Month: September 2025
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Avalanche (AVAX) Rises 6.6% as Index Climbs Higher
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4164.74, up 1.8% (+73.5) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Nineteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+6.6%) and SOL (+3.1%). Laggards: POL (+0.0%) and AAVE (+0.4%). … Read more
RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing
A new system called Real Simple Licensing would allow AI companies to license training data at a massive scale — if they’re willing to pay for it.
Bubblemaps alleges largest Sybil attack in crypto history on MYX airdrop
Bubblemaps flags 100 wallets that claimed 9.8 million MYX tokens worth around $170 million, calling it the “biggest airdrop Sybil of all time.”
Grammarly now offers spelling and grammar check for five more languages
Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is now expanding the scope of these features to support five new languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian.
This app just raised $14M to take on the loneliness epidemic
Clyx is social platform that helps users find IRL community events to join.
AI gaming startup Born raises $15M to build ‘social’ AI companions that combat loneliness
Born, maker of cute virtual pet Pengu, believes the current chatbot landscape isn’t the final form factor for AI friends. The Berlin-based startup raised $15M on the idea that AI companions should have a social component.
Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public
But it’s not quite a commercial service just yet. These rides are free — for now.
Lyft and May Mobility launch robotaxis in Atlanta
Lyft is trying to carve out a presence in the autonomous vehicle market. But the ride-hailing company still lags far behind Uber.
Rendezvous Robotics exits stealth with $3M to build reconfigurable space infrastructure
Rendezvous Robotics wants to scale the space industry by changing the way structures are built on orbit.
Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 5080 is better and worse than I hoped
Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud – upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself, … Read more
Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar
For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This expansion caters to what has been the “number … Read more
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape … Read more
Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las Vegas
Amazon’s Zoox announced today that it’s making its robotaxis available to all customers in Las Vegas. The company says it is the first to operate with a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in public service. And the news comes a few weeks after federal regulators gave the company the green light to expand the use of its … Read more
The GENIUS Act Won’t Save the Dollar
Washington’s GENIUS Act has crypto advocates celebrating clear stablecoin regulation. Politicians tout it as cementing dollar dominance for decades. The financial press frames it as America’s masterstroke against competing currencies. They’re all missing the point. The GENIUS Act didn’t create a protective moat around the dollar. It handed every other nation a blueprint for building … Read more
Binance, Franklin Templeton Join Forces to Expand Digital Asset Products
Binance and Franklin Templeton are teaming up to build digital asset products that aim to bridge the gap between traditional markets and crypto. The two firms will combine Franklin Templeton’s work in tokenizing securities with Binance’s trading infrastructure and global investor base, according to the Tuesday statement. The focus of two firms’ tokenization efforts are … Read more
Bakkt Rated Buy With 44% Upside on Stablecoin Growth Potential: Clear Street
Clear Street initiated coverage of Bakkt (BKKT) with a buy rating and a $14 price target, implying 44% upside after a steep year-to-date decline, the broker said in a research report Tuesday. The shares have fallen over 60% this year versus an 11% gain for the S&P 500 stock index. The stock was 0.7% higher, … Read more
Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits
Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it’s removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages — located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile — … Read more
Chainlink Co-Founder Teases Future Collabs with Trump Admin
Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov discusses his company’s recent partnerships and engagements with the White House, SEC, and Commerce Department, and the role Chainlink may soon play in bringing Wall Street, the federal government, and even voting on-chain.
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Morning Minute: Democrats Want A Seat at the Crypto Table
Republicans should meet them in the middle, to avoid major risk of reversals and clawbacks in a potential 2028 change of power.
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Computational Hardness of Random CNP Instances
Table of Links I. Introduction II. Spim Performance, Advantages and Generality III. Inherently Low Rank Problems A. Properties of Low Rank Graphs B. Weakly NP-Complete Problems and Hardware Precision Limitation C. Limitation of Low Rank Matrix Mapping IV. Low Rank Approximation A. Decomposition of Target Coupling Matrix B. How Fields Influence Ran C. Low Rank … Read more
Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen
TwinMind, available on Android and iOS, passively captures background audio to gain context and deliver on-the-go summaries.
Uber will add Blade’s helicopters to its platform as early as 2026
The move comes just one month after Uber partner Joby acquired Blade’s passenger business.
SEC chair says most tokens are not securities, backs ‘super-app’ platforms
The SEC’s Paul Atkins unveils Project Crypto, proposing one regulatory framework for trading, lending and staking digital assets.