All future robot vacuums manufactured outside the USA (i.e., all of them) have been banned by the FCC. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone … Read more
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have … Read more
The latest attestation offers a snapshot of the assets backing the world’s largest stablecoin, including U.S. Treasuries, repo agreements, and more than 146 metric tons of gold.
Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis based on family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like paying full fare? Woot has Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for Switch on sale for $52.99 (usually $59.95). Sort of like Animal Crossing, but more off-kilter, this unique game sees you building and managing relationships … Read more
A software bug in popular hardware wallet Coldcard that led to the theft to this point of nearly 600 bitcoin worth roughly $38 million is prompting questions about security and whether managing private keys has become too risky for everyday investors.
Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging‘s Henk van Ess that show “refugees near the Mexican border” and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google responded to Digital Digging‘s AI-altered images, saying, “We … Read more
Several users of the long-defunct crypto exchange reported that distribution agents had begun releasing funds to reimburse creditors for some of their 2022 losses.
Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
Several record labels, including the big three – Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group – have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn’t be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry … Read more
Tether’s reserve surplus grew to $4.11 billion in the second quarter as USDT supply rose despite a weaker stablecoin market and continued pressure across the crypto sector.
From Startup Founder to Enterprise AI Innovator: How Ranjith Singhu Ganapathy Is Driving Modern Enterprise Software and Artificial Intelligence As organizations worldwide accelerate digital transformation through Artificial Intelligence, cloud-native computing, and intelligent automation, the demand for engineers capable of translating emerging technologies into production-ready enterprise solutions has grown significantly. Among the professionals contributing to this … Read more
Eligible retail and institutional users can use tokenized shares of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and three other US companies across Bybit’s trading and lending products.
TIPS data points to rising real yields, not inflation, a dynamic that weighs on non-yielding assets like Bitcoin.
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple’s existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
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Welcome back to Projects of the Week, our weekly look at some of the most interesting products coming out of the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon. Here we feature projects that solve a real problem — through better infrastructure, smarter automation, or a rethink of a workflow everyone tolerates, but nobody likes. This week, three more projects made … Read more
Earlier this year, I launched two websites, remote job boards with almost identical technical setups. One indexed reasonably well. The other was indexed briefly, then almost completely removed from Google. The comparison has changed how I think about launching websites with large numbers of pages. The mistake, I believe, was making too much content indexable … Read more
An AI feature can fail without crashing. The API may return a 200 response. The latency dashboard may remain green. The output may be valid JSON. Nothing appears broken from the infrastructure side. Then a customer reads the answer and realizes it is wrong. This is one of the stranger problems in building AI products. … Read more
Bitcoin saw fresh downside pressure as US stocks tracked sideways into the end of the month, diverging from the relief bounce seen in Asia.
The leading U.S. automakers are mentioning EVs on their investor calls at pre-pandemic rates, according to new data from TechCrunch and Hudson Labs.
Arvind Krishna said quantum computing will begin generating meaningful revenue before the decade ends as investment in the sector accelerates, in an interview on CNBC.
AI data center demand is fueling a multi-year chip shortage, pushing up component costs and retail device prices.
Last quarter, I caught a senior engineer burning through roughly $12 worth of Claude Opus tokens just to format a bash string manipulation script. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Across our engineering team, developers were running AI-powered CLI extensions and IDE plugins with default, hardcoded settings point-blank pointing to the most expensive frontier models available. … Read more
As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenges shift from getting them to work to keeping them fast and efficient. In Part 1 of this series, we walked through debugging two common agent failures: infinite loops and tool invocation errors. Those scenarios dealt with agents that were broken. In this post, we … Read more
The approval comes weeks after Circle won federal approval to establish a national trust bank, adding another license as the USDC issuer expands.
New York is suing Kalshi over claims the prediction market is running “an illegal gambling operation.” In the lawsuit, New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Kalshi of violating state laws by accepting wagers without a license from the state’s gaming commission, as reported earlier by CNBC. An investigation from the Office of the Attorney … Read more
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