Metaplanet Inc. added 696 BTC in Q1 2025, using options to lower acquisition costs. The firm’s total Bitcoin holdings reached 4,046 BTC.
Japan’s Metaplanet Grows Bitcoin War Chest to 4,046 BTC
Japan’s publicly listed bitcoin treasury company, Metaplanet Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3350 / OTCQX: MTPLF), announced on April 1 that it had increased its bitcoin reserves by 696 BTC during the…
Gartner forecasts gen AI spending to hit $644B in 2025: What it means for enterprise IT leaders
April 1, 2025
Make no mistake about it, there is a lot of money being spent on generative AI in 2025.
Analyst firm Gartner released a new report today forecasting that global gen AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025. That figure represents a 76.4% year-over-year increase over gen AI…
$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear
April 1, 2025
In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark…
OpenAI announced plans to release its first “open-weight” language model since 2019, marking a dramatic strategic shift for the company that built its business on proprietary AI systems.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, revealed the news in a post on X on Monday. “We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months,” Altman wrote.
Electric construction equipment is quieter, cleaner, and safer to operate than diesel equipment anywhere, but that’s especially true in crowded urban areas where more people live and work. Charging that equipment isn’t always as easy as driving over to the nearest BP…
The Trump Administration just slapped huge tariffs on imported cars, causing many car buyers to accelerate their purchase plans and snap up a new car now, rather than wait. If that’s you, and you’re one of the thousands looking to distance yourself from Tesla, the time…
Volatility Shares, a prominent exchange-traded fund (ETF) service provider, recently launched two Solana futures ETFs on March 20. The two new funds, the Solana ETF (SOLZ) and the 2x Solana ETF (SOLT), have demonstrated stable early performance. According to Yahoo Finance, these ETFs have recorded average daily trading volumes of approximately 80,000 and 140,000 units, respectively. In monetary…
Elon Musk clarified that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has no plans to integrate Dogecoin into its operations for transparency, despite his personal support for the meme crypto.
Dogecoin vs DOGE: Elon Musk Draws the Line
Elon Musk discussed the potential…
The survey, commissioned by Coinbase and Hashdex, found that while savings accounts were Brazil’s most used investment instrument, cryptocurrency was more popular than other options, including stocks and gold, among Brazilians.
Poll Finds Brazilians Invest More in…
Anthropic scientists expose how AI actually ‘thinks’ — and discover it secretly plans ahead and sometimes lies
March 28, 2025
Anthropic has developed a new method for peering inside large language models like Claude, revealing for the first time how these AI systems process information and make decisions.
The research, published today in two papers (available here and here), shows these models are more sophisticated than previously understood — they plan ahead when writing poetry, use the same internal blueprint to…