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Amazon has launched Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant in its mobile app that helps with product searches and recommendations by using Amazon's catalog and external web data, for a subset of U.S. customers.
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OPNX, an exchange established by the founders of the collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, is set to close down this month. Customers have been advised to resolve their positions by February 7 and withdraw all funds by February 14. This comes in the wake of both co-founders, Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, being barred from running any sort of financial firm in Singapore for 9 years and Su doing a stint in prison.
The estate of Celsius, a cryptocurrency lender that declared bankruptcy in 2022, plans to distribute over $3 billion in crypto and fiat to its creditors. The company's restructuring plan, approved by 98% of Celsius's account holders, includes the formation of a new Bitcoin mining firm called Ionic Digital that creditors will receive a stake in. PayPal and Coinbase will assist in the distribution of assets to creditors.
Bitcoin L2 solution Merlin Chain, developed by Bitmap Tech, is set to go live shortly. It seeks to address network resource scarcity and underpins a dapp ecosystem designed for Bitcoin-native innovations such as wallets and token swaps. Leveraging ZK-Rollup technology for improved transaction efficiency and safety, Merlin Chain aims to increase Bitcoin adoption by simplifying user interactions and supporting major Bitcoin L1 protocols.
Wormhole rolled out its ZK vision and roadmap with the aim of enhancing blockchain interoperability and improving trust assumptions within its protocol. Moving towards trust-minimization, Wormhole will integrate zero-knowledge proof technology offering stronger trust guarantees, permissionless verification, integrations, and more. The roadmap includes onboarding cryptography expertise and unlocking hardware resources. Wormhole's ZK roadmap is expected to bring fast, cheap, trustless message verification, further decentralizing Wormhole’s verification.
This thread provides an overview of decentralized and shared sequencers and their significance in future scalability solutions. Key points of the thread include the setup of shared sequencers, their inherent potential for scalability, the different levels of finality guarantees, various ways to ensure chain progress, and the economical advantages resulting from shared sequencers. The discussion also highlighted the trade-offs between customization options and improved composability and interoperability.
This post explains how Bittensor's decentralized network allows miners to contribute their AI models. Successful answers to queries are rewarded with the $TAO token. These tokens allow users to participate in the network's governance. Combining AI and blockchain technology, Bittensor aims to create transparent access to AI programs. As the network grows, the tokens could potentially become a global standard for AI transactions.
Jupiter's founder, pseudonymously known as Meow, recently addressed recent criticism of how the platform distributed 1 billion JUP tokens on Solana, insisting that critics are misinterpreting the move. Critics saw the move as a disguised Initial Coin Offering, particularly given the creation of a 250 million JUP launch liquidity pool. Meow maintains that all actions are intended to benefit JUP holders and that the plan was transparently communicated prior to the launch.
The US Energy Information Administration will reportedly start surveying American cryptocurrency mining companies' electricity usage. Approved by the Office of Management and Budget, this "emergency" data collection is driven by concerns over rising Bitcoin prices and the potential strain of crypto mining on electricity systems. Despite some disagreement in the industry over the perceived urgency, the EIA aims to analyze how energy demand for crypto mining is changing and its impact on the electric power market.
Superstate launched an inaugural fund for tokenizing U.S. Treasuries. USTB is aimed at modernizing investment funds with a direct government securities approach.
Earlier this week, the leaders of a massive SIM-swapping ring were charged for their alleged crimes. Now it has come to light that they were the ones behind the mysterious $400 million FTX hack that happened as the exchange imploded.
Binance is launching an Inscriptions Marketplace for trading Bitcoin BRC-20 tokens like ORDI within its web3 Wallet.
Apple is adding automatic searchable transcripts to all podcast episodes, but they’ll only be available to users of Apple's own Podcasts app. It is a massive win for accessibility and knowledge sharing, but Apple's approach is typical of today's platforms, which prefer to lock up user-generated data for competitive advantage.
The Browser Company has enhanced its desktop browser with AI-powered features following the release of its mobile app, Arc Search. New functionalities like "Instant Links" and "Live Folders" aim to streamline internet usage by directly embedding search results and dynamically updated content into the browser. The browser offers an AI-driven 'Browse for Me' feature that creates tailored webpages based on user queries, potentially transforming the broader internet landscape.
The new iPad Air will feature a 12.9-inch display, similar to the iPad Pro, aligning with Apple's strategy of offering larger screens at mid-range prices, as seen with the iPhone and MacBook Air. There are minimal design changes, but it will have a redesigned rear camera. Launch dates remain uncertain, but a new iPad Pro with OLED displays and updates to the iPad mini and base model are expected soon.
Designers who want to get involved in the development process should consider pair programming, reviewing pull requests, fixing bugs, scaffolding UI, and building prototypes with code. They should pair with engineers, work together, and earn trust - doors for further and better collaboration will open.
A well-constructed Career Progression Framework (CPF) allows for objective assessments of designers’ levels and skills, facilitating the creation of personalized development plans and establishing crucial team guidelines. Design managers can use it to foster a culture of creativity and support, motivate the team, and become the design leaders that the company needs.
Design systems are not a “zero-interest rate phenomenon” but rather a proactive solution to potential problems down the road. They may not have an immediate “hair on fire” problem to sell to management, but they can prevent future maintenance nightmares.
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This set of 52 icons includes six different styles and two modes, enabling you to represent fitness items and concepts.
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Framer will hold a free online conference for its builders' community on February 22. A world-class panel of speakers will discuss how to create a high-converting funnel in the platform, advance Framer skills, and what users can expect shortly.
Figma’s Annotations feature in Dev Mode aims to streamline designer-developer collaboration by providing a complete spec for both use cases by reducing clutter on a Figma canvas. Dynamic changes in annotations and measurements help keep annotations up-to-date as designs change, making designers and developers more efficient.
Regular Practice felt that the rest of its identity was tired and neglected despite having a memorable name, distinctive purple brand color, and a decade of consistent TV advertising, so it chose to bring the brand to life with a new moving identity, color palette, photography, and logo – all underpinned by the simple phrase: 'Own It.'
Three artists have reimagined the classic accessory in collaboration with Shed Rain. The special series showcases Alex Proba's use of organic shapes and vibrant colors, Lisa Congdon's bright taxi yellow-based lining, and Katie Merz's graphic patterns that mix graffiti and blueprints.
djay is a digital music-mixing app that lets you mess with digital turntables, faders, and more. The Apple Vision Pro version of the app boasts an incredibly realistic experience that uses hand-tracked gestures to control 3D turntables and faders.
Elon Musk is in the news again for his $55bn pay package request and subsequent rejection from a Delaware court decision. Musk’s request is juxtaposed with union strikes for minimum wage in auto manufacturing. This article explores how AI might serve as a tool to reduce the gap between worker and executive pay.
Now is an excellent time to be an entrepreneur. This post outlines some of the best opportunities right now.
Few virtues are more celebrated in startups than perseverance and grit. However, what’s the opportunity cost of perseverance? The key is knowing when to walk away, chalk it up as a learning, and move on to the next opportunity. This article really runs that point home.
These marketing quick wins are practical, low-effort tactics that deliver tangible results in a surprisingly short time frame. Whether you’re a large company with a functioning marketing team or a small startup without one, all of these are useful.
If you work in enterprise, you’ll likely be very familiar with ServiceNow. It's growing at 25% YoY despite being at $10m ARR. That’s impressive – here’s how they’re doing it.
If your startup is selling into multiple markets, you have to offer a local experience to your website visitors. Simple things like showing regional logos, regional case studies, and automatic language matching help to create the feeling that the site experience was truly designed for them, which in turn helps with engagement and conversion. This teardown of what Stripe does well and what needs improving is an excellent window into this thinking.
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This article, written from the point of view of an investor, helps to bring a little context to the layers of value within AI right now. It breaks them down into the infrastructure layer, like cloud providers and chip makers; modeling and core, like OpenAI and Anthropic; and AI-enhanced products.
AI will fundamentally change how we produce and consume art and ultimately the type of art we create. This article explores this point in more depth and highlights the companies driving the change.
Your perspective on money often reflects the psychological wounds from your life experiences. Whether you’re a broke founder just getting by whilst you hustle away or you’ve exited a few companies, this article provides several lenses to look at money through – useful if your goal is to go from that broke founder to the not-so-broke founder.
2023 was a hard year for folks in their 20s and 30s. Something is off for these people. What startup opportunities exist to help them?
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The customer should be the central focus of any startup, with the teams closest to them (sales, solutions, and customer success) playing crucial roles. Leveraging these teams' unique understanding of customer needs and how the product can fulfill them is often an untapped value.
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