MSTR vs. BTC
After the election, as everyone except for muggles know, the price of BTC rallied to all time highs (ATH) just short of $100,000. At the time of this writing, it’s hovering around $98,000. An interesting question then is: what happened to Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy (MSTR) during this period? The publicly traded stock, synonymous with its … Read more
Building Generative AI and ML solutions faster with AI apps from AWS partners using Amazon SageMaker
Organizations of every size and across every industry are looking to use generative AI to fundamentally transform the business landscape with reimagined customer experiences, increased employee productivity, new levels of creativity, and optimized business processes. A recent study by Telecom Advisory Services, a globally recognized research and consulting firm that specializes in economic impact studies, shows that … Read more
Self-Funding Harberger Taxes
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EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax
The European Union is drowning under cheap packages coming from Asian online retailers, starting with ultra low-cost e-tailers AliExpress, Shein and Temu. The Financial Times has learned that the EU is considering a crackdown on such imported goods due to safety and counterfeiting concerns. The issue is there are currently no custom duties on goods … Read more
Crypto Options: A Key Tool for Institutions Navigating Volatility and Yield
As the cryptocurrency market matures, driven by growing institutional, corporate, and possibly governmental adoption, the role of the crypto options market is becoming increasingly crucial. This segment helps investors deploy tailored strategies for hedging, leverage, and yield generation while providing deeper insights into market sentiment. Crypto options markets are primarily divided into centralized exchanges and … Read more
Frère’s fashion brand is upgrading the ‘tech bro’ look
What do Tim Cook, Jay Z, and Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, all have in common? That would be their interest in Frère, a bespoke ready-to-wear clothing brand that has attracted names all over the tech world. The brand, which only launched in March, is opening its first store in New York’s SoHo. Frère is … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin Praises Bitcoin: ‘Who Can Ban It? Nobody’
Vladimir Putin has spoken about digital assets again, this time saying—amid ongoing sanctions against Russia—that Bitcoin cannot be banned.
Fireblocks unveils Uniswap and Aave compatibility improvements
Aside from privacy concerns, complexity and poor user interface remain the biggest barriers to entry for institutions entering Web3.
Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Meta is turning to nuclear energy to power its AI ambitions with the release a request for proposals to partner with nuclear energy developers. It’s the latest announcement in a string of recent deals Big Tech companies have made to secure nuclear energy for their data centers. Developing new … Read more
AWS makes its SageMaker HyperPod AI platform more efficient for training LLMs
At last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon’s cloud computing unit launched SageMaker HyperPod, a platform for building foundation models. It’s no surprise then that at this year’s re:Invent, the company is announcing a number of updates to the platform, with a focus on making model training and fine-tuning on HyperPod more efficient and cost-effective for … Read more
AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform
SageMaker has long been AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI models. Over time, however, an ecosystem of applications has sprung up around AI and ML models for performing tasks like managing experiments, evaluating model quality and security. Those always lived outside of SageMaker and had to be … Read more
Meta jumps aboard the nuclear-powered data center bandwagon
Meta wants nuclear power developers to help it build 1 to 4 gigawatts of new electricity generating capacity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The new Gundam anime looks great and sounds like it was named by a cat on a keyboard
Sunrise/Khara There’s a new Mobile Suit Gundam show right around the corner, and while Bandai hasn’t revealed much about its story, its production studio and creative team bode very good things for the project. Sunrise has collaborated with Khara, the Hideaki Anno-founded studio behind the Rebuild of Evangelion films, to produce Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, … Read more
Step-by-Step: Building a REST API That Talks to Hugging Face Models
There are plenty of ways to integrate an AI model in your code. But sometimes, when you start, it is really hard to pick one. That’s why, I decided to share my experience in going through this path. In this article we will: Get familiar with the Hugging Face platform Explore the basics of Inference … Read more
ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users
Image: The Verge ChatGPT now has over 300 million people using the AI chatbot each week. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the milestone during The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, which comes just months after ChatGPT hit 200 million weekly users in August. “Our product has scaled … now we have more than … Read more
Is the US gov’t poised to add Bitcoin to its National Reserve?
In our latest Cointelegraph video, we break down the odds of a Bitcoin reserve being created in the US next year and its potential impact on prices.
Threads tests a way to hide your replies from your profile
Instagram Threads, Meta’s competitor to Elon Musk’s X, is testing a way to make your replies to others’ posts less visible on the platform. The company is adding a new privacy feature that allows you to customize your profile to remove the tab that displays your replies. This leaves only the two tabs that show … Read more
Haunted Graveyards in Consulting
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Botanix Labs’ Mission to Bring Bitcoin to Defi Moves to Final Testnet Phase
Botanix Labs, the developer of Bitcoin layer-2 network Spiderchain, which aims to advance the possibilities of decentralized finance (DeFi) on the world’s original blockchain, has moved to its final testnet phase ahead of a 2025 mainnet debut. The testnet, known as Aragog, introduces tools that will form the basis for the mainnet’s DeFi offering, such … Read more
Misinformation researcher admits ChatGPT added fake details to his court filing
Image: The Verge A misinformation expert accused of using AI to generate a legal document admitted he used ChatGPT to help him organize his citations, leading to “hallucinations” that critics said called the entire filing into question. Jeff Hancock, the founder of the Stanford Social Media Lab who wrote the document, says the errors don’t … Read more
2024 in review: AI
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In 2024, you couldn’t escape hearing about AI. From smartphones to wearables to the smart home, it seemed every tech company wanted to pitch their next great AI innovation. The year was filled with impressive technological leaps and useful new tools, endless hype and frequent misfires, and … Read more
DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute
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Is the ‘memecoin supercycle’ over already? Analysts weigh in
Many memecoiners thought retail investors would fall head over heels for memes, but they appear to be more interested in “dino coins” like XRP and TRX.
Instagram now lets creators enable replies in Broadcast Channels
Meta is updating its Broadcast Channels feature on Instagram in an effort to make it easier for creators to collaborate with their followers, the company announced on Wednesday. Up until now, viewers could not respond to a creator’s post in a Broadcast Channel, and were limited to emoji reactions. Now, the company is giving creators … Read more
IcomTech promoter sentenced to 10 years in prison
The judge ordered David Brend to report to a federal prison in Florida by Dec. 16 to serve his 120-month sentence.