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Hong Kong officials double down on end-2026 deadline for crypto licensing bill
Hong Kong regulators plan to establish a licensing regime for four categories, including digital asset trading, custody, advisory and management services.
CoinTelegraph · 5 minutes ago
Cardano just added the kind of token controls Wall Street wants and DeFi may hate
CryptoSlate · 21 minutes ago
Binance BTC outflows hit highest since mid-2023 as whales deposit stablecoins
CoinTelegraph · 23 minutes ago
ZachXBT says he fronted $349,700 to infiltrate alleged Chinese launderers tied to Lazarus, Bybit hack
The Block · 31 minutes ago
AI & Tech
A 0.8B model just beat a 2B model on ARC-Challenge (42.15%): Closed-form weight surgery beat multi-GPU SFT with 0 backprop (Independently verified on NVIDIA L4)
A few days ago we shared the idea behind DynamicTune: transferring the trajectory flow from a larger teacher model directly into a smaller student via closed-form linear algebra in ~12 minutes on cons
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 41 minutes ago
I made a Chrome extension that filters your YouTube feed with a small local model running in the browser (WebGPU, no server)
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 42 minutes ago
Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
Hugging Face Blog · about 4 hours ago
Why 38% of AI Agent container escapes didn't need kernel 0-days: Analysis of 109 empirical incidents (Open Dataset + Defense Harness)
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 5 hours ago
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