Rumble Taps MoonPay for Crypto Wallet Ahead of Q3 Launch

Video-sharing platform Rumble (RUM) struck a deal with crypto payments provider MoonPay for its forthcoming cryptocurrency wallet, the company told CoinDesk on Thursday. The Rumble Wallet, scheduled to go live in in the third quarter, will integrate MoonPay’s infrastructure to handle seamless conversions between digital assets and fiat currency, and will let users buy, sell … Read more

YouTube ‘clarifies’ its plan to demonetize spammy AI slop

YouTube is trying to soothe concerns about an incoming update to its monetization policies following backlash from online creators. An announcement that YouTube would be updating restrictions around “inauthentic” content under the YouTube Partner Program guidelines was interpreted by some to mean the platform was planning to demonetize a wider variety of videos, including those … Read more

The best Prime Day 2025 deals you can still get

⠀ Amazon Prime Day is usually a sprint — two hectic days of lightning deals, overflowing shopping carts, and enough browser tabs to crash a laptop. But this year, Amazon is treating it more like a marathon. Instead of wrapping things up after 48 hours, the retailer is giving Prime members two additional days to … Read more

Alibaba Founder-Backed Ant Group to Integrate Circle’s USDC on Its Blockchain

The international arm of Ant Group, the company backed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, plans to bring Circle’s USDC stablecoin onto its proprietary blockchain. The rollout will start once U.S. regulators certify the dollar-pegged token under the new federal rules, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the deal. The move would give USDC a link … Read more

This One Metric Suggests Bitcoin Has Plenty of Room Left to Run

Bitcoin (BTC) reached new all-time highs just above $112,000 on Wednesday, although the increase was only marginal compared to the previous peak. Despite the wave of bullish corporate adoption, with public companies adding bitcoin to their balance sheets. On-chain data suggests that bitcoin has more room to run when compared to previous cycle highs. One … Read more

What Happens When Your Prompt Is Too Obscure?

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Concepts in Pretraining Data and Quantifying Frequency 3 Comparing Pretraining Frequency & “Zero-Shot” Performance and 3.1 Experimental Setup 3.2 Result: Pretraining Frequency is Predictive of “Zero-Shot” Performance 4 Stress-Testing the Concept Frequency-Performance Scaling Trend and 4.1 Controlling for Similar Samples in Pretraining and Downstream Data 4.2 Testing … Read more

Australia’s Central Bank to Explore Developing Wholesale Tokenized Asset Markets

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will explore the development of wholesale tokenized asset markets alongside an array of industry participants. “Project Acacia” will use stablecoins, pilot wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) and bank deposit tokens in 24 use cases of tokenizing a range of asset classes, such as fixed income and private markets. … Read more

A Close Look at Misalignment in Pretraining Datasets

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Concepts in Pretraining Data and Quantifying Frequency 3 Comparing Pretraining Frequency & “Zero-Shot” Performance and 3.1 Experimental Setup 3.2 Result: Pretraining Frequency is Predictive of “Zero-Shot” Performance 4 Stress-Testing the Concept Frequency-Performance Scaling Trend and 4.1 Controlling for Similar Samples in Pretraining and Downstream Data 4.2 Testing … Read more

This Chart Points to a 30% Bitcoin Price Boom Ahead: Technical Analysis

This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin’s BTC spot price has surpassed $111,000 and could rise by another 30% to exceed $140,000. That’s the message from the daily price chart of BlackRock’s Nasdaq-listed spot bitcoin ETF, known by its IBIT ticker, which shows a bull flag … Read more

BlackRock’s Spot Ether ETF Registers Record Trading Volume of 43M Amid Net Inflows of $158M

Ethereum’s native token, ether ETH, rose nearly 6% Wednesday, outperforming bitcoin (BTC), XRP (XRP) and solana’s SOL (SOL) as expected. The outperformance saw record trading activity in BlackRock’s spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), ETHA, listed on Nasdaq. More than 43 million shares of ETHA changed hands Wednesday, the highest single-day tally since the fund’s debut … Read more

Justin Sun Wants to Make TRUMP a Global Crypto Brand With $100M Buy

Justin Sun’s $100 million TRUMP token buy signals a strategic alignment with the U.S. administration’s pro-crypto stance and marks the first of many planned collaborations with the Trump team, the Tron founder told CoinDesk in an interview. This isn’t the first investment the Tron founder has made in projects within the Trump-crypto universe. Sun’s ties … Read more

The Link Between Concept Frequency and AI Performance, Seen Through Images and Words

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Concepts in Pretraining Data and Quantifying Frequency 3 Comparing Pretraining Frequency & “Zero-Shot” Performance and 3.1 Experimental Setup 3.2 Result: Pretraining Frequency is Predictive of “Zero-Shot” Performance 4 Stress-Testing the Concept Frequency-Performance Scaling Trend and 4.1 Controlling for Similar Samples in Pretraining and Downstream Data 4.2 Testing … Read more