Month: April 2025

Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’ Lets Developers Build Stablecoin Tools on Celestia

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Noble, a blockchain for issuing real-world assets (RWA) and stablecoins, announced Wednesday that it will expand its platform by introducing “AppLayer,” an Ethereum-compatible rollup that allows developers to create their own RWA applications and infrastructure. Noble’s AppLayer aims to let developers build new financial tools optimized for real-world assets like stablecoins — digital assets whose … Read more

OKX to Expand to the US, Establish Regional HQ in California

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Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange OKX is expanding to the U.S., establishing a new regional headquarters in San Jose, California and rolling out access to its platform and its native OKX Wallet to U.S.-based crypto traders. In a Tuesday evening announcement, newly-appointed CEO Roshan Robert said the expansion was “a commitment to responsible growth.” Robert was most … Read more

Fraud Detection Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Introduction One of the pressing challenges for the industries such as e-commerce, finance, insurance is fraud detection. For these industries transactional security is paramount. Until a decade ago organizations were relying on predefined rules and thresholds which are often not sufficient to detect fraudulent activities.  With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning … Read more

Align, Co-Create, Elevate: A Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation

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Every organization focuses on innovation but very few are able to achieve it. The core reason for that is a lack of understanding of how innovation works. Many of us believe innovation happens when we visualize and understand revolutionary technologies and implement them immediately will produce the change. In reality, the process extends beyond technology … Read more

Pretraining Efficiency: MindEye2’s Performance with Fewer Subjects

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

Two-Way Identification: Evaluating MindEye2 Reconstruction Accuracy

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

COCO Image Retrieval with MindEye2: Challenges and Insights with OpenCLIP bigG Embeddings

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

OpenCLIP BigG to CLIP L Conversion: What You Need to Know

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

MindEye2 unCLIP vs. Versatile Diffusion: Evaluating Image Generation from CLIP Latents

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more

Bitcoin Slips With XRP, ADA as Nvidia’s Massive $5.5B Charge Sours Investor Sentiment

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The mood in the equity and crypto market turned sour late Wednesday as Nvidia shares crashed in after-hours trading following a $5.5 billion charge tied to the Trump administration’s decision to ban the company’s H20 chip sales to China. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, fell to $83,600, extending the retreat from the two-week … Read more

MCP Is a Security – Here’s How the Agent Security Framework Fixes It

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Right now, there’s a lot of buzz around Anthropic’s Multi Agent Context Protocols (MCP). Often described as the “USB-C of AI agents,” MCP promises to standardize how agents talk to each other. The idea is straightforward: connect different AI agents and tools through a common interface, let them share memory, and reuse functionality across tasks. … Read more

How to Use the Eisenhower Matrix in SEO Tasks

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Doing search engine optimization (SEO) in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can often feel like we have a never-ending list of tasks that need to be completed. In fact, it is just like that. SEO is a constant process of improving and adapting to the changing environment. From keyword research to content creation, link building … Read more