On January 17, AI code editor Cursor announced the completion of $105 million Series B financing, including Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark. This round of funds will be used to expand the team and cutting-edge research, promote the construction of "human-machine collaborative programming" model, and achieve significant improvement in programming efficiency. Today, Cursor has millions of users, edits 1 billion characters daily, and generates over $100 million in revenue, making ...
印度铁路已与 Chaincode Consulting 合作,为 MahaKumbh Mela 节发行基于 NFT 的门票,并与 Polygon 区块链整合以实现可扩展性。NFT 将在 Polygon 区块链上铸造,并通过现实世界资产 (RWA) 和可追溯性平台 NFTtrace 提供。
Listed holding company Sol Strategies (ticker: CYFRF, HODL.CN) announced a $25 million credit line to invest in its SOL token and pledge business. Sol Strategies has withdrawn $4 million of principal from the line of credit and plans to use "the remaining funds to purchase Solana tokens on a large scale to support its pledge operations and acquisitions". The company must use the full amount by January 6, 2027, the statement said. As of December 31, 2024, Sol Strategies had pledged over 150 milli...
The latest code leak for X, Mr. Musk's social platform, hints that its payments system, X Money, may be about to launch. X has secured money transfer licences for its payments subsidiary, X Payments LLC, in 39 US states but not all. X Money will allow users to tip content creators and may integrate cryptocurrency features. Analysts believe that Bitcoin and Dogecoin may be one of the payment options. X CEO Linda Yaccarino has confirmed that the feature will be launched in 2025, but has not confir...
On December 31st, Avalanche startup incubator Codebase announced the Season 2 winning project. The first name is Chiss Protocol, a permissionless, real-time on-chain foreign exchange marketplace that provides seamless cross-currency lending, payments, and transactions. The second place is AutoPen, which has revolutionized digital identity and remote signatures in Argentina, leveraging recent regulatory changes to provide legally binding digital signatures worldwide. The third place is Disgo, a r...
Artificial intelligence company Genius Group (ticker: GNS) announced that it has increased the purchase of its bitcoin reserves by an additional $10 million to 319.4 bitcoins, with a total value of $30 million and an average price of $93,919 per bitcoin. The company announced its "Bitcoin First" strategy on Nov. 12, promising to hold 90% or more of its existing and future reserves in bitcoin with an initial target of $120 million. Within six weeks, the company has purchased $30 million worth of ...
On December 23rd, MicroStrategy Corporation (ticker: MSTR) was officially included in the Nasdaq 100 index today.
On December 23rd, the L1 blockchain aelf launched aevatar intelligence, a codeless AI proxy framework that will be powered by multiple large language models (LLMs). Aevatar intelligence will allow external developers to integrate their preferred LLMs to form a collaborative ecosystem that drives innovation and expands the framework's capabilities. In addition, the official launch of aevatar intelligence's first use case AI pumppad will be launched in early January 2025.
Musk's xAI: We are updating the capabilities of the Grok chatbot with a new autoregressive image generation model codenamed Aurora, which is live on the X platform. (Jin Ten)
Codelco, Chile's state-owned copper company, is stepping up efforts to boost copper production in the hope of reaching its 2024 production target, according to foreign media reports. As the world's largest copper producer, Codelco is struggling to recover from its lowest output in 25 years and hopes to reach about 1.331 million tons of copper by the end of this year, up 0.5% from last year and at the lower end of its target range. Official data will be released in the next few days. Codelco's of...
No-code Telegram Mini Program launcher and cryptocurrency distribution infrastructure SODA announced the completion of a pre-Seed round of financing, led by Gagra Ventures, Kenny Li (founder of Manta Network and p0x Labs), Marat Khichikov (managing partner of Bitfury Group), Seb (founder of Sophon) and Omakase (early contributor to Sushiswap). The specific amount and valuation information have not been disclosed. SODA can support Memecoin developers to use Telegram as a distribution channel. It ...
According to SlowMist Cosine's post on the X platform, a user will send the private key to the phishing website after writing the bot with GPT code. The reason why the private key was stolen is because the private key was sent directly to the phishing website in the HTTP request body. Cosine reminds that when using LLMs such as GPT/Claude, you must pay attention to the general deception of these LLMs. AI poisoning attacks were mentioned before, and now this is a real attack case against the Cryp...
On November 14, OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent tool code-named "Operator", which is scheduled to be released in January 2025. The tool can automate tasks such as writing code or booking trips on users' computers. OpenAI's leadership announced at an internal meeting on Wednesday that the tool would be launched as a research preview and open to developers via an API, according to people familiar with the matter. The plan is part of a broader push by the AI indust...