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The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/23/ethereum-foun…

Ethereum (ETH) news: Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/after-nearly-30-years-nasa-realized-this-nea…

It’s Primary Eve in New York.
On the ballot on Tuesday?
A series of raucous Democratic contests with the potential to radically reshape New York City’s congressional delegation and push it further to the left.
Plus, a Democratic race to challenge Representative Mike Lawler,
a vulnerable Republican incumbent who holds a Hudson Valley-area seat that Democrats are desperate to flip.
But here we will focus largely on the New York City primaries,
several of wh…

Will New York Swing Further to the Left? Here’s a Preview of Tuesday’s Primaries.
The city’s high-drama, high-spending primaries will offer clues of progressive momentum and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence.

Best practices are contextual.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/best-practices

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/23/sa…

SBF withdraws motion for retrial but leaves option open for after appeal ruling
The convicted former founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange withdrew, for now, his motion for retrial, saying he believes he would not face a fair trial.

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/

Stablecoin bank Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI era
The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.

Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-…

Sources: Starbucks shut down an AI program for automating inventory counts, nine months after deploying it, after it frequently miscounted and mislabeled items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/starbucks-scraps-a…

Microsoft plans to invest AU$25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country (Ainslie Chandler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…