Running large language models (LLMs) at 100K–200K+ context is still brutally expensive. Even architectures that use sparse attention hit new bottlenecks once sequence lengths grow into the hundreds of thousands of tokens. A new technique from researchers at Tsinghua University… Read More »IndexCache: How Reusing Sparse Attention Indices Speeds Up Long-Context LLM Inference
Bitcoin’s latest pullback is being driven by two forces colliding at the same moment: a sharp macro risk-off move and one of the largest crypto options expiries on record. What Just Happened to Bitcoin and Ethereum? Bitcoin has been hit… Read More »Bitcoin Slides as Macro Turmoil and $14 Billion Options Expiry Hit at Once
Bitcoin’s latest pullback toward $65,000 is being driven less by crypto‑native news and more by a sharp reset in the macro backdrop. A fresh delay in US military action against Iran has kept oil prices elevated, pushed Treasury yields to… Read More »Bitcoin Slides Toward $65K as Middle East Tensions Send Oil and Dollar Higher
The enterprise voice AI market is consolidating around a few powerful vendors, most of whom operate closed, API-first platforms. Into that landscape, Mistral AI has introduced Voxtral TTS, a text-to-speech model that aims to match or exceed leading proprietary systems… Read More »Mistral’s Voxtral TTS Challenges ElevenLabs With Open-Weight, Enterprise-Ready Voice AI
Intercom is making a pointed claim to SaaS and support leaders: in customer service, a tightly focused, post-trained model can now outperform general-purpose frontier AI. With Fin Apex 1.0, the 15‑year‑old customer service platform is betting that deep domain specialization—not… Read More »Intercom’s Fin Apex 1.0 Shows How Domain-Specific AI Can Beat Frontier Models in Customer Support
Tether’s USDT has grown into the dominant dollar token in crypto despite a persistent, high‑profile weakness: it had never passed a full, independent audit. That gap is now starting to close. On Mar. 24, Tether said it has formally engaged… Read More »Tether Finally Lands a Big Four Audit: What It Means for USDT and Crypto Markets
In less than four months, crypto has gone from being treated as a recurring enforcement headache in Washington to a market that federal regulators are structurally reorganizing around. A rapid sequence of formal committees, memorandums of understanding, interpretive releases, and… Read More »Inside Washington’s Quiet Power Shift on Crypto Regulation
Anthropic has taken a significant step in the race to build practical AI agents, giving its Claude assistant the ability to directly operate a user’s Mac. For paying customers, Claude is no longer just a chatbot: it can now click,… Read More »Anthropic’s Claude Learns to Use Your Mac: Powerful AI Agents, Real-World Risks
OpenAI is abruptly winding down Sora, its flagship AI video generation product, in a move that signals a decisive shift away from consumer-facing media tools and toward robotics, real‑world simulation, and a consolidated “super app” strategy. The shutdown covers both… Read More »OpenAI Shutters Sora as It Pivots From AI Video to Robotics and a ‘Super App’ Strategy
Strategy, the firm formerly known as MicroStrategy, has quietly set up one of the largest potential Bitcoin buying war chests in public markets. A new at-the-market (ATM) securities filing expands its active issuance capacity to more than $64 billion, largely… Read More »How Strategy’s $64B Bitcoin Buying Plan Uses High-Yield Funding to Target BTC Upside
Kentucky’s latest attempt to crack down on cryptocurrency kiosk scams has unexpectedly put the state’s own pro–self-custody stance under pressure. A late-added amendment to House Bill 380 (HB 380) would require hardware wallet providers to help users reset passwords and… Read More »Kentucky Bill HB 380 Raises Fears of Backdoor ‘Recovery’ in Crypto Hardware Wallets
VentureBeat’s flagship enterprise AI event, Transform 2026, is putting autonomous agents and agentic AI orchestration at the center of its Innovation Showcase. For founders and product leaders building serious enterprise agent platforms, this is a chance to put your technology… Read More »Transform 2026 calls for breakthrough agentic AI: How to get your autonomous agents on stage