Month: June 2025
New Hampshire Tops List of Most Crypto-Friendly U.S. States: Study
A new ranking of crypto-friendly U.S. states puts New Hampshire at the top despite its steep electricity prices and lack of bitcoin mining activity. The state scores high due to its zero capital gains tax, lack of restrictive crypto regulation and a dense network of crypto-accepting businesses and ATMs. The study, conducted by digital mining … Read more
Another Bitcoin Buyer? Nasdaq-Listed Reitar Logtech Plans $1.5 Billion BTC Purchase
Hong Kong-Based Reitar Logtech joins a growing list of companies looking to build Bitcoin treasuries.
Trust Wallet Launches Buy+, Powered By Binance Connect, To Simplify Crypto Access
DUBAI, UAE — June 2, 2025 — Trust Wallet, the world’s leading self-custody Web3 wallet trusted by over 200 million users, has launched Buy+, a new feature powered by Binance Connect, to simplify crypto access for users worldwide and make onboarding easier for newcomers. The feature allows anyone to purchase tokens on BNB Chain, Base … Read more
Digg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era
The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web.
Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds
A platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to use these AI tools to create videos using their characters and then share them on a new … Read more
Japan Drives Cardano Trading Surge as Price Battles $0.70 Resistance
Geopolitical tensions and regulatory uncertainty continue to shape cryptocurrency markets as Cardano ADA experiences volatile price action between $0.664 and $0.690. Despite strong network fundamentals, including surpassing 110 million total transactions, ADA faces downward pressure amid broader market concerns about inflation and monetary policy decisions. Technical Analysis ADA-USD exhibited a volatile 24-hour trading range of … Read more
Elon Musk’s Neuralink closes a $650M Series E
Elon Musk’s brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The Series E fundraise included investors such as ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital, among others. Neuralink last raised a $280 million Series D funding round in 2023, with an … Read more
Stablecoin Giant Circle Bullish on IPO Demand, Boosts Offering With $7.2 Billion Valuation
Circle now forecasts that its stock will go for as much as $28 a share on Wall Street—a sign of increased investor interest in the stablecoin issuer’s offering.
Meta Shareholders Overwhelmingly Reject Proposal to Consider Bitcoin Treasury Strategy
Meta (META) shareholders have overwhelmingly voted against a proposal to add bitcoin BTC to the company’s balance sheet, according to a May 28 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Just 3.92 million votes supported the measure, while nearly 5 billion were cast in opposition. The idea was put forward in January by Ethan … Read more
Google Glass is back in the AI glasses game with Android XR smart glasses
Remember Google Glass and the reign of the “glasshole”? Well, Google’s giving face tech another shot with Android XR glasses that look like actual glasses this time.
What Happens When Purpose Is Assumed, Not Discovered
Lessons Learned from a Startup Setup to Fail A few months ago, I read – What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars – by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan. In the book, Brendan recounts how Jim, from humble beginnings, rose to become a retail broker in the futures industry, achieving early successes that led him … Read more
The Sonos Ace have hit their best price to date ahead of Father’s Day
June is here, and with it comes a wave of Father’s Day sales from a range of retailers — including Sonos, which is discounting everything from the Arc Ultra soundbar to the excellent Era 100 smart speaker. The Sonos Ace deal particularly stands out, as the wireless headphones are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and … Read more
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Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring
Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. In a post on Moonhub’s website on Monday, the company said that its entire Menlo Park, California-based team will be joining Salesforce, an early investor in Moonhub. “As a customer and investor, Salesforce … Read more
Chime, last valued at $25B, aims for $11B in upcoming IPO
Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26. That’s an up-to-$11.2-billion market cap. At the mid-range, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful of investors, including European VC powerhouse Cathay Innovation, who plan to sell … Read more
SEC faces criticism over crypto staking shift
Critics say the US regulator’s new stance on crypto staking contradicts past enforcement efforts and court rulings, deepening confusion over how digital assets are regulated.
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Meta Tutorial In Games: How It Works and Why It’s Useful
Hi everyone! My name is Alexey Tsigelnikov, and I’m a developer on the War Robots project at MY.GAMES (Pixonic). Any respectable game with multiple layers of content has tutorials — not only to help players understand the gameplay but also, importantly, to help them navigate the meta layer. In this article, I’ll talk about the … Read more
Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals
Microsoft’s sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services.
IBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYC
IBM on Monday said that it has acquired Seek AI, an AI platform that allows users to ask questions about enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed sum. Seek CEO and founder Sarah Nagy said that the startup’s technology will be a key part of Watsonx AI Labs, IBM’s new NYC-based AI accelerator, which … Read more
The Internet Just Changed Forever (And You Probably Missed It)
A few weeks ago, while you were probably scrolling through social media or grabbing coffee, a small team of engineers quietly achieved something that will reshape how money, ownership, and digital interactions work forever. They solved a problem so fundamental that its solution unlocks a future most people can barely imagine. Here’s what happened: the … Read more
Tether debuts omnichain gold stablecoin on TON
The XAUt0 token will compete with other gold-backed stablecoins and traditional gold investment instruments.
Elon Musk’s xAI reportedly looks to raise $300M in tender offer
Billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is reportedly launching a $300 million share sale that values the company at $113 billion. The secondary stock offering, which comes after xAI acquired Musk’s social media platform, X, for $33 billion, will allow staff to sell shares to new investors. The tender offer will likely precede a larger … Read more
Build GraphRAG applications using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
In these days, it is more common to companies adopting AI-first strategy to stay competitive and more efficient. As generative AI adoption grows, the technology’s ability to solve problems is also improving (an example is the use case to generate comprehensive market report). One way to simplify the growing complexity of problems to be solved … Read more
Tesla files new ‘Robotaxi’ trademark applications after prior attempt stalls
Tesla has filed trademark applications for the term “Tesla Robotaxi,” after the company’s previous attempts to secure trademarks for its planned self-driving vehicle service hit roadblocks. The company originally applied in October 2024 for the trademark of the words “Robotaxi” and “Cybercab.” The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) told the company last month … Read more