Communities are pushing back on new AI data centers. Repurposed crypto mines are quietly becoming the industry's shortcut.
Blur, Once the King of NFT Trading, Is Closing Its Doors
Blur will shut its website on Nov. 12 after Ethereum NFT trading volume collapsed more than 99% from its 2023…
A Hidden Chip and an eSIM: Ledger Explains the CryptoBilis Hardware-Wallet Heist
Ledger says a covert implant in CryptoBilis-sold wallets captured recovery phrases and beamed them out over an eSIM.
From Bitcoin Mines to AI Server Farms: SWI Raises $894M to Rewire Genesis Digital
Investment firm SWI raised about $894M to convert FTX-linked miner Genesis Digital's sites into AI data centers.
Meta Joins the Frontier Race With Muse Wonder, Betting Big on AI Memory
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder, its first frontier model, with a heavy emphasis on long-term memory.
The Fax-Era Ceiling: How Old-School Management Holds Back German IT
German IT is not short of talent; it is short of decision-makers who understand what they control. Japan shows what…
The Quiet Pivot to Owning Your AI: Desktops, Air Gaps and Private Fleets
Three announcements in a week — a 1-petaFLOP desktop, an air-gapped coding agent and a private GPU fleet — point…
Prime Intellect Opens Its GPU Fleet to Serve Open Models
Prime Intellect launched Prime Inference, a serverless and reserved serving platform for open models running on its own multi-datacenter GPU…
NYSE’s Parent and OKX Want to Put 60-Plus US Stocks On-Chain
A joint venture of OKX and NYSE parent ICE has told the SEC it plans a permissioned venue for trading…
S&P Brings a Ratings-Style Lens to DeFi Lending — Without Calling It a Rating
S&P Global Ratings unveiled a Vault Risk Assessment for on-chain lending, weighing six risks as vault deposits near $10 billion…
Microsoft’s New Speech Engine Transcribes Almost as Fast as You Talk
Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming tops a 38-model streaming benchmark, returning final transcripts roughly a tenth of a second after you stop speaking.
Rent Nothing You Can’t Afford to Lose: The Next Commercial Platform Is One You Own
Agent taxes, storage premiums and data fights make rented stacks risky. Next-gen platforms are self-hosted and source-available.