Month: June 2025
Why I Won’t Use AI
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GENIUS Act passage paves way for institutional stablecoin use
The GENIUS Act is one step closer to becoming law in a development that may make stablecoin issuers key players in the US economy.
Why is the President selling me phone service now?
Blame Ryan Reynolds. With a new wireless brand from the hosts of SmartLess emerging last week, and the debut of Trump Mobile this week, it sure seems like there’s a hot new trend in Celebrities Selling Things: phone service. How did it come to this? Why can’t they just stick to tequila? I talked to … Read more
Bitcoin Retests 50-Day Average Support; XRP Risks Dogecoin-Like Bearish Shift in Momentum
This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. There is an old saying, “Once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, and a third time is a trend.” It applies to bitcoin BTC right now. The cryptocurrency’s price has fallen back to its 50-day simple moving average (SMA), … Read more
How Constrained and Joint Decoding Improve Multimodal Speech Models
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more
Another XRP ETF Comes to Canada as 3iQ Launches XRPQ on Toronto Stock Exchange
Crypto asset manager 3iQ has introduced an XRP XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the company said on Wednesday. The 3iQ XRP ETF (TSX: XRPQ) will launch with a 0% management fee for the first six months and is available for investment through registered accounts in Canada, and its TSX listing enables … Read more
Netflix will air traditional TV channels inside its app in France
Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch commercially broadcast TV content “without ever having to leave the service.” The streaming giant has announced a distribution deal with French media company TF1 Group to make TF1’s free-to-air live TV channels and on-demand TF1 Plus streaming content available to French Netflix … Read more
The Bethesda Declaration
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XRP price consolidates for 200 days: Analysts predict where it’s going next
Bullish fractals from 2017 suggest XRP could rally toward $3.70–$10, with some projections pointing to a breakout as high as $25 or more.
Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Holds the Line as Trump Labels Iran Leader ‘Easy Target’
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering a smidgen under $105,000 having dropped just 1.4% in the past 24 hours as crypto markets balanced the Israel-Iran war with regulatory progress in the U.S. Tensions in the Middle East are heightening after President Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” … Read more
Garmin’s new sleep-tracking armband lasts a full week between charges
Garmin’s Index Sleep Monitor is worn on the upper arm, not the wrist. | Image: Garmin Garmin has announced a new sleep-tracking band that can be strapped to your upper arm, which could make it more comfortable to wear overnight. The Index Sleep Monitor tracks sleep stages, heart rate, and even your breathing to create … Read more
Circle dump: Cathie Wood’s Ark sells another $45M as shares tumble
In the past two days, ARK has offloaded a total of 642,766 Circle shares, accounting for 14% of its 4.49 million CRCL purchase made during the company’s public launch.
Trump set to delay TikTok ban with yet another extension
U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday.
Chinese Bitcoin ASIC makers to begin US production amid tariff pressure
Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT — producing over 99% of global Bitcoin mining ASICs — are launching US-based production units in response to tariffs.
Terpstra Keyboard
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Token That’s Literally USELESS Is Crypto’s Latest Meme Cult
Crypto’s newest memecoin cult is embracing the “useless” narrative given to joke tokens, making it a play that reached a $100 million valuation in recent days. The aptly-named USELESS coin has embraced that narrative and turned it into a rallying cry. The official website mocks the space it inhabits, and people are doing exactly that. … Read more
Bitcoin ‘Accumulator’ Better Fit for Corporates Than Dollar-Cost Averaging Strategy, Research Suggests
Corporate adoption of bitcoin BTC is well-known, and most of it involves a classic buy-and-hold strategy, loosely analogous to the dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy. While investors of all kinds widely prefer DCA, new research by crypto options market maker Orbit Markets shows that since 2023, it has underperformed a structured product called an “accumulator,” popularly … Read more
SpeechVerse vs. SOTA: Multi-Task Speech Models in Real-World Benchmarks
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more
P-Hacking in Startups
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Europe’s first Bitcoin treasury firm buys another $20M BTC, now holds over $170M
The Blockchain Group has acquired another $20 million in Bitcoin, lifting its total holdings to 1,653 BTC and posting a 1,173% BTC yield in 2025.
Bitcoin below $100K now ‘less likely’ as BTC price eyes liquidity at $106K
Bitcoin price hovers around $105,000 on June 18 and shows staying power as BTC’s chance of falling to $100,000 appears to be decreasing, new analysis suggests.