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Coinbase will halt the trading of FLOKI, TURBO, and GIGA in New York on April 14, 2025. The decision sparked debate on accessibility and regulatory challenges for memecoins. FLOKI and GIGA prices have dropped, while the TURBO coin price has seen a modest surge. Coinbase Inc., a leading US cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that trading for three trending memecoins—Floki Inu … Read More

Science communication is an invaluable skill for researchers. It can help demystify AI for a broad range of people including policy makers, business leaders, and the public. In a panel session at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Michael Wooldridge and Toby Walsh talked with Peter Stone about lessons they’ve learnt from communicating about AI with different … Read More

In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In the third of our interviews with … Read More

Coinbase will launch the 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures products on its CFTC-regulated futures exchange Coinbase Derivatives. The exchange also plans for a perpetual-style futures contract. Coinbase is looking to tap into the growing demand for crypto trading with a round-the-clock futures offering for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The exchange, the largest regulated US-based provider, will offer the BTC … Read More

Fritzchens Fritz / Better Images of AI / GPU shot etched 2 / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Kevin Witzenberger, Queensland University of Technology and Michael Richardson, UNSW Sydney After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in products, and cancelling data centre leases. Google … Read More

Image taken from the front cover of the Future of AI Research report. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), has published a report on the Future of AI Research. The report, which was announced by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi during the AAAI 2025 conference, covers 17 different AI topics and aims to clearly identify the trajectory … Read More

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton. Image credit: Association for Computing Machinery. The Association for Computing Machinery, has named Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The pair have received the honour for “developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning”. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and … Read More

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), which took place in Philadelphia, drew to a close on Tuesday 4 March. We take a look at what attendees got up to during the second half of the event, which featured invited talks, technical sessions, demos, posters, and the workshops. Outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi also announced the released … Read More

Crypto market prices have dipped following US President Donald Trump’s proposed crypto strategic reserve because it holds more than Bitcoin Trump announced on Sunday, the reserve would hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano Matt Hougan, Bitwise’s CIO, lists three factors the market isn’t considering following the news Bitwise’s CIO has said that US President Donald Trump’s news about a … Read More

Static image taken from video (shown below). Left: a platinum nanoparticle imaged via electron microscopy. Right: using AI-based method to remove the noise. By Patricia Waldron A team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles. The work, reported in Visualizing Nanoparticle Surface Dynamics and Instabilities Enabled by Deep Denoising, in the journal Science, combines … Read More