AI
Malaysia has emerged as Southeast Asia’s top destination for artificial intelligence investment, securing 32 percent of the region’s total AI funding between the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. That translates to US$759 million, according to the latest e-Conomy SEA 2025 report from
Finance
Tokyo-based digital assets firm Metaplanet has taken out another $130 million loan backed by its bitcoin reserves, continuing its steady push to grow its crypto-focused balance sheet and income strategy. The move builds on the company’s existing $500 million credit facility, from which it has now used a total
Markets
Grayscale and Franklin Templeton made a strong entrance into the U.S. spot ETF market this week, with both firms’ new XRP-focused funds pulling in more than 60 million dollars each on their first day of trading. The ETFs, listed on NYSE Arca, drew more attention than many of their
Opinion
A new federal lawsuit in the United States is putting global crypto exchange Binance under renewed scrutiny. More than 300 victims and families affected by the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel filed the complaint in North Dakota, accusing the company of allowing the militant group and other U.
AI
Zyphra, AMD, and IBM have spent the past year answering a question that has hovered over the AI industry: can AMD’s hardware support the training of a major foundation model at scale? Their answer is ZAYA1, a Mixture-of-Experts model built entirely on AMD GPUs, networking, and software. The companies
Finance
Exodus Movement is making a major push into crypto payments with a plan to buy W3C Corp and its subsidiaries Baanx and Monavate for 175 million dollars. The self-custody wallet provider said the move will help it build a full payments stack that connects wallets to real-world spending. The deal,
Politics
As the 2026 midterm elections move into focus, crypto advocacy group Stand With Crypto is widening its push to gauge how political candidates view digital assets. The organization said Monday that it has launched a new survey aimed at both incumbents and first-time contenders in state and federal races, hoping
What Is a REST API? If you’ve spent any time building or integrating software, you’ve probably bumped into the term REST API. It shows up everywhere in tech, from crypto exchanges and fintech dashboards to AI services and mobile apps. At its core, a REST API is simply
AI
Google is preparing for one of the most aggressive infrastructure buildouts in its history. To keep pace with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the company aims to double the size of its server capacity every six months. If achieved, this growth rate would give Google roughly 1000 times more
AI
Asia Pacific businesses are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, yet many still find it hard to turn that spending into real value. A growing number of industry studies point to the same issue. The infrastructure behind these projects is often not designed to support the speed, scale, or responsiveness that
Finance
JPMorgan has reset its outlook for the bitcoin mining sector, signaling what it calls a more confident phase in the industry’s move toward high-power compute and cloud services. The update includes upgrades for Cipher Mining and CleanSpark, along with trimmed targets for several of the largest legacy miners. Analysts
Finance
Franklin Templeton has added a new product to its digital asset lineup with the launch of its XRP-focused exchange traded fund, XRPZ. The fund began trading Monday on NYSE Arca and is designed to track the market price of XRP, one of the largest cryptocurrencies by market value. Roger Bayston,