Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered prediction market platforms Calsi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to stop offering sporting event contracts to state residents. In a cease-and-desist letter dated Friday, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC) accused all three platforms of illegally offering sports betting products without holding licenses issued under the Tennessee Sports Wagering Act, according…
This failure was the second major network outage in 2025, and both incidents required block reorganization that rolled back some activity. The team behind Starknet, the Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report on Monday outlining the root causes of temporary mainnet downtime. According to the report, the root cause of the…
Artificial intelligence has been in the headlines a lot lately. Rapidly increasing energy demandespecially rapidly increasing Data center power usage Enables training and deployment of modern generative AI models. But it’s not all bad news. Some AI tools have the potential to reduce some types of energy consumption and enable a cleaner grid. One of…
This article describes how to reduce large language models through quantization and convert FP16 checkpoints into efficient GGUF files that can be shared and executed locally. Topics covered include: What does precision type (FP32, FP16, 8-bit, 4-bit) mean on model size and speed? How to use huggingface_hub Get the model and authenticate it How to…
South Korea’s Supreme Court has issued the first clear ruling that bitcoins held on centralized exchanges can be seized by investigators, marking a notable change in the criminal law treatment of cryptocurrencies held on exchanges. In a December 11, 2025 judgment published through the court’s official gazette, the court upheld the seizure of 55.6 Bitcoin…
The James M. and Kathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work officially launched on November 3, 2025, bringing together scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore important questions about economic opportunity, technology, and democracy. The new Stone Center, co-directed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Daron Acemoglu, David Oeter, and Simon…
Supervised Learning: Fundamentals of Predictive ModelingImage by author Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on visualizing the basics of machine learning. Welcome to the latest entry in our series on visualizing the basics of machine learning. This series aims to break down important and often complex technical concepts into intuitive, visual guides…
Nous Research, an open source artificial intelligence startup backed by cryptocurrency venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday. The model rivals or exceeds some large-scale proprietary systems and was trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia’s latest B200 graphics processors. The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry into the…
Polymarket has partnered with Dow Jones to make predictive market data available to users on multiple platforms. Polymarket and Dow Jones said in a notice Wednesday that predictive market data is available in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily and elsewhere. According to the companies, Polymarket will be featured in a “dedicated…
The former CFTC commissioner, who was Donald Trump’s first pick to chair the CFTC, will join the investment firm SUI Group’s board of directors to support the company’s financial strategy. The former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), nominated by US President Donald Trump, has joined SUI Group’s board of directors. SUI Group…
