Anthropic is making its custom-chip ambitions official. The Claude developer is assembling an in-house silicon team to work on custom chips, according to Business Insider and a company job listing seeking engineers with experience completing and shipping semiconductor designs. The move places Anthropic among a growing group of AI companies trying to reduce infrastructure constraints…
Every time you pay online, your data hops between a series of systems – banks, payment providers, and third-party processors. Every step adds convenience, but also creates more points of exposureAs digital payments become a daily habit, users are starting to ask a different question: not just how fast or easy a transaction is, but…
In XRP news today, Andy Burnham’s name has started circulating alongside Ripple and XRP in connection with a UK Treasury blockchain initiative, but the underlying documents tell a much narrower story. HM Treasury’s Wholesale Financial Markets Digital Strategy, published on gov.uk, lays out a multi-year plan to tokenize wholesale finance, remove paper share certificates, and…
Tether has announced plans to launch GEL?, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian Lari, in partnership with the Government of Georgia. The announcement marks one of the first efforts to place a national currency directly onto digital asset infrastructure under a purpose-built stablecoin regulatory framework. Tether’s USD? carries a market capitalization approaching $190 billion, with…
Burning bridges with the most connected person in King’s Landing could have consequences for Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). In the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale, the Westeros monarch makes a sudden decision to dismiss her Mistress of Whispers, Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno). Even lady’s maid Elinda (Jordon Stevens) seems shocked to the deliver the…
Key Takeaways Grayscale withdrew Form RW filings for ADA, HBAR and DOT trusts between 4:33 and 4:36 p.m. ET on Aug. 7. All 3 Form RW filings contained identical language, with no particular reason stated for the pullback. Two days earlier, Grayscale analysts had warned that the U.S. risks a crypto exodus without the passing…
One of the alts in question has entered the top 100 coins by market cap after its massive daily, weekly, and monthly rally. Bitcoin’s price hasn’t made a major move for days, as it continues to remain stuck at around $65,000 since Friday. The good news for the bulls is that it now stands…
The world’s largest digital asset-focused investment platform says institutional capital will initially target four blockchain networks as regulatory clarity improves. In a new report, Grayscale says expected regulatory changes, including the Clarity Act that aims to establish rules for classifying and regulating digital assets and guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will…
I use Wireless earbuds constantly. I use them for work, running, working out, relaxing, traveling—whatever I am doing, chances are I have a pair of wireless earbuds on me, just in case. While some of the earliest models were huge and inconvenient, earbuds nowadays are slim, comfortable, and often affordable. The WIRED Reviews team doesn’t…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. When generative AI took off, Silicon Valley executives rushed to predict the rapid extinction of customer support. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman famously declared that customer service jobs would soon be “totally, totally gone.” For the…
