Ripple’s latest licensing wins in New York and Texas solidify its position in blockchain-powered payments, enabling compliant, real-time cross-border solutions for growing institutional demand.
Ripple Secures Key Licenses to Strengthen Cross-Border Payments
Ripple has entered 2025 with a strong push to expand its cross-border solutions capabilities, securing Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs) in…
Australian Monochrome Asset Management Files for Litecoin ETF
January 29, 2025
Monochrome Asset Management, an Australian investment firm, has officially filed for a spot Litecoin (LTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) with Cboe Australia. If approved, this would mark the first spot Litecoin ETF in the country, expanding institutional investment…
Block: Jack Dorsey Launches Goose - Open-Source AI Framework
January 29, 2025
The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project.
Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale…
Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen2.5-Max model today, marking the second major artificial intelligence breakthrough from China in less than a week that has rattled U.S. technology markets and intensified concerns about America’s eroding AI leadership.
The new model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 model, which sent Nvidia’s stock plunging 17% on Monday, in several key benchmarks including Arena-Hard…
AI chat firm GameOn couple arrested for defrauding investors of over $60M to finance wedding and more
January 29, 2025
Authorities yesterday arrested GameOn Technology founder Alexander Charles Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman (a married couple) for allegedly defrauding investors of $60 million.
In a 25-count indictment, the U.S. Department of Justice said the couple allegedly…
Researchers at Sakana AI, an AI research lab focusing on nature-inspired algorithms, have developed a self-adaptive language model that can learn new tasks without the need for fine-tuning. Called Transformer² (Transformer-squared), the model uses mathematical tricks to…
President Donald Trump unveiled an ambitious plan to reshape America’s artificial intelligence landscape this week, coupling a massive $500 billion private-sector initiative with sweeping executive actions that strip away regulatory barriers — while simultaneously sparking controversy over both funding claims and environmental concerns.
The centerpiece of Trump’s AI strategy, dubbed…
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
January 28, 2025
As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015.
Yet within the…
Nissan secures batteries for about 300,000 EVs in the US, but when will we see them?
January 28, 2025
Nissan plans to buy 20 GWh of batteries from SK On, enough to power around 300,000 EVs to be sold in the US. However, after delaying EV production in the US again, when will the new EVs finally arrive? Nissan revealed plans to invest $500 million in its Canton, Mississippi…
With 615 horsepower, the Cadillac Lyriq-V is the quickest Caddie to date. Cadillac’s first V-Series EV will outsprint a CT5-V Blackwing, and it can be yours for under $80,000.
The 2026 Lyriq-V EV is the fastest Cadillac ever
We knew it was coming soon. Cadillac teased the Lyriq-V for the first time in late October, giving a sneak peek at its first electric V-Series vehicle.
Cadillac’s…
