Sei Labs embraces Ethereum with bold EVM-only shift eliminating Cosmos support

Sei Labs, the core development team behind the Sei blockchain, has proposed a fundamental shift in the network’s architecture that would eliminate support for Cosmos transactions and CosmWasm contracts. Instead, the team plans to transition fully to an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible framework, arguing that this move would simplify the blockchain and improve the developer […]

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Saylor says Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is Bitcoin of 20th century

Key Takeaways Warren Buffett will step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of the year, with Greg Abel taking over. Under Buffett’s leadership, Berkshire achieved a 20% compounded annual gain from 1965 to 2024, significantly outperforming the S&P 500. Share this article Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has called Berkshire Hathaway, the […]

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Self-Organising Textures

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Self-classifying MNIST Digits Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata Neural Cellular Automata (NCA We use NCA to refer to both Neural Cellular […]

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Hong Kong’s web3 moment: Blink and you’ll miss it

The following is a guest post and opinion from Sandy Peng, Co-Founder of Scroll. Over 1,000 FinTech companies and nearly 5,000 startups now call Hong Kong home, a 15% jump in just one year. Hong Kong has rapidly transformed into one of Asia’s most dynamic innovation hubs, having just been named the second-most crypto-friendly city […]

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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

Acknowledgments We are deeply grateful to Sandhini Agarwal, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Tom Brown, Jeff Clune, Steve Dowling, Gretchen Krueger, Brice Menard, Reiichiro Nakano, Aditya Ramesh, Pranav Shyam, Ilya Sutskever and Martin Wattenberg. Author Contributions Gabriel Goh: Research lead. Gabriel Goh first discovered multimodal neurons, sketched out the project direction and paper outline, and did […]

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WhatsApp Launches Private Processing to Enable AI Features While Protecting Message Privacy

Apr 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection Popular messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday unveiled a new technology called Private Processing to enable artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in a privacy-preserving manner. “Private Processing will allow users to leverage powerful optional AI features – like summarizing unread messages or editing help – while preserving WhatsApp’s core […]

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