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U.S. SEC's steadiest crypto advocate, Hester Peirce, to depart next week
The long-anticipated exit of the commissioner sometimes known as Crypto Mom is Oct. 2, announced as the agency was sending out its latest crypto work.
CoinDesk · 11 minutes ago
US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether
Decrypt · about 1 hour ago
Another appeals court rules against prediction market provider Kalshi, says sports contracts are subject to state regulations
CoinDesk · about 1 hour ago
Bitcoin survives a 5.2% Treasury shock as traders slash $1.7 billion in leverage
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How long can I expect to wait until the local ~30B A3B frontier catches up to GLM 5.3 Flash quality?
The jump from Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B to current-day Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is crazy, especially with all the fine-tunes, and that was around 6 months (I didn't care for local AI back then, or AI at all, apart
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 1 hour ago
4-5 days replacing Claude w Qwen 3.8 Next
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 2 hours ago
Qwen3.8-27B: Using KV Cache Transplants to Boost Output Quality
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 2 hours ago
I ran the actual break-even math on buying vs renting an H200 box, and it is not where I expected
LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · about 3 hours ago
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