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In brief BNB and XRP are currently pulling back, with just a $500 million separating them in market cap. Traders on the Myriad prediction market are split, giving BNB a slight edge over XRP at 55%. Here’s what the charts say. After weeks of trading in parallel, the gap for cryptocurrency’s fourth-largest spot by market…
By Arjun Sethi, Kraken co-CEO The illusion of liquidity It happened in September 2019 when overnight repo rates spiked to 10%. It happened in March 2020 when Treasury markets seized and the world’s benchmark “risk free” asset had no bid. It happened again in March 2023 when regional banks failed and the Fed had to…
In brief A new study shows LLMs can mimic human purchase intent by mapping free-text answers to Likert ratings through semantic similarity. Method achieved 90% of human test–retest reliability on 9,300 real survey responses. The study raises questions about bias, generalization, and how far “synthetic consumers” can stand in for real people. Forget focus groups:…
In brief Reve integrates web browsing, pulling real logos and references directly into edits. Nano Banana sets a new standard for character consistency, but suffers from strict censorship. Qwen 3 Omni Flash excels at multi-element compositions, but lags on subject fidelity. Local models like Flux Kontext or Qwen Image Edit provide full creative freedom without…
In brief Agents that update themselves can drift into unsafe actions without external attacks. A new study documents guardrails weakening, reward-hacking, and insecure tool reuse in top models. Experts warn these dynamics echo small-scale versions of long-imagined catastrophic AI risks. An autonomous AI agent that learns on the job can also unlearn how to behave…
In brief Scientists etched working gear trains on a chip, driven solely by photon momentum. The devices could someday power microfluidic pumps, reconfigurable optics, and tiny surgical tools. Efficiency remains extremely low, making the work an elegant proof-of-concept, not a product. Researchers have built microscopic machines—complete with working gears, racks, and pinions—that run entirely on…
In brief Researchers found $40 million in “risk-free” profits from mispriced markets on Polymarket in one year. Prices on some markets didn’t add up to 100%, letting traders lock in guaranteed gains. The same inefficiencies likely exist on other platforms like Myriad and Kalshi, though arbitrageurs help correct them. A new academic paper suggests there’s…
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new entry in their favorite franchise for years, and it’s finally here. With Grand Theft Auto delayed into next year, that can only mean one thing: Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming, and it’s coming in just a few days. For those who have been patient, this news is…
Solana’s first smartphone, 2023’s Saga, was a big swing for Solana Labs—and initially a miss with consumers, at least until a massive price cut and crypto airdrop incentives drove sudden, sellout demand months after release.Now, the 2.0 model has arrived. The new Seeker serves as an attempt by Solana to deliver a more palatable crypto…
In brief Solana developers are coming together to focus on changing Solana’s market microstructure. The change centers on Application-Controlled Execution, allowing apps to control transaction execution order. Key players believe this focus will help Solana become home to the world’s most liquid markets. Developers and leaders in the Solana ecosystem are uniting around a focused…
