Thailand Offers $1B Tax Break for Firms Issuing Investment Tokens: Reuters
The waiving of corporation and sales taxes targets companies that issue digital tokens for investment
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Investment Firm Republic Purchases 10M Astra Protocol Tokens in New Deal
The fixed supply utility token will be locked for compliance usage.
Crypto Mining Rig Maker Canaan’s Q4 Revenue Sunk 82% to $56.8M
The firm reported Q4 net loss per ADS of 38 cents compared to $1 for the same period in 2021.
DeFi Protocol Tender.fi’s TND Token Plunges and Then Rebounds After White Hat Hack
A white hat hacker borrowed $1.59 million in assets despite depositing one GMX token.
Ether Call Options Look Attractive Relative to Bitcoin as Volatility Spread Dwindles: Matrixport
Crypto services provider Matrixport suggests collecting premium by selling bitcoin call options and using the same to fund the purchase of ether calls.
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FTX Bankruptcy Special Counsel, Advisers Bill $38M for January
FTX’s bankruptcy proceeding has teams of lawyers, investment bankers, consultants, and financial advisers working on the case.
Dapper Removes ACH Withdrawal Option, Citing Circle
Wire transfer and USDC remain an option for Dapper users.
Voyager Bankruptcy Judge Expresses Skepticism Over U.S. SEC Objection to Binance US Deal
Judge Michael Wiles of the Southern District of New York questioned a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney over the agency’s concerns that Binance US may be operating an unregistered securities exchange.
First Mover Asia: Filecoin Struggles Amid China Exposure, Cost of Subsidy Concerns
A large footprint in China, which creates skepticism about data safety, and a heavy subsidy spend, means Filecoin needs more than a token rally to be sustainable.
Silvergate’s Struggles Will Likely Boost Stablecoins’ Role in Crypto Trading: Kaiko
Ailing crypto-friendly bank Silvergate closed its instant settlement SEN platform last week, which has been a key on-ramp for institutional crypto investors to transfer U.S. dollars to exchanges.
Yuga Labs’ Bitcoin NFT Collection Fetches Top Bid of Nearly $160K
The company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club released its 300-edition TwelveFold NFT collection on the Ordinals protocol.
Bitcoin Continues Trading Sideways at $22.4K as Silvergate Concerns Mount
BTC has traded in a narrow range since it dropped sharply last Thursday as Silvergate’s woes grew increasingly apparent.
Hermès Asks Court for Control Over MetaBirkin NFTs
The French luxury house has filed an order asking for control of the MetaBirkins smart contract, social media handles and royalties.
Training large language models on Amazon SageMaker: Best practices
Language models are statistical methods predicting the succession of tokens in sequences, using natural text. Large language models (LLMs) are neural network-based language models with hundreds of millions (BERT) to over a trillion parameters (MiCS), and whose size makes single-GPU training impractical. LLMs’ generative abilities make them popular for text synthesis, summarization, machine translation, and … Read more
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How the Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions
Memory and perception seem like entirely distinct experiences, and neuroscientists used to be confident that the brain produced them differently, too. But in the 1990s neuroimaging studies revealed that parts of the brain that were thought to be active only during sensory perception are also active during the recall of memories. “It started to raise … Read more
What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?
Many years ago, I learned to program on an old Symbolics Lisp Machine. The operating system had a built-in command spelled “DWIM,” short for “Do What I Mean.” If I typed a command and got an error, I could type “DWIM,” and the machine would try to figure out what I meant to do. A … Read more
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
There are times and places in the universe that experiments cannot reach, and may never be able to reach. What exactly goes on inside black holes, and what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, are matters of pure theoretical speculation. For two decades, Silke Weinfurtner, a physicist at the … Read more
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.
It’s often subtle at first. A lost phone. A forgotten word. A missed appointment. By the time a person walks into a doctor’s office, worried about signs of forgetfulness or failing cognition, the changes to their brain have been long underway — changes that we don’t yet know how to stop or reverse. Alzheimer’s disease, … Read more