Retrieval-Augmented Generation fails most often not because LLMs “hallucinate,” but because retrieval pipelines return incomplete, stale, or irrelevant context—due to weak chunking, naive ranking, missing metadata/ACLs, and lack of evaluation—so reliable RAG requires treating it like search + ETL with rigorous instrumentation, hybrid retrieval, rerankers, confidence thresholds, and continuous evals.
By combining multi-scene image generation, open-source image models, and low-cost LLM prompt optimization, this project cut AI video generation costs by over 7x without sacrificing quality.
Even though the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates was widely expected, geopolitical tensions and a rotation into haven assets left crypto traders facing a sea of red.
Plaintiffs say insiders sold millions of dollars’ worth of tokens immediately after Cere’s 2021 ICO, sending prices into a near-total collapse.
Heavy outflows from Bitcoin ETFs have diminished, putting BTC price in a better position to overcome the next hurdle at $93,000.
Hong Kong-listed OSL Group plans acquisitions and global expansion after securing fresh capital to scale its stablecoin and digital payments business.
Solana’s validator count has dropped 68% since 2023 as rising costs and zero-fee competition push smaller node operators offline.
The Tokyo-based bitcoin treasury company secures fresh capital through a share and warrant issuance.
An in-depth look at database and cache internals, and the tradeoffs in each. ScyllaDB would like to publicly acknowledge dormando (Memcached maintainer) and Danny Kopping for their contributions to this project, as well as thank them for their support and patience. Engineers behind ScyllaDB – the database for predictable performance at scale – joined forces with Memcached maintainer dormando … Read more
Renew will lead the digital asset payments firm, with co-founder Oliver Tonkin moving into a newly created president role.
HERMES shows that real-time video AI fails not from lack of memory, but from storing everything equally. By hierarchically compressing older context while preserving recent detail, it enables faster, more accurate streaming video understanding.
Take a Message and next-gen Call Screen features are being disabled on Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 devices. Google is disabling some Phone app features on older Pixel devices after acknowledging a bug that inadvertently leaked audio to callers. The issue has specifically been linked to the Take a Message feature released last year, which … Read more
Metaplanet said proceeds will be used for Bitcoin purchases, its Bitcoin income business, and partial debt repayment as it executes its capital strategy.
For most of the internet era, educational technology followed a familiar pattern: digitize the textbook, put worksheets on a screen, maybe add a video. The goal was efficiency. Faster distribution. Easier grading. More content, more quickly. But that model is starting to feel dated. Today’s learners don’t just want information delivered. They expect to interact … Read more
Trump-linked stablecoin USD1 is surging on institutional adoption, while the U.S. President’s official meme coin reels from waning hype.
Most invested bitcoin supply sits above current prices, increasing price vulnerability if key support levels fail.
The exchange is working with local banks like Pave Bank to enable fiat-to-crypto conversions and encourage digital asset adoption.
Regulators gain wider discretion to vet shareholders, finances and controls as South Korea tightens crypto market access.
Victoria, Seychelles, January 29, 2026 MEXC, the fastest-growing global cryptocurrency exchange, redefining a user-first approach to digital assets through true zero-fee trading, today reported significant growth in precious metals futures trading, with gold futures market share reaching 47% on January 25, 2026, and single-day trading volume hitting $555 million. MEXC’s GOLD Futures market share grew … Read more
AIOZ Pin replicates data into multiple, independent copies that are tamper-proof—meaning it will stay accessible for years to come.
Victoria, Seychelles, January 29, 2026 MEXC, the fastest-growing global cryptocurrency exchange, redefining a user-first approach to digital assets through true Zero-Fee trading, today released its 2025 Zero-Fee Strategy Annual Report. The ongoing commitment not only saved users a total of 1.1 billion USDT in fees but also bolsters both mainstream growth and emerging asset visibility, … Read more
Byline: Keith Belanger AI projects have a way of surfacing data problems that data teams used to be able to work around. That’s because analytical data allowed for a wide margin of error, and AI simply doesn’t. AI models don’t tolerate ambiguity, and decisions made at machine speed magnify every flaw hiding upstream. What once … Read more
LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 combines multiple pre-training strategies with scaled reinforcement learning to build AI models that reason effectively without wasting computational resources.
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Crypto exchange Bybit said its new “My Bank” accounts will give users personal IBANs, instant fiat access, multi-currency transfers and crypto trading under their own name.
Qwen3-TTS converts speech into discrete tokens so language models can generate audio the same way they generate text, enabling efficient, real-time text-to-speech with clear quality–speed tradeoffs.
Gold and other hard assets are rallying on dollar weakness, but bitcoin is lagging as markets continue to treat it as a liquidity-sensitive risk asset.
Hang Seng plans to offer tokenized gold fund units recorded on public blockchains, though the product remains subject to regulatory approval and will not trade on secondary markets.