Crypto

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts flagship for agentic software engineering, professional knowledge work, and finance.

The House Ways and Means Committee approved the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act on Wednesday, advancing H.R.

Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone.

A former Hong Kong banker has been jailed for four years over a scheme involving more than $1.6 billion in false letters of credit and cryptocurrency bribes.

A new Chainalysis report has revealed that state-linked hackers, primarily from North Korea and Iran, are responsible for a staggering 420% surge in onchain malware activity this year.