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Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities throughout the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. The agreement doesn’t cover every region in which Lime operates, a list that includes cities throughout Europe, Asia, and Australia. Lime has had other recycling partnerships in the past, notably with Sprout via its downstream vendors. However,…

Bitcoin ETFs have faced persistent outflows throughout April, with investors pulling money from the products despite the recent price recovery, according to data from U.K.-based asset manager Farside Investors. The outflows have been nearly consistent across the month, with all but one day in April recording outflows from the various Bitcoin ETFs. Total April outflows reached $812.3 million as of Friday, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) leading the exodus at $393.2 million withdrawn. The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) has also experienced large outflows, with $256.4 million leaving the fund during this period, according to Farside. The Fidelity Wise…

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavender Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late February. Gemini is literally ahead of Claude atm in pokemon after reaching Lavender Town 119 live views only btw, incredibly underrated stream pic.twitter.com/8AvSovAI4x — Jush (@Jush21e8) April 10, 2025 But what the post failed to mention is that Gemini had an advantage. As users on…

Bitcoin (BTC) drifted ever so gently upwards Monday as the broader market adjusts favorably to trade-related news. The largest cryptocurrency was up 1.6% in the last 24 hours and is now trading just shy of $85,000. Ether (ETH), meanwhile, rose 2.7% in the same period of time to $1,630. The broad-market CoinDesk 20 Index — consisted of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization except for stablecoins, memecoins and exchange coins — advanced 1.2%, led by gains in SOL and AVAX. After a couple of wild weeks, the stock market also edged higher today, the Nasdaq closing with a 0.6%…

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging to perform precise tasks, handle delicate materials, and adjust to changing conditions — a robot in a restaurant’s kitchen would get in the way more than be helpful, for example. That is why many industrial processes are still manual. South Korean startup RLWRLD aims to…

Nvidia plans to manufacture its next generation of AI chips and supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time, the company said in a statement on Monday. The move reflects rising demand for AI infrastructure and a broader push to localize advanced tech manufacturing — one that could also benefit crypto miners repurposing their facilities for AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Many of these operators already have access to the large-scale power and cooling systems needed for data center operations, making them potential players in the growing AI economy. Crypto miners, once singularly focused on hashing power, are increasingly…

Nvidia said on Monday that it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips in Arizona and Texas as part of an effort to move a portion of its production to the U.S. The chipmaker said the production of its Blackwell chips has started at TSMC’s chip plants in Phoenix, Arizona, and that Nvidia is building “supercomputer” manufacturing plants in Texas — with Foxconn in Houston and with Wistron in Dallas. In Arizona, Nvidia is partnering with Amkor and SPIL for packaging and testing operations, the company added. Mass production at…

On Apr. 14, Kraken announced the initial rollout of commission-free trading for over 11,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs in select U.S. states. The move marks the U.S.-based crypto exchange’s first venture outside the crypto domain for the first time. The exchange said it will offer the trading services to clients in New Jersey, Connecticut, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Iowa, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Alabama, and the District of Columbia. It will offer services to all eligible U.S. clients in a continuous, phased, national rollout. “As demand for 24/7 global access grows, clients want a seamless, all-in-one trading experience.” Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi…

Audio-enabled traffic control crosswalk buttons across Silicon Valley were hacked over the weekend to include audio snippets imitating the voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.  Videos taken by locals in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and Redwood City in California show the crosswalk buttons were playing AI-generated speech designed to sound like the two billionaires. “It’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience,” said one crosswalk button, which was hacked to sound like Zuckerberg. “I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absolutely…

Do Kwon’s trial stemming from the collapse of his Terra crypto project was pushed from January to February 2026 at the second pre-trial conference in Manhattan court on Thursday. Judge Paul Engelmayer revealed he had overlooked a conflict and neither side objected to moving the trial start back one month. That may now give more time for a pro-crypto pivot in the U.S. to play out ahead of Kwon’s trial. During the hearing, Judge Engelmayer asked prosecutors whether a new pro-crypto memo from the Department of Justice would have any bearing on the case. The memo, penned by Deputy Attorney…