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VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.
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Another 11 companies responded to a survey saying they would consider offering crypto funds once the regulatory environment becomes clear.
Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy as a way to reset the immune system.
Vercel Labs has released Zero, an experimental systems programming language designed so AI agents can read, repair, and ship native programs without requiring human interpretation of compiler output. The language emits JSON diagnostics with stable codes and typed repair metadata,
A7A5, the Russia-linked stablecoin built to move money around banking restrictions, says faster trade settlement, yield and regional crypto infrastructure could keep it relevant even if geopolitical tensions ease.
In this tutorial, we implement SHAP workflows as a practical framework for interpreting machine learning models beyond basic feature-importance plots. We start by training tree-based models and then compare different SHAP explainers, including Tree, Exact, Permutation, and Kernel
Nous Research has published Lighthouse Attention, a selection-based hierarchical attention mechanism that wraps around standard scaled dot-product attention during pretraining and is removed afterward. Unlike prior methods such as NSA and HISA that pool only keys and values, Ligh
Chair Michael Selig has been the agency's sole commissioner since December, with four seats sitting empty, as Trump has not nominated replacements.
The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.
Canary Capital, meanwhile, continues to push forward on its first-of-its-kind staked TRX ETF, also filing an amendment on Friday.
ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.
Running AI agents in a local script is straightforward. Running them reliably in production across teams, across restarts, with isolated environments per context is a different problem entirely. BerriAI, the company behind the LiteLLM AI Gateway, is now open-sourcing a purpose-bu
Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala added over $90 million to its already sizeable position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.
The variety of terrible is impressive. After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn't edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, de
OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
In an interview with CoinDesk, the lead engineer at Firedancer gives an update on how the new client, also known as a software, is fairing in the Solana ecosystem.
DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the 2020 crypto boom. But as hacks evolved and users chased yields over protection, most of the sector collapsed under the same risks it was built to cover.
For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway across crypto: DeFi is no longer primarily battling coding bugs. It’s battling complexity.
The token jumped 5% after a Senate committee moved the market-structure bill forward, reviving hopes that legal clarity can pull deeper institutional money into XRP products.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it's taking this very seriously.
“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.
Researchers from NVIDIA introduce SANA-WM, an open-source camera-controlled world model that generates 60-second, 720p videos with precise 6-DoF camera control — trained on 64 H100 GPUs and deployable on a single RTX 5090. The post NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open
A long-skewed liquidation cascade flushed leverage across the major tokens overnight, with the move tracking a global bond selloff and the worst session for U.S. stocks since March.
In this tutorial, we explore how to use Repowise to build repository-level intelligence for the itsdangerous Python project in a practical and reproducible way. We start with an already cloned repository, configure Repowise using the available LLM credentials, and initialize its
Arkham Intelligence data shows that over $1 billion in bitcoin has left wallets attributed to Bhutan in the past year, flowing to exchanges and trading firms. The country says it has not sold any.
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for l
Universities promise no frontline duty and perks if students enlist in military.
Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
As the Commodity Futures Trading Commission takes on a growing task to police U.S. crypto trading, senior lawmakers are saying it needs bipartisan leadership.
WHO announced today that the operation to safely transfer passengers is complete.
Truncated third season feels rushed, but also gives us a fitting end to a love story for the ages.
In this tutorial, we build a fully functional MCP-style routed agent system from scratch, combining tool discovery, intelligent routing, structured planning, and execution into a single cohesive workflow. We start by setting up a modular tool server that exposes capabilities such
TD Cowen raised the probability of the bill passing to 40% from 33% while Benchmark said the Clarity Act will need more Democratic support.
Jito founder Lucas Bruder told The Block that there's a new class of users coming onchain who "want to trade anything and everything."
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references
Each year, some of the power solar could have produced is blocked by aerosols.
Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.
Zyphra's latest release shows that an autoregressive MoE model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss in evaluation performance. ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview achieves up to 7.7x inference speedup over autoregression by shifting decoding from memory
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company has accelerated plans for its blockbuster public offering, with trading expected to begin as early as June 12 after a faster-than-expected SEC review.
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole gen
Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.
WHO learned of potential cases May 5; US CDC said it just heard about it yesterday.
One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.
The ID. Polo GTI takes plenty of inspiration from the original Golf GTI of 1976.
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the
Limestone might not be the only source for Portland cement.
Bloomberg reported that ICE and CME are pressing for Hyperliquid to register with the CFTC, raising concerns about market stability.
The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our b
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manip
The chairman of droppRWA has secured $12.5 billion in mandates to tokenized real estate and his plans are to go beyond properties to bring trillions of dollars onchain.
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
OpenSea's Adam Hollander sees advancements in AI making it easier for people to make innovative tokenized assets.
The shift comes after the Kelp DAO exploit drained $292 million from its LayerZero-powered bridge, increasing concerns over the security of cross-chain infrastructure.