In just hours, Netflix lost more than 6 million subscribers.

ChatGPT leads the AI market with 25 million searches monthly, while Google’s Gemini lags far behind with only 1.5 million searches, highlighting a significant gap in interest. As the AI landscape evolves, users prefer established names, making it challenging for newer models to gain traction.

Tesla’s "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) technology is rapidly evolving, showcasing impressive capabilities. With each software iteration, it can perform more advanced driving maneuvers, but despite the excitement surrounding these developments, Tesla's FSD continues to lag in critical areas compared to competitors like Waymo and Cruise. Independent tests reveal significant shortcomings in both safety and reliability, suggesting that Tesla’s FSD may still have a long way to go before it can truly rival more mature autonomous systems.

In 1994, Florida jewelry designer Diana Duyser claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary’s face on a grilled cheese sandwich—a discovery she famously auctioned off for $28,000. While the incident made headlines, it also brought attention to an ancient psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia, where people perceive faces or patterns in inanimate objects. But what exactly triggers this tendency, and can machines, with their advancing capabilities, ever experience pareidolia in the same way humans do?

For decades, the pinnacle of financial success on Wall Street was epitomized by investment banking giants like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. These traditional powerhouses dominated the landscape, influencing markets and guiding the financial world through a blend of expertise, institutional muscle, and global reach. But in recent years, the script has flipped. A new generation of tech-driven trading firms—such as Citadel Securities, Jane Street, and Susquehanna International Group—has quietly risen to outpace the old guard, forever transforming the financial industry.

Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, has announced his move to Anthropic, a prominent artificial intelligence (AI) research lab. Kingma shared the news via posts on the social platform X (formerly Twitter), stating that he would be working primarily from his base in the Netherlands, though he did not specify which department or project he would be joining at Anthropic.

Social media platforms, especially Snapchat, are significantly influencing young consumers' purchasing decisions through creator-driven marketing, with 82% of Gen Z buying products because of influencers. As Facebook declines in effectiveness, brands must adapt to these shifts by fostering genuine connections and embracing creativity in their marketing strategies.

The U.S. dollar surged to a one-month high against the yen on Thursday, driven by strong U.S. jobs data and a decisive shift in Japan’s economic stance. The robust performance of the U.S. labor market has bolstered the notion that the Federal Reserve may not need to cut interest rates aggressively, while the yen weakened sharply following remarks from Japan’s new Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, suggesting the country is not prepared for further rate hikes.

Bank of America recently faced a nationwide outage, leaving users unable to access their accounts and discovering a $0 balance. Customers were alarmed by the absence of their funds while their outstanding debts remained visible. Fears among users regarding the potential loss of their assets runs rampant.

Polyhedra Network has officially released the first set of benchmarks on Proof Arena, a cutting-edge platform designed to compare zero-knowledge provers.

OKX벤처스가 네이티브 비트코인 디파이 프로토콜 DLC.Link에 투자했다고 복수 미디어가 전했다. 서드파티 리스크 없이 dlcBTC를 민팅할 수 있는 게 특징이다. 구체적인 투자액은 알려지지 않았다.

OKX Ventures announces investment in native Bitcoin DeFi protocol DLC.Link. DLC.Link is a groundbreaking project that aims to bring the power and innovation of DeFi to the Bitcoin ecosystem without compromising on security, decentralization or user experience. DLC.Link partners with institutions (called “dlcBTC merchants”) to mint dlcBTC, a decentralized wrapper for Bitcoin. Unlike other forms of encapsulated Bitcoin, dlcBTC does not require the Bitcoins to be held in trust with a custodian or bridged to another blockchain. Dora, founder of OKX Ventures, said that dlcBTC’s non-custodial packaging allows users to manage their own Bitcoins without worrying about third-party risks, such as asset mismanagement or theft. In addition, its unique token redemption cap mechanism and multi-account decentralized management strategy greatly reduce centralization risks and improve the flexibility of the system. DLC.Link can help users participate in the DeFi ecosystem through self-hosting and introduce widespread user adoption and innovation.

Bison Labs announced the completion of a Pre-Seed round of financing, aiming to create a second-layer Bitcoin network with Trustless and on-chain sovereign Rollup solutions. The round was led by Portal Ventures, with participation from UTXO Fund, Domo (creator of BRC-20), Magic Eden’s Chief Product Officer Linus Chuang, Waterdrip Capital, Bitcoin Startup Labs, Satoshi Lab, and other strategic investors. Bison Labs is a sovereign rollup scheme using ZK proof on Bitcoin, with the smallest trust assumptions and highest security on the market. Unlike existing Layer 2 solutions, Bison Labs prioritizes a trustless system that requires no external trust assumptions through client-side verification and securing assets in co-hosted DLCs. This method ensures security and prevents the key from being leaked. To date, Bison Labs has more than 15 teams building ecological applications on its platform, and is extending its support to EVM and Rust0 VM, as well as CairoVM. Bison Labs CEO Jay emphasized the importance of a native smart contract ecosystem focused on Bitcoin. Unlike many other layer 2 solutions that are designed with a generic "multi-signature" approach, Bison introduces a trustless and node-free way to secure the network. Bison Labs sets a new security standard with client-side verification to directly share a layer of Bitcoin security.

A deeper dive into the design for DLC Markets, LN Market's recently announced DLC based protocol. source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/dlcs-evolving-to-meet-institutional-needs

Bitcoin instant settlement trading platform LN Markets announced the completion of a seed round of financing, with Lemniscap participating. The specific financing amount has not yet been disclosed. In addition, the two parties have also reached a cooperation to provide DLC Markets, a trustless OTC derivatives trading platform for financial institutions. The Discreet Log Contract (DLC) built by LN Markets enables DLC Markets to provide a wide range of applications to manage OTC derivatives trading to reduce counterparty risk.

Bixin Ventures announced its investment in DLC.Link in one of its earliest investment rounds last year. Bixin regards DLC.Link as a strategic solution. The reason why Bixin Ventures strategically invested in DLC.Link in the early seed round is to promote its seamless integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) and solve the problems faced by the Bitcoin ecosystem. challenges.

Street Fighter fans worldwide have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Akuma as the next DLC character in Street Fighter 6. While his inclusion was announced in 2023, the exact release date had been shrouded in mystery, with Capcom merely stating that he would appear in “Spring 2024.”  However, to kick off the new year, […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/capcom-teases-street-fighter-6-dlc-akuma/

Discover the exciting news about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's upcoming DLC release, set to conclude their epic storyline on January 11, 2024. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet/

In the world of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Indigo Disk DLC, completing the Blueberry Pokédex is no easy task. Players must obtain version-exclusive Pokémon to achieve this goal, but what if you don’t own both versions of the game? Fear not, because there’s a solution: Indigo Disk Trade Codes. These codes, curated by Pokemon enthusiast […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-indigo-disk-trade/