Shares of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix's were down as much as 3% in Seoul on Friday morning after the company halted a review of a potential U.S. initial public offering for its subsidiary Solidigm.
Revenue stayed flat at $28.05 billion, but operating profit, which is what’s left after the costs of running the business, fell 56% to $718 million. That spending targets two products headed for factory floors and city streets.
Ken Griffin, founder of the Wall Street giant Citadel, said Tuesday that investors are “almost certainly” in an AI bubble—though he isn’t telling them to dump their AI stocks.
Deutsche Bank (DB) plans to bring its crypto custody service to Asia in 2027, extending its push into digital assets as it prepares to launch the service in Germany within weeks.
Stablecoin issuer Circle CRCL $82.25 · Market Closed is defending its business model as Coinbase, its largest distribution partner, backs a rival that aims to give businesses more income from stablecoin reserves.
Nine U.S.-listed companies have objected to tokenized versions of their stock trading on OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange, according to a public notice from the venue.
Artificial Analysis has released its Coding Agent Index v2.0, showcasing the performance of AI models across 290 software tasks. The update highlights Anthropic ’s Claude Opus 5.5 as the leader, scoring 61.7 overall and dominating the FrontierCode benchmark.
Chung Suk-geun, CEO of SK Group's Data Center arm, SK Hyper, says the firm is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to secure funding for an envisioned $350 billion infrastructure buildout, as AI demand heats up. He speaks…
Shares of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix's were down as much as 3% in Seoul on Friday morning after the company halted a review of a potential U.S. initial public offering for its subsidiary Solidigm.
Braden Peters, better known as the controversial influencer “Clavicular,” was in court today to enter a plea after he was accused of raping an intoxicated 17-year-old last April.
In author and computer engineer Liu Cixin’s science fiction hit The Three-Body Problem, three suns throw a doomed world into chaos. Chinese astronomers say they have found a real three-star system that is far better behaved. Using FAST,…
A wind energy partnership between Vietnam and Denmark has fuelled expectations of the Southeast Asian country boosting its competitiveness in renewable electricity to serve overseas and domestic markets. Vietnam is well placed to grow its…
The United Nations’ climate loss and damage fund moved to provide US$20 million in aid sought by flood-stricken Nepal – the first time it has set aside money for any country – in a key test of the body’s credibility.
A Michigan Democrat has publicly endorsed Republican candidate Mike Rogers in the state’s contentious U.S. Senate race, citing concerns over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s perceived stance on security issues.
The possibility of Hakeem Jeffries becoming the first Black Speaker of the House if Democrats regain control is gaining attention following a report from the Washington Post.
Democrat Zach Dembo, a candidate for Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, is facing criticism following a statement from a Kentucky state trooper. The trooper accused Dembo of favoring criminals over law enforcement, a claim disseminated via social media by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
Democratic candidate Zach Dembo, running in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, has found himself at the center of a controversy involving $500,000 in funding from Reid Hoffman, reportedly directed through dark money channels.
BIT Asset Management’s Bitcoin Fund ETF is expected to begin trading on SIX Swiss Exchange in November, with its public offering restricted to Switzerland.
Ethereum developers have postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on a major test network after identifying potential security risks affecting existing smart contracts.
Brent crude, the global benchmark price for oil, jumped 2.6% to $111.66 a barrel on Thursday, its highest level in five months, as AI-linked stocks slid and dragged markets lower from Asia to Wall Street.
To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of crypto's most influential venture capital backers, is dropping "crypto" from the name of its investment arm and expanding into artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, becoming the latest major crypto investor to broaden its focus.
Meta's board has approved a new class of non-voting stock, and every holder of Class A and Class B shares will receive one new share for each share they own.
Revenue stayed flat at $28.05 billion, but operating profit, which is what’s left after the costs of running the business, fell 56% to $718 million. That spending targets two products headed for factory floors and city streets.
NVIDIA partners and European governments are teaming to bring advanced models to boost the efficiency of public administration while retaining control of data and infrastructure. Several are also building editions of the NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas collection, the partner-grounded datasets behind NeMo User Sim, NVIDIA’s…
Organisations and businesses are still scrambling to update their systems after cyber-security flaws were revealed in a widely-used programming language, PHP.
The decision came days after Albany’s top Democrats urged her to stay out. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) warned that the federal rules “would undercut New York’s ability to establish meaningful guardrails, leaving the state with little control over which schools and expenses qualify or how…
JPMorgan analysts said recent actions by U.S. regulators are partly offsetting the negative impact from the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act, but political and legal risks remain without a crypto market structure law.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has added another Tether probe to the many irons he has in crypto fires, this time demanding answers about reported payments the company made to a firm owned by Bo Hines — the former White House crypto adviser who is now in charge of the U.S. arm of Tether.
Coinbase Ireland was hit with a 3.25 million-euro ($3.6 million) fine from the country’s central bank over alleged breaches of its safeguarding and outsourcing obligations.
Asian stocks tumbled on Thursday, with Chinese equities entering a bear market as technology shares sank and rising oil prices compounded investor concerns.
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Ken Griffin, founder of the Wall Street giant Citadel, said Tuesday that investors are “almost certainly” in an AI bubble—though he isn’t telling them to dump their AI stocks.
The two PHP bugs that pushed Finland, the Netherlands, and France to pull government websites offline on Wednesday weren't found by a hacker in a hoodie.
Anthropic developed EFS in close collaboration with more than 100 customers in industries like financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, law, retail, and the public sector, and with our cloud partners at Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
NVIDIA Cloud Functions is coming in early access to Linux-based DGX Station. Developers can upgrade the model behind an endpoint without changing application code, while teammates can use shared models without direct machine access.
The wheel turns: when one of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles is in motion, its steering wheel moves, too—twitching out the car’s maneuvers from the usual position, facing the front-left seat. Generally, on American roads, this is known as the driver’s seat.
We're excited to share three updates to IBM's Granite Speech collection: a new speech-language model, granite-speech-5.0-2b, and revised versions of two models the community already uses, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus.
The leading cryptocurrency was recently priced at $84,461 after rising nearly as high as $84,588 earlier on Wednesday morning in New York. Over a 24-hour period, the coin is up 2%.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to keep living in Silicon Valley for eight years, potentially exposing himself to billions of dollars in one-time taxes if California voters approve a contentious ballot measure next month, according to a company regulatory filing released Wednesday.
For millions of Indians, the road to the ultimate career aspiration had a familiar script - an engineering degree to get a tech services job, then a posting in the US, repeated visa renewals and then the green card that gave them permanent residency in the country.
A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump ’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
Sui Foundation will become DATA Network's largest institutional holder through its $30 million investment. Muttoni said Sui is taking a hands-off approach to DATA's product plans.
Trump White House aides have started to cast about for a scapegoat to offer the president in the event of bad midterm election losses, as Republicans stare down brutal predictions in key House and Senate races, say.
Bloomberg first reported Wednesday that customers of Kalshi Prime, the company’s U.S.-registered futures commission merchant, will be able to borrow against digital assets held at BitGo and use the proceeds to fund margin positions on perpetual futures traded on Kalshi’s main exchange.
The example’s 2.25% net rate is consistent with taking a one percentage point management charge from 3.5%, then taking 10% of the remaining 2.5%. A separate calculation shows what the assumed 2.25% effective net APY would mean at two holding periods.
Getting a new medicine from first idea to U.S. approval takes time—up to 15 years according to OpenAI. The process is also absurdly expensive: bringing one approved drug to market can cost more than $2.6 billion, and fewer than 10% of candidates that enter human testing ever make it to pharmacy shelves.
Mastercard is giving developers early access to Agent Pay for Machines following end-to-end pilots with Cloudflare, Ant International, BVNK, AIsa, Base, and Coinbase.
The potential effects of artificial intelligence in the derivatives markets will be in focus at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's first in a new series of meetings hosted by its Innovation Task Force on October 28.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight at you, then they add you to their Long-Term Capital Markets Assumptions paper and predict you'll be the best-performing asset of the next decade," Hougan wrote on X.
Our first Cosmos-H-Dreams release, built on Cosmos-Predict2.5, brought interactive generative simulation to dVRK tabletop suturing, a foundational proving ground for surgical robotics.
Google reports that “multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region”, and it does not currently have a work around. The europe-west2 region is London, according to Google’s Service table.
When Ted Lasso took over AFC Richmond, the fictional England soccer team at the center of Apple TV’s hit series, his relentlessly positive attitude and folksy charm made him an unlikely leader.
Vin Bui was on a leave of absence from Cornell when he found Nowadays. He had left his own YC company from the Winter 2025 batch and was back on campus, not enrolled, scrolling through Work at a Startup looking for what came next.
The multi-billion dollar initial public offering was, at one stage, on track to make Firmus worth more than Telstra – even before having delivered on its promised earnings. That proved to be a fever dream of its founders and a wake-up call to investors in Australia and around the world to reconsider the potential…
In a couple of weeks, Californians will vote on ballot measure Prop 40 —a highly debated measure that would require a one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaires who lived there as of Jan. 1, 2026.
BlackRock has filed to launch a "buffer" Bitcoin ETF that would cap investors' gains in exchange for limiting their losses, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
The inflow interrupted two weeks of selling in which the funds shed about $910 million, including a $484.9 million exit on Oct. 7, which was their worst day since June. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) did the heavy lifting with $665.2 million, more than the entire net total, according to Farside Investors.
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded its largest daily net inflow in the past year, signaling resilient institutional demand for bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) despite macroeconomic pressures.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, announced Tuesday that it approved the country's first retail fund that invests directly in Bitcoin.
A growing list of companies rejecting tokenized trading of their shares is an expected part of testing a new market structure, Andrew Cuomo, co-chairman of the OKX-ICE joint venture, said after Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs joined the objectors.
For example, Perplexity runs its own servers located in the United States. The ban reaches past DeepSeek’s own app to third-party services developed using it.
The World ID app is an identity wallet that stores and presents what World calls "Proofs" about a user. World ID for Zoom lets people on a call confirm that the person they are speaking with is human and not a deepfake.
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial applications of AI.
Key to the news: the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is collaborating with NVIDIA to expand its sovereign framework with cloud, open models and integration partners, while Adobe Frame.io is accelerating video agent search capabilities with NVIDIA GPUs, helping German TV and film producer UFA find the right moments…
The Creality Pika is easy to use, with the look, feel, and size of a point-and-shoot digital camera. A 3D scanner is an amazing tool to add to your 3D printing workflow, allowing you to scan real-life objects to import into sculpting or CAD software, then print out your own modified copies on a 3D printer.
M3.1 Flash improves across a broad range of benchmarks, reaching the level of leading models in complex agentic tasks (cowork), computer use, software development (coding), and cybersecurity. Complex Tasks and Automation:.
Ryder Kemper was in Ohio, winding down a startup he and his college friends had built together. Ryder knew he wanted to stay in startups, and he knew he wanted to be in San Francisco.
The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface.
A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the third quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius has revealed that there was an attempt made to set fire to a Lithuanian company storing Starlink communications equipment in the early hours of Monday (October 19).
Deutsche Bank (DB) plans to bring its crypto custody service to Asia in 2027, extending its push into digital assets as it prepares to launch the service in Germany within weeks.
Hobbyists are booting Apple’s iOS, the software that runs iPhones, on Android phones to prove that they can, and video demonstrations are going viral on social media.
Tether is answering back against a report issued last month by Democrats on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that had accused the stablecoin firm of providing "a significant financial lifeline within Iran's shadow banking network," with Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino saying Monday that the probe missed the positive work it's doing to observe sanctions.
Anthropic said on Oct. 16 that Claude had helped reconstruct the public seed behind P-256, a NIST-standardized cryptographic curve supported for Ethereum passkey signing.
In addition to evoking the horcruxes that kept pieces of Lord Voldemort’s soul alive within objects in the Harry Potter series, the report alarmed some professionals because the generally weak security of smart televisions and many other “internet of things” devices would be hard to correct, even with a concerted…
Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.
The SEC’s new framework for trading tokenized stocks is encountering resistance from some of the companies whose shares could trade, with Broadcom (AVGO), Verizon (VZ) and UnitedHealth (UNH) among the latest issuers to object.
For China and Europe, the road to closing the technological gap runs through the financial one. Technological revolutions tend to be remembered for their technologies: steam engines, railways, the internet.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite a court challenge to his long-sought renovation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Sunday with President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about the crisis between the countries and U.S. efforts to resume peace talks with Russia.Why it matters: It was the first call between Zelensky and senior U.S. officials since tensions spiked between their countries after Trump cut a diesel deal with Russia 10 days ago.
As part of this work, the group recommends a children’s story, “ What is a Data Center?, ” which follows a honey badger named Honey who gets a guided tour of a data center from a worker named Oliver. "Like when my mom shops online late at night because my dad is sleeping and won't know about it?" Honey asks.
In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller.
Schilling described the images as a form of “digital violence against women” piled on top of the already disproportionate amount of sexist abuse, harassment and violence that women in politics faced. The result was a potent threat to democracy, she said: “These things make going into politics even harder than it is…
Flags would fly at half-staff on federal buildings across the country in honor of those affected by the tragedy, he said. Carney said those affected included reservists and soldiers from Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, one of Canada’s most storied military regiments.
Meta's popular smart glasses can take photos, capture video and record voice notes or reminders. The devices have fueled concerns that they could erode privacy, by enabling covert recording without obtaining bystanders' consent and collecting sensitive data that's potentially accessible to others.
Then the Dutch central bank, known as the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), moved more than 78 tons of gold in New York and seven tons in Canada to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest” and the need to improve its “crisis preparedness.”
Images circulating on Turkish media. Ledger unveiled a new device on Thursday with stronger protections against tampering, days after confirming that wallets sold through a reseller in Asia contained malicious implants.
Fairshake will count its electoral victories in November. Customers will have to judge what those victories produce when Congress next takes up the rules.
In red states and blue, unconventional candidates are downplaying — or even disowning — party labels to tap into voters' deep disdain for Washington.Why it matters: They might not all win, but the sheer number of political outsiders connecting with voters tells us something about the electorate: It's angry and willing to take risks.The candidates — whether they come from the pulpit or the NFL sidelines — are making the same bet: Voters are tired of career politicians.Zoom in: Consider three unorthodox Democrats leading in Senate contests in three red states: a Presbyterian seminarian in Texas (state Rep.
Andy Beshear is in open war with prominent Latino lawmakers, and his potential 2028 rivals for president are taking advantage.Beshear, as head of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), has resisted pressure from Latino leaders to invest heavily in Gina Hinojosa's campaign for Texas governor, opting to focus on races in other states.In response, Illinois Gov.
Democrats are running surprisingly competitive races in traditionally Republican territory across the country this midterm election cycle, and it's putting GOP winning streaks at risk that stretch as far back as the 1930s.Why it matters: Democrats hope ending political droughts in states such as Kansas, Texas and South Carolina will help make inroads in what has long been off-limits territory.Kansas - 1932Sen.
President Trump's top aides offered sharply different explanations this weekend of his Russian diesel deal amid a barrage of bipartisan criticism calling the move a gift to Russia.Why it matters: Oil, gas and petroleum products help finance Russia's war on Ukraine, and Trump's moves are bringing rifts within the GOP ahead of midterm elections.Catch up quick: Late Friday, Trump waived new sanctions against Russia and tariffs on top buyers of Russian energy that would have taken effect under the bipartisan Graham Act he signed last month.That came days after the administration waived certain sanctions as part of a deal aimed at enabling higher exports of Russian diesel after high prices have become a political millstone for Republicans.Driving the news: Energy Secretary Chris Wright argued Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that Russia could only benefit from the diesel deal if it scales back its war on Ukraine enough to increase exports."This is a carrot to try to end a war.
China was once the top holder of U.S. Treasuries but has been shedding its massive stockpile for years, fueling fears of de-dollarization, but official data may not fully capture Beijing’s actual portfolio.
U.S. economic warfare against Iran is hitting the regime’s sources of power as troops go without pay—as they are needed to quell growing unrest in southeastern provinces.
Senior US commanders have highlighted the importance of land-based troops and equipment stationed in the Asia-Pacific in any conflict with China, countering assumptions that such a war would be fought mainly at sea and in the air.
Stablecoin issuer Circle CRCL $82.25 · Market Closed is defending its business model as Coinbase, its largest distribution partner, backs a rival that aims to give businesses more income from stablecoin reserves.
Crypto investors may be putting too much faith in security audits that fail to cover the systems hackers target, according to blockchain security firm Hacken.
White House Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets Patrick Witt is leaving government service and returning to the private sector.
Crypto.com's prediction market exchange and Novig sued Missouri officials in federal court on Friday, asking judges to bar the state from enforcing its sports wagering laws against their event contracts as cease-and-desist deadlines set by Attorney General Catherine Hanaway ran out.
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup backed by Tencent, launched the STEPX Neo, a phone whose AI agent is built into the operating system itself instead of sitting in an app.
In 2023, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda and other contributors offered a $12,288 bounty for an answer, rising to over $36,000 if the winner donated it to charity. Until Claude entered the picture.
Start a new chat when you change topics. The model rereads the entire conversation every time you hit send, so a 50-message thread about your vacation makes your tax question pricier and dumber at once.
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs.
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Same story · 3 sourcesTL;DR: Tokenization infrastructure firm Fission has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital
Nine U.S.-listed companies have objected to tokenized versions of their stock trading on OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange, according to a public notice from the venue.
The BIS paper does not establish losses of bank deposits or lending. Banks “retain some influence over the pace of that adoption through deposit pricing,” the authors wrote.
It uses a sparse mixture-of-experts design, or MoE, where only about 8 billion parameters are active when the model processes input and roughly 16 billion kick in when it generates output. It also ships with a 1 million token context window, allowing the model to hold a large amount of text in working memory at once,…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine's use of the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX satellite system remains partially restricted, despite earlier signs this week that it had been fully restored.
The plaintiffs say they never would have signed the petition required to enter the giveaway if they had known it wasn’t random. This is the title for the native ad.
Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. Given the enormous time spent in workplace meetings, do Ars Technica know what they accomplish or how to make them as worthwhile as possible?
Bending Spoons has announced all of its biggest deals in the last few years, beginning with Evernote in 2022, followed by Brightcove in 2024, and Vimeo, AOL and Eventbrite in 2025. The company held its IPO on June 30, raising about $1.7 billion at $29 a share, and hit the Nasdaq the next day.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon sees tokenization reshaping financial markets, potentially opening new revenue opportunities rather than simply threatening traditional finance (TradFi) and Wall Street businesses.
In Wisconsin, a narrator complains that “groceries, utilities, everything’s getting more expensive and Congressman (Derrick) Van Orden is adding to the list.
Subject to this restraint, the agent then pursues the second component of its goal: acting on the principal’s behalf as the principal would judge best. This approach stresses the deeply normative character of corrigibility, while remaining sufficiently concrete so as to be specifiable formally.
Ministers need to be honest with the British public about the immediate threat posed by Russia, which could soon lead to lives being lost, a former national security adviser has said.
President Trump waived new sanctions on Russia late Friday night, saying it was in the "national interests" to hold off on the sweeping levies under the Graham Act that he signed last month.
President Trump is carrying his insatiable appetite for controversy into the most unforgiving stretch of the electoral calendar, fortified by a decade of political survival."Bottom line, it's gonna all work out.
Police say no further action will be taken against the wife of the government's national security adviser after she posted on social media referencing Palestine Action.
Tokenization, or the process of bringing financial and real-world assets onto a blockchain, has been generating headlines in recent months, with a growing number of companies saying they’re offering, or planning to offer, versions of equities, bonds and commodities that can be traded around the clock with few, if any, geographic restrictions.
Polygon Labs expects its regulated payments business to become profitable in 2027 as it moves beyond blockchain infrastructure to enter the payments processing industry dominated by companies such as Visa (V) and Stripe, CEO Marc Boiron told CoinDesk.
Crypto’s biggest political spender is turning up the pressure on one of the industry’s fiercest critics. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, pushing its total outlay against the former Senate Banking Committee chairman well past the $40 million mark.
The Guardian donned my sleuthing cap and discovered a potential link between Fake Linda and Fake Caroline. An editor at Science had independently discovered the same address pattern associated with Fake Caroline’s email.
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