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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.…

On Tuesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI reasoning models that pauses to “think” before answering a question. To kick off the new family of models, Google is launching Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a multimodal, reasoning AI model that the company claims is its most intelligent model yet. This model will be available on Tuesday in the company’s developer platform, Google AI Studio, as well as in the Gemini app for subscribers to the company’s $20-a-month AI plan, Gemini Advanced. Moving forward, Google says all of its new AI models will have reasoning capabilities baked in. Since…

DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection on March 16, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic data of the company’s 15 million customers.  The company has said that “data privacy will be an important consideration in any potential transaction.” However, security experts and lawmakers have cautioned customers to take action to protect their data, considering that a new owner could change how the company’s data is managed and used.  If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared their DNA with 23andMe, we’ve outlined the steps you can take to protect yourself. While you can’t…

Joe Raedle / Getty Images GameStop (GME) updated its corporate investment policy to include Bitcoin, sending shares higher in extended trading Tuesday. The video game retailer said its board unanimously approved the decision to add Bitcoin to its investment policy, following reports last month that the retailer was considering investing in cryptocurrencies. The announcement follows speculation about GameStop’s crypto plans after CEO Ryan Cohen last month posted a picture of himself with Michael Saylor, cofounder of Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin formerly known as MicroStrategy. The price of Bitcoin was just under $88,000 in recent trading. Shares…

Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will kick off on June 9 and run through June 13. The tech giant’s event is where it offers a look at its upcoming versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, as well as new tools for its developers. As in past years, the event will be online and accessible to all Apple developers. Plus, there will be an in-person keynote at Apple Park on June 9. Reports have indicated that Apple has prepared dramatic software overhauls for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. As for iOS 19, Bloomberg has…