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Sol Strategies Bolsters Solana Holdings to Near 190,000 SOL Worth More Than $40M

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Solana-focused Canadian investment company Sol Strategies purchased 40,300 SOL between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, for approximately $9.9 million at an average price of $246.53 per token. The Toronto-based company, which runs three mainnet Solana validators, said that it now holds 189,968 SOL worth roughly $40.89 million purchased at an average price of C$256.21 per … Read more

This Week in AI: Billionaires talk automating jobs away

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Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. You might’ve noticed we skipped the newsletter last week. The reason? A chaotic AI news cycle made even more pandemonious by Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s sudden rise to prominence, and the response from practically ever corner … Read more

An angel investor was so intrigued by this startup, he joined as a co-founder

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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech!  This week we’re looking at a startup out to help people navigate long-term care, a flurry of activity in Africa, another fintech company shutdown, and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The … Read more

Coin3D Delivers Fast, Precise 3D Generation with Strong User Approval

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Works 3 Method and 3.1 Proxy-Guided 3D Conditioning for Diffusion 3.2 Interactive Generation Workflow and 3.3 Volume Conditioned Reconstruction 4 Experiment and 4.1 Comparison on Proxy-based and Image-based 3D Generation 4.2 Comparison on Controllable 3D Object Generation, 4.3 Interactive Generation with Part Editing & 4.4 Ablation … Read more

Orchestrate seamless business systems integrations using Amazon Bedrock Agents

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Generative AI has revolutionized technology through generating content and solving complex problems. To fully take advantage of this potential, seamless integration with existing business systems and efficient access to data are crucial. Amazon Bedrock Agents provides the integration capabilities to connect generative AI models with the wealth of information and workflows already in place within … Read more

China may probe Intel for antitrust: report

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Amid China’s retaliation to recently-announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China’s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. Per … Read more

EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act

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The first compliance deadline kicked in a couple of days ago for the European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based framework for regulating uses of artificial intelligence — banning a narrow selection of so called “unacceptable risk” use-cases of AI, such as social scoring that could lead to detrimental or unfavourable treatment; or harmful manipulation using … Read more

Ethereum’s New Cheerleader on Wall Street: A Q&A With Vivek Raman

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Ethereum is facing an identity crisis. Its native token, ether (ETH), is underperforming against competitors, and longtime builders are beginning to question whether the chain’s technology is falling behind—and if its community is losing focus. The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards Ethereum’s development, has been blamed for many of the network’s struggles. Co-founder Vitalik … Read more

Medieval Scribes May Have Cracked the Secret to Writing Better Code

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Did you know the way we write – with spaces, punctuation, lowercase letters and highlighting headings and title – has its roots in a nearly 1,200-year-old innovation? It might surprise you to learn that this transformation wasn’t about aesthetics but about solving a practical problem: making texts easier to read and share. Making texts legible. … Read more