Month: May 2025
Vegas Vibes and All-Time Highs: Bitcoin Faithful Flock to Sin City
One year after Trump headlined the annual conference, Bitcoin 2025 has landed on the Las Vegas Strip amid a record price push.
OKX Global General Counsel Is Latest Legal Exec to Leave the Exchange
The restructuring of leading legal and compliance roles at cryptocurrency exchange OKX continues with the departure of the firm’s global general counsel, Melissa Muehlfeld. Muehlfeld joined OKcoin, the U.S. arm of OKX, back in May of 2022 as deputy general counsel. She was promoted to global general counsel in August 2024. Since OKX paid half … Read more
Think Your Crypto Is Private? Think Again.
Most people believe that using cryptocurrency automatically means their transactions are private. After all, there’s no bank involved. No name required to open a wallet. It feels anonymous. But here’s the truth: crypto isn’t private by default, and that false sense of security could cost you. If you’re sending or receiving crypto without advanced protection … Read more
OpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other apps
OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer application in the world, … Read more
Maple Finance, FalconX secure Bitcoin-backed loans from Cantor Fitzgerald — Report
Wall Street financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald has closed its first Bitcoin lending deal nearly a year after announcing its crypto lending services. According to a May 27 Bloomberg report, Cantor provided Bitcoin-backed loans to FalconX and Maple Finance. FalconX, a digital asset broker, said it secured a facility worth over $100 million as part of … Read more
New Amazon Bedrock Data Automation capabilities streamline video and audio analysis
Organizations across a wide range of industries are struggling to process massive amounts of unstructured video and audio content to support their core business applications and organizational priorities. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation helps them meet this challenge by streamlining application development and automating workflows that use content from documents, images, audio, and video. Recently, we … Read more
Read-it-later app Pocket is shutting down. Here are the best alternatives.
Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
Apple is ready to replace Game Center with a more Xbox-like gaming app
Apple plans to announce an app focused on video games for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV at its Worldwide Developer Conference next week, according to Bloomberg. The app will let you launch games you’ve installed on your devices and serve as a hub for things like achievements and leaderboards. Apple is expected to … Read more
Texas signs into law online saftey bill reportedly opposed by Apple’s Tim Cook
Gov. Abbott of Texas officially signed into law the online child safety bill that would require Apple and Google’s app stores to verify the age of their users and obtain approval from parents before minors download or make in-app purchases. The law will go into effect on January 1st. The bill made headlines last week … Read more
Square Pilots Real-Time Bitcoin Payments in Vegas, Plans Full Availability To Customers in 2026
Jack Dorsey’s Square has taken bitcoin BTC payments a step further at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week. For three days, the company is piloting a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then settled in near real-time via the Lighting Network while Square … Read more
Rivr’s dog-like robots join Veho vans to solve ‘last-100-yards’ parcel delivery in Austin
Zurich-based robotics startup Rivr is partnering with Veho to deliver parcels in Austin.
Strive Raises $750 Million to Fuel Bitcoin Treasury Purchases
Financial services firm Strive Asset Management, tied to Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, has raised fresh funds to buy Bitcoin.
Third Arrest Made in Manhattan Bitcoin Kidnapping, Torture Case
A man suspected of helping kidnap and torture an Italian cryptocurrency investor in a Manhattan townhouse has surrendered to New York City police. William Duplessie turned himself in Tuesday after what officials described as days of negotiations with authorities, the New York Times reports. He is the third suspect in an alleged plot to extract … Read more
MetaCene Launches World’s First GameFi On HyperEVM With LLM Trained By Unlocked GPU Infrastructure
[May 2025, Manila] — MetaCene has launched the world’s first GameFi platform built on HyperEVM blockchain infrastructure, featuring Large Language Model-driven gaming titles that mark a convergence of advanced AI processing capabilities with emerging blockchain architecture. This pioneering deployment leverages the company’s recently acquired $500 million GPU cluster while introducing sophisticated tokenomics through innovative derivative … Read more
Bitcoin price held up by corporate adoption and ‘inflation hedge’ narratives
Key takeaways: Institutional investor demand and corporate adoption may push Bitcoin higher despite recession fears. Investors’ belief that the US Federal Reserve will hold rates favors Bitcoin price upside. Stock markets around the world responded positively to the temporary suspension of import tariffs between the United States and the European Union, with the S&P 500 … Read more
Meet BingAI: BingX’s AI Revolution In Crypto Trading
PANAMA CITY, May 27, 2025 – BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 AI company, proudly announced the launch of BingAI, an AI-powered crypto trading assistant. BingAI is designed to empower crypto traders of all levels with real-time market insights, strategic recommendations, and personalized guidance. As the cornerstone of BingX’s newly launched AI Evolution strategy, … Read more
Tesla continues to circle the drain
We don’t typically report on monthly sales data for one car company in one market, but this one seems particularly notable given all that’s going on in the world. In another sign that Elon Musk’s company is in a real tough spot, Tesla is getting absolutely demolished in Europe. The company’s sales in the EU, … Read more
Meta reportedly splits its AI team to build products faster
Now, the company’s AI personnel will be assigned to an AI products team, or an AGI Foundations unit. No jobs appear to have been cut.
Razer’s Blade 18 laptop price jumps $300, to $3,499.99
Razer’s powerhouse Blade 18 portable gaming desktop replacement is launching today with a surprise price hike from its originally advertised $3,199.99 tag. The company has quietly raised the cost of the base spec, which features an RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, to $3,499.99 — a $300 jump from its CES reveal earlier this year. The … Read more
Cache Wallet Begins Token Sale With Early Demand And Asset Recovery Breakthrough
San Jose, Costa Rica, May 27th, 2025/Chainwire/–In a world where lost seed phrases and inaccessible crypto wallets have cost investors billions, Cache Wallet has set out to turn the tide. The presale for the revolutionary smart wallet is officially live at presale.cachewallet.com, and early investor response is already setting records—with around 60% of presale tokens … Read more
eBay is cutting more than 200 jobs at TCGplayer
TCGplayer is an online marketplace where users can buy and sell trading cards for Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and more. | Photo by Stefanie Rex/Picture Alliance via Getty Images eBay is slashing the jobs of 220 workers at TCGplayer’s card authentication center in Syracuse, New York, as reported earlier by local news outlet LocalSyr. eBay will … Read more
Trump Media Group reverses stance, confirms $2.5B Bitcoin capital raise
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the company that owns US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform and is partially owned by the president, confirmed a $2.5 billion capital raise to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) after denying earlier reports of the deal. According to a May 27 announcement from the company, the capital raise comprises a … Read more
Steak n’ Shake COO Says Bitcoin Payments Cut Processing Fees in Half
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Steak n’ Shake has only been accepting bitcoin payments for two weeks, but the American fast food chain’s COO Dan Edwards said it’s already been a “win” for both the company and its customers. Speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Edwards said that bitcoin payments have been faster and … Read more