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CFTC issues warning over risky prediction market ‘mention’ contracts
The warning comes weeks after the CFTC fined a former White House teleprompter operator who made more than $107,000 trading prediction contracts tied to President Trump’s speeches.
OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider … Read more
U.S. regulator warns about cheating risks in ‘mention markets’ on prediction platforms
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a new advisory to flag the unique dangers of markets based on individuals’ behavior.
TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn’t have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.
Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work
Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world’s biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV projects produced in … Read more
UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing a stage with Dario Amodei—who has spent a year calling China’s government the industry’s biggest threat.
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Democrats ‘chose visceral hatred for’ Donald Trump over crypto Clarity Act, Lummis says
Senator Cynthia Lummis said the crypto industry should “pin it on the Democrats” in her first public remarks after last week’s failed Clarity Act vote.
The Real Value of Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t Technology: It’s Cost Reduction
How Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Significantly Reduces Enterprise IT Costs In today’s digital world, business users expect new features and services to be delivered faster than ever before, with minimal risk and within increasingly constrained budgets. Unfortunately, traditional Request-Driven Architecture (RDA) often struggles to meet these expectations. As organizations scale, integration complexity, infrastructure costs, and operational … Read more
$161 Million in Decade-Old Bitcoin Has Moved in Just Two Weeks
Four ancient wallets moved 1,971 BTC between Sept. 6 and Sept. 22, including a 600 BTC transfer worth $51.9 million just hours ago, with three of the four carrying “Noah Doe” lawsuit tags.
Arch Lending eyes tokenized stocks as next collateral market
Arch Lending’s Himanshu Sahay said on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast that the lender plans to move into tokenized equities as onchain stocks gain traction as collateral.
MapReduce: The Abstraction Layer That Still Shapes How AI Workloads Scale
Every large-scale data pipeline faces the same fundamental challenge: how do you process terabytes of data across thousands of machines without drowning in the operational complexity of coordination, failure recovery, and load balancing? In 2004, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat addressed this with their paper “MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters,” published at OSDI … Read more
Republican senator calls for probe into US presidents’ sons, citing crypto ventures
Many Democrats have previously called for investigations into the Trump family’s crypto ventures, but now a Republican is asking for an inquiry based on ties to the presidency.
Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don’t need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 “agentic operating system” runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. According to Rabbit, you can … Read more
Understanding GLiFormer’s Benchmarks and Schema-Driven Extraction
Overview gliformer-large-v1 is a 575.6-million-parameter, Apache-2.0 model from knowledgator for schema-driven information extraction and text representation. It uses a shared DeBERTa encoder with task heads for named entity recognition, classification, joint relation extraction, structured records, and text embeddings. Its layout-aware architecture supports text and document-layout inputs, including PDF-oriented processing, but the published examples and evaluation … Read more
CME Expands Crypto Futures Lineup With Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap
The exchange operator is adding standard and micro contracts for BCH and UNI, extending a pattern of altcoin rollouts that already covers Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui.
Crypto market structure can’t wait for shot at post-election Clarity Act surge: White House
White House and U.S. Treasury officials agree that despite some hope that Congress’ “lame duck” session could see the bill again, the work’s in regulators’ hands.
Edge Computing, The Rise of Decentralized Models, and More
One Unifying Trend: AI Is Fragmenting From Centralized Clouds to Edge‑Centric, Locally‑Controlled Systems Across the day’s headlines—from speculative decoding research to Asian firms releasing “Mythos‑like” models, from Ford’s AI‑driven quality fiasco to open‑source routing tools—the common thread is a clear shift away from monolithic, cloud‑only AI deployments. Companies, governments, and developers are building or demanding … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves – not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi startup called Ceer unveiled a pair of hyper-angular, spaceship-like EVs, with plans to … Read more
Inside Coinbase’s $250 Billion Playbook for Post-Quantum Bitcoin Custody
Head of cryptography Yehuda Lindell says the exchange is designing custody that can adapt to whatever post-quantum signing scheme Bitcoin adopts.
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Motorola’s wild-looking Signature 27 runs Qualcomm’s new Extreme chipset
You couldn’t accuse Motorola of designing a boring phone. | Image: Motorola Motorola is the first company to announce a phone running Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip. The Signature 27 looks set to be Motorola’s most advanced flagship in some years, though we’re still waiting for the full specs, price, and … Read more
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too
The 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 share most of their specs in common. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are … Read more
Canada’s six largest banks explore tokenized Canadian dollar deposits
The country’s largest financial institutions are exploring tokenized deposits for interbank payments, just weeks after regulators clarified how they should be treated.
Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras
Apple’s new texture and grain controls for stylizing photos will be more limited on older phones than initially expected. A confusingly worded press release from Apple indicated that the new features, announced alongside the iPhone 18 and 18 Pro earlier this month, would be “available” on older devices like the iPhone 16 and iPhone Air … Read more
White-Hat Hackers Route Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into ‘Recovery Trust’
Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a “Crypto Recovery Trust,” though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul.