According to an operations and production update from MARA Holdings, a publicly traded bitcoin mining company, the firm has extended 7,377 BTC in loans to third parties to achieve a modest yield.
‘Significant Interest’ — MARA Holdings Explains Bitcoin Lending Program
MARA Holdings (Nasdaq: MARA), a prominent bitcoin miner, has disclosed updates on its BTC production and mining operations…
Dogecoin Dives Into Treasury Strategy: Spirit Blockchain Capital Targets Yield on DOGE Holdings
January 6, 2025
This week, Spirit Blockchain Capital unveiled a strategic plan to earn returns on its holdings of dogecoin (DOGE). The firm acquired Dogecoin Portfolio Holdings Corp. last November, aiming to offer exposure to DOGE and committing to digital asset adoption.
Spirit…
Lido’s Stronghold Slips: 160,000 ETH Exits as Binance’s Liquid Staking Platform Gains Traction
January 6, 2025
In October 2024, the volume of ethereum locked into liquid staking platforms surpassed the 14 million ether threshold. However, as of 2025, the total ETH held in these protocols has fallen below the levels recorded at the end of November. As of Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025…
Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI
January 3, 2025
Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but was pegged by reports at $700 million when Nvidia first reported its intent to close the deal in April. Run:ai posted the deal news on its website today and also said that…
Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration
January 3, 2025
In the tech world, we like to label periods as the year of (insert milestone here). This past year (2024) was a year of broader experimentation in AI orchestration and, of course, agentic use cases.
As 2025 opens, VentureBeat spoke to industry analysts and IT decision-makers…
Inside the AI agent revolution: How data-driven automation transformed the enterprise in 2024
January 3, 2025
If 2023 was the year of generative AI-powered chatbots and search, 2024 was all about AI agents. What started from Devin earlier this year grew into a full-blown phenomenon, offering enterprises and individuals a way to transform how they work at different levels, from…
The Air Force will set a new path for how it will fight air wars during the first year of the next Donald Trump presidency, which will have ramifications for decades to come. The Air Force struggled for much of 2024 to figure out how — and even whether — to proceed with its planned sixth-generation fighter, known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD.
But NGAD’s original anticipated cost…
The Navy and Air Force are now cleared to resume flying their grounded V-22 Ospreys after conducting inspections on a crucial gearbox in the tiltrotor aircraft, and some are already back in the air.
The military temporarily stopped flying some Ospreys on Dec. 9 after a near…
Outgoing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Thursday downplayed Elon Musk’s recent pronouncements that crewed fighters are obsolete in the era of drones, and suggested the billionaire industrialist learn more about the military.
“I have a lot of respect for Elon Musk…
Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase
January 3, 2025
Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.
Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”
Qualified foreign workers need to be…
