The Vergecast’s WWDC 2025 preview

This year’s developer conference is coming to a close, but most years the last one is the biggest one: Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, when the company announces its software plans for the year to come. This year feels different, though. Apple is reportedly planning a redesign that will touch all its operating systems, and a … Read more

IOST Raises $21M to Expand the Rollout of its Tokenized Asset Infrastructure

Modular blockchain platform IOST has raised $21 million in a strategic funding round to expand the rollout of its real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure across regulated markets, the company said in a press release on Friday. The round was led by institutional investors DWF Labs, Presto, and Rollman Management Group, the company said. The funding will … Read more

Trump Media, Owner of Truth Social, Looks to Issue $12B Worth of New Shares

President Donald Trump’s media company has registered up to $12 billion in new securities, according to a new S-3 filing. Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT), parent company of social media platform Truth Social, registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue up 84,657,181 shares of Common Stock on Thursday. The company … Read more

Shiba Inu Recovers Amid Massive $36M Whale Transaction; Still Stuck in Downward Channel

Memecoin Shiba inu SHIB has chalked out a 3% recovery from overnight lows under $0.00001200, outperforming bitcoin BTC despite reports of a massive whale transaction. On Thursday, SHIB experienced a significant 7.7% correction, dropping to 0.0000119 before finding strong support at the 0.0000120 level. Prices have since bounced to $0.00001241, according to CoinDesk data. A … Read more

The best ways to digitize your documents

When you’re preparing to move, you can find yourself faced with a lot of paper documents. Holiday cards, leases, letters, tax documents, notes, doodles – whatever – can really stack up over time. If your choices are only “keep” or “trash,” it can be hard to let go, even if you choose one of the … Read more

Strategy to Raise Nearly $1B With STRD Preferred Stock Offering to Accumulate BTC

Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTC, has priced the new preferred stock offering designed to give long-term investors a fixed 10% annual return with no management fees. The firm will sell 11.76 million shares of its 10% Series A Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock (STRD), expecting to bring in an estimated $979.7 million … Read more

Alternative Architectures for Multi-Token Prediction in LLMs

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Experiments on real data 3.1. Benefits scale with model size and 3.2. Faster inference 3.3. Learning global patterns with multi-byte prediction and 3.4. Searching for the optimal n 3.5. Training for multiple epochs and 3.6. Finetuning multi-token predictors 3.7. Multi-token prediction on natural language 4. … Read more

Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin, Jolted by Trump-Musk Clash, Rebounds Before Jobs Data

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency market recovered from overnight lows, with monero (XMR), XRP and SUI leading the bounce ahead of the pivotal U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, which is expected to show a slowdown in hiring in May. “In the short term, weak data may … Read more