In 2025, it’s already evident that AI is delivering value at scale. Nearly half of technology leaders in PwC’s October 2024 Pulse Survey reported that AI is “fully integrated” into their companies’ core business strategies. Groundbreaking innovations like new business models are only one source of AI value. The other lies in the cumulative impact … Read more
SoundCloud says it’s revising its terms after widespread backlash over a clause related to AI model training. Earlier this year, SoundCloud quietly updated its usage policies, adding wording that many users interpreted as legal cover to allow the company to train AI on audio uploaded to its platform. SoundCloud was quick to assert that it wasn’t … Read more
Top House Democrats sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday, asking its money laundering watchdog to hand over all suspicious activity reports (SARs) tied to President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures. In a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Reps. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) — the ranking … Read more
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 14th, 2025/Chainwire/–Edgen, the AI-native market intelligence platform designed to restore informational edge in the age of noise, today announced its public release. Following a closed beta with over a million data being analyzed daily, Edgen is now accessible to all without invite codes, waitlists, or onboarding gates. Dubbed the “AI … Read more
Max, formerly HBO Max, is now HBO Max again. Warner Bros. Discovery announced the change today, rolling back one of the clumsiest rebrands in history from a streaming service that’s had more than its share of clumsy ideas. Right from the start, it seemed like everyone outside of Warner Bros. Discovery knew the change was … Read more
Belize, Belize, May 14th, 2025/Chainwire/–BC.GAME, a global Web3 iGaming platform, has introduced a refreshed brand identity featuring a new logo and the slogan “Stay Untamed.” The update reflects the platform’s ongoing evolution—bridging traditional gaming entertainment with innovations powered by blockchain and cryptocurrency. A Visual Identity Rooted in Crypto Culture The new logo merges a lowercase … Read more
Gen AI chatbots have changed how we should analyze user intent. Before AI chatbots, we relied more on structured interactions—clicks, impressions, page views. Now, we’re dealing with free-form conversations. n This shift in how intent is expressed creates several challenges, outlined below: PII (Personal Identifiable Information) Everywhere: In general, a lot of financial and healthcare-related … Read more
London, United Kingdom, May 13th, 2025/Chainwire/-Plutus became a pioneer in on-chain integrated finance as the first to tokenise real-world assets (RWA) through on-chain loyalty rewards with Pluton (PLU) in 2015. Since its introduction during the early era of blockchain, PLU has continued to provide on-chain utility and has rewarded over $58M in in-app savings over … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched the Safety evaluations hub, a web page showing how the company’s models score on various tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations. … Read more
JPMorgan Chase completed its first transaction on a public blockchain, using Ondo Finance.
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Bitcoin has been portrayed as “digital gold,” but it’s been behaving differently than its analog counterpart.
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AI startup Stability AI has released Stable Audio Open Small, a “stereo” audio-generating AI model that the company claims is the fastest on the market — and efficient enough to run on smartphones. Stable Audio Open Small is the fruit of a collaboration between Stability AI and Arm, the chipmaker that produces many of the … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 14, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Sienfield “The Finale” Episode in 1998, and we present you with these top quality stories. From What Happens When Hackers Get Your DNA Data? Ask 23andMe to Decode … Read more
Another glimpse at James Gunn’s Superman just dropped — and this time things aren’t looking so great for the hero. While previous looks at the movie had a more inspirational tone, the latest has the Man of Steel defending his heroic actions in an interview with Lois Lane. There’s clearly going to be some conflict … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
Key points: Bitcoin continues to range around $103,000 as bulls struggle to keep upside momentum going. Traders favor short-term BTC price gains eventually returning, while overall faith in the bull market varies. Fed rate cuts seem increasingly far off despite encouraging inflation data. Bitcoin (BTC) hugged familiar territory around the May 14 Wall Street open … Read more
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“Three trillion is like a mag 7 stock, 20 trillion is an asset class,” said Anthony Scaramucci, founder and CEO of SkyBridge Capital. “So if you tell me that bitcoin can get to $500,000, people will be writing stories that bitcoin is an asset class.” That provocative benchmark from Scaramucci set the tone for a … Read more
In the absence of a U.S. federal framework, New York’s crypto regulatory regime remains a guide for domestic and international regulators, and that includes Congress, Adrienne Harris, head of the New York Department of Financial Services, said Wednesday at Consensus 2025 in Toronto. Harris said the process to become regulated in her state can be … Read more