Energy management firm KULR (KULR) has expanded its bitcoin treasury to more than 800 tokens, with the purchase an additional $9 million worth of BTC. The latest acquisition — made at an average price of $103,234 each — brings the total amount KULR has spent on the cryptocurrency to $78 million. This continues the company’s … Read more
Government entities increased their holdings of Strategy (MSTR), a bitcoin BTC proxy, in the first quarter according to new data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), investment bank Standard Chartered (STAN) said in a research report on Tuesday. In some cases “MSTR holdings by government entities reflect a desire to gain bitcoin exposure … Read more
Given the choice between paying more or watching ads, people are choosing ads. Ad-supported tiers are proving to be popular with streaming customers. New data from subscription analyst firm Antenna shows that 46 percent of Discovery Plus, Disney Plus, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount Plus, and Peacock subscribers in the US are paying for ad-supported … Read more
Brex has once again made the surprising, but perhaps realistic, decision to partner with another one-time competitor. This time Zip, the CEOs of both companies told TechCrunch exclusively. In April 2022, fintech Brex announced it was making “a big push” into both the enterprise and software. The news was notable considering that Brex originally was … Read more
South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus on backing founders of color. … Read more
Alation plans to integrate Numbers Station’s products into its own as soon as the end of this quarter, Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani told TechCrunch.
SparkCharge raised $15.5 million in equity and secured a $15 million loan to expand its fleet charging operations.
The Saros Z70 likes socks just as much as Gus does. I suspect my dog does not like the Roborock Saros Z70. Unlike the dozens of other robot vacuums that Gus happily lets clean around him while he sleeps, the Z70 keeps stealing his treasures. Not his dog toys – although that could be a … Read more
Avalanche, Helix and Faculty Group have launched Fusion, a new blockchain ecosystem aimed at driving real-world adoption through modular infrastructure tailored to specific industries. Built on Avalanche, Fusion features a two-layer architecture that includes composers, customizable layer-1 networks and modules, which offer plug-and-play services like compute, identity and data oracles. The team said this approach … Read more
Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape. From GitHub’s early Copilot to contemporary tools like Cursor and Windsurf, most AI coding assistants operate as … Read more
India’s Supreme Court has questioned the government’s lack of regulatory clarity on cryptocurrencies despite imposing taxes on digital assets like Bitcoin. According to Indian legal news outlet LawChakra, the country’s Supreme Court expressed concern over the growing use of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies while remaining largely unregulated. “This is a whole parallel economy running … Read more
Aave has surged 20% after U.S. lawmakers advanced the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin bill seen as a potential catalyst for DeFi regulation.
Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this report owns shares of Strategy (MSTR). Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, STRK, achieved the largest proceeds from its weekly at-the-market (ATM) issuance since the program started in February, according to X account DogCandles, raising $59.7 million that was used to buy more bitcoin BTC, according to a Monday SEC … Read more
“I’ve got a pretty wild story to tell you,” the early YouTube star Caspar Lee says in a TikTok. He goes on to tell the story of how a startup founder slid into his LinkedIn DMs with a pitch about an eco-friendly deodorant called Wild. He ignored the message at first, but his cousin Sasha … Read more
Gravitee, a platform designed to help companies manage their APIs and other digital traffic pipelines, has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The new capital, which brings Gravitee’s total raised to just over $125 million, will be used … Read more
Kraken is rolling out regulated crypto derivatives trading in Europe, compliant with the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The crypto exchange’s perpetual and fixed maturity futures contracts will now be available for retail and institutional customers in the European Economic Area (EEA), the firm said on Tuesday. Permission to trade crypto … Read more
Crypto traders are betting big on ether ETH in the wake of the recent rally. Last week, block traders, typically institutions and large players, executed bull call spreads on ether, purchasing the $3,500 call options while simultaneously shorting an equal number of calls at the $6,000 strike, both set to expire on Dec. 26. Traders … Read more
O’Leary argued that Senator Elizabeth Warren’s objections to the GENIUS Act distort its purpose and threaten bipartisan progress.
India’s Supreme Court has questioned why the country’s central government cannot formulate a “clear cut” policy on crypto regulation, the Economic Times reported on Monday. Justice Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said that there is “parallel under-market” for cryptocurrency that can affect the economy. “Why does centre not come out with a clear cut … Read more
Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files. Four image actions are … Read more
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The big story in financial markets is not just global bond-market jitters, it’s also bitcoin’s (BTC) stability above $100,000. BTC has held above that level for 11 straight days after jumping sharply from around $75,000 in early April. Some might interpret that as a sign of … Read more
Binance has filed a motion to dismiss a $1.76 billion lawsuit brought by the FTX estate, accusing the defunct crypto exchange of trying to deflect blame for its own failure. Filed on May 16 in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court, Binance’s legal team called the suit “legally deficient,” stating that FTX’s collapse was not triggered by … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Pre-Training 2.1 Tokenization 2.2 Pre-Training Data 2.3 Stability 2.4 Inference 3 Alignment and 3.1 Data 3.2 Fine-Tuning Strategy 4 Human Evaluations and Safety Testing, and 4.1 Prompts for Evaluation 4.2 Baselines and Evaluations 4.3 Inter-annotator Agreement 4.4 Safety Testing 4.5 Discussion 5 Benchmark Evaluations and 5.1 Text … Read more