Month: April 2025
How AI Judges the Accuracy of Its Own Answers
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 LongFact: Using LLMs to generate a multi-topic benchmark for long-form factuality 3 Safe:LLM agents as factuality autoraters 4 LLMs agents can be better factuality annotators than humans 5 F1@k: Extending F1 with recall from human-preferred length 6 Larger LLMs are more factual 7 Related Work 8 Limitations … Read more
Drafted uses AI and video resumes to help early-career professionals land jobs
As the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s taking months for new grads to land employment, with many settling for roles that don’t align with their goals. To address this problem, Drafted, a new startup emerging from stealth, has built a jobs platform for students and early-career professionals, a subset of people who … Read more
Google Pixel 9A review: a midrange phone done right
Pretty in peony. The A-series Pixels have been very good over the past few years. And in the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a good midrange phone and made it great. Itâs $499, which feels just right for what you get in the 9A. Spend a bit more for the Pixel 9, and youâll get … Read more
The Flipper Zero creators have a new tool to fight work distractions
The Busy Bar can be left sitting on a desk, mounted to a wall, or perched atop your computer screen using its folding stand. | Image: Flipper Devices The creators of the Flipper Zero, a sort of electronic Swiss army knife for communicating with other devices, have come up with another tool that’s designed to … Read more
Wrapped BTC Holders Can Now Secure 6% APY on Base via Umoja
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Umoja has released a product that allows Coinbase wrapped BTC (cbBTC) token holders to earn a 6% yield on layer-2 network Base. Umoja achieves its yield by tapping into a range of centralized and decentralized exchange strategies including covered calls and arbitrage, which involves buying an asset at on one venue … Read more
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Black Mirror season 7 tugs at your heartstrings while skewering tech
Black Mirror started out as a grim, dark, and nihilistic exploration of near-future tech. But with the tragic romance of âSan Juniperoâ in season 3, the anthology slowly started to shift its priorities. Early on, everything was bad: the technology and the people. And the former was used to show how awful the latter was, … Read more
Black Mirror has a clever new game tied to season 7
Along with a new season of Black Mirror, Netflix might have just released its most interesting licensed game today. Season 7 of the sc-fi anthology includes an episode called “Plaything,” in which a genius coder in the ‘90s — the same one from the interactive “Bandersnatch” episode — creates a new game that’s a little … Read more
Bitcoin, Ethereum Rise as Inflation Drops Sharply in March
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs may make inflation harder to tame, the Federal Reserve has noted.
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U.S. CPI Declined in March; Core Rate Rose Just 0.1%.
Inflation in the U.S. actually declined at the headline level last month and the core rate barely rose, possibly reigniting debate about whether the Federal Reserve would resume trimming rates at its next meeting in May. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell 0.1% in March. Economists had expected a 0.1% increase, following February’s 0.2% gain. … Read more
Oppo’s Find X8 Ultra squeezes better specs into a slightly thinner phone
Oppo’s new Find X8 Ultra is the latest entrant in the ongoing competition between Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo to produce the world’s best camera phone. But unlike its rivals, Oppo has decided that bigger might not be better. Let’s be clear: the Find X8 Ultra isn’t a small phone by any means, with a 6.82-inch … Read more
Babylon, Which Has Over $4B BTC Locked, Launches Layer 1 ‘Genesis’ to Advance Its BTC Yield Platform
Bitcoin (BTC) project Babylon has launched its layer-1 blockchain “Genesis” as it moves to the next stage of building its staking protocol which has already drawn over $4 billion in total-value locked (TVL). Babylon allows BTC holders to earn yield on their assets, which are used to provide security and liquidity for proof-of-stake networks. Bitcoin … Read more
Bitpanda secures third MiCA license in home jurisdiction of Austria
Austrian fintech unicorn Bitpanda has secured its third license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework, further expanding its regulatory footprint across the bloc. Bitpanda on April 10 announced receiving a new MiCA license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA), its third after approvals from regulators in Germany and Malta. Its latest … Read more
Tariffs, Trade Tensions May Be Positive for Bitcoin Adoption in Medium Term: Grayscale
Tariffs and trade tensions could ultimately be positive for bitcoin (BTC) adoption in the medium term, asset manager Grayscale said in a research report Wednesday. Higher tariffs result in stagflation— stagnant economic growth coupled with inflation — which is negative for traditional assets, but positive for scarce commodities such as gold, the report said. Bitcoin … Read more
UK’s Financial Regulator, FCA, Re-Appoints Nikhil Rathi as CEO for Another 5 Years
Nikhil Rathi, has been re-appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of UK’s financial regulator, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Rathi is the first FCA CEO to be granted another five years by the Treasury and will now have more time to execute his plans for the financial sector, including crypto. Under his leadership, the FCA has … Read more
Thailand Targets Foreign P2P Crypto Platforms in New Legal Overhaul
The SEC’s new rules block unregulated foreign P2P crypto platforms, with violators facing up to 3 years in jail and a 300,000 baht fine.
How to build a personalized crypto portfolio tracker using ChatGPT
Key takeaways AI tools like ChatGPT can help both experienced and new crypto investors track portfolios with ease, freeing up time for other investment activities and making the process more accessible. Defining specific requirements, such as which cryptocurrencies to track and the desired data points, is essential for building an effective portfolio tracker tailored to … Read more
Tokenized gold volume hits $1B first time since 2023 US banking crisis
Tokenized gold trading volume surged to a two-year high this week, topping $1 billion as investors pivoted toward safe-haven assets amid global uncertainty triggered by US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs. The weekly trading volume of tokenized gold surpassed the $1 billion mark for the first time since March 2023, when a US banking crisis … Read more
Judge berates AI entrepreneur for using a generated ‘lawyer’ in court
A man’s recent attempt to use an AI-generated avatar in his legal appeal made an immediate impression on a New York courtroom, but probably not the one he was hoping for. Jerome Dewald — a 74-year-old that The Register notes is behind a startup that says it’s “revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI” — was chewed … Read more