DOJ Crypto Enforcement Memo Has No Bearing on Do Kwon’s Criminal Case, Prosecutors Say

NEW YORK, NY — A recent U.S. Department of Justice staff memo dismantling the DOJ’s crypto unit and narrowing the scope of its crypto-related enforcement priorities will have no impact on the prosecution of Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwon, prosecutors said Thursday. The memo, sent Monday evening by U.S. Deputy Attorney General … Read more

Netflix’s latest season of ‘Black Mirror’ comes with a mobile game

Season 7 of “Black Mirror” premiered on Thursday, introducing a new mobile game connected to one of its episodes. The game, titled “Thronglets,” from Netflix’s own Night School Studio, serves as a companion to the episode called “Plaything.” Players interact with virtual yellow pets and strive to keep them alive. If players are successful in … Read more

Jobandtalent raises $103M on a down-round $1.5B valuation as it looks to AI to recruit temps

Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million).  The Series F — which includes participation from Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo, and Kinnevik — values the Madrid, Spain-based company at €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) post-money.  On the surface, … Read more

OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations. OpenAI says the feature, which appears in ChatGPT’s settings as “reference saved memories,” aims to make conversations with ChatGPT more relevant … Read more

Canva is getting AI image generation, interactive coding, spreadsheets and more

Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI into their toolkits. It’s a signal of just how quickly AI has gained importance — regardless of what their customers … Read more

LiveKit’s tools power real-time communications, including OpenAI’s Voice Mode

A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video — to users in real time without interruptions. Some firms build solutions in-house, but these often require a lot of upkeep and maintenance. To ease the burden, Russ d’Sa and David Zhao created LiveKit, an open-source software … Read more

Model customization, RAG, or both: A case study with Amazon Nova

As businesses and developers increasingly seek to optimize their language models for specific tasks, the decision between model customization and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) becomes critical. In this post, we seek to address this growing need by offering clear, actionable guidelines and best practices on when to use each approach, helping you make informed decisions … Read more

The tariff apocalypse has not been canceled

Last week, President Donald Trump declared a series of tariffs that pitted the United States against the rest of the world. Big companies stayed nervously silent; small ones panicked. The stock market plunged. And surely worst of all, Switch 2 preorders were delayed. Then, the same day the largest tariffs went into effect, Trump hit … Read more

Crypto Market Maker Portofino Technologies CFO Mark Blackborough Left the Business

The chief financial officer of crypto marker maker Portofino Technologies, Mark Blackborough, has recently left the business. “We can confirm that our CFO is transitioning out of the business. As we scale and adapt to new opportunities in the market, we’re continuously evolving our leadership team to align with our long-term strategic goals,” a company … Read more

Meghan Markle has made another angel investment

Meghan is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship.  In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause and other health-related concerns.  She joined the company’s $63 million Series B round last March, … Read more

Are React and RTK Query a New Easy Way for Redux?

First of all, let’s remember what the classic request and data storage looks like with redux-saga and @reduxjs/toolkit. // slice // We use an enum with statuses to easily manipulate them in the future. enum EOperationStatus { initial = “initial”, pending = “pending”, error = “error”, success = “success”, } const initialState: IInitialState = { … Read more

Generate user-personalized communication with Amazon Personalize and Amazon Bedrock

Today, businesses are using AI and generative models to improve productivity in their teams and provide better experiences to their customers. Personalized outbound communication can be a powerful tool to increase user engagement and conversion. For instance, as a marketing manager for a video-on-demand company, you might want to send personalized email messages tailored to … Read more

How My Development Team Utilized GitHub Copilot & AI Tools to Boost Productivity by Vimaldeep Singh

Introduction As responsible for Project Delivery, I am constantly looking for ways to enhance my development team’s efficiency, code quality, and overall productivity. In today’s fast paced software development landscape, AI-driven tools like GitHub Copilot are revolutionizing how developers write, debug, and optimize code. By automating repetitive tasks, generating smart code suggestions, and improving team … Read more

AI/ML Model Deployment with MLflow & Kubernetes: From Experimentation to Enterprise-Grade Deployment

– Written by Shashi Prakash Patel My Introduction: I am Shashi Patel from the consulting sales team. I’ve spent my career in sales and business development, specializing in IT services and staffing solutions. I have a Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) and along the way I have deepened my understanding of data science and AI … Read more

How GitHub Copilot Enhances Developer Productivity by Preeti Verma

Introduction GitHub Copilot, powered by OpenAI’s Codex, is an AI-powered coding assistant that integrates seamlessly with popular IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and Neovim. By analyzing context, comments, and existing code, Copilot provides real-time suggestions—ranging from single-line autocompletions to entire functions—dramatically accelerating development workflows. This document explores how developers leverage Copilot to: Reduce boilerplate … Read more