Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Central Bank of Brazil argues against a bitcoin reserve strategy, Argentina’s securities watchdog enacts a new tokenization regime, and Buenos Aires adopts crypto payments.
Central Bank of Brazil Dismisses Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Implementation
The…
NASA debuts new Orion mission control room for Artemis 2 astronaut flight around the moon (photos)
August 29, 2025
With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA’s Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room of monitors.
NASA has opened a new complex in the Mission Control…
Cosmic dust particles that give birth to planets around young stars have for the first time been found forming — the James Webb Space Telescope has witnessed the creation of these tiny planetary building blocks around a dead star.
“This discovery is a big step…
Nvidia’s $46.7B Q2 proves the platform, but its next fight is ASIC economics on inference
August 29, 2025
Nvidia reported $46.7 billion in revenue for fiscal Q2 2026 in their earnings announcement and call yesterday, with data center revenue hitting $41.1 billion, up 56% year over year. The company also released guidance for Q3, predicting a $54 billion quarter.
Behind these confirmed earnings call numbers lies a more complex story of how custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are…
Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions
August 29, 2025
Nous Research, a secretive artificial intelligence startup that has emerged as a leading voice in the open-source AI movement, quietly released Hermes 4 on Monday, a family of large language models that the company claims can match the performance of leading proprietary…
In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption
August 29, 2025
OpenAI adds to an increasingly competitive AI voice market for enterprises with its new model, gpt-realtime, that follows complex instructions and with voices “that sound more natural and expressive.”
As voice AI continues to grow, and customers find use cases such as…
This is the number one reason why architecture photography lacks depth – and this is the fix
August 29, 2025
Architecture photography thrives on detail – whether you’re capturing the clean lines of a modern skyscraper or the weathered textures of a centuries-old façade. While a single exposure might seem sufficient at first, it often fails to do justice to the full dynamic range and complexity of the scene. That’s where advanced editing techniques like HDR (high dynamic range) come into…
Natural light photography is trending as searches reach the highest levels in a decade. What does that mean for photographers?
August 29, 2025
Analyzing changes in Google searches is often a key indicator of trending topics – and data suggests that natural light photography is surging in popularity. According to data from Google Trends, searches for “natural light photography” are the highest that they’ve…
The new T-Roc has finally arrived, bringing some major upgrades. Volkswagen’s best-selling SUV will be available as a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) for the first time, but there’s more under the hood.
Volkswagen’s best-selling SUV goes hybrid: 2026 T-Roc
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What seemed like a too-good-to-be-true opportunity in micromobility has turned into a cautionary tale. The Lightning Shared Scooter Company (LSSC) lured investors with promises of leasing scooters in Asia, offering hefty daily returns to Western investors – often average folks instead of seasoned investors. But now regulators and watchdogs warn it was all a well‑orchestrated scam, leaving…
