Month: April 2025

How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

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This AI startup raised $5.3 million to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the age of AI, how do you define cheating? Columbia University recently suspended student Roy Lee for building a tool to help people cheat on engineering interviews. He’s been making waves on X after posting a long thread detailing the saga and … Read more

FLock.io Partners With Alibaba Cloud On Advanced AI Model Co-Creation

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Covent Garden, UK, April 24th, 2025/Chainwire/–FLock.io, the private AI training platform, has announced a collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, to harness Alibaba Cloud’s Large Language Model(LLM) Qwen and cloud technologies to create advanced AI models for both domain-specific and general purposes. Under the collaboration, FLock.io will create … Read more

SEC delays decision on Polkadot ETF

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed a decision on whether to approve a proposed exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding Polkadot’s native token, regulatory filings show.  According to an April 24 filing, the regulator has extended its deadline for a final ruling until June 11, nearly four months after the Nasdaq sought permission to … Read more

Federal Reserve withdraws crypto guidance for banks

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The US Federal Reserve has announced it would withdraw guidance for banks engaging in crypto asset and stablecoin-related activities. ”The Board is rescinding its 2022 supervisory letter establishing an expectation that state member banks provide advance notification of planned or current crypto-asset activities,” the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve explained in an April … Read more

Happy 15th Birthday Go!

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Happy birthday, Go! On Sunday, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Go open source release! So much has changed since Go’s 10 year anniversary, both in Go and in the world. In other ways, so much has stayed the same: Go remains committed to stability, safety, and supporting software engineering and production at scale. … Read more

White House receives over 10,000 comments on AI development plan

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The White House said on April 24 that it received more than 10,000 public comments on its planned artificial intelligence action plan, indicating widespread interest in the technology as the global race for AI leadership accelerates. Among the stakeholders providing inputs were AI giants such as OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. In addition, organizations … Read more

Intel mandates four days in the office

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Intel says that it’ll require employees to work from the office four days a week, a shift from the company’s current policy. CEO Lip-Bu Tan made the announcement during Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Thursday. Previously, Intel allowed staff to work from home two days a week, but Tan said that adherence to the … Read more

Yahoo wants to buy Chrome

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Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it. The information came out during the fourth day of the Justice Department’s remedies trial to rectify Google’s search monopoly. The DOJ has … Read more

Avalanche-powered Axiym bets on money services businesses

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Global cross-border payment platform Axiym is targeting the rising demand from money services businesses (MSBs) for blockchain-based infrastructure and stablecoin solutions for international transactions, the company told Cointelegraph. Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Axiym disclosed on April 24 that it has processed more than $132 million in cumulative volume on the Avalanche blockchain. The … Read more

FTC Send Warning to 5 Tax Prep Companies for Their Invasive Online Tracking

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned five tax preparation companies that they may face civil penalties for sharing confidential data from taxpayers through tracking pixels and other means. The move from federal regulators follows an investigation by The Markup last year that found major tax prep firms sent sensitive personal and financial information to … Read more

Was $1.4K Ethereum’s ‘generational bottom?’ — Data sends mixed signals

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Ether (ETH) price has climbed above $1,700 after 16 days of selling pressure caused by macroeconomic uncertainty and a sharp decline in onchain activity. Despite the rebound, Ether has underperformed the broader altcoin market by 23% year-to-date. Some traders claim that ETH is set for a “generational” bull run by offering a “truly” decentralized and … Read more

Public comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffs

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Individuals, industry groups, and local governments submitted over 10,000 comments to the White House about its work-in-progress national AI policy, also known as the AI Action Plan. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published the text of the submissions in a PDF spanning 18,480 pages. The comments, which touch … Read more

Ethereum's L2 approach equals many high-throughput chains — Avail exec

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Ethereum’s focus on scaling through many layer-2 networks, each with its own transaction processing speed and parameters, potentially gives the network an unlimited number of unique high-throughput chains, according to Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail, a unified chain abstraction solution. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Arjun acknowledged that Ethereum and high-throughput competitors with monolithic architecture … Read more

Meta is trying to clean up Facebook spam

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Meta is ramping up efforts to rid Facebook of spammy content, the company announced on Thursday. It’s cracking down on accounts that try to “game” the Facebook algorithm with lengthy posts and numerous hashtags. The platform is also taking action against accounts that create posts with captions completely unrelated to an image. Now, if Meta … Read more

Trump goes after websites that raise money for his enemies

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Donald Trump will sign an executive order that will target online election fundraising platforms that may allegedly process foreign campaign donations – an action specifically aimed at curtailing the activities of ActBlue, the primary online fundraising platform for the Democratic Party.  Politico first reported that the executive order was imminent, was aimed at launching an … Read more