Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the tech giant’s largest-ever external investment, which would give Meta a 49% stake in the company, according to The Information. As part of the deal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team of about 50 people to help Meta supercharge … Read more
AI agents are transforming the landscape of customer support by bridging the gap between large language models (LLMs) and real-world applications. These intelligent, autonomous systems are poised to revolutionize customer service across industries, ushering in a new era of human-AI collaboration and problem-solving. By harnessing the power of LLMs and integrating them with specialized tools … Read more
As organizations embrace generative AI, they face critical challenges in making sure their applications align with their designed safeguards. Although foundation models (FMs) offer powerful capabilities, they can also introduce unique risks, such as generating harmful content, exposing sensitive information, being vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, and returning model hallucinations. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails has helped … Read more
Customers are increasingly using generative AI to enhance efficiency, personalize experiences, and drive innovation across various industries. For instance, generative AI can be used to perform text summarization, facilitate personalized marketing strategies, create business-critical chat-based assistants, and so on. However, as generative AI adoption grows, associated costs can escalate in several areas including cost in … Read more
Ethereum’s ether ETH token, which has been in the shadows of bitcoin BTC for a long time, is now becoming the new favorite. Data from TradingView shows that the spread between Volmex’s annualized 30-day ether implied volatility index (EVIV) and bitcoin’s 30-day index (BVIV) has jumped to 34%, the highest since November 2022. Back then, … Read more
E.ON—headquartered in Essen, Germany—is one of Europe’s largest energy companies, with over 72,000 employees serving more than 50 million customers across 15 countries. As a leading provider of energy networks and customer solutions, E.ON focuses on accelerating the energy transition across Europe. A key part of this mission involves the Smart Energy Solutions division, which … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 10, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apple Released the Apple II in 1977, Microsoft Acquired GeCAD’s Antivirus Technology in 2003, Apple Introduced macOSX 10.9 in 2013, Croatia Was Approved to Join the EU in … Read more
Decentralized finance (DeFi) firm Aave is arriving on Soneium, the Ethereum L2 blockchain linked to Japanese electronics giant Sony, the companies said on Tuesday. Decentralized finance, which shot to prominence during the so-called “DeFi summer” of 2020, is resurgent, amid a huge growth in stablecoins and crypto-backed lending. The integration of GHO, Aave’s decentralized overcollateralized … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta’s social network Threads is finally testing a separate DM inbox that is separate from your Instagram DM Inbox.
It’s interesting that Threads is using an envelope symbol — like X — and not the paper airplane used by Instagram. Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on June 10th that Threads will start testing its own … Read more
Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company’s own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.
Glean announced on Tuesday that is raised a $150 million Series F led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation.
A customer refuels a car at a Chevron gas station in San Francisco on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Things are getting nutty in the world of vehicle fuel economy standards. Last week, Transportation Secretary (and ex-reality TV contestant) Sean Duffy declared that he was resetting the Corporate Average Fuel … Read more
Guggenheim’s Treasury-backed fixed-income product will be available on the XRP Ledger.
Apple has yet to deliver on some of the key technology advances that could modernize developers’ apps for the AI era.
The controversial change expands data storage on Bitcoin to 4MB, a move that has stirred debate for months among its community.
The Open Network (TON) cryptocurrency has demonstrated strong momentum, rising 4.1% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The price action formed a clear uptrend with higher lows and higher highs, breaking through key short-term resistance levels on high trading volume before consolidating near $3.35. The CoinDesk 20 — an … Read more
Welcome to HackerNoon Company of the Week, where every week we introduce you to a prominent tech company with innovative ideas and ample drive to change the world. All the data and information are taken from HackerNoon’s tech company database, where we rank S&P 500 companies and top startups. This week, we introduce BTCWire, a … Read more
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American Screen Actors Guild members have reached a “tentative” contract agreement with major gaming companies that could potentially end the 11-month-long video game actors’ strike. SAG-AFTRA announced the tentative contract on Monday without specifying terms or protections for performers. The strike began on July 26th, 2024, after the union and a bargaining committee of video … Read more
Cardano’s native token ADA ADA added 3% in the past 24 hours after Nasdaq said it expanded its crypto benchmark index from five to nine assets, adding ADA alongside XRP XRP, Solana SOL and Stellar XLM. ADA experienced significant price volatility overnight, establishing a 8.8% trading range between $0.66 and $0.72, according to CoinDesk Research’s … Read more
ETH leads majors, DeFi coins soar, HYPE hits ATH FOMO HOUR EP375 ETH leads majors as BTC briefly hits $110k. Staking not a securities transaction: Atkins. Atkins set to remove regulatory barriers for DeFi. AAVE & UNI lead DeFi coins higher. HYPE hits ATH, assistance fund now owns $1bn. Staked Ethereum hits ATH. Circle hits … Read more
Bitcoin is due a modest consolidation phase before taking a run at price discovery, says the latet analysis — will US inflation data help it get there?
Mark Zuckerberg is hand-picking top researchers and engineers to join an upcoming AI research lab dedicated to “superintelligence,” and Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang is on the list.
OpenAI experienced a partial outage on Tuesday morning that created some issues for users trying to access ChatGPT, Sora, and the API, the company said on its status page. The company started investigating the issues late on Monday night, but the partial outage has persisted through Tuesday morning. Around 5:30 am PT on Tuesday, OpenAI … Read more
Cryptocurrency is too often viewed through the narrow lens of price. The dominant narrative surrounding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the broader crypto market has become fixated on one idea: numbers go up. Did Bitcoin break $100,000? Did Ethereum double in a month? Is this altcoin going to the moon? Financial media, X pundits, and even crypto … Read more