Aussie regulator to shut 95 ‘hydra’ firms linked to crypto, romance scams

Australia’s corporate watchdog has been given the nod to shut down 95 “hydra” companies that it suspects engaged in crypto investment and romance scams, known as “pig butchering.” The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s application to wind up the companies was approved by the Federal Court of Australia on just and equitable grounds after ASIC … Read more

Testing LLMs on Solving Leetcode Problems in 2025

A year ago, my benchmark showed that Large Language Models (LLMs) could solve algorithmic coding challenges on Leetcode. However, their ability was limited to a subset of well-known, “popular” problems. New problems, which were never part of their training datasets, presented difficulties. While the easiest were mostly solved by the models, the hardest remained unattainable. … Read more

Spanish police arrest six over $20M AI-powered investment scam

Authorities in Spain have arrested six people who helped operate a global AI-powered investment scam that stole over $20 million from at least 208 victims.  The scammers would swindle victims up to three times. After stealing an initial sum through the investment scam, the fraudsters contacted victims twice more, masquerading as investment managers and then … Read more

Llama 4 family of models from Meta are now available in SageMaker JumpStart

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and coming soon in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 4 represents Meta’s most advanced multimodal models to date, featuring a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture and context window support up to 10 million tokens. With native multimodality and early fusion … Read more

Former Kraken execs acquire real state firm Janover, disclose SOL treasury plans

A team of former Kraken executives has taken control of Janover, with Joseph Onorati, former chief strategy officer at Kraken, stepping in as chairman and CEO, following the group’s purchase of over 700,000 common shares and all Series A preferred stock. Parker White, former director of engineering at Kraken, was appointed as the new chief … Read more

Gemini Live’s screensharing feature is rolling out to Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 devices

Just press the cooresponding button in Gemini Live to activate video or screenshare. Google’s Gemini Live camera and screenshare functions, which let the conversational AI chatbot answer questions about the stuff you’re looking at in real-time, are rolling out now on Pixel 9 series phones and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices. The free update is also … Read more

Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals

Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to using “aggressive” noncompete agreements for some AI staff in the U.K. that bar them from working for competitors for up to a year, Business Insider reports. Some are paid during this time, in … Read more