets. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Hive Digital’s chief financial officer, Darcy Daubaras, said … Read more
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Market makers, also known as liquidity providers, play a significant role in financial markets. For early stage crypto projects, they fill liquidity gaps, and in so doing, help them to navigate through critical development phases. However, the traditional loan-based market making model has faced significant criticism, with concerns raised over its tendency to become exploitative. … Read more
Google is breaking European antitrust laws by favoring its own Shopping, Hotels, and Flights search services over rival comparison providers, according to the European Commission. The EU announced in its preliminary ruling today that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had also violated anti-steering rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing app developers on its … Read more
As we gather for NVIDIA GTC, organizations of all sizes are at a pivotal moment in their AI journey. The question is no longer whether to adopt generative AI, but how to move from promising pilots to production-ready systems that deliver real business value. The organizations that figure this out first will have a significant … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 19, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, IBM.com and sun.com Registered in 1986, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Elon Musk Says Reports Are Useless—And Honestly, He’s Not Wrong to Science … Read more
Have researchers discovered a new AI “scaling law”? That’s what some buzz on social media suggests — but experts are skeptical. AI scaling laws, a bit of an informal concept, describe how the performance of AI models improves as the size of the datasets and computing resources used to train them increases. Until roughly a … Read more
Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their environments. Further, robotics often involves expensive, ready-made hardware solutions that include built-in software and sensors designed for specific tasks, like estimating relative motion. … Read more
Two of the biggest forces in artificial intelligence (AI) — Elon Musk’s xAI and Nvidia — have joined BlackRock, Microsoft and investment fund MGX’s group to expand AI infrastructure across the U.S., the companies announced Wednesday. The fund — called the AI Infrastructure Partnership — at its formation in September of last year, said that … Read more
A Game-Changer for Scalable Storage on Solana:Xandeum Introduces pNodes How can a blockchain handle massive data without slowing down? Xandeum Labs has introduced pNodes (Provider Nodes) on its devnet, marking a major advancement in decentralized storage for Solana smart contracts. Designed to integrate a scalable, random-access storage layer, pNodes address one of Solana’s key challenges: … Read more
CoreWeave, one of the hottest players in the artificial intelligence (AI) sphere, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on March 3. The company works closely with bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific (CORZ); the two firms have inked a multi-billion dollar deal for Core Scientific to build hundreds of megawatts of infrastructure for CoreWeave to … Read more
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Families of Tesla crash victims are worried that Musk’s influence in the Trump administration will weaken oversight of autonomous vehicles. | Image: Getty Family members of people who died in Tesla crashes are urging the US Department of Transportation not to scrap a Biden-era rule requiring companies to report crashes that involve fully or partially … Read more
Google’s brand new midrange phone, the Pixel 9A, won’t be shipping until sometime in April. That’s not strange in and of itself, but it turns out you can’t even preorder one from the Google Store yet. The latter situation is fairly unusual, as Google normally starts taking orders for new hardware right after announcing it. … Read more
Key takeaways Accepting crypto payments reduces transaction fees, eliminates chargebacks, and enables seamless global transactions. Businesses of all sizes, from e-commerce to real estate, are integrating cryptocurrency payments to attract new customers. Risks like price volatility and regulatory compliance can be managed with trusted payment processors like BitPay, CoinsPaid and Coinbase Commerce. Setting up crypto … Read more
Australia-based digital asset firm Zerocap is in a prime position to observe the development of the structured product space, having operated OTC, market making, derivatives and crypto custody businesses since it was founded in 2018. Here Zerocap’s head of sales Mark Hiriart discusses how these products are changing, a new semi-principal protected product his firm … Read more
Max announced on Wednesday that the HBO series “The Last of Us” will be available to stream in American Sign Language (ASL). Season 2 premieres on April 13. Notably, this is the first time HBO’s original content will be accessible for streaming in ASL on the service, representing a step towards inclusivity for deaf and … Read more
Copilot is coming back after Microsoft accidentally uninstalled it from some Windows 11 devices. In an update to its support page, Microsoft said affected devices “are being returned to their original state,” ending what some may have considered a brief respite from the AI assistant. On Monday, Microsoft said it was aware of a bug … Read more
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AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face’s in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud. … Read more