BIG3 NFT Buyers Sue Ice Cube’s Basketball League Over Alleged Unfulfilled Promises
Investors who purchased BIG3 NFTs expected the perks of team ownership, but allege “deceptive, fraudulent” marketing was at play.
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Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it’s coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday. It’s part of the growing Muse family of AI … Read more
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports
China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.
BlackRock-backed Securitize slides 40% after SPAC debut despite tokenization boom
The decline fits into a pattern of recently-public digital asset companies sliding after debut, Arca’s Jeff Dorman said.
Kraken wins $22M arbitration against former auditor Mazars
The crypto exchange’s parent company says Mazars’ withdrawal from its 2022 audit caused millions in damages and tied the dispute to Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12
Google’s upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.
Radar Chat Wants to Make Sending Bitcoin as Easy as Firing Off a Text
Built on Signal’s open-source technology, Radar Chat combines encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network.
Crypto exchange Kraken is trying to become a bank in Europe
Kraken’s focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app
The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.
X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said in a post on Monday that “[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,” while noting that videos on the platform “make up close to half the impressions on X.” According to Bier, X is launching a … Read more
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USDT wins payments, USDC wins DeFi as stablecoins diverge: Dune
Dune data shows Tether’s USDT has become crypto’s dominant payments stablecoin while Circle’s USDC powers DeFi, highlighting how blockchain choice shapes stablecoin use.
The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car
While the auto industry wrings its hands over the electric vehicle market, sweating details like aerodynamic efficiency and range anxiety, a new EV startup based in Lisbon, Portugal, is zagging in a different direction. Amble’s new electric buggy won’t impress anyone with its 0-60 time or its self-driving features (it has none). Instead, it takes … Read more
ABC tells the government to get out of its newsrooms
ABC is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission after the agency opened an investigation into The View‘s airtime of political candidates. In a letter to the FCC on Tuesday, ABC argues that the agency’s actions pose a risk to editorial independence by targeting programs “perceived as unfriendly to the current administration,” as reported earlier … Read more
Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
Starting Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans “in the coming weeks.” Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, … Read more
Kenya’s Markets Regulator Seeks Blockchain Tool to Track Crypto Crime
The Capital Markets Authority wants to monitor over 20 blockchains for fraud, laundering, and sanctions evasion under Kenya’s new crypto law.
Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others
Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.
Google announces Pixel 11 launch event in August
Google is hosting its next Made by Google launch event for Pixel hardware on August 12th in New York City, according to an invitation sent by Google to The Verge. Unusually, the event is taking place in the evening: It’ll kick off at 6PM ET that day. The email also includes a brief animation teasing … Read more
Wintermute Cautions ‘Relief Rally’ Likely as Bitcoin Touches Highest Price in Weeks
Market maker Wintermute remains cautious, suggesting that recent Bitcoin action is a relief rally rather than a fundamental market change.
Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick
If you’ve been managing Amazon Quick legacy Topics alongside your datasets, you know the challenge: two assets that must stay perfectly synchronized, each with its own permissions, lineage, and versioning. Column synonyms drift. Calculated fields diverge. A rename in the dataset breaks the Legacy Topic silently. You can now use Amazon Quick to embed that … Read more
Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
Business intelligence analysts routinely face the same challenge at the start of every analytics project: the data needed to answer a single business question lives across multiple tables. Sales transactions sit in one place, customer demographics and product attributes in another, while returns, forecasts, and operational metrics occupy still others. Until now, combining these tables … Read more
Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced Amazon Quick Sight Multi-Dataset Relationships and covered the foundational concepts of dimensional modeling, best practices for designing clean data models, and a decision framework for when to use runtime joins versus pre-joined datasets. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, we recommend starting there. In this post, … Read more
Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat
Note: The topics referenced throughout this document refer to the new Topics experience (not legacy Topics). For details on the differences, see Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick. Most real-world business questions span multiple tables. A retailer who wants to understand net revenue by product category must draw … Read more