baby steps, baby steps — Telling AI model to take a deep breath causes math scores to soar in study DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results. Benj Edwards – Sep 19, 2023 9:38 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images reader comments 54 with Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to
As Apple Inc AAPL and Alphabet GOOG GOOGL -owned Google penetrated into financial service and realized significant gains with mobile wallets, Americas biggest banks have joined their efforts to defend their turf. Namely, JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM , Bank of America Corporation BAC and Wells Fargo & Company WFC , among others, will be
One person’s analog trash is another person’s vintage treasure. If you have a pile of VHS tapes that haven’t been touched since the dawn of digital media, you might be able to make a fortune on them. Blockbuster video cassettes are obviously a relic of yesteryear, with technology moving from VHS to DVDs and Blu-Ray
In less than a week after Deutsche Bank DB and HSBC HSBC partnered with other companies for digital asset custody, Citigroup IncC has now turned to the digital asset space to launch tokenized digital assets using its own wallet and blockchain. Citi's Token Service will provide cross-border paymentsand liquidity all around the clock. Read More:
On-chain data suggests that Bitcoin (BTC) holders are accumulating BTC with exchange holdings down to yearly lows and the percentage of inactive BTC supply at all time highs. According to Glassnode’s Bitcoin supply last active chart, inactive BTC that has not moved from an address for more than 1, 3 and 5 year time frames
Balancer, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol has confirmed its user interface is currently “under an attack.” The platform notified its community on Sept. 19 at 11:49 pm UTC, urging users to not interact with Balancer’s protocol until further notice. The balancer frontend is under an attack. The issue is currently under investigation. Please do NOT
Municipals were weaker Tuesday as triple-A yields rose in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries. Equities ended the session down ahead of the close of the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting Wednesday. Triple-A yields were cut two to seven basis points, depending on the scale, while UST yields rose four to six basis points, pushing the two-,
An empty parking lot is pictured in front of a Planet Fitness gym and fitness club in Alhambra, California, on May 12, 2020, after stay-at-home orders in Los Angeles County were extended until July amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.
Receive free Cboe Global Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cboe Global Markets news every morning. The chief executive of Cboe Global Markets has resigned after failing to disclose personal relationships with colleagues. Edward Tilly, who has been at Cboe for 35 years, “did not disclose personal
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Token 2049, one of the largest crypto conferences of the year, attracted a record 10,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 5,000 companies during the two-day event in Singapore. From Sept. 13–14, attendees entering the majestic Marina Bay Sands Convention Expo and Center
An Iowa state law adopted this year means local governments and school districts will face a new hurdle in issuing municipal bonds. House File 718, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May, decreased the options for municipalities and school districts to hold bond elections. Until now, cities and school districts in Iowa had
Share on Pinterest Jasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesA new report from the CDC finds that the flu shot was over 50% effective at preventing illness during the flu season in the southern hemisphere. The report sheds light on what might happen during the upcoming flu season in the U.S.The seasonal flu is linked to tens of thousands
Digital payments behemothVisa V invested in London-based payments platformForm3 through a commercial partnership. This will enable Visa clients to minimize fraudwhile sending and receiving real-time account-to-account payments with the help of Form3's fraud-detection tools and Visa's AI and risk-scoring features. This association will be built on Form3s single API connectivity. Separately, Form3 will provide Visas
Good news — More than half of Americans plan to get updated COVID shot There’s a sharp partisan divide, but interest blows away uptake of the last booster. Beth Mole – Sep 18, 2023 10:17 pm UTC Enlarge / A vial of the updated 2023-2024 formula of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS Pharmacy in
TradeZero USAhas completed its acquisition of Koonce Securities.Koonce will now clear securities trades for TradeZeros group of broker-dealers. Context: Established in 2015, TradeZero and its U.S., Bahamas, and Canadian subsidiaries offer commission-free stock trading and direct market center access for U.S. equities and equity optionstrading. The firms robust short-selling capabilities, extended trading hours, round-the-clock live
SPRYSOCKS — Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor SprySOCKS borrows from open source Windows malware and adds new tricks. Dan Goodin – Sep 18, 2023 11:25 pm UTC Enlarge reader comments 24 with Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux thats being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government.
If there’s “no evidence” of wrongdoing, as many pundits insist, why is the Republican House majority fooling with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’s business dealings with his son, Hunter? Well, when talking heads say, “no evidence,” they mean “no smoking-gun proof.” And they’re right; the current case against the president probably wouldn’t prevail
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. For most of his life , Mitt Romney has nursed a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one
Paxos, the issuer of PayPal Holdings Inc PYPL stablecoin, PYUSD, stated in a transparency report that the PYUSD is supported by cash reserves and U.S. Treasury reverse repurchase agreements. As of Aug. 31, $45.36 million is backed in Treasury securities, out of which $1.5 million is in cash reserves. The report highlights that repurchase agreements
No one wants to appear before a judge as a criminal defendant. But court is a particularly inhospitable place for Donald Trump, who conceptualizes the value of truth only in terms of whether it is convenient to him. His approach to the world is paradigmatic of what the late philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined as bullshit: