AI Chatbots Could Quietly Pull Users Away From Reality, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn that prolonged chatbot interactions could distort how some users experience reality and social connection.
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Apple’s newest iPad Air is up to $100 off for the first time
If you want an iPad that’s more powerful than the entry-level model but less expensive than the iPad Pro, the latest iPad Air is the one to buy, and it’s down to one its best prices to date. The 11-inch Air with 128GB of storage and Wi-Fi connectivity is available at Amazon starting at $519.99 … Read more
Here’s How Much Bitcoin Elon Musk Would Control If SpaceX and Tesla Merge
If Tesla and SpaceX merged—as is a reported possibility—then Elon Musk’s combined entity would hold billions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin.
Ethereum Traders Grow Increasingly Bearish as ETFs Bleed, ETH Sinks Near $2,000
Predictors on Myriad are losing faith, believing it’s more likely that Ethereum dumps to $1,500 before a prospective move up to $3,000.
Orca, Streamex roll out secondary trading infrastructure for tokenized securities
Accredited investors can buy and sell the gold-backed GLDY token through permissioned liquidity pools operating on the Solana blockchain.
ElevenLabs, Stability AI Drop New AI Music Models—Can They Catch Suno?
Music v2 brings genre-shifting and section-by-section composition to ElevenLabs. Stable Audio 3.0 ships open weights and six-minute tracks. Is either good enough to dethrone the category leader?
Stop Calling Your LLM Once – Split the Call
Most LLM apps fire one giant prompt and pray. The ones that feel fast in production split the work into a planning call plus parallel per-item expansion. You get three wins for free: a much faster time-to-first-byte, real parallelism, and bug isolation when something breaks. The cost is one extra request. The math almost always … Read more
Marvel Comics Icon Stan Lee Has Been ‘Revived’ With AI Tech—Again
ElevenLabs has licensed Stan Lee’s voice and likeness, adding the late Marvel comic creator to a growing market for AI celebrity replicas.
All the news about Ferrari’s polarizing Luce EV
Ferrari fans don’t like the design of the new Luce EV, an electric four-door sedan that just doesn’t look like the Ferraris of old. It was designed with help from Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, but what worked for Ive at Apple isn’t working for Ferrari. The Luce’s launch immediately preceded a stock drop that even an … Read more
PACs laud Texas primary wins, look to back more pro-crypto candidates
While crypto industry-backed candidates won runoffs in Texas on Tuesday, industry PACs have less of a stake in California races next week.
In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
Building AI agents for business support using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Developing AI agents for business support presents unique challenges that many organizations face when trying to automate routine HR tasks. Works Human Intelligence (WHI) develops, sells, and supports the integrated HR system “COMPANY” for major Japanese corporations and public interest corporations. In this post, we share how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) collaborated … Read more
The new Halide camera app launches with film looks and an upgraded photo editor
Halide Mark III isn’t free, but you can try it out for a week before buying. | Image: Lux Optics After first being announced in December 2024, Lux Optics has finally released the latest version of its Halide camera app for the iPhone and iPad. The Halide Mark III app’s most compelling feature is a … Read more
Facebook launches a ‘Plus’ subscription that gives you extra features
After announcing tests of premium subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp earlier this year, TechCrunch and Bloomberg report that Meta is launching a global rollout over the next few weeks and is also starting to test subscriptions for Meta AI. With the new offerings, Meta joins many other tech companies in changing up its subscription plans … Read more
From data overload to actionable insights: How Verizon Connect scaled agentic AI to 100,000 users
A special thanks goes to the Verizon Connect team who’s been working very hard on the project: Matteo Simoncini, Luca Bravi, Alberto Rossettini, Martin Villarruel, Ceyhun Unlu, Adriel Zuquini, Andrea Benericetti. Fleet managers today face an overwhelming challenge: transforming data overload into actionable insights. When you’re managing thousands of vehicles, each generating hundreds of daily … Read more
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Finance
Let’s learn about Finance via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. “Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.” ― Yuval Noah Harari 1. A Quick … Read more
Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto falls nearly 67% YTD after reverse stock split
The company owns 5,058 Bitcoin, ranking it as the 20th largest publicly traded BTC treasury company, according to data from Bitcoin Treasuries.
Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.
DeepSeek, Xiaomi Just Made Frontier AI 99% Cheaper. American Labs Went the Other Way
Back-to-back price cuts from China’s top AI labs have made their models a fraction of the cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus.
Ether bears at risk of $2B squeeze as short positions build around $2K
Ether futures positioning tightened near $2,000 as rising open interest and dense short liquidity increased focus on a possible squeeze above $2,150.
Wall Street gets new crypto rival after Texas bank completes regulatory pivot
By establishing a national charter under the executive branch, United Texas Bank said it intends to enable AI-driven payment rails to intercept global digital dollar volumes.
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
Cody Miller just after winning $250,000 at the Enhanced Games. In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming … Read more
How AWS SMGS uses an AI-powered conversational assistant to transform business management with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS leaders manage complex data across multiple hierarchies while making time-sensitive decisions that impact global operations. Traditional business intelligence relies on static dashboards and manual reports, which creates delays and limits organizational agility. NarrateAI, our intelligent conversational solution, addresses this through conversational agentic AI powered by our data lake and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Accessible through … Read more
Cash App Now Supports Stablecoins, Despite Bitcoin Maxi Jack Dorsey’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Gripes
Cash App has begun supporting stablecoin transactions on networks including Ethereum and Solana, pushing past its Bitcoin-based roots.
Price predictions 5/27: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, HYPE, ZEC, ADA, XMR
Bitcoin briefly lost the $75,000 level after net flows into spot BTC ETFs turned negative. Do technical charts point to a BTC and altcoin recovery?
Mastercard secures New York BitLicense for crypto operations
The payments giant can now legally conduct digital asset business activity in New York as it deepens its focus on blockchain-based settlement systems.