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View More NewsYakovenko’s comments stood out because they came from one of Ethereum’s most prominent competitors. While debates between Ethereum and Solana supporters have often been contentious, Yakovenko’s reaction reflected a view shared by many currently at the top of the industry: that leaner organizations can sometimes make better decisions than larger, more bureaucratic ones.The emergence of EthLabs is particularly significant because it arrived the day before the foundation’s layoffs and budget cuts, underscoring what supporters see as a broader trend: Ethereum’s research and development ecosystem increasingly extending beyond the foundation itself.”I feel that the job cuts at the EF were necessary…
In brief OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, the AI giant’s first custom inference chip. OpenAI says the accelerator was built specifically for large language models. The reveal follows months of reports that OpenAI was developing custom silicon to reduce reliance on Nvidia. OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom artificial intelligence chip, giving a spicy name to a project that could reshape how the company powers ChatGPT and future AI products.Developed with Broadcom, the chip is designed specifically for large language model inference—the process that generates responses to user prompts—and marks OpenAI’s most significant move yet toward controlling more…
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The latest and most fearsome round of fighting in the long shadow war with the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ending well for the United States and Israel. The ceasefire agreement signed by President Trump in Versailles on 17 June is not a full peace treaty, but Iran’s leaders have nonetheless greeted it as an unalloyed triumph. They had, they boasted, “through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender.”Though salient details of the “memorandum of understanding”…
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) is testing a technical setup that last appeared before the stock’s 99% collapse during the dot-com bubble burst in the…
In brief Reform UK leader Nigel Farage defended an undeclared £5 million ($6.7 million) gift from Tether stakeholder Christopher Harborne, telling interviewers on Tuesday…
A stablecoin promises to hold a fixed $1 value, but STRC never made that promise. It is a preferred stock, a class of equity…
Bitcoin (BTC) is “compressed” at low levels but its classic cycles remain intact, say new research.Key points:Bitcoin is acting just like in prior cycles…
The win rate of a cycle-aware approach is lower than buy-and-hold, winning not by being right more often, but by avoiding the months when…
Bitcoin lending platform Ledn has expanded its services to include Tether Gold (XAUt), allowing investors to hold the tokenized asset and borrow against it…
In brief Everyday investors that have allocated savings to Strategy’s STRC have been drawn to double-digit yields, but the preferred stock’s volatility has created…
This evening, I will be speaking to students with The Fund for American Studies. As is my usual custom with June trips to DC,…
The Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her role leading the organization effective immediately, in a…
The next crypto user may start outside exchangesFor most of crypto’s history, new users followed a fairly standard path. They signed up on an…
In brief The Federal Reserve proposed new rules requiring U.S. crypto firms to verify stablecoin users. Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell backed the proposal.…
Today the Supreme Court decided T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., a case concerning the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, under which federal…