Bitcoin 25-Delta Put-Call Skew Widens Amid Market Consolidation
TL;DR Bitcoin options positioning has shifted toward downside protection, according to Deribit and Block Scholes references. The repaired source batch…
Bitcoin Slips Below $59,000 Following May PCE Inflation Report
TL;DR Bitcoin fell below the $59,000 threshold as macro pressure returned to crypto markets. The BEA reported May PCE inflation…
Trump says Iran violated ceasefire with drone attacks on Strait of Hormuz ships
The International Maritime Organization earlier paused efforts to evacuate ships and seafarers stranded in the Strait of Hormuz after a…
Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3
Picture this: a compliance officer needs a specific clause during an audit, an attorney needs contract terms while a client…
Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 11: Overfitting in RAG evaluation
Why memorizing for the exam doesn’t mean you understand the subject The post Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 11: Overfitting…
David Autor named head of the Department of Economics
David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of…
BitGo Implements 15% Workforce Reduction In Shift To AI Infrastructure
TL;DR BitGo reportedly cut around 15% of its workforce. The move is described as a one-time strategic realignment. The repaired…
Oman Launches Mandatory National Bitcoin Mining Pool In State-Backed Push
TL;DR Oman has launched Omanhash.om, a state-supervised national Bitcoin mining pool. The pool is described as mandatory for licensed Bitcoin…
Deribit Settles $10 Billion June Quarterly Options Expiry
TL;DR Deribit settled a combined BTC and ETH options expiry worth about $10.63 billion, according to the repaired batch. The…
U.S. crude oil falls below $70, resuming losses after attack on cargo ship near Oman
Oil extended declines on Friday, with markets focused any further breakthroughs in the Middle East conflict, while absorbing a flurry…
Amplify the Expert: A Philosophy for Building Enterprise RAG
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M1] – The thesis behind every architectural choice in this series The post Amplify the Expert:…
LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details
Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you’re asked to help a new trainee…
CoinShares Survey: 52% Of UK Advisers Face Major Crypto Visibility Gap
TL;DR CoinShares surveyed 261 wealth management professionals for The Silent Portfolio. 52% of UK advisers reported a management gap above…
Polymarket annualized revenue surpasses $1 billion six weeks after its U.S. exchange launch
World Cup trading and the end of its U.S. waitlist are driving rapid growth for Polymarket’s prediction market platform.
How to Ace Data and ML Behavioural Interviews
How to smash through data / ML behavioural interviews The post How to Ace Data and ML Behavioural Interviews appeared…
CLARITY Act July Senate Schedule Stalled Amid Housing Bill Veto Standoff
TL;DR The CLARITY Act remains on the Senate calendar, but timing is fluid. A separate housing-bill standoff is adding pressure…
Shipping rebounds in Strait of Hormuz one week after U.S.-Iran deal – but fragile confidence threatens recovery
Shipping traffic through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz is recovering one week after the U.S. and Iran signed an…
Meet container: Apple’s Open-Source Swift Tool for Running Linux Containers as Lightweight VMs on Apple Silicon
Apple research team recently released the container project. It is an open-source command-line tool written in Swift. It creates and…
U.S.-Iran peace deal grants access to Tehran’s nuclear sites, UN watchdog says
“The technical work has started, and we hope to be there soon,” IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said at a news…
UN agency pauses Hormuz ship evacuation plan after first vessel attack under peace deal
The pause follows a container ship being struck near the coast of Oman on Thursday, with a U.S. official saying…
Rescuers search rubble for survivors as Venezuela earthquakes kill at least 188
Nearly 1,500 people have been injured after two seven-plus magnitude shallow quakes hit seconds apart.
Bitcoin ETP Flows Turn Negative For First Time Since 2023, K33 Reports
Institutional Bitcoin demand is showing fresh signs of fatigue, with K33 Research reportedly flagging a record drawdown in global Bitcoin…
Iran behind attack on cargo vessel near Oman in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. official tells MS NOW
“The only crop we’re harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in…
Coinbase Open To More Acquisitions After $2.9B Deribit Deal Closes, CEO Says
Coinbase may not be finished shopping after its Deribit acquisition. The exchange’s chief executive has signalled that the company remains…
DeFi Total Value Locked Plunges 39% In 2026 As Yields Cool Down
Decentralized finance is going through a reset after another stretch of shrinking liquidity. Aggregate DeFi total value locked has reportedly…
CFTC Sues Kentucky To Shield Kalshi And Polymarket Event Contracts
The regulatory fight over prediction markets has moved into another federal courtroom, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission suing Kentucky…
Aave Proposes Cross-Chain Deployment For Yield-Bearing sGHO Stablecoin
Aave governance is weighing a proposal to bring savings GHO, or sGHO, across chains, a move that could make the…
Prediction Market Kalshi Reportedly Seeks New Funding At $40 Billion Valuation
Kalshi is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a valuation of around $40 billion, a striking figure that shows how quickly…
Vector RAG Isn’t Enough — I Built a Context Graph Layer for Multi-Agent Memory
I benchmarked raw chat history, vector-only RAG, and a context graph on the same multi-agent conversations. The results exposed a…
MIT in the media: Exploring how curiosity-driven science is an essential ingredient in America’s success
Over the past 80 years, America’s bold, sustained investment in scientific research, and the discoveries, ideas and innovations that flowed from…
Legal Context Protocol Aims To Give AI Agent Payments A Dispute Layer
The American Arbitration Association’s Legal Context Protocol is being pitched as a legal wrapper for autonomous AI agent payments and…
Ripple And SBI Launch RLUSD Stablecoin In Japan After Regulatory Approval
Ripple’s dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin is now available in Japan through SBI VC Trade, adding a regulated Asian market to Ripple’s…
Earthquake is devastating blow to Venezuela at time of uncertainty
The twin quakes come less than six months after Venezuela’s then-leader Nicolás Maduro was seized by US forces.
Retrofit, don’t rebuild: Agentic overlays for transforming legacy enterprise services
The opinions expressed in this post are the authors’ views and not those of Cisco. Enterprise architectures have long been…
The Hot Path Belongs to GBDTs, Agents Own the Cold Path: A Payment-Fraud Benchmark
A reproducible benchmark on latency, cost, and reproducibility, and where agents actually earn their keep. The post The Hot Path…
DeepReinforce Releases Ornith-1.0: An Open-Source Coding Model Family That Learns Its Own RL Scaffolds
DeepReinforce has released Ornith-1.0, an open-source model family built for agentic coding. The lineup spans four sizes, from a 9B…
Polish Crypto Exchange Kanga Obtains Latvian MiCA License For EU Expansion
Polish-founded crypto exchange Kanga has reportedly secured a Latvian MiCA license, giving the company a regulatory route to offer crypto-asset…
TRM Labs Says CoinEx Processed $3.84 Billion In Iran-Linked Crypto Flows
TRM Labs says CoinEx processed billions in Iran-linked crypto flows, putting exchange compliance and sanctions screening back under the spotlight.…
Apple stock drops 5% on MacBook and iPad price hikes due to memory crunch
Tim Cook said last week that Apple would hike prices due to surging memory and storage costs.
3 Agents. 3 LLMs. 1 Aging GPU: Engineering Parallel Inference on Bare Metal
Beat the 8GB VRAM limit. Learn how to run three different LLMs on a single 8GB GPU using C++ layer…
Grayscale Says Revenue-Generating Crypto Protocols Look Attractively Valued
Grayscale says several revenue-generating crypto protocols may be trading at attractive valuations as regulatory clarity becomes a bigger market catalyst.…
Letting an LLM Pick the Right RAG Page: The Arbiter Pattern at the End of Retrieval
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7C] – One LLM call ranks the candidates with reasons. The output is one typed object…
House Democrats Press SEC For Answers On AI Investment Advisers
House Democrats are pressing the SEC on AI-powered investment advisers, highlighting regulatory anxiety around automated financial advice and algorithmic conflicts.…
Bitcoin Flushes Below $60,000 As Crypto Liquidations Top $1 Billion
Bitcoin’s drop toward the $59,000 area triggered a fresh leverage flush, with CoinGlass data showing heavy futures liquidations across the…
ICE And OKX Tokenized Equities Venture Shows Wall Street Moving On-Chain
ICE and OKX’s tokenized assets joint venture points to a deeper push by traditional exchange infrastructure into tokenized equities and…
Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed’s preferred gauge shows
The personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to show a 4.1% annual increase.
One Month Into Learning Data Engineering in Public: Here’s What I Didn’t Write About
A reflection on the first month of learning data engineering in public, and what actually kept me going. The post…
World Network Agentkit Links Verified Humans To Autonomous AI Agents
World Network’s Agentkit is aimed at giving autonomous AI agents a verifiable human owner, adding an identity layer to agentic…
Chevron says no quick fix for gas prices as Trump takes on Big Oil: ‘It’s going to take time’
Her comments come shortly after President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Big Oil, accusing them of “gouging” consumers.
Micron stock jumps over 16% in premarket trading after blockbuster earnings
The company’s revenue more than quadrupled from $9.3 billion a year earlier to $41.46 billion, it reported on Wednesday