Month: July 2025

The Bezos-funded climate satellite is lost in space

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MethaneSat was built to track methane pollution around the world. A satellite tracking global methane pollution has gone dark, imperiling  a mission that garnered enormous support from Jeff Bezos and other big names in tech. Methane is the primary ingredient of so-called “natural gas” that is even more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes … Read more

Greece Makes First Crypto Seizure Tied to North Korea’s $1.5B Bybit Hack

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Greek authorities have carried out the country’s first cryptocurrency seizure, blocking access to funds lifted from February’s record $1.5 billion Bybit hack linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The Hellenic Anti‑Money Laundering Authority traced a suspicious transaction to a wallet that on‑chain data tied to the initial theft. That wallet, according to Greece’s Minister of Economy … Read more

Solana ETFs See $78M Inflows as Interest in Altcoin Investment Products Grows

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Three Solana-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed in the U.S. have quietly pulled in $78 million over the past month, reflecting rising interest in altcoin-backed investment products despite the outsized dominance of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) in ETF markets. The Solana REX-Osprey SOL + Staking ETF (SSK), which launched July 2, has already attracted over … Read more

Monad Acquires Portal Labs to Expand Stablecoin Payments on High-Speed Blockchain

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Monad Foundation, the organization behind high-speed layer-1 blockchain Monad, is acquiring stablecoin infrastructure platform Portal Labs in an effort to scale up blockchain-based payments. Monad said the acquisition will accelerate its push into the stablecoin space and improve tools available for developers and fintechs building with digital dollars. Monad is a layer-1 blockchain compatible with … Read more

OpenAI closes its deal to buy Jony Ive’s io and build AI hardware

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OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famed former Apple designer Jony Ive, the company announced Wednesday. But it was careful to only refer to the startup as io Products Inc. The blog post initially announcing the acquisition was also scrubbed from OpenAI’s website due to a trademark lawsuit from … Read more

PUMP.FUN TOKENOMICS, $HYPE, BONKGUY META

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ETH leads crypto majors higher, BTC dominance falls. US House taking steps for US to be crypto capital. Sharplink to buy $20m ETH, stock pops 12%. GameSquare raises $8m to buy ETH, stock +60%. Bit Digital stock keeps pumping on ETH pivot. BioSig, StreamEx to tokenise commodities on SOL. Phantom intros perps powered by Hyperliquid. … Read more

Circle Has USDC Revenue Sharing Deal With Second-Largest Crypto Exchange ByBit: Sources

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Circle, the U.S.-listed stablecoin issuer, has quietly arranged a revenue sharing agreement with Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, according to two people with knowledge of the arrangement. Circle, which is sandwiched in competition between larger rival Tether and a growing crop of new stablecoins, shares 50% of the yield from reserves backing its U.S. … Read more

AI’s Fingerprints Were Found in 13.5% of Scientific Papers

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Scientists have been quietly using AI to write research papers, and now, we have the numbers to prove it. A massive analysis of 15 million biomedical abstracts reveals that AI-generated content has infiltrated academic publishing at unprecedented levels since ChatGPT’s launch. How Scientists Caught AI Red-Handed U.S. and German researchers took a detective approach to … Read more

Perplexity just launched an AI web browser

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Comet’s AI assistant can answer questions about what’s on your screen. | Image: Perplexity Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “answer” engine, has just launched its own web browser. The browser, called Comet, incorporates Perplexity’s AI search tools and assistant in a way that CEO Aravind Srinivas says “transforms entire browsing sessions into single, seamless … Read more

Democratize data for timely decisions with text-to-SQL at Parcel Perform

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This post was co-written with Le Vy from Parcel Perform. Access to accurate data is often the true differentiator of excellent and timely decisions. This is even more crucial for customer-facing decisions and actions. A correctly implemented state-of-the-art AI can help your organization simplify access to data for accurate and timely decision-making for the customer-facing … Read more

Filecoin Rises 4%, Heavy Volume Suggests Institutional Investors Buying

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Filecoin (FIL) posted solid gains during the last 24 hours, rising as much as 4%, a move that reflects heightened institutional interest, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. FIL showed heavy trading volume during the period, with transactions reaching 2.65 million tokens, significantly exceeding the usual 24-hour average of 1.89 million, the model showed. … Read more

Query Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases structured data

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Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) feature that connects large language models (LLMs) to internal data sources. This feature enhances foundation model (FM) outputs with contextual information from private data, making responses more relevant and accurate. At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases support for natural … Read more

Configure fine-grained access to Amazon Bedrock models using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

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Enterprises adopting advanced AI solutions recognize that robust security and precise access control are essential for protecting valuable data, maintaining compliance, and preserving user trust. As organizations expand AI usage across teams and applications, they require granular permissions to safeguard sensitive information and manage who can access powerful models. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio addresses these … Read more