Month: April 2025

AI note-taking app Fireflies adds new ways to extract insights from meeting notes

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Khosla Ventures-backed Fireflies.ai, an AI-powered note-taking app, on Wednesday released a set of domain-specific “mini apps” to extract insights from meeting transcripts automatically. With the widespread availability of automatic speech recognition models and generative AI, meeting intelligence startups like Otter, Read AI, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola have registered impressive growth. Fireflies, similarly, has seen 8x … Read more

Blockchain prediction markets offer new hope for scientific validation

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Opinion by: Sasha Shilina, PhD, founder of Episteme and researcher at Paradigm Research Institute Decentralized prediction markets are gaining ground in the scientific world, offering an intriguing answer to the field’s ongoing reproducibility crisis. While a notable share of research findings fail to replicate in independent tests, supporters believe market-driven forecasting can speed up identifying … Read more

Hedge Funds Going On-Chain: The “Indexification” of Active Strategies

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In an earlier piece, I introduced the concept of the “Shopification of Wealth”, or the idea that on-chain rails can lower the barriers to entry and radically scale operations for financial advisors and wealth managers. Just as Shopify enabled anyone to launch a retail business online, crypto is enabling a new generation of investment professionals … Read more

Lumoz RaaS to Support RISC-V zkEVM: Advancing Layer2 Performance and Scalability

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Background Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently proposed replacing the current Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with the RISC-V instruction set architecture. This proposal has sparked widespread discussion within the Ethereum community and highlighted the potential of RISC-V in the blockchain space. In parallel, Lumoz RaaS (Rollup as a Service) has announced support for a RISC-V–based zkEVM … Read more

Floki Teams With Softbank Partner Rice Robotics for Tokenization of AI Data

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Rice Robotics and dog-themed utility project Floki will soon launch the Minibot M1, a Floki-branded AI-powered companion robot that works on the RICE AI platform. Floki will support the company in its blockchain push as it moves towards tokenizing its brand and AI data marketplace through TokenFi, a Floki sister project focused on tokenizing real-world … Read more

Galaxy , CoreWeave Expand Alliance With Data Center Expansion

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Galaxy Digital (GLXY) said it deepened its strategic partnership with CoreWeave (CRWV), reinforcing its ambitions in the fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) data center industry. Under a new agreement, CoreWeave will gain access to an additional 260 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load at Galaxy’s Helios data center campus in West Texas, … Read more

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell on Building the DeFi-Bond Bridge

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Maple Finance is quietly becoming one of the most important bridges between decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance. Co-founded by Sidney Powell in 2021, the institutional crypto lending platform has facilitated over $5 billion in loans and is increasingly positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for tokenized private credit — a sector TradFi is rapidly … Read more

The best Sonos speakers to buy in 2025

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After the year of self-induced tumult that Sonos has been through, I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But interim CEO Tom Conrad has shown that he’s determined to get back on track and revitalize Sonos as the leading whole-home audio brand. The contentious mobile app is … Read more

For Scale

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Operation Rolling Thunder was meant to be an act of persuasion. The US believed that a drawn-out bombardment would pressure the North to cease its aggression on the South — or, at least, encourage it to ease up. “I saw our bombs as my political resources for negotiating a peace,” President Lyndon Johnson claimed. His framing … Read more

Unlocking Structured Commonsense Reasoning with Code-LLMs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 COCOGEN: Representing Commonsense structures with code and 2.1 Converting (T,G) into Python code 2.2 Few-shot prompting for generating G 3 Evaluation and 3.1 Experimental setup 3.2 Script generation: PROSCRIPT 3.3 Entity state tracking: PROPARA 3.4 Argument graph generation: EXPLAGRAPHS 4 Analysis 5 Related work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, … Read more

Roku announces its smallest streaming sticks yet

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Roku says its sticks are the smallest on the market. Your move, Amazon. Roku today introduced refreshed versions of its Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick Plus, with the company describing the devices as “the most compact sticks on the market” and “over 35 percent smaller than other brands.” That’s a curious point to focus on … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Index Gains 4.7% as All 20 Assets Trade Higher

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2759.21, up 4.7% (+124.59) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SUI (+18.5%) and AAVE (+9.4%). Laggards: BCH (+0.8%) and LTC (+1.7%). The … Read more

Ubisoft taps Immutable to launch Web3 card game ‘Might & Magic: Fates’

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Gaming giant Ubisoft has partnered with Web3 firm Immutable to launch Might & Magic: Fates, a blockchain-powered strategy card game set in the Might & Magic universe. According to a news release shared with Cointelegraph, Might & Magic: Fates blends classic strategic gameplay with modern blockchain technology, offering players digital ownership through Immutable’s Web3 infrastructure. … Read more