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XRP futures filing made under CFTC’s self-certification process. Ripple paid $50 million in SEC settlement last month. Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, and others filed for XRP ETFs Coinbase has taken another major step in expanding its derivatives offerings by seeking regulatory approval to launch an XRP futures contract. The US-based crypto exchange submitted documentation on Thursday to the Commodity Futures Trading … Read More

Coinbase is seeking FDIC docs on crypto ‘pause letters’. The lawsuit has resumed after the FDIC’s transparency fell short. History Associates has also filed a motion to lift a stay in its own FOIA case against the FDIC. Coinbase, a leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange, has filed a motion in the D.C. District Court to revive its Freedom of Information Act … Read More

Coinbase now controls 11.42% of staked ETH, becoming Ethereum’s top node operator. Coinbase validators have achieved 99.75% uptime, surpassing network averages and boosting efficiency. ETH price briefly surged above $2K but struggled to hold gains amid market pressure. Coinbase has emerged as the largest individual node operator on the Ethereum network, managing 11.42% of the total staked Ether (ETH). This … Read More

Coinbase lists ZORA under Experimental Label on 25 April. ZORA debuted via airdrop and Binance Alpha two days earlier. Supported by KuCoin, Bitget, Gate.io, MEXC, and Bitrue Coinbase has officially listed ZORA, a content tokenisation cryptocurrency launched just two days prior, marking another step in its strategy to support early-stage blockchain projects. Alongside ZORA, Mantle (MNT) was added to the … Read More

Jamillah Knowles / Data People / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Grace Stanley Researchers at Cornell Tech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in AI-generated content. The team collected metadata and community rules from the online communities, known as … Read More

In their paper Reducing Leximin Fairness to Utilitarian Optimization, Eden Hartman, Yonatan Aumann, Avinatan Hassidim and Erel Segal-Halevi present a scheme for addressing social choice problems. In this interview, Eden tells us more about such problems, the team’s methodology, and why this is such a fascinating and challenging area for study. What is the topic of the research in your … Read More

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. Co-design with Pinar Guvenc This episode we’re chatting with Pinar Guvenc about her “What’s Wrong With” podcast, co-design, whether AI is ready for society and society … Read More

By David Poole, University of British Columbia In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic language models were largely derided, most famously by linguist Noam Chomsky: “The notion of ‘probability of a sentence’ is an entirely … Read More

In a series of interviews, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. In this latest interview, we hear from Amina Mević who is applying machine learning to semiconductor manufacturing. Find out more about her PhD research so far, what makes this field so interesting, and how she found the AAAI Doctoral … Read More

Fritzchens Fritz / GPU shot etched 5 / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 In this blog post, Dominik Vrabič Dežman provides a summary of his recent research article, ‘Promising the future, encoding the past: AI hype and public media imagery‘. Dominik sheds light on the importance of the Better Images of AI library which fosters a more informed, nuanced public understanding … Read More