Public companies now hold $3.2B worth of Ethereum, swelling past 865,000 ETH

Out of the 58 entities holding Ethereum (ETH) in their treasuries, the 10 public-listed companies have roughly $3.2 billion, equivalent to 865,265 ETH. According to Strategic ETH Reserve data, four publicly listed companies recently added 113,300 ETH to their holdings. Furthermore, the number of entities jumped from 40 in June to 58 as of July […]

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AI and Workers’ Wellbeing: Lessons from Germany’s Early Experience

Yves here. This post gives a cautiously negative finding on AI implementation in Germany. If one reads carefully, one can infer that a significant part of the survey population is in factory or related settings, such as logistics management, particularly given the comment on lower physical effort and reduction in time spent. We have pointed […]

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Coinbase launches CFTC-regulated crypto perps for US retail traders

Key Takeaways Coinbase has launched nano BTC and ETH perpetual futures for US traders under CFTC regulation. Kraken also entered the US perps market earlier this month through Kraken Pro. Share this article Coinbase has officially launched perpetual-style futures contracts for US traders, marking the first time American retail investors can access these derivatives in […]

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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from […]

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