Ethena crosses $500M in cumulative revenue as synthetic stablecoins gain ground
While the overall stablecoin market is up 4% in August, some synthetic stablecoins, such as Sky Dollar and Falcon USD, have had even more substantial gains.
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Bitcoin Investor Loses $91 Million to Social Engineering Scam: ZachXBT
Social engineering scams strike again as a Bitcoin investor loses $91 million. Here’s how it went down, according to an on-chain sleuth.
Moon or Doom: XRP Market Flips Bearish—Is It Over?
Market sentiment on XRP has flipped, with bears now leading the way. Can XRP regain support, or is it headed back down to $2?
Fine-tune OpenAI GPT-OSS models using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
This post is the second part of the GPT-OSS series focusing on model customization with Amazon SageMaker AI. In Part 1, we demonstrated fine-tuning GPT-OSS models using open source Hugging Face libraries with SageMaker training jobs, which supports distributed multi-GPU and multi-node configurations, so you can spin up high-performance clusters on demand. In this post, … Read more
Trump-Backed World Liberty Gets Coinbase Approval With USD1 Stablecoin Listing
Coinbase is listing USD1 from President Trump’s World Liberty Financial, letting U.S. users access another stablecoin besides USDC and USDT.
Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine
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🚨 The Last Human Bastion Fell: GPT-5 Just Redefined Discovery with Original Math
For centuries, mathematics was humanity’s untouchable domain. Machines could crunch numbers. They could simulate scenarios. But only humans could create – crafting proofs that pushed the boundaries of truth. Until now. In a seismic, under-the-radar moment, GPT-5-Pro shattered that bastion. It didn’t just solve an open problem – it delivered a novel proof. Not a recycled answer. … Read more
Longtime Bungie head Pete Parsons steps down
Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he’s leaving the company one decade after taking on the role. In an update on Thursday, Parsons wrote that he has “decided to pass the torch” to longtime Bungie developer Justin Truman. Parsons has worked at Bungie for over 20 years and led the studio through the launch … Read more
Singapore Bank DBS Debuts Tokenized Structured Notes on Ethereum
The bank joins a list of financial services firms that have debuted or are considering stablecoin initiatives.
Microsoft’s new NFL deal could let you blame Copilot AI for terrible playcalls
The NFL and Microsoft have extended their arrangement that makes Surface tablets a familiar fixture on gameday sidelines, but naturally, now there’s an AI-powered twist on top. While Tom Brady is no longer actively putting those slates in danger of destruction, they do have something to offer to coaches and players. Microsoft touts a GitHub … Read more
As India bans real-money games, Dream Sports, MPL start pulling the plug
Several Indian startups, including Dream Sports, MPL, and Zupee, are shutting down their real-money games after parliament passed a bill banning such games.
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From the Big Bang to Superintelligence: A Story of Inevitability
The AGI debate, end of work or end of the world, is exaggerated. Not that it won’t happen. It is a physical certainty. But we need not worry. Much. The blue hive we call Earth is a buzz. Could it be that we, the busy bees, have become so smart that we are on the … Read more
Why VivoPower Wants Ripple Shares at a Discount to Its XRP Holdings
VivoPower, which has pivoted away from its sustainable energy focus to build an XRP treasury, is trying to gain ownership of Ripple shares.
US OCC terminates 2022 order targeting Anchorage Digital over AML
The financial regulator said the bank’s “compliance with laws and regulations does not require the continued existence of the order,” first issued in April 2022.
Inline code nodes now supported in Amazon Bedrock Flows in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of support for inline code nodes in Amazon Bedrock Flows. With this powerful new capability, you can write Python scripts directly within your workflow, alleviating the need for separate AWS Lambda functions for simple logic. This feature streamlines preprocessing and postprocessing tasks (like data normalization and … Read more
Accelerate enterprise AI implementations with Amazon Q Business
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise customer, you’re probably exploring ways to use generative AI to enhance your business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. With a variety of options available—from Amazon Q Business to other AWS services or third-party offerings—choosing the right tool for your use case can be challenging. This post … Read more
Bitcoin’s $13.8B options expiry puts bulls on edge ahead of key test
Bitcoin’s options expiry and tech-sector pressures will determine if the bull run truly ended or just took a pause.
Bitcoin, Ethereum Sink as Fed’s Hammack Makes Case for Holding Interest Rates Steady
The speech could be followed by “cautiously hawkish” remarks from Jerome Powell tomorrow, according to Bitwise’s Juan Leon.
Speed up delivery of ML workloads using Code Editor in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is a single integrated development environment (IDE) that brings together your data tools for analytics and AI. As part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, it contains integrated tooling for building data pipelines, sharing datasets, monitoring data governance, running SQL analytics, building artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models, and … Read more
Ethereum Meme Coin Pepeto (PEPETO) Could Deliver Higher Returns Than DOGE In 2025
Pepeto (PEPETO) is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about projects heading into the 2025 bull run, positioning itself as a direct challenger to Dogecoin (DOGE). Unlike coins built only on hype, Pepeto runs fully on Ethereum, not on a Layer-2, and is backed by working products such as a zero-fee trading exchange, … Read more
Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.
Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate projects.
Gas power plants approved for Meta’s $10B data center, and not everyone is happy
Meta’s massive data center will draw power from three gas-fired power plants producing 2.25 gigawatts.