AI models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind achieved gold medal scores in the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO), one of the world’s oldest and most challenging high school level math competitions, the companies independently announced in recent days. The result underscores just how fast AI systems are advancing, and yet, how evenly matched Google and…
Standard Chartered has made history by becoming the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) to launch deliverable spot trading for bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), a major milestone in the adoption of digital assets by traditional finance. The UK-based bank announced that the new trading service will allow institutional clients—corporates, asset managers, and other large…
Key Takeaways Strategy announced a new Series A preferred stock offering labeled STRC, aiming to raise funds to buy more Bitcoin. Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings now total 607,770 BTC, worth over $71,000 each on average. Share this article Strategy has announced a new preferred stock issuance under the ticker STRC, joining its expanding lineup of Bitcoin-backed…
Ethereum led digital asset inflows last week as it recorded a staggering $2.12 billion. The figure was nearly double its previous record. This surge helped push total digital asset investment product inflows to an all-time weekly high of $4.39 billion, surpassing the prior record of $4.27 billion set after the US presidential election in December…
Ripple has teamed up with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization platform, that will use Ripple’s custody technology to manage tokenized real estate for the DLD. By 2033, Dubai expects that tokenized properties could make up 7% of its entire real estate market, which would be worth around AED 60 billion. Ripple (XRP) has officially teamed up…
OpenAI provided new insight this week into just how much people use its signature AI chatbot on a daily basis. If you guessed that people entered 1 billion prompts into ChatGPT every day, you still wouldn’t be close. You’d have to double that figure, and then add a half billion more, to arrive at the…
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DIA crypto up 160% in 3 days. Rising crypto and Ethereum prices, mainnet staking, and the oracle grants program are driving demand. The past three days have been eventful. First, Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law in the United States. Second, BlackRock applied with the SEC to allow staking of its spot Ethereum…
The XRPL EVM Sidechain’s rapid adoption could fuel increased demand for XRP, positioning XRP currency as a key player in the expanding ecosystem. Growth in the token ecosystem and user base suggests long-term potential for XRP, although external factors such as market conditions and regulatory developments will also play a significant role in its price…
Several EPA scientists stressed to WIRED that ORD’s current structure, which allows research to happen independent of the policy-making that occurs in other parts of the agency, is crucial to producing quality work. One told WIRED that they worked in a scientific role in an EPA policy office under the first Trump administration. There, they…
