Investor interest in Binance remains high, with former CEO Changpeng Zhao acknowledging the possibility of small-scale investments.
Exclusive Binance Stakes? CZ Signals Potential for Small-Scale Investments
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) dismissed rumors about a potential sale of the cryptocurrency exchange in a post on social media platform X on Feb. 17. Zhao addressed speculation…
Russia Declares SWIFT 'Dying' as Crypto Reshapes Finance
February 18, 2025
Russia claims it can reconnect to SWIFT anytime but questions its relevance as digital finance evolves. Could SWIFT become obsolete as BRICS nations develop alternatives?
Russia Calls SWIFT Obsolete—Is Crypto the Key to the New Financial Order?
Russia claims that it has…
Polymarket Bet Signals 78% Chance for SEC-Approved XRP ETF, Higher Odds for SOL and LTC Funds
February 18, 2025
Based on fresh data from the prediction marketplace Polymarket, there is a 78% probability that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will approve an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) this year.
Wagers Point to High Odds for SEC-Approved XRP, LTC and SOL…
Perplexity has shattered the AI market’s status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool that generates comprehensive research reports in minutes and opens advanced AI capabilities to users at a fraction of typical enterprise costs.
“Thankful for open source! We’re going to keep making this faster and cheaper,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a post on X. “Knowledge should…
Replit and Anthropic’s AI just helped Zillow build production software—without a single engineer
February 18, 2025
Replit has transformed non-technical employees at Zillow into software developers. The real estate giant now routes over 100,000 home shoppers to agents using applications built by team members who had never written code before.
This breakthrough stems from Replit’s new…
Shadow AI: How unapproved AI apps are compromising security, and what you can do about it
February 18, 2025
Security leaders and CISOs are discovering that a growing swarm of shadow AI apps has been compromising their networks, in some cases for over a year.
They’re not the tradecraft of typical attackers. They are the work of otherwise trustworthy employees creating AI apps…
‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3
February 17, 2025
AI reasoning models — those that produce “chains-of-thought” (CoT) in text and reflect on their own analysis to try and catch errors midstream before outputting a response — are all the rage now thanks to the likes of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s “o” series. As posted on the Nous Research account on X and in the firm’s Discord channel, this new open reasoning model is called…
LLMs Power AI: Exploring Transformer Architecture
February 17, 2025
Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image…
AI Agents Are Coming: Decoding Your Personality
February 17, 2025
When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man.
By today’s standards they…
Japan has ordered 17 of the latest variant of the Boeing-manufactured CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter, the company said Thursday. The CH-47 Block II Chinook is an extended-range version of the aircraft that is used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Special Operations Command. Japan is the fourth customer for the new variant.
Germany purchased 60 of the helicopters in a $4 billion deal in 2022, and the U.K.
