Cryptocurrency market shed $100 billion amid concerns of US government shutdown

Approximately $100 billion was wiped from the cryptocurrency market late Sunday as uncertainty over the possibility of another partial U.S. government shutdown caused traders to sell. Senate Democrats threatened to block the funding measure if it included money for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after a federal agent shot…

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If the Greenland Agreement collapses, could the EU sell US government bonds?

The United States’ geopolitical brinkmanship over Greenland has highlighted its economic relationship with the EU. European countries are considering what tools they have to counter U.S. belligerence, including the “nuclear option” of forgiving U.S. debt. After the purported “Framework of Agreement” at Davos, the tone has changed and US ambitions to occupy Greenland have so…

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OCC advances application for authorization of President Trump-backed WLF bank

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said political or personal financial ties will not influence its procedural review of World Liberty Financial’s banking charter application. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has rejected a proposal by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren to suspend the review of World Liberty Financial’s application for national…

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2026 Time Series Toolkit: Five Fundamental Models for Autonomous Forecasting

2026 Time Series Toolkit: Five Fundamental Models for Autonomous ForecastingImage by author introduction Most predictive work involves building custom models for each dataset. In other words, apply ARIMA here, adjust LSTM, prophethyperparameters. The Foundation model reverses this. They are pre-trained on large amounts of time series data and can predict new patterns without additional training….

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Why it’s important to move beyond overly aggregated machine learning metrics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

MIT researchers have identified significant instances in which machine learning models fail when applied to data other than the one they were trained on, raising questions about the need to test models each time they are introduced into a new environment. “Even if you train a model on a large amount of data and choose…

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Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Model Deployment with FastAPI

In this article, learn how to use FastAPI to package trained machine learning models behind a clean, well-validated HTTP API, from training to local testing to basic production hardening. Topics covered include: Train, save, and load scikit-learn pipelines for inference Build FastAPI apps with strict input validation with Pydantic Publish, test, and harden predictive endpoints…

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Digital asset vaults that only lead to misunderstandings

Opinion: Mike Maloney, Chairman, Digital Asset Infrastructure and Financial Strategy Company 21 Vault Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) began in 2020 with Strategic’s decision to buy and hold Bitcoin (BTC). This fateful decision created a Treasury with a market capitalization of more than $80 billion. Many companies have begun replicating this buy-and-hold approach. These new DATs…

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