UPDATE: Content creator DanieltheDemon has spoken publicly for the first time after his likeness was used in an TikTok ad promoting The First Descendant.
Commenting on a TikTok video about the adverts posted by Game Central, DanieltheDemon wrote: “I have no affiliation nor contract with The First Descendant. They stole my face/reactions from my most viral video and used AI to change what my…
Treasury Secretary Confirms US to Acquire Bitcoin for Reserve via Budget-Neutral Tactics
August 19, 2025
After stating the U.S. government won’t buy bitcoin, the Treasury chief now clarifies plans to expand the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using budget-neutral strategies that avoid new spending.
US Eyes Budget-Neutral Bitcoin Acquisition to Expand Strategic Reserve, Treasury…
Latam Insights Encore: Examining the Case for XRP in Latam
August 19, 2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. In this edition, we examine how XRP has evolved from being just a remittance tool to becoming one of the preferred assets in Latam’s portfolios…
The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails
August 19, 2025
OpenAI’s GPT-5 has arrived, bringing faster performance, more dependable reasoning and stronger tool use. It joins Claude Opus 4.1 and other frontier models in signaling a rapidly advancing cognitive frontier. While artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains in the future, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has described this era as “10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10…
Enterprises seem to accept it as a basic fact: AI models require a significant amount of compute; they simply have to find ways to obtain more of it.
But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Sasha Luccioni, AI and climate lead at Hugging Face. What if there’s a…
If you had told me back when I was in high school that I would one day be shouting at large groups of people, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. But my decision to pick up a camera hasn’t just given me the ability to freeze time – it has given me the confidence to…
Sony dominates EISA Awards with Lens of the Year
August 19, 2025
Sony’s winning streak at the 2025 EISA Awards didn’t stop with the cameras.
After taking Camera of the Year for the Sony A1 II, it also claimed Lens of the Year with the FE 50–150mm f/2 GM – a fast telephoto zoom designed to deliver prime-like sharpness and creamy bokeh across its entire focal range. Whether you’re covering a football match or isolating a subject in a busy street scene…
Let’s be honest: everyone wants to look their best. When you wake up in the morning, you rub the sleep out of your eyes, remove anything green dangling from your nose and brush your teeth (or at least, I hope you do).
If your eyes are bloodshot, you might use eye…
Could this wargame shape the future of the Space Force?
August 19, 2025
Lessons learned from the Space Force’s Schriever Wargame, which will wrap up Thursday, could shape the service’s future capabilities.
The two-week event, held at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, gathered more than 350 participants from U.S. industry and allied…
What to know about Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump
August 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine.
Months of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting haven’t made headway, but the stakes have risen since Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. After that summit, Trump…
