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Trump takes Powell off the chopping block: Why it matters to markets

President Donald Trump, after days of trolling Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for missing the window to cut interest rates and signaling he may lose his job, clarified his plan for the head of the U.S. central bank on Tuesday.  “I have no intention of firing him,” he told reporters at the White House. His

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Crypto

Forget bull or bear — Bitcoin’s in a new era, says onchain analyst James Check

For years, crypto investors have looked to the four-year cycle, anchored around Bitcoin’s halving events, as a kind of sacred roadmap. The theory goes: Every four years, Bitcoin’s supply is cut in half, triggering a bullish frenzy, followed by a euphoric peak, a brutal crash, and then a slow recovery. Rinse, repeat. But what if

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Crypto

Top TRUMP tokenholders revealed? US President to host memecoin dinner

Some of the top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin could come out of the shadows to appear for a dinner the US President is planning to host on May 22. As of April 23, the official Trump memecoin (TRUMP) website offered the opportunity for the “top 220” holders to meet the president in person in

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AT&T leans on bundled plans to beat estimates for subscriber additions

AT&T beat Wall Street estimates for wireless subscriber additions in the first quarter on Wednesday, driven by steady demand for its plans that bundled high-speed fiber services and 5G mobile offerings. The U.S. wireless carrier’s focus on bundling to fend off intense competition in a saturating market and aggressive trade-in offers helped it gain 324,000

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Nvidia

How the Economics of Inference Can Maximize AI Value

As AI models evolve and adoption grows, enterprises must perform a delicate balancing act to achieve maximum value. That’s because inference — the process of running data through a model to get an output — offers a different computational challenge than training a model. Pretraining a model — the process of ingesting data, breaking it

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Crypto

Riot Platforms secures $100M ‘Bitcoin-backed’ loan from Coinbase

Riot Platforms has used its massive Bitcoin stockpile as collateral to secure a $100 million credit facility from Coinbase as the cryptocurrency miner eyes continued expansion.  The $100 million loan from Coinbase’s credit arm marks Riot’s “first Bitcoin-backed facility,” CEO Jason Les said in an April 23 statement. Les said the credit line will be

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Crypto

Blockchain prediction markets offer new hope for scientific validation

Opinion by: Sasha Shilina, PhD, founder of Episteme and researcher at Paradigm Research Institute Decentralized prediction markets are gaining ground in the scientific world, offering an intriguing answer to the field’s ongoing reproducibility crisis. While a notable share of research findings fail to replicate in independent tests, supporters believe market-driven forecasting can speed up identifying

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Crypto

What are XRP futures and how to invest in them?

If you’re following developments in the cryptocurrency market, you’ve likely noticed that Coinbase Derivatives has introduced XRP futures contracts to its US derivatives exchange. This move is part of a broader trend where regulated platforms are expanding access to futures trading, giving investors new ways to engage with digital assets like XRP (XRP). But what

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Crypto

Institutions break up with Ethereum but keep ETH on the hook

Ethereum is entering one of its most precarious periods since its inception. Usage on the base layer is plummeting, core metrics are nearing multi-year lows, and even co-founder Vitalik Buterin is proposing a radical architectural overhaul.  Institutions aren’t waiting to see how it plays out. Blockchain data shows that long-time supporters such as Galaxy Digital

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5 quotes: Elon Musk on robotaxi timeline, Optimus robots, tariffs, energy and Tesla’s future

Elon Musk said the future of the EV maker is autonomous cars and vast numbers of autonomous humanoid robots.  ​Read More

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