The French Senate has passed the 2025 budget, which includes a tax on the "unproductive wealth" of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The tax will be levied annually on unrealized gains on cryptoassets, meaning that cryptocurrency holders will be taxed even if they do not sell their assets. The proposal is currently awaiting a vote by the National Assembly.
Apple on Monday released software updates for iPhone, iPads and Macs that enable Apple Intelligence by default for devices that support Apple's artificial intelligence. These updates include iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3, as well as disabling AI summaries in the News app for distorting news feed notifications and generating fake summaries. Apple Intelligence is still in official beta and is only available in a few English-speaking countries. Enabling artificial intelligence by def...
"Sui is about to launch the ability to transact via SMS, bringing payments, DeFi, rewards and more to everyone around the world," Mysten Labs co-founder Adeniyi said in a social media post.
White House artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency director David Sacks said the appearance of DeepSeek R1 shows that the artificial intelligence race will be very fierce, and Trump is right to revoke Biden's executive order, because Biden's executive order shackles American artificial intelligence companies.
The TON Core team will roll out updates in the first half of 2025, including: a large "accelerator" kernel update on the mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operations, pending, emulation, domains); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network Layer 2; sidechain research; new features in TOLK 1.0 (structures, pattern matching, smart contracts); support for $TON $BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signature...
The Dallas Federal Reserve Business Activity Index in January was 14.1, with the previous value revised to 4.5 from 3.4.
The Dallas Federal Reserve Business Activity Index recorded 14.1 in January, the highest since October 2021.
DeepSeek announced on the service status page that registration is currently limited to Chinese mainland mobile phone numbers.