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.
Elon Musk could become a top 5 corporate bitcoin holder if Tesla and SpaceX merge
CNBC reported Tuesday that Musk is discussing a merger between Tesla and SpaceX that would tie his tech empire closer together and instantly create the world’s fifth-largest corporate bitcoin treasury, worth $3.3 billion.
Powering agentic AI sales strategy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
As agent adoption scaled, we saw a common pattern emerge across enterprises, including our own sales organization: specialized agents deliver value, but without orchestration, users carry the cognitive load of choosing between them. At AWS Sales, this meant more than 20 domain-specific agents deployed across the global organization, with representatives context-switching between systems instead of … Read more
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
With a new $100M raise, Princeton’s Thea Energy is now a top-funded fusion startup
Thea Energy’s pixel-inspired magnets could give its power plant plans a boost. The fusion startup hopes to get a commercial reactor working by 2034.
OpenAI Foundation Pledges $250 Million to Help Cushion AI’s Economic Disruption
The philanthropic arm of ChatGPT maker OpenAI will fund research, worker support, and new models for sharing the gains from automation.
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YouTube Makes AI Content Labels More Prominent as Google Pushes Video Remix Tools
YouTube says new disclosure tools and automatic AI detection will help viewers more easily identify AI-generated videos.