Nvidia Shares Slide as Jensen Huang Probe Puts the AI Trade on Edge
Nvidia shares fell as the Jensen Huang investigation raised governance questions. What the board has said, what remains unproven and what comes next.
Wall Street Calls AI Sell-Off Overdone as Earnings Put the Rebound to the Test
Morgan Stanley and UBS argue investors have become too pessimistic about AI. CoreWeave’s earnings and the political backlash will test whether the optimism is justified.
Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 Launch With Faster AI and Lower Prices
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 cut API prices, but Ethan Mollick’s early tests show why stronger AI still needs human judgment.
Jensen Huang Admits Affair as Nvidia Probes Alleged Chinese Spy Plot
Jensen Huang’s admission of infidelity has collided with an Nvidia board investigation, suspected Chinese espionage and congressional demands for answers.
The Bitcoin mining hardware race is on
The ASIC mining hardware manufacturing industry has so far largely been dominated by Chinese manufacturer Bitmain, which has sold equipment equivalent to about 60% of the current hashrate. However, several reputable companies have made promising announcements lately about entering the ASIC mining hardware industry with cutting-edge new equipment.
Starships and Tokens; A Path to Human Self-Actualization
Many humans don’t settle for just barely scraping by; they improve themselves towards self-actualization. Could we do the same at the level of civilization? Rather than merely avoiding disasters, let’s truly reach for the stars. In this essay, I describe a decentralized system for humanity to collectively graph the steps towards self-actualization, from conquering malaria and a shared planetary database, to universal basic income and even asteroid mining.
A rational take on cryptocurrencies
Here at Coin Sciences, we’re best known for MultiChain, a popular platform for creating and deploying permissioned blockchains. But we began life in March 2014 in the cryptocurrency space, with the goal of developing a “bitcoin 2.0″ protocol called CoinSpark. CoinSpark leverages transaction metadata to add external assets (now called tokens) and notarized messaging to bitcoin. Our underlying thinking was this: If a blockchain is a secure decentralized record, surely that record has applications beyond managing its native cryptocurrency.
Blockchain Industry Report Q1 2017
Blockchain funding is higher than ever, and despite being a smaller market, Europe has a strong focus on the technology, according to a new industry report from Funderbeam.
Digital payments – Analysing the cyber landscape
In this thought leadership, the authors examine the digital payments ecosystem from a lens of readiness of framework for adopting the technology, emergence of new industry (Fintech), security and preventive measures that an Indian citizen needs to take before taking a leap of faith in the digital world, and measures to avoid frauds.
Three pre-blockchain planetary networks: Visa, DNS, and Sabre/Amadeus
“Blockchain technology could change the world!” But how? If an industry gets a single shared source of truth, what happens? If you’re in the blockchain space, you may be working hard to paint a possible picture to answer that. You may be using logic and extrapolation, but wishing that you had something more tangible.
Draft Report on FinTech: The influence of technology on the future of the financial sector
A draft report on FinTech: the influence of technology on the future of the financial sector reported by: Cora van Nieuwenhuizen from the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Applications of Blockchain Technology: To Banking And Financial Sector In India
In this White Paper, we explore Blockchain similarly â as an abstract data structure and development platform to solve generic problems in FinTech.
Microsoft adds advanced support for bitcoin to Excel spreadsheets
Microsoft’s latest upgrade roadmap for MS Office, includes four entries for bitcoin support into the four different platform version of their popular Excel spreadsheet software. The changes allow for Bitcoin data to be used in their spreadsheets and calculations, making the task of doing budgeting with bitcoins far easier.
Blockchain wallet adding bitcoin buying option
Blockchain will soon provide users of their ever popular wallet with the option to buy bitcoin. After eight months of development, the service launches in the UK on Monday for a short period of testing. The company plans to push it out across the entire Eurozone by December, and across the US and some parts of Latin America early next year.
A Decentralized Content Registry for the Decentralized Web
Bitcoin inspired many of us in various ways. For me, it was an inspiration that you could have a global shared database for the planet, especially for creative works and for self-sovereign personal data.
Bitcoin scaling solution, Segwit, released
A new version of Bitcoin’s Core code was released on Thursday, Bitcoin version 0.13.1 Final. The contentious alternative contains a patch known as Segregated Witness (Segwit).
