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It's a huge week for crypto in D.C. But the industry may not get everything it wants

cnbc.com Greta Reich Emily Wilkins 2026-01-20 22:49:08

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 27, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters It's "Crypto Week" in Washington. The cryptocurrency industry is set to notch a major win this week if the House can pass two bills that would set up a long-lobbied-for regulatory framework for digital assets. The stablecoin bill, known as the GENUIS Act, has already passed the Senate and looks set to become the first standalone crypto measure signed into law should the House do the same. But the real

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Tesla’s Model Y debuts in India priced at a hefty $70,000 as the EV maker 'tests the waters'

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-21 17:38:17

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, logo of Tesla is displayed on a mobile phone screen in front of the Indian flag in Ankara, Turkiye on November 28, 2023. Cem Genco | Anadolu | Getty Images Tesla has made its long-awaited debut in India, where it will sell its electric SUV, the Model Y, starting at $69,770, a significant markup from other major markets, its website showed Tuesday. The sales launch comes the same day the American el

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Sony phones are disappearing across key markets: Is the Xperia era coming to an end?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-21 21:55:47

Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority TL;DR Sony may be on the verge of completely exiting the European market. The company has already confirmed a full retreat from Finland, but its devices are no longer available through official channels in multiple European countries. Sony’s smartphone presence looks just as weak outside of Europe, with the mobile phone category completely wiped off from its US website. Sony may be heading toward a full retreat from the smartphone market, with clear signs

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IDC: Emerging markets helped Apple offset iPhone slowdown in China during Q2

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-22 08:04:36

During the second quarter of 2025, Apple saw a modest gain in iPhone shipments, holding its worldwide ground amid slowing demand in China. Here are IDC’s preliminary numbers for the quarter. Emerging markets offset Apple’s China dip, while Samsung pulls ahead IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker (via AppleInsider) shows that Apple shipped 46.4 million iPhones in Q2 2025 (up 1.5% year-over-year). That was enough to secure second place globally, behind Samsung’s 58 million units, and a

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Mortgage Rate Predictions: Here's Why Rates Are Staying High in July

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 16:17:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET After the rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage dipped to around 6.7% (its lowest level in months), prospective homebuyers jumped to take advantage. Before the July 4 holiday weekend, mortgage loan applications increased 9.4% week over week, per the Mortgage Bankers Association. Homeowners also seized on refinancing, with refinance activity 56% higher than the same time last year. But the reprieve di

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AI agent benchmarks are broken

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Kang 2026-01-25 14:06:32

Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development. As AI agents move from research demos to mission-critical applications, researchers and practitioners are building benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities and limitations. These AI agent benchmarks are significantly more complex than traditional AI benchmarks in task formulation (e.g., often requiring a simulator of realistic scenarios) and evaluation (e.g., no

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AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Kang 2026-01-26 08:06:32

Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development. As AI agents move from research demos to mission-critical applications, researchers and practitioners are building benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities and limitations. These AI agent benchmarks are significantly more complex than traditional AI benchmarks in task formulation (e.g., often requiring a simulator of realistic scenarios) and evaluation (e.g., no

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Crypto Is on Fire as Bitcoin Nears $120K in Unstoppable Surge

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-26 22:19:52

Bitcoin is surging once again. And this time, the climb feels different. The world’s largest cryptocurrency continued its dizzying ascent on Friday, smashing through multiple symbolic price thresholds in a matter of hours and setting a new all-time high for the second consecutive day. After crossing $112,000 on Wednesday, Bitcoin has barely paused. On Thursday and Friday morning, it blew past $113,000, then $114,000, then $115,000, before jumping to $116,000, $117,000, and finally $118,909 as

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Apple Has Big Vision Pro Plans for 2027, Including Smart Glasses, Analyst Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-26 22:32:03

Apple will release multiple head-mounted AR and VR products in 2027, according to respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities. An upgraded Vision Pro headset will also drop later this year, the report last week said. There are three Vision series products currently in development, along with four pairs of smart glasses. A Ray-Ban Meta-style smart glasses product will see 3 million to 5 million shipments in 2027. Apple expects to ship more than 10 million AR/VR products in 2027

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Trump hosts Jensen Huang at White House as Nvidia tops $4 trillion market cap

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-26 22:42:52

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an 'Investing in America' event in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, CNBC's Megan Cassella reported. The meeting comes as Nvidia rose slightly on Thursday, becoming the first company to close a trading day with a market cap over $4 trillion, beating Apple and Microsoft to the symbolic milestone. Nvidia touched the mark briefl

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Linda Yaccarino briefly loses verified X checkmark after stepping down as CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-01-27 02:27:21

X Corp's CEO Linda Yaccarino looks on during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024. Ex-X CEO Linda Yaccarino is still @lindayaX on the social media site, but she briefly lost the blue checkmark next to her account name. The X Help Center notes that the site "may remove the checkmark of an account at any time without notice." Yaccarino announced she was leaving the position on Wednesday. The blue che

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AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-27 08:59:26

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The AWS agent marketplace launch will take place at the AWS Summit in New York City on July 15, two people familiar with the development told TechCrunch. AWS and Anthropic did not respond to requests for comments. AI agents are ubiquitous nowadays. And every single investor in Silicon Valley is bullish on startups building them — even if there is so

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Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-27 12:35:49

In Brief After former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger capped off a 40+ year career at the semiconductor giant in December, many wondered where would Gelsinger go next. On Thursday, the former Intel CEO revealed one piece of his next chapter: trying to ensure AI models support a flourishing humanity. In partnership with a “faith tech” company he first invested in roughly 10 years ago called Gloo, Gelsinger launched a new benchmark — Flourishing AI, or FAI — to test how well AI models align with certain

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Trump to host Jensen Huang at White House as Nvidia tops $4 trillion market cap

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-27 17:22:57

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers remarks next to U.S. President Donald Trump at an 'Investing in America' event in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, CNBC's Megan Cassella reported. The meeting comes as Nvidia rose slightly on Thursday, becoming the first company to close a trading day with a market cap over $4 trillion, beating Apple and Microsoft to the symbolic milestone. Nvidia touched the mark

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Linda Yaccarino loses verified X checkmark after stepping down as CEO

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-01-28 03:27:56

X Corp's CEO Linda Yaccarino looks on during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024. Ex-X CEO Linda Yaccarino is still @lindayaX on the social media site, but she's lost the blue checkmark next to her account name. The X Help Center notes that the site "may remove the checkmark of an account at any time without notice." Yaccarino announced she was leaving the position on Wednesday. The blue checkmark

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Authorities arrest four hackers linked to UK retail hacking spree

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-28 22:53:25

In Brief U.K. authorities confirmed on Thursday they had arrested four individuals for allegedly carrying out a series of hacks earlier this year targeting the British retail sector, including Marks & Spencer, Harrods, and the Co-op. The National Crime Agency said a woman aged 20, two men aged 19, and a youth aged 17, were arrested on Thursday at locations across the U.K. under suspicion of hacking, blackmail, money laundering, and participating in an organized crime group. The suspects weren

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Koala: A benchmark suite for performance-oriented shell-optimization research

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 22:46:47

The Koala Benchmark Suite Benchmarks | Quick Setup | More Info | License For issues and ideas, open a GitHub issue. Koala is a benchmark suite aimed at the characterization of performance-oriented research targeting the POSIX shell. It consists of 14 sets of real-world shell programs from diverse domains ranging from CI/CD and AI/ML to biology and the humanities. They are accompanied by real inputs that facilitate small- and large-scale performance characterization and varying opportunities f

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Nvidia briefly touched $4 trillion market cap for first time

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2026-01-30 12:25:35

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia stock rose on Wednesday lifting the company's market cap briefly past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant that's building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. However, Nvidia stock ended finishing the day only up 1.

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Nvidia Makes History

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-30 09:14:33

Nvidia made history on Wednesday, becoming the first company in the world to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization. This unprecedented milestone solidifies its position as a dominant force in the global economy and a key player in the artificial intelligence revolution. While OpenAI and its viral chatbot ChatGPT might be the public face of AI, Wall Street looks to Nvidia as the true barometer of this transformative technology. Nvidia designs and manufactures the advanced graphics processing

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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 22:35:15

On Wednesday, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach $4 trillion market valuation as shares rose more than 2 percent, reports CNBC. The GPU maker's stock has climbed 22 percent since the start of 2025, continuing a trend driven by demand for AI hardware following ChatGPT's late 2022 launch. The milestone marks the highest market cap ever recorded for a publicly traded company, surpassing Apple's previous record of $3.8 trillion set in December. Nvidia first crossed $2 trillion in F

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Nvidia Makes History: The World’s First $4 Trillion Company Is Here

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-31 03:14:33

Nvidia made history on Wednesday, becoming the first company in the world to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization. This unprecedented milestone solidifies its position as a dominant force in the global economy and a key player in the artificial intelligence revolution. While OpenAI and its viral chatbot ChatGPT might be the public face of AI, Wall Street looks to Nvidia as the true barometer of this transformative technology. Nvidia designs and manufactures the advanced graphics processing

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Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2026-01-31 10:45:54

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia stock jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, lifting the company's market cap past $4 trillion for the first time as investors scooped up shares of the tech giant building the bulk of the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this

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Nvidia becomes world's first $4tn company

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-31 17:56:18

Nvidia becomes world's first $4tn company Nvidia has become the first company in the world to reach a market value of $4tn. Shares in the chip-maker rose by as much as 2.4% to $164 on Wednesday, as the company continues to benefit from the ongoing surge in demand for the tech that powers artificial intelligence (AI). The US-based company reached a market value of $1tn for the first time in June 2023, and has continued to climb rapidly since. "This is a historical moment for Nvidia", tech ana

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PR is your scaling power: Learn from Insight Partners’ Nikki Parker at TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-01-31 17:15:00

PR and marketing are more than just press releases — they’re powerful tools for attracting investors, customers, and top talent. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15, Nikki Parker, EVP of Marketing and Communications at global software investor Insight Partners, will break down the essential PR and marketing strategies every startup needs. From crafting compelling narratives and positioning your company for growth and fundraising to building a brand that stands out in a crowded market, this round

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Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 15:07:44

RN Maps Clustering A modern, performant, and fully-typed map clustering library for React Native. Built on top of the battle-tested supercluster library, RN Maps Clustering provides a simple, declarative API for adding beautiful and efficient marker clustering to your react-native-maps components. ✨ Features High Performance: Leverages supercluster for lightning-fast clustering of thousands of points. Leverages for lightning-fast clustering of thousands of points. Fully Typed: Written entire

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IDC: Mac shipments up 21% in Q2, but U.S. sales stalled ahead of tariff deadline

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-02 03:28:11

According to a preliminary report issued by IDC today, Apple saw the strongest year-over-year growth during Q2 compared to its closest competitors in the PC market, except in the U.S., where sales basically flatlined. Here are the details Based on today’s numbers, Apple outpaced the competition by a lot, with 21.4% growth year-over-year. However, it came up once again in fourth place with 9.1% market share. In practice, that translated to 6.2 million PCs shipped worldwide, up from 5.1 million

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Volodymyr Zelensky’s Clothing Has Sparked a Polymarket Rebellion

wired.com Joel Khalili 2026-02-02 08:18:34

Did Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky wear a suit? It should be a simple question, but a dispute over the answer has torn apart bettors on the gambling site Polymarket. With a collective $210 million on the line, some claim to have been denied their rightful winnings. Polymarket is a platform that allows users to gamble cryptocurrency on the outcome of a particular event, ranging from sports games to election outcomes to niche wagers on movie box office results. Each individual prediction ma

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Marks & Spencer chair refuses to say if retailer paid hackers after ransomware attack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-02-03 12:18:23

In Brief The chairman of U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer declined to tell a panel of lawmakers whether the company paid a hacking group following a ransomware attack earlier this year. “We’ve said that we are not discussing any of the details of our interaction with the threat actor,” said chairman Archie Norman, referring to the ransom payment. “We don’t think it’s in the public interest to go into that subject partly because it is a matter of law enforcement.” Norman said that “nobody” at

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 22:00:53

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work for your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-tim

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July Mortgage Forecast: Will Interest Rates Budge This Summer?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-04 15:52:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was around 6.7% on Monday, down roughly 0.25% from the previous month, according to Bankrate data. Despite the recent decline in rates, forecasts for the housing market have remained unchanged. Mortgage rates, linked to the bond market, have been stuck in limbo between 6.5% and 7% for months. President Trump's on-and-off-again tariffs, stock market sw

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It's a huge week for crypto in D.C. But the industry may not get everything it wants

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AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

Trump to host Jensen Huang at White House as Nvidia tops $4 trillion market cap

Linda Yaccarino loses verified X checkmark after stepping down as CEO

Authorities arrest four hackers linked to UK retail hacking spree

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July Mortgage Forecast: Will Interest Rates Budge This Summer?

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