Donald Trump is clawing back clean energy funding

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 24, 2025. The Trump administration sent a memo instructing federal agencies to pause grant, loan, and other financial assistance programs. It’s a catch-all for a wide range of programs President Donald Trump has crusaded … Read more

Hugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party clouds

AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors including SambaNova to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to run AI models using the infrastructure of their choice. Other partners involved with the new effort include Fal, Replicate, and Together AI. Hugging Face says … Read more

DeepSeek Rattles Markets, FED decision this Week, Abstract Launches Today

BTC dives on DeepSeek’s impact on tech stocks. FOMC this week also blamed for de-risking. Liquidations hit $500m, funding rates flip negative. MicroStrategy buys $1.1bn more BTC. BTC heading for $70-75k: Hayes. BTC dominance rises back to 60%. Elon wants blockchain for government .efficiency. Cheaper LLMs will just lead to more demand: Pal. IBIT applies … Read more

Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

President Donald Trump told reporters that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, Bloomberg reports. Although Trump didn’t elaborate, he stated that “there’s great interest in TikTok” and that there will be “a lot of people bidding on it.” Microsoft and Oracle were in the running to acquire the ByteDance-owned app back in … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP Gains 6.6% as Index Trades Higher

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3796.28, up 3.3% (+120.73) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Seventeen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XRP (+6.6%) and XLM (+5.3%). Laggards: RENDER (-2.7%) and NEAR (-0.7%). … Read more

Coinbase Receives Approval to Expand Services Into Argentina

Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) said it received regulatory approval to offer services to users in Argentina. The company received a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration from Argentina’s National Securities Commission (CNV), it said in a blog post on Tuesday. The expansion is part of the exchange’s mission to increase economic freedom globally. In 2023, … Read more

OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for U.S. government agencies

In a week dominated by headlines about China’s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies … Read more

All the news about EV charging in the US

An EVgo charging station that has each DC fast-charging cable option including CCS, CHAdeMO, and Tesla’s NACS. | Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android … Read more

How Sergey Bunas Built Suggesty and Replai to Transform Customer Engagement

Marketing teams are under growing pressure to engage audiences more efficiently and effectively, as traditional methods of customer engagement are often too slow and resource-intensive to meet the demands of modern businesses. According to a report by Accenture, artificial intelligence could add up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, largely by automating … Read more