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Agentic AI is changing how you work, and vector search powers the retrieval layer that makes agents accurate, contextual, and grounded in real data. Agents plan, reason, and take action across multi-step workflows, making fast, relevant access to your organization’s knowledge essential. That knowledge already has a home across databases, object stores, search engines, and … Read more
Bitcoin punched above $72,000 Thursday, extending a two-day squeeze that’s wiped out the most short positions on record and mounted the first real challenge to a bearish chart that’s held since November.
I’ve been running an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 for the past three months. It writes code, browses the web, manages my email, and even deployed a production SaaS to a DigitalOcean droplet last week. The whole setup costs zero dollars in API fees because every inference runs locally on the Pi itself. … Read more
A new poll showed 63% of 1,166 Americans varied sharply along partisan lines, with a majority of Republicans saying it was appropriate for Trump and his family to invest in crypto.
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives … Read more
The governance vote redirects tokens previously reserved for user airdrops toward partnerships, incentives and Optimism’s growing institutional push.
Bitcoin saw new multimonth highs above $72,500 even as US stocks cooled amid US threats of “economic warfare” with Iran.
Quantum Security You Can Verify, Not Believe: After 74 Days of Post-Quantum Blocks in Production, QoreChain’s QOR Begins Trading on MEXC August 20 While the industry writes quantum resistance into roadmaps, QoreChain points to a transaction hash: the first transfer in blockchain history secured end to end with the complete NIST-standardized post-quantum stack, ML-DSA-87, ML-KEM-1024 … Read more
Google’s new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you’re interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one … Read more
If you manage Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs, you must balance open patient data access with strict data protection requirements. Static security rules require constant updates as clinical workflows evolve, and maintaining them manually creates compliance gaps. With Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides access to foundation models (FMs) through a single … Read more
Bitcoin’s improving momentum could produce a golden cross, but the rally still faces an important test.
Best Buy has a whole host of LG products discounted for today’s Deal of the Day festivities, including laptops, home theater gear, and more. One that stood out is a price cut on LG’s 65-inch B6 OLED TV that’s deeper than I’ve seen before. At Best Buy, it’s $1,399.99 (originally $1,999.99) for the rest of … Read more
Hackathons are THE BEST way to drive real developer engagement and adoption. There’s nothing second to a hackathon when it comes to building developer relations. It’s a win-win recipe where developers win prizes and validation while driving adoption for companies. It’s a win-win: developers get prizes and validation, while companies drive adoption as well as … Read more
Banks are moving deposits on-chain using permissioned systems, not open ones. See why privacy and compliance dictate this path in this week’s newsletter.
Software is completely changing. The cost of building something is a race to zero, but the cost of getting an audience and distribution isn’t getting easier or cheaper. Software was always the hard part and the thing that companies built moats around. If you had an idea, it would take teams of overpaid people to … Read more
We are currently building ROLL Beauty, an app that lets users lean their smartphone against a wall, sit on a chair, and do a full 360-degree rotation in about 8 seconds. Users can then drag through the recording to review their hair from the front, side, and back—making it easy to point out specific angles … Read more
Amazon’s speedy drone delivery service will soon reach 500 cities across the US – but that might just mean there are more pools to drop packages into. On Wednesday, ABC7 News Bay Area shared a video showing an Amazon delivery drone hovering over a customer’s pool in Texas, before opening its hatch and plopping the … Read more
Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city’s service appears to have finally gone fully driverless. Over the past two weeks, all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin monitored by the crowdsourced Robotaxi Tracker were unsupervised, the site’s creator, Ethan McKanna, told The … Read more
At least, if Trump and the CFTC have their way. And the market really, really liked the news.
Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below natural gas.
Scammers are impersonating crypto compliance services to trick users into approving transactions that could put their assets at risk.
USDT is disappearing from regulated European platforms, but there is little sign that it has resulted in weakening global demand for Tether.
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro and Pocket 3, flanking my phone with the Osmosis app. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Even if you love DJI’s drones and cameras, you might not love the company’s bloated closed-source apps that phone home to its cloud servers. But they’re the only way to easily … Read more
Bitdeer expects revenue from the five-year agreement to begin in early 2027 as it builds toward 350 megawatts of AI cloud capacity by 2028.
Plans to rescue NASA’s Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth’s atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft will no longer capture or boost the Swift telescope to a higher altitude due to an ongoing “attitude control issue,” but will instead conduct rendezvous and … Read more
The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.
As a kid, I always imagined the “black market” would be like the movies: Shady vendors hawking illicit goods along dusty streets. But if you want a banned DJI Osmo Pocket 4 or Pocket 4 Pro camera in the US, you can just reach for your phone. They’re on Temu, AliExpress, eBay, Mercari – even … Read more
a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. ‘Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley,” is an advantage, the firm believes.
Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.