KPMG Says Investor Interest in Digital Assets Will Drive Strong Second Half for Canadian Fintechs

Canadian fintech companies raised $1.62 billion in the first half of 2025, with digital assets and artificial intelligence (AI) startups taking the lion’s share of fresh funding, according to KPMG Canada’s Pulse of Fintech report. While fintech funding slowed globally, Canadian investors maintained steady support for ventures at the intersection of finance and emerging technology. … Read more

Eric Trump Makes Bitcoin Price Predictions as He Reportedly Gets Ready to Visit Metaplanet

Eric Trump is deepening his role in digital assets with reported plans to attend a shareholder meeting in Tokyo, public predictions about bitcoin’s price, and new corporate ventures that extend the Trump family’s crypto push into Asia. Bloomberg reported Friday that Trump will join a Sept. 1 shareholder meeting of Metaplanet, a Japanese company following … Read more

Why LLMs Struggle with Arithmetic Puzzles

:::info Authors: (1) Haolong Li, Tongji Universiy and work done during internship at ByteDance (furlongli322@gmail.com); (2) Yu Ma, Seed Foundation, ByteDance (mayu.1231@bytedance.com); (3) Yinqi Zhang, East China Normal University and work done during internship at ByteDance (zhang.inch@gmail.com); (4) Chen Ye (Corresponding Author), ESSC Lab, Tongji Universiy (yechen@tongji.edu.cn); (5) Jie Chen, Seed Foundation, ByteDance and a … Read more

Testing Large Language Models on Math Puzzles

:::info Authors: (1) Haolong Li, Tongji Universiy and work done during internship at ByteDance (furlongli322@gmail.com); (2) Yu Ma, Seed Foundation, ByteDance (mayu.1231@bytedance.com); (3) Yinqi Zhang, East China Normal University and work done during internship at ByteDance (zhang.inch@gmail.com); (4) Chen Ye (Corresponding Author), ESSC Lab, Tongji Universiy (yechen@tongji.edu.cn); (5) Jie Chen, Seed Foundation, ByteDance and a … Read more

Evaluating Fine-Tuned LLMs on Reasoning Puzzles

:::info Authors: (1) Haolong Li, Tongji Universiy and work done during internship at ByteDance (furlongli322@gmail.com); (2) Yu Ma, Seed Foundation, ByteDance (mayu.1231@bytedance.com); (3) Yinqi Zhang, East China Normal University and work done during internship at ByteDance (zhang.inch@gmail.com); (4) Chen Ye (Corresponding Author), ESSC Lab, Tongji Universiy (yechen@tongji.edu.cn); (5) Jie Chen, Seed Foundation, ByteDance and a … Read more

A Framework for Synthesizing Arithmetical Puzzle Datasets for Large Language Models

:::info Authors: (1) Haolong Li, Tongji Universiy and work done during internship at ByteDance (furlongli322@gmail.com); (2) Yu Ma, Seed Foundation, ByteDance (mayu.1231@bytedance.com); (3) Yinqi Zhang, East China Normal University and work done during internship at ByteDance (zhang.inch@gmail.com); (4) Chen Ye (Corresponding Author), ESSC Lab, Tongji Universiy (yechen@tongji.edu.cn); (5) Jie Chen, Seed Foundation, ByteDance and a … Read more