Digital Asset Treasury Firms Plunge as Bitcoin Tumbles Below $117K, ETH Slides to $4.4K

Digital asset treasury (DAT) firms, seen as high-beta plays on crypto prices, sold off sharply on Friday as the August crypto rally showed signs of exhaustion. Strategy (MSTR) fell another 3% on Friday, extending its decline to 20% since July’s high and 33% from the November 2024 all-time high. The MSTR/IBIT ratio dropped to 5.43, … Read more

Building a RAG chat-based assistant on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and NVIDIA NIMs

Chat-based assistants powered by Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) are transforming customer support, internal help desks, and enterprise search, by delivering fast, accurate answers grounded in your own data. With RAG, you can use a ready-to-deploy foundation model (FM) and enrich it with your own data, making responses relevant and context-aware without the need for fine-tuning … Read more

Czech Police Arrest Donor in Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Scandal: Report

Czech police have detained convicted drug trafficker Tomáš Jiřikovský, the man behind a multi-billion-dollar bitcoin donation to the country’s Ministry of Justice, escalating a scandal that has already claimed a cabinet minister. The Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday that the National Centre for the Fight Against Organised Crime (NCOZ) intervened in the case, securing … Read more

Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity: Securing agentic AI at scale

We’re excited to introduce Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, a comprehensive identity and access management service purpose-built for AI agents. With AgentCore Identity AI, agent developers and administrators can securely access AWS resources and third-party tools such as GitHub, Salesforce, or Slack. AgentCore Identity provides robust identity and access management at scale so that agents can … Read more

Crypto Hackers Capitalize on ETH Surge, Offloading $72M This Week

Ether’s (ETH) recent rally to $4,780 has delivered a wealth of profits to several high-profile hackers, who have capitalized on the surge by offloading their ill-gotten gains. In three separate case, on-chain data, revealed by X account EmberCN, shows hackers strategically liquidated their ETH holdings for tens of millions in profit. The Radiant Capital exploiter, … Read more

Meet the first batch of VCs set to judge Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Startup Battlefield 200 is the crown jewel of TechCrunch Disrupt. From thousands of applicants, only the top 20 will take the Stage at Disrupt 2025 (October 27–29, San Francisco) to pitch their vision to panels of top-tier VCs in front of a live audience. Every contender is chasing game-changing impact — and we’re here for … Read more