Month: May 2025

OpenAI Wants to Design How You Live With AI

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OpenAI is best known for ChatGPT, a tool people type prompts into. Now, the company wants to control what you type into and talk to, touch, carry, or even wear. In May, OpenAI agreed to acquire Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup, IO, for $6.5 billion in stock. About 55 engineers and designers, many of them … Read more

Trump’s use of presidential seal at memecoin event raises legal questions

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President Donald Trump is facing scrutiny after speaking at a private event for top investors in his $TRUMP memecoin while standing behind a lectern emblazoned with the official presidential seal — a move that may violate federal law. The event took place Thursday at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, where Trump addressed 220 investors … Read more

Bitcoin treasury companies will hold 'way more' than Bitcoiners expect: Exec

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Moon Inc. head of Bitcoin strategy Jesse Myers says that Bitcoin holders are underestimating the significant amount of Bitcoin that corporations will accumulate by 2045. “Bitcoin Treasury Companies will hold 50% of all BTC, way more than most Bitcoiners are prepared for,” Jesse Myers said in a May 23 X thread. Strategy will own $70T … Read more

Polygon Co-Founder Mihailo Bjelic Exits Layer 2

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Mihailo Bjelic, one of the four co-founders of Polygon, is exiting the network. Bjelic made the announcement on X, “After much thought and reflection, I’ve decided to step down from the board of the Polygon Foundation, and wind down my day-to-day involvement with Polygon Labs,” he said. With Bjelic’s exit, co-founder Sandeep Nailwal becomes the … Read more

Crypto Bulls Lose $500M as Bitcoin Hovers Around $108K After Trump’s Tariff Threats

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Bullish crypto bets lost over $500 million in the past 24 hours as traders took profits and markets slid following President Donald Trump’s fresh threats of tariffs on European imports and Apple products, sparking a wave of liquidations. Bitcoin, which had been trading above $111,000, dropped quickly to around $108,600, wiping out intraday gains and … Read more

Judge overturns fraud convictions in Mango Markets exploit case

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A US federal judge has vacated key fraud and manipulation convictions against Avraham Eisenberg, the trader at the center of the case involving a $110 million exploit of the decentralized exchange Mango Markets. On Friday, US District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that the evidence presented at trial failed to support the jury’s conclusion that Eisenberg … Read more

BougeRV water heater review: hot showers to go

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Hot or warm water, whatever works. Hot water is like internet connectivity for most Verge readers: you just expect it to be there. But that’s unlikely to be the case this summer when tent camping at a music festival or road-tripping into the great unknown. That’s where BougeRV’s battery-powered shower comes in. The $310 “Portable … Read more

Bitcoin ETFs post $2.75B in weekly inflows as price sits above $108K

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US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds (ETFs) have recorded a total of $2.75 billion in inflows this week amid Bitcoin surpassing its January all-time high of $109,000. The $2.75 billion inflow total was nearly 4.5 times larger than the spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETF’s previous week’s $608 million in inflows, according to Farside data. BlackRock Bitcoin ETF continues … Read more

Tutor Training Dataset & Sequence Labeling Annotation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Effective Tutoring Practice 2.2 Feedback for Tutor Training 2.3 Sequence Labeling for Feedback Generation 2.4 Large Language Models in Education 3. Method 3.1 Dataset and 3.2 Sequence Labeling 3.3 GPT Facilitated Sequence Labeling 3.4 Metrics 4. Results 4.1 Results on RQ1 4.2 Results on RQ2 … Read more