Month: April 2025

Bitcoin inflows to Binance see ‘strong acceleration’ ahead of March CPI print

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Bitcoin inflows into crypto exchange Binance have surged over the past two weeks amid uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the upcoming US Consumer Price Index (CPI) results, says an analyst. However, another analyst argued that while it could signal an impending sell-off, it might also indicate a bullish trend. Investors are “actively … Read more

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for Grok 3

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Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API. It has been several months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the company’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini.  Grok 3 can analyze images and respond to questions, … Read more

Waymo readies autonomous cars for first international tests in Japan

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Next week, Waymo’s driverless vehicles will begin testing on public roads in Japan for the Alphabet company’s first international trip. Waymo has yet to confirm whether it will eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the excursion as a “significant milestone.” Waymo describes it as a simple … Read more

Ukraine floats 23% tax on some crypto income, exemptions for stablecoins

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Ukraine’s financial regulator has proposed taxing certain crypto transactions as personal income at a rate of up to 23% but excluding crypto-to-crypto transactions and stablecoins.   Crypto transactions would be taxed at 18% with a 5% military levy on top as part of the proposed framework, released on April 8 by Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock … Read more

Stablecoins Are a ‘WhatsApp Moment’ for Money Transfers, a16z Says

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Remember the old days when calling or sending a message via text outside the country cost money? With the help of modern messaging apps like WhatsApp, paying for cross-border calls and texts is now obsolete. For money transfers, stablecoins might do just that: democratize the payments industry by eliminating historical gatekeepers, says venture firm Andreessen … Read more

Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to Nissan vehicles

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Nissan said it will use self-driving software developed by Wayve to beef up its advanced driver assistance system starting in 2027, a landmark deal for the buzzy UK startup that has raised more than $1.3 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank Group, and Uber.  Nissan will integrate Wayve’s software as well as sensors, including lidar from an undisclosed … Read more

fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction: The Results

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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

21Shares files for spot Dogecoin ETF in the US

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Digital asset manager 21Shares has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a spot Dogecoin exchange-traded fund, following similar filings from rivals Bitwise and Grayscale. The 21Shares Dogecoin ETF would seek to track the price of the memecoin Dogecoin (DOGE), according to the firm’s April 9 Form S-1 registration statement. The Dogecoin … Read more

From Brain Embeddings to Refined Images: The MindEye2 Inference Pipeline

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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

OpenAI countersues Elon Musk to stop his attacks and ‘fake takeover bid’

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OpenAI filed a countersuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying on X that “Elon’s nonstop actions against us are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and seize control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit.” In the lawsuit, OpenAI’s lawyers argue that “Musk’s continued attacks on OpenAI, culminating most recently in the … Read more