Bitcoin Surges Past $86,000 as ETF Inflows Return
Bitcoin climbed to an eight-month high above $86,000 amid positive ETF flows, falling oil prices, and renewed risk appetite following regulatory developments.
ECB Launches Pontes for Tokenized Asset Settlement in Central Bank Money
The European Central Bank introduced Pontes, a new system enabling financial institutions to settle tokenized assets directly in central bank money as an alternative to stablecoins.
OpenAI's 10,000 AI Agents Solve Millennium Prize Problem
A swarm of 10,000 AI agents coordinated by OpenAI reportedly solved a Millennium Prize mathematics problem after 88 hours of work, though the achievement has faced external scrutiny.
NVIDIA Develops Technique to Train 100B-Parameter Models on a Single GPU
NVIDIA unveiled MegaTrain, a breakthrough method that enables training massive 100-billion-parameter AI models using just one GPU.
xAI Releases Grok 4.7, But Benchmarks Lag Behind Rivals
xAI launched its most advanced model yet at competitive pricing, yet it scores significantly below leaders like Claude and GPT-6 on independent intelligence indexes.
Vals Startup Aims to Set Neutral Standard for AI Benchmarking
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Vals is building an independent platform to deliver unbiased evaluations of AI models in an industry plagued by self-assessment bias.
NASA Data Reveals New Class of 'Hypersoft' X-ray Cosmic Objects
Using archived Chandra X-ray Observatory data, astronomers discovered a surprising new type of low-energy X-ray beacon in nearby galaxies that could unlock cosmic mysteries.
Hubble and Webb Reveal Trans-Neptunian Objects 'Remember' Their Past
NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes teamed up to study faint, distant objects in the outer solar system, uncovering insights into their colors, compositions, and formation history.
Hubble Spots Out-of-Sync Spiral Galaxy NGC 4698
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a barred spiral galaxy whose central bulge rotates perpendicular to its main disk, revealing unexpected dynamical chaos.
Berlin's Integral Raises $20.6M for AI-Native Accounting Platform
Integral, a Berlin-based startup, secured $20.6 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered tools for accounting, tax, and payroll services for SMEs.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Captures First Test Images
NASA's newly launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope returned its initial star-filled test images, showcasing its power for future dark energy and exoplanet studies.
RBS-Attention Speeds Up Long-Context LLM Inference Without Training
Researchers introduced a training-free sparse attention method that dramatically reduces prefill time for large language models handling long contexts.