Good morning pretty nerds, Happy Tuesday! Here comes your morning brief.

♥ Startups

• OpenAIs o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways but so are the costs link
• Google is using Anthropics Claude to improve its Gemini AI link
• Samsungs CES 2025 press conference: How to watch link
• The promise and perils of synthetic data link
• OpenAI considered building a humanoid robot: Report link

♥ Big Tech

• Amazon Workers in North Carolina File for Union Election link
• TSMC Shares Touch Record High, Eying Best Year Since 1999 on AI link
• CATL Unveils Chassis It Says Can Withstand Fires From Crashes link
• Chinese Data Center Operator Yovole Is Said to Consider US IPO link
• Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. But What Is It? link
• Salesforce Stokes Veeva Fight by Snagging Drug Customers link
• Marvel Rivals Climbs Gamer Charts in Win for NetEase, Disney link

♥ Crypto

• Why Singapore Is Ahead of Hong Kong in Crypto Hub Race link
• Bitcoin Momentum Ebbs Heading Into Last Stretch of Record Year link
• US Regains Primacy in Crypto Market on Trump Agenda, ETF Demand link
• Bitcoin Boom Validates Wall Streeters Who Jumped Into Crypto Finance veterans who left traditional jobs to work with digital assets have enjoyed the 2024 rally. link
• aelf Introduces aevatar Intelligence: No-Code, No Limits for AI Agents link
• Drop in OTC balances shows large investors are accumulating discounted Bitcoin link
• Rising crypto scams lead to 2.3 billion in total losses in 2024 link
• Telegrams 4x YoY subscriber growth pushes platform to profitability link
• FBI reveals North Korea used LinkedIn to steal 305 million from Japans DMM Bitcoin link
• El Salvador touts Bitcoin success in talks with China link
• Bitcoin tumbled to 95k after 540 million in long liquidations link
• MicroStrategys 42 billion Bitcoin plan includes increasing shares from 330 million to 10 billion link
• Mt. Gox has shifted 364 million in Bitcoin to B2C2 this month link
• Bitcoin ETFs record over 1 billion outflows ahead of Christmas, contrasting Ethereums inflow surge link
• BetFury x PancakeSwap Partnership: 20K BFG Syrup Pool, 50K Trading Competition More link
• Bitgrit Partners with BTSE to Revolutionize Token Trading link
• The Metaverse Weve All Been Waiting For: Wilder World Unveils Revolutionary Gameplay Trailer link
• Aave and Lido surpass 70 billion in net deposits link
• Trumps pro-crypto pledge could see day-one executive orders, industry players hope link
• Top 10 NFT collections outperform fungible tokens in weekly returns link
• Gen Z crypto users surge following Trump victory in US elections Bitget link

♥ AI Engineering

• Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit link
• Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe link
• Show HN: Cli.club Command Line Interface Tools and Alternatives link
• Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block piracy shield domains, IP addresses link
• Vim is a cast iron skillet link
• Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think link
• VPR: Nordic’s First RISC-V Processor link
• London Transport Explained in Nine Graphs link
• National Cryptologic Museum NSACSS New Temporary Exhibit on Project Stargate link
• If ChatGPT produces AI-generated code for your app, who does it belong to? link
• Manx a catalog of manuals for old computers link
• Firefox releases tab groups for nightly link
• Symbolic Execution by Overloading bool link
• Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island link
• Parsing millions of URLs per Second 2023 link
• Mike the Headless Chicken link
• Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models link
• Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free link
• Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program link
• In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline link
• The MTEB benchmark is dead link
• JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess link
• Why making friends as an adult is harder link
• Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? link
• Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32 link
• Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference 2023 link
• Operational PGP link
• What happened to the world’s largest tube TV? video link
• A Practitioner’s Guide to Wide Events link
• The number pi has an evil twin link
• Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks link
• Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory link
• Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804 link

♥ AI Research

• OpenRFT: Adapting Reasoning Foundation Model for Domain-specific Tasks with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning link
• Friends-MMC: A Dataset for Multi-modal Multi-party Conversation Understanding link
• PC Agent: While You Sleep, AI Works – A Cognitive Journey into Digital World link
• ResearchTown: Simulator of Human Research Community link
• DRT-o1: Optimized Deep Reasoning Translation via Long Chain-of-Thought link
• Revisiting In-Context Learning with Long Context Language Models link
• OpenAI o1 System Card link
• Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation link
• Large Motion Video Autoencoding with Cross-modal Video VAE link
• Diving into Self-Evolving Training for Multimodal Reasoning link
• Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching link
• B-STaR: Monitoring and Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Self-Taught Reasoners link

♥ Investing

• Banrion Capital Management’s Sissel on Valuations, AI, Trump Admin. link
• Securing America’s Critical Minerals link
• Bloomberg Surveillance 12242024 link
• Quantum Computing Is Finally Here. But What Is It? link
• Can New Premier Bayrou Survive Frances Perilous Politics? link
• Treasuries Fall as Long Rates Expand Gap Over Short Maturities link
• Bank Groups Sue Fed Over Stress Tests, Seeking Transparency link
• Ecuadors President Is Angling to Stay in Office During Campaign link
• Turkey Raises Minimum Wage by 30, Boosting Rate Cut Chances link
• Foreign Investments in Israel Rose in 2024, Government Says link
• With Trudeau Busy, Yukon Lobbies Don Jr. Over Bear-Meat Snacks link
• about 14 hours ago China Mulls Record 411 Billion Special Bonds, Reuters Says link
• Chinas Finance Ministry Vows Greater, Faster Spending in 2025 link
• Good Debt? Bad Debt? Theres No Such Thing link
• Germanys Far-Right AfD Is Nobodys Savior link
• Trump Gloom or Green Shoots? Europes Year Ahead. link
• Starmer’s EU Reset Is Overdue and Overly Modest link
• A History of Globalization on Horseback link

Updated 2025-06-17 7:30am EST.

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