Kaiko, a leading cryptocurrency market data analytics firm, has found that cryptocurrency users in Latin America prefer stablecoins over bitcoin. In its most recent Latam market report, issued in June, Kaiko determined that 40% of the trading volumes involved Tether’s USDT. This preference exists even though Bitcoin’s proposition includes protection against the currency debasement processes…
Marathon Digital’s CEO has shared his insights on the future of the crypto industry and the potential impact of the upcoming presidential election. The executive observed that the Biden administration has historically been hostile to bitcoin and crypto through its various…
Is AI bullshit? Here’s how to find out
June 24, 2024
Even as tech leaders and visionaries such as Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jodi Baxter, Debashree D. and others have attested to the potential generative AI has to remake the world, ordinary users have proven more skeptical. In addition, OpenAI…
OpenAI is moving to strengthen its technology stack. The company today announced it has acquired Rockset, a vendor known for providing a real-time analytics database to power intelligent enterprise applications.
While the terms of the deal remain undisclosed, OpenAI has confirmed that it will integrate Rockset’s “word-class indexing and querying” capabilities to strengthen its retrieval…
Funko Fusion hits Switch on September 13
June 20, 2024
Funko Fusion is coming to the Nintendo Switch on September 13, 2024.
You can play against Jaws, He-Man, Marty McFly — altogether more than 60 characters across 20 iconic movie scenes, TV shows and more. It’s an action adventure puzzler pitting you against dinosaurs from…
Enterprises are bullish on the prospects of generative AI. They are investing billions of dollars in the space and building various applications (from chatbots to search tools) targeting different use cases. Almost every major enterprise has some gen AI play in the works.
Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, is releasing several new AI models and tools for researchers to use. They are centered on audio generation, text-to-vision, and watermarking.
“By publicly sharing our early research work, we hope to inspire iterations and ultimately help advance AI in a responsible way,” the company said in a press release.
Today is a good day for open…
PARIS — The advantage now enjoyed by small aerial drones on battlefields including in Ukraine is but “a moment in history,” French Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pierre Schill said at the Eurosatory defense show in Paris.
While anti-drone systems are lagging and “leave the…
US Army moves out on digital engineering strategy
June 20, 2024
The Army is embarking on a strategy to implement a digital engineering environment meant to speed the pace, lower the cost and reduce risk in weapons systems development, according to Jennifer Swanson, the service’s deputy assistant secretary for data, engineering and…
The U.S. Army wants to better understand how its acquisition and contracting workforce could use generative AI to improve efficiency and is launching a pilot next month to explore those questions.
Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, said the effort will shed light on how the service’s acquisition and logistics enterprise could take…
