Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI,” as reported by CNBC. “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can … Read more
Galaxy Digital is moving closer to a U.S. stock market listing after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved its registration statement tied to a corporate reorganization. The crypto and AI infrastructure firm, currently listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange, aims to shift its home base from the Cayman Islands to Delaware and list shares … Read more
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies and AWS. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers fully managed, end-to-end Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to create highly accurate, low-latency, secure, and custom generative AI applications by incorporating contextual information from your company’s data sources. … Read more
TikTok creator @pwinpudding specializes in âhaul videos,â specifically all things pink, pastel, and cute. Her videos show a collection of packages received from sites like the Chinese retailer AliExpress, as well as Amazon and the Japanese retailer Daiso and the accessories, clothes, plushies, and other items she took out of them. In her most recent … Read more
Prompt caching, now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, along with Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro models, lowers response latency by up to 85% and reduces costs up to 90% by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. With prompt caching, you can mark … Read more
Larry Fink said many of his peers believe the U.S. is mired in a recession, but he added that it’s a good time to buy the dip.
Tesla’s battery range extender accessory for Cybertruck, which promised to give the electric pickup the capability to drive about 445 miles on a single charge, was removed from the online configurator over the weekend, Electrek reports. The Cybertruck Range Extender was announced at the vehicle’s delivery event as a $16,000 add-on that appears to take … Read more
Midjourney v7 shows improvements in creativity and natural language understanding, but it doesn’t beat v6 across all tests.
On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week. According to an internal message viewed by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Aboussad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager, … Read more
Corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries collectively shed more than $4 billion in value after US President Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered a global market sell-off, data shows. As of April 7, corporate Bitcoin holdings are worth approximately $54.5 billion in the aggregate, down from roughly $59 billion before April 2, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net. The cryptocurrency’s … Read more
Using suction cups, sticky putty, and even Lego plates, Marblelous marble runs can be built on flat vertical surfaces. | Image: Marblelous Marble run toys typically rely on just gravity to send a marble careening through a complex maze of obstacles, but the creator of Marblelous thinks they can be improved through technology. These new … Read more
How Not to Mess Up Your AI Build (and Actually Save Time) We’re in the era of AI. Every company wants to add some kind of AI feature to their product. LLMs (large language models) are popping up everywhere - some are even building their own. But while everyone’s jumping into the hype, I just want to … Read more
Amazon has upgraded its AI video model, Nova Reel, with the ability to generate videos up to two minutes in length. Nova Reel, announced in December 2024, was Amazon’s first foray into the generative video space. It competes with models from OpenAI, Google, and others in what’s fast becoming a crowded market. The latest Nova … Read more
The leading cryptocurrency has been holding near its Election Day price, while the world’s most valuable tech stocks have wavered.
In an era where cloud adoption is accelerating rapidly, securing digital infrastructure is more critical than ever. Guruprasad Venkatesha, a renowned expert in cloud compute security, has successfully transformed cloud security frameworks, significantly enhancing security standards and operational agility across the industry. Venkatesha spearheaded a pivotal initiative to align cloud compute security controls with globally … Read more
Amid a morning of pandemonium on Wall Street, a popular news aggregator on X, known as Walter Bloomberg, posted a false report declaring that President Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his controversial tariff proposal. This news was not true, and yet, index funds like the Dow Jones whipsawed — rapidly rising, before reversing … Read more
My most recent project was the Connect Four terminal game. You can check this out here if you want. This project was supposed to improve my TDD (Test-Driven Development) skills, as I had to write tests for every step. It was a loooong project, and in this article, I’m going to tell you why. The … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) 26.62% decline from its $109,500 all-time high is en route to becoming the deepest drawdown of the current bull market cycle, according to CryptoQuant head of research, Julio Moreno. Bitcoin price drawdown analysis. Source: X Bitcoin has experienced significant drawdowns in past cycles, with a notable 83% drop from its peak in 2018 … Read more
Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was recently pardoned after being convicted of securities fraud, is trying to buy the assets of his former company out of bankruptcy, according to new court filings and a person familiar with the matter. Nikola filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February and has said it hopes to sell … Read more
Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to “acts of misconduct.” Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa … Read more
At 11 a.m. in California last Thursday, the day after President Donald Trump declared sweeping new tariffs under what he dubbed “Liberation Day,” Ryan Petersen was live on camera, fielding questions from a virtual room packed with more than 2,300 anxious customers. The founder and CEO of Flexport, a now 12-year-old global logistics and customs … Read more