Month: June 2025
iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original
iFixit has completed its teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2 and many repairs don’t look easy. | Image: iFixit After retroactively lowering the original Nintendo Switch’s repairability score from an 8 out of 10 to just 4 out of 10 to reflect 2025 standards, iFixit has found the Switch 2 to be even harder to … Read more
Stablecoin legislation to drive Bitcoin market cycle in 2025: Finance Redefined
Bitcoin’s consolidation phase may break out into the next phase of price discovery, catalyzed by forthcoming US stablecoin rules.
House Democrats Sound Alarm on CLARITY Act: Impact ‘Will Not Be Quarantined to Crypto’
Experts said the CLARITY Act crypto market structure bill will encourage TradFi firms to adopt blockchain as a means to evade regulation.
Genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics criticized for its embryo product: ‘Makes me so nauseous’
Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, is once again courting controversy.
EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it’s claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
Disruption playbook: How to beat AI incumbents at their own game
The harsh reality of the AI sector is that it’s dominated by a select group of well-funded incumbents. That doesn’t mean new companies can’t break through, but it makes it all that much harder for them to do so. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Odyssey co-founder Oliver Cameron, Linear COO Cristina Cordova, and NEA partner Ann … Read more
Build a serverless audio summarization solution with Amazon Bedrock and Whisper
Recordings of business meetings, interviews, and customer interactions have become essential for preserving important information. However, transcribing and summarizing these recordings manually is often time-consuming and labor-intensive. With the progress in generative AI and automatic speech recognition (ASR), automated solutions have emerged to make this process faster and more efficient. Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) … Read more
Circle Stock Climbs: CRCL Quadruples IPO Price as Bitcoin Regains
USDC issuer Circle’s share price is still climbing on its second trading day as it came within pennies of quadrupling its $31 IPO price.
Crypto Exchange Gemini Files to Go Public Following Circle’s Smash IPO
New York-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini said Friday that it had filed the paperwork with the SEC to go public.
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Implement semantic video search using open source large vision models on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
As companies and individual users deal with constantly growing amounts of video content, the ability to perform low-effort search to retrieve videos or video segments using natural language becomes increasingly valuable. Semantic video search offers a powerful solution to this problem, so users can search for relevant video content based on textual queries or descriptions. … Read more
Weekly Recap: Circle Scores Big on IPO Fever
It was a week of fortunes made, and fortunes lost, at CoinDesk.On the one hand, we had Circle, long a leading crypto company, hurtling to IPO and making bank. Its shares were priced at $110 at press time (up from $31 Wednesday), leading many to expect a summer and fall of crypto-themed IPOs. On the … Read more
X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner
X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner.
Startups Weekly: It’s buying season
From acquiring stealth startups to larger ones, and from funding Series A to G, buyers and investors made for a busy news cycle.
Tigran Gambaryan formally resigns from Binance following return to US
The former executive is starting a new chapter, having returned to the US in October 2024 after being detained for eight months in Nigeria.
Mission to Zyxx’s creators are laughing their way through the sci-fi spinoff boom
When Mission to Zyxx debuted in 2017, the podcasting space was very different. There were fewer shows, and more money was being spent as companies rushed to figure out how to capitalize on the growing medium. At a time when many big podcasts were focused on news and investigative reporting, Zyxx – an improvised comedy … Read more
Multi-account support for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
GPUs are a precious resource; they are both short in supply and much more costly than traditional CPUs. They are also highly adaptable to many different use cases. Organizations building or adopting generative AI use GPUs to run simulations, run inference (both for internal or external usage), build agentic workloads, and run data scientists’ experiments. … Read more
Build a Text-to-SQL solution for data consistency in generative AI using Amazon Nova
Businesses rely on precise, real-time insights to make critical decisions. However, enabling non-technical users to access proprietary or organizational data without technical expertise remains a challenge. Text-to-SQL bridges this gap by generating precise, schema-specific queries that empower faster decision-making and foster a data-driven culture. The problem lies in obtaining deterministic answers—precise, consistent results needed for … Read more
Clean energy investment hits new highs and shows no sign of slowing
Global investments in clean energy are likely to hit new highs in 2025, according to a new IEA report.
Has Bitcoin been captured by politics and institutions?
Bitcoin is now front and center at political conferences and corporate boardrooms. In this episode of Byte-Sized Insight, we’re at Bitcoin 2025 exploring whether it has been captured, or simply arrived.
HIVE Digital Capacity Crosses 10 EH/s in May, Aims to More Than Double That by Year-End
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) has surpassed 10 exahash per second (EH/s) in hashrate capacity, a 58% increase from April, driven by the launch of a 100-megawatt hydro-powered site in Paraguay. The company said in a press release on Friday that it’s on track to reach 25 EH/s by the end of 2025. The … Read more
Breath of the Wild’s Switch 2 enhancements have me exploring Hyrule all over again
Last night, I stayed up way too late playing through the Great Plateau section of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and I’m falling in love with the game all over again. The opening moments of Breath of the Wild are iconic. The wide shot of Hyrule you … Read more