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View More NewsKeyrock, a Brussels-based digital asset services firm, has raised a Series C round led by SC Ventures, the venture arm of Standard Chartered, at a valuation of $1.1 billion, the company said in a press release Tuesday.Ripple, which provides blockchain-based enterprise infrastructure, also participated in the fundraising as an existing backer. The funding round remains open and could total up to $100 million.Keyrock said in the release that the new capital will be used to strengthen its balance sheet, expand its suite of services and pursue acquisitions.Founded in 2017, the firm offers market making, asset management, over-the-counter (OTC) trading and…
In brief Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 Omni brings true real-time omnimodal AI to the frontier race. Native audio-visual processing beats stitched multimodal pipelines in speed and coherence. Voice cloning, semantic interruption, and vibe coding signal a shift toward fully interactive AI agents. Alibaba just dropped its most ambitious AI upgrade yet.The company’s Qwen team released Qwen 3.5 Omni on Sunday, a new version of its “omnimodal” AI that simultaneously processes text, images, audio, and video, and talks back in real time across 36 languages, placing its model on the same battlefield as the latest state-of-the-art AI foundational models currently available. 1/10…
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Last year, Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale arrived in cinemas wrapped in claims of fidelity to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. In an interview with the Red River Horror website, Besson explained that he wanted to recapture something about Stoker’s story that other adaptations had missed:When we asked Besson how he wanted to put his own spin on a story that’s been retold more times than a campfire ghost tale, his answer was disarmingly blunt. He didn’t want to compete with other Draculas. He didn’t even watch them. Instead, he went back to the novel and fixated on one thing:…
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Key takeaways:A Hyperliquid whale’s $53 million Bitcoin short and its bets against silver suggest a cautious outlook for global markets.Traders remain on edge as…
In brief Senator Richard Blumenthal asked the SEC whether allies of President Donald Trump in crypto received favorable treatment. His inquiry focuses on the…
from the good-news-only-is-not-journalism dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital…
The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would make it easier for 401(k) plans to include alternative assets such as cryptocurrencies,…
from the celebrate-with-some-lemon-pound-cake dept As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going…
An Ohio jury on Wednesday found the rapper Afroman not liable for defaming the sheriff’s deputies who raided his house nearly four years ago.…
New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely…
As AI agents become a bigger topic in crypto, Pranav Ramesh told CoinDesk that Nasdaq has already been using them across several sections of…
Opera, a Nasdaq-listed web browser company, is proposing to change how it is compensated by the Celo ecosystem, opting to receive native tokens instead…
In brief Prediction market Myriad, owned by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, has successfully closed its seed investment round. Funds investing in the round include…
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Amman, March 19, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent…