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Shares of Circle surged after lawmakers over the weekend struck a compromise on the market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act, preserving stablecoin reward programs under certain conditions. On Friday, key language in the proposed crypto legislation was updated to restrict c

Microsoft Committed To Doubling AI Infrastructure In Two Years Microsoft built a systems software platform – Windows Server and its zillions of add-ons and extensions – long before it built a cloud and became a system supplier to millions of customers around the world. With tens

Steam Controller scalpers are asking for $300+ on eBay — Valve's $99 controller demands high price as pre-orders sell out almost immediately Fingers crossed for wave 2. Valve's Steam Controller is, or at least was temporarily, officially available. The long-awaited $99 controller

In a world awash in high-tech security tools like passkeys, quantum-safe algorithms, and public-key cryptography, it can be refreshing to get back to the simple things… like a good old-fashioned canary trap. The canary trap is a simple tool often used to identify leakers or doubl

Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This marks a shift from earlier days, when the release of new models powering the conver

Former Andreessen Horowitz investor Katie Haun announced on Monday in a press release that her firm has raised $1 billion across new funds to continue its thesis of backing crypto and blockchain. The capital will be spread across startups at early and later stages, Bloomberg repo

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward

A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper ra

Looking at the state of the NVIDIA GB10 ecosystem several months down the line, there are a couple of things that have continued to surprise us. The first has been the sheer popularity of the small-form-factor systems, which have seen GB10 boxes from multiple vendors sell almost

Anthropic said Monday it is partnering with private equity giants Goldman Sachs and Blackstone to launch a $1.5 billion firm aimed at speeding the adoption of artificial intelligence across hundreds of companies. The new entity, formed alongside the San Francisco-based PE firm He

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have launched the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, a new joint research organization intended to advance foundational work in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and quantum computing, with an emphasis on computing methods t

Scality has announced ARTESCA+ Veeam HA, an updated version of its unified software appliance that combines the Veeam Data Platform with Scality ARTESCA object storage on a single system. The release extends the original single-node design into a multi-node, highly available arch