Month: July 2025

BioSig, Streamex to Raise $1.1B for Gold Tokenization Initiative on Solana

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BioSig Technologies (BSGM), a medical-technology company fresh off a merger with tokenization firm Streamex, said it signed definitive agreements for up to $1.1 billion in financing to fund a gold-backed treasury model and scale its tokenization platform for real-world assets (RWAs) like gold and other commodities. The capital raise includes $100 million in senior secured … Read more

Are Jerome Powell’s Days as Federal Reserve Chair Numbered?

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Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve Chair, faces a fierce barrage from a coalition of high-profile figures threatening his tenure, which extends to May 2026. Over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, congressional allies and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have all … Read more

BTC-Only VC Ego Death Capital Closes $100M Fund for Projects Building on Bitcoin

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Venture capital firm (VC) firm ego death capital, which focuses on Bitcoin BTC (and Bitcoin only)-based projects, has closed its second fund, totaling $100 million. Ego death capital’s Fund II will lead Series A investments of between $3 million-$8 million backing projects building on Bitcoin to solve real-world problems, according to an emailed announcement on … Read more

Accelerating data science innovation: How Bayer Crop Science used AWS AI/ML services to build their next-generation MLOps service

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The world’s population is expanding at a rapid rate. The growing global population requires innovative solutions to produce food, fiber, and fuel, while restoring natural resources like soil and water and addressing climate change. Bayer Crop Science estimates farmers need to increase crop production by 50% by 2050 to meet these demands. To support their … Read more

Combat financial fraud with GraphRAG on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

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Financial fraud detection isn’t just important to banks—it’s essential. With global fraud losses surpassing $40 billion annually and sophisticated criminal networks constantly evolving their tactics, financial institutions face an increasingly complex threat landscape. Today’s fraud schemes operate across multiple accounts, institutions, and channels, creating intricate webs designed specifically to evade detection systems. Financial institutions have … Read more

Classify call center conversations with Amazon Bedrock batch inference

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In this post, we demonstrate how to build an end-to-end solution for text classification using the Amazon Bedrock batch inference capability with the Anthropic’s Claude Haiku model. Amazon Bedrock batch inference offers a 50% discount compared to the on-demand price, which is an important factor when dealing with a large number of requests. We walk … Read more

Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations

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Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Teams communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested feature in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded conversations for Teams users to enable. The Microsoft Teams threads integration debuts in the channels section of the app, where it works a little differently … Read more

NEAR Surges 3% After Testing Key Support at $2.13

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NEAR Protocol rallies 3% in 24-hour session ending July 8 at 14:00 UTC. Token climbs from $2.12 low to $2.19 close. Support holds firm at $2.13 level. Buyers step in during overnight volatility. Volume spikes to 2.55 million units during 01:00-02:00 bounce. Price action confirms $2.13 as critical support zone. Trading range spans $0.07, signaling … Read more

Effective cross-lingual LLM evaluation with Amazon Bedrock

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Evaluating the quality of AI responses across multiple languages presents significant challenges for organizations deploying generative AI solutions globally. How can you maintain consistent performance when human evaluations require substantial resources, especially across diverse languages? Many companies find themselves struggling to scale their evaluation processes without compromising quality or breaking their budgets. Amazon Bedrock Evaluations … Read more

Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

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This post is co-written with Payal Singh from Cohere. The Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now generally available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Embed 4 model is built for multimodal business documents, has leading multilingual capabilities, and offers notable improvement over Embed 3 across key benchmarks. In this post, we discuss the benefits … Read more