kamal Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch. The tie up also marks Volvo’s second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a startup partner. In May 2024, Volvo teamed up with Aurora Innovation to … Read more
Howard Lutnick, the chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald and President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Commerce Secretary, was recently playing defense during another nomination hearing in front of Senate Democrats about the financial services giant’s investment in Tether, the company that issues the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT. Lutnick appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, … Read more
Decentralized lending protocol Aave processed millions in liquidations Monday without accruing any new bad debt, showcasing its resilience during market volatility, data from Chaos Labs shows. The crypto market wilted early Monday, with the price of bitcoin (BTC) falling to nearly $91,000 from $100,000 as concerns of a renewed trade war between the U.S. and … Read more
The Ethereum network’s capacity to handle more transactions increased further late Monday as validators agreed on a gas limit increase for the first time since late 2021, also the first time in the network’s Merge era. The gas limit on Ethereum reached nearly 32 million gas units as of Tuesday morning with a maximum expected … Read more
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Aggarwal is financing the investment in Krutrim largely through his family office, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. In a post on X … Read more
Crypto crashes as US trade war set to begin. Most liquidations ever at $2.3bn. ETH falls 35%, leads losses in majors. BTC dominance nears 4-yr high. February to see $3bn of unlocks led by SOL. Stablecoin TVL hits new record $218bn. HYPE leads altcoins on buybacks from liquidations. Asian crypto stocks plunge, led by Metaplanet. … Read more
Norway-based browser maker Opera on Tuesday launched a new browser called “Opera Air,” which focuses on mental well-being and mindfulness with features like break reminders, breathing exercises, soundscapes, and binaural beats for better focus. The company said that people use browsers for a lot of their work online, and it wanted to ship a browser … Read more
AI is changing how we shop online, making our experiences more personalized. Smart assistants recommend products, negotiate deals, and even handle customer service. Big retailers and smaller businesses are using AI to improve search, supply chains, and checkout. If AI companies (and their investors) have their way, shopping will soon be focused on chatting with … Read more
Bitcoin fails to hold six figures as a fresh round of trade-war posturing begins, but market participants are confident that the worst is over.
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Crypto majors zoomed as much as 20%, before reversing, in the past 24 hours as a buy-the-dip strategy following Monday’s $2.2 billion turned profitable for risk-takers, although gains were wiped as China announced retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. The bump saw a pull back during the Asian morning hours as the deadline for the U.S. … Read more
It’s finally time: after months of teases and rumors, Nintendo has finally revealed the successor to the Switch. A new console generation is always a big deal, but this is an especially pivotal one for Nintendo. Since its debut in 2017, the Switch has become Nintendo’s second-bestselling piece of hardware ever, trailing only the Nintendo … Read more
Tabular data is a broad term that encompasses structured data that generally fits into a specific row and column. It can be a SQL database, a spreadsheet, a .CSV file, etc. While there has been tremendous progress on artificial intelligence applied to unstructured and sequential data, these large language models are fuzzy by design. They … Read more
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China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. The probe by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet … Read more
Onchain value for the real-world asset sector has increased 94% since the same time last year, adding nearly $4 billion in three months.
The recent probe of Crypto.com and Kalshi’s sports contracts all comes down to a single question — are event contracts premised on sports “gaming” within the meaning of the Commodities Exchange Act, said crypto lawyer Aaron Brogan. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is probing the Super Bowl events contracts on Crypto.com and Kalshi, according … Read more
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Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal will testify before Congress on regulators allegedly pressuring banks to cut off crypto.
The US Treasury was accused of unlawfully allowing Elon Musk and his government efficiency organization access to millions of Americans’ personal and financial data.
China has responded with its own tariff measures against some US goods as crypto took another dive early Tuesday.