CryptoNews

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 Secretary Reveals U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took to social media platform X on Aug. 14 to clarify the U.S.
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CryptoNews

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…
AI & RoboticsNews

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…
AI & RoboticsNews

Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance

August 19, 2025
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 smarter way to use AI? What if, instead of striving for more (often unnecessary) compute and ways to power it, they can focus…
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NewsPhotography

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…
NewsPhotography

Photographers are wrong – it IS okay to use AI 'glamor effects' in this day and age

August 19, 2025
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 drops. If your teeth are yellow, you could use gels in whitening trays. And if you’re a woman off to work, chances are you…
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DefenseNews

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…
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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…
DefenseNews

Navy amphib readiness dips as sailors, Marines deploy for Caribbean

August 19, 2025
The readiness rate of amphibious ships critical to Marine missions has dropped to 41%, a defense official tells Military Times, as thousands of Marines and sailors are being sent to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels. The lack of available amphibious warfare ships, known as amphibs, resulted in a more than five-month gap in…
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