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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
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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
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
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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
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
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Altcoin Daily’s Austin Arnold discusses how global events and Trump’s influence are shaping the crypto bull market.
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta laid off 180 employees on Tuesday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch – just over one year after it let go of 400 workers. The company also conducted another workforce reduction in February of 2023 that affected 300 employees. While Okta did not share how many employees it has … Read more
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
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
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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
Berachain will launch its mainnet on Thursday after a year of teasing, with an airdrop of BERA coming for eligible early users.
Game theory helps to explain why early Bitcoin adopters can win big, and why waiting can be a costly mistake.
Defunct robotaxi company Cruise has begun to lay off employees today, sources tell The Verge. The layoffs come two months after General Motors said it would no longer fund Cruise, and would instead shift its spending toward advanced driver assist and personally owned autonomous vehicles. Cruise held an all-hands meeting today, in which it announced … Read more
Fox is getting ready to launch a standalone streaming service by the end of 2025. During an earnings call on Tuesday, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the streaming service would offer a “holistic” streaming package featuring sports and news from the network’s existing brands, according to a transcript. Murdoch positioned the streaming service as a … Read more
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The Switch is on track to complete a major milestone for Nintendo this year. As of the end of 2024, the Nintendo Switch has sold over 150 million units in the eight years since its release. That’s an impressive number, and yet…that’s still not enough to make it the company’s best selling piece of hardware … Read more
Cruise is laying off 50% of its workforce as the robotaxi program ends. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fintech-turned-HR outfit Deel is trying to lay the groundwork for an IPO. On Tuesday, it said its annual revenue run rate climbed to $800 million in 2024 after growing by 70%. The startup, which helps businesses globally hire, manage and pay employees remotely, also said it has sold $300 million in secondary shares to General … Read more
Canadian national Andean Medjedovic has been accused of committing the $48-million exploit on DeFi protocol KyberSwap.
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
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