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When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. “Karma is real,” Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she’s not afraid of standing up to Musk, especially as his influence on the federal government escalates. Instead, the 26-year-old has her eye on Illinois’ Ninth District. The current representative, the 80-year-old Democrat Jan Schakowsky, was first elected to Congress before Abughazaleh was even born. “I have ideas that…

Given that it’s a currency outside the command of any government or central bank, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is inherently an outsider’s challenge to the traditional financial system. And Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), formerly known as MicroStrategy, is all-in. It calls itself “the world’s first and largest Bitcoin Treasury Company” and says it has “adopted Bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. … we strategically accumulate Bitcoin and advocate for its role as digital capital.” Strategy’s extremely ambitious investment approach, which calls for using equity and debt financing as well as cash to buy a lot of Bitcoin, leaves investors with an…

Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the center of the screen, blocking the stream and making for a clunky user experience. In the new version of Overlay, users can add specific Discord widgets that will appear around the screen for easy access, making it possible to see messages and adjust sound and…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) recovery looks to have run out of steam with an emergence of a double top bearish reversal pattern on the short duration price charts. BTC peaked near $87,400 last week, with prices pulling back to around $84,000 on Friday and staging a recovery to above $87,000 before stalling again. This sequence of two prominent peaks at roughly the same level, separated by a trough, hints at a classic double top formation. This bearish pattern often signals the end of an uptrend. The double top pattern typically requires confirmation through a decisive drop below the “neckline,” the support level…

ARC Prize has launched the hardcore ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, accompanied by the announcement of their 2025 competition with $1 million in prizes. As AI progresses from performing narrow tasks to demonstrating general, adaptive intelligence, the ARC-AGI-2 challenges aim to uncover capability gaps and actively guide innovation. “Good AGI benchmarks act as useful progress indicators. Better AGI benchmarks clearly discern capabilities. The best AGI benchmarks do all this and actively inspire research and guide innovation,” the ARC Prize team states. ARC-AGI-2 is setting out to achieve the “best” category. Beyond memorisation Since its inception in 2019, ARC Prize has served as a…

Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.  Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or ATProto — the technology that powers Bluesky’s growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, engineers, founders, and even members of the Bluesky team, including CEO Jay Graber, were in attendance. Many in the community were meeting each other for the first time after having only ever communicated online.  But although Bluesky is the largest app built on ATProto at this time, the social network itself was not the ATmosphere…

BANGKOK (AP) — China protested Wednesday after the U.S. added dozens of companies to its export control list, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes. Companies from Taiwan, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and United Arab Emirates also were included in the roughly 80 companies added to the “entity list” of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Six are subsidiaries of the Inspur Group, China’s leading cloud computing and big data service provider. It was listed in the U.S. government’s entity list in…

Bitcoin remained steady above $87,000 in Asian afternoon hours Wednesday as traders continued to monitor U.S. data releases and how the levy of U.S. tariffs will play out starting April 2, with most in wait-and-watch mode. Majors were little-changed in the past 24 hours as Solana’s SOL, xrp (XRP), BNB Chain’s BNB, and ether (ETH) rose under 3%, while memecoin dogecoin (DOGE) outperformed with a 5.5% jump. That was the second-straight day for gains for DOGE, alongside continued bumps in pepe (PEPE) and mog (MOG), as a tendency among these tokens to act as a “beta bet” on ether’s strength…

Poe, Quora’s chatbot app, launched one of its most affordable subscription options on Tuesday, priced at just $5 per month.  In addition, the company introduced its highest-priced plan at $250 per month, designed for users who need to send a large volume of messages on Poe. Poe allows users to utilize several AI-powered bots — including DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, o3-mini, ElevenLabs, and more — in one place. It operates on a point system, enabling users to spend points across different models, with each bot having its own point cost per message. Under the new $5/month plan, users can…

When it comes to a risky asset class like cryptocurrencies, the best wisdom on how much of your portfolio to allocate is often hard to get a handle on. If you’re a more conservative investor, dabbling at all can seem frightening. If, on the other hand, you’re more of a daredevil type, the risk is that you’ll let your enthusiasm for chasing high returns overshadow your sense of discretion, to your detriment. Fortunately, there are a few pieces of information that will help clarify exactly what how much is reasonable for you to invest in crypto. Let’s take a look.…