Matthew Cagwin, the CFO with a title longer than a Bridgerton episode, spilled the tea at some fancy UBS conference. Apparently, Western Union sees stablecoins as the financial equivalent of a magic wand-poof! Instant transactions, no more hoarding cash like a dragon guarding its gold. 🐉💰
It’s tough for new characters to become popular late in a TV series, but it can work. The introduction of the ‘mother’ on How I Met Your Mother finally paid off after eight seasons of build-up. Other shows have also successfully introduced memorable characters near the end, like Todd Alquist in Breaking Bad and Boon in Justified.
Instead of chasing rainbows and moon shots, O’Leary’s got his eyes on the real puppeteers: the lawmakers and regulators. 🎭 He reckons Washington’s rulebook rewrite is turning the crypto world into a two-horse race, with Bitcoin and Ethereum galloping ahead while the rest of the stable gets left in the mud. 🐎💨
New research shows that smaller artificial intelligence models, enhanced with reasoning abilities, can match the performance of much larger systems in identifying critical risks to children.
Andy Austin decided to try living a week in Night City, but not as the player character, V. Instead, he wanted to experience the city as a typical resident – someone with a modest apartment and a normal job at a restaurant.
Critics, those ever-delightful buzzkills, claimed the platform’s “isolated risk” was about as isolated as a drunk at a wedding-meaning, not at all. Worse yet, whispers of rehypothecation (fancy word for “playing hot potato with collateral”) threatened to turn Solana into a financial domino rally. 💥
And what exactly is Dogecoin? Well, it’s a dog-themed cryptocurrency (obviously). More specifically, it’s the world’s first “dog coin” to be taken somewhat seriously. The logo? A Shiba Inu, that cute little Japanese dog breed who became an online meme sensation. (Because why wouldn’t you choose a meme-worthy dog to represent your multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency, right?)
As of this writing, Worldcoin [WLD] is hanging out at $0.58, which is basically the equivalent of finding a penny on the sidewalk-exciting for a second, then you realize it’s just a penny. 🪙 It’s up 1.0% on the day, but let’s be honest, it’s been on a downward spiral, dropping 7.2% weekly. Yikes. 😬
A new study explores how well traditional machine learning techniques can identify sarcastic comments on Reddit, focusing solely on the text of replies.
Not much else is known right now, but the official account for Geoff Keighley’s event posted a cryptic message on X (formerly Twitter) – “the lion awakens” – with a date of December 11th.