Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 5/20/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 5/20/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
I am happy to find this threadcast early.
$XRP is winning again
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https://ripple.com/ripple-press/zand-bank-and-mamo-newest-ripple-payments-customers-in-uae/
Here is some latest update in the blockchain #technology niche.
https://inleo.io/@bamfy/another-bank-integrates-blockchain-cheers-to-banco-industrial-f99
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#agents #neo
Startup unveils world’s first ‘infinite AI agent’: A little-known company called Flowith revealed a new platform called Neo that it says beats Manus AI and even OpenAI’s Deep Research on the GAIA benchmark. The app can supposedly handle 1000+ reasoning steps without losing focus, sending off parallel agents to perform different tasks “while you sleep.”
Apple is still struggling to give Siri an AI refresh: Apple Intelligence has so far been a case of too little, too late, sources told Bloomberg. The iPhone-maker originally wanted to tack AI features onto the current version of the voice assistant. Now, it’s abandoning that idea and starting from scratch, with plans to eventually connect Siri to the internet, giving it access to real-time information. But the delay sounds serious: A member of Apple’s AI team even called it a “crisis,” since it not only affects iPhone sales but also the development of upcoming robots and VR glasses.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-18/how-apple-intelligence-and-siri-ai-went-so-wrong
Microsoft is putting a big focus on safety: “Responsible AI is about building safe, secure, and high-quality AI, and these tools empower developers to do so with confidence,” Mehrnoosh Sameki, Principal Product Lead, Responsible AI.
Companies can now use Azure AI Foundry to design and deploy their own agents. You can even call on multiple agents to work together on a particular task. And with support for Model Context Protocol (the “USB-C port of AI apps”), you can now connect your agents to third-party apps, too.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ai-foundry-your-ai-app-and-agent-factory
NLWeb is a new open-source project that lets businesses use proprietary data to create their own chatbot with just a few lines of code. Think of it as “HTML for the agentic web.”
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/company-news/introducing-nlweb-bringing-conversational-interfaces-directly-to-the-web
Microsoft lays out its vision for an ‘open agentic web’: The Satya Nadella-led company kicked off its annual Build conference with dozens of major AI-centric announcements.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/05/19/microsoft-build-2025-the-age-of-ai-agents-and-building-the-open-agentic-web
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The Problem: Unproven Bitcoin Is Just Another IOU
Bitcoin is designed to be verifiable—but most corporate disclosures aren’t. When companies report BTC holdings without public wallet visibility or on-chain proof, investors are left to trust balance sheets, auditors, and custodians.
That opens the door to systemic risks:
Rehypothecation: BTC pledged or lent behind the scenes
Custodial failure: Centralized services operating without 1:1 backing
“Paper Bitcoin”: Multiple claims on the same BTC, echoing legacy financial opacity
The mere presence of Bitcoin on a balance sheet is not a guarantee. Without verification, it’s no different than a fiat-denominated claim—an IOU dressed up in BTC terms.
Bitcoin Is Built for Proof—and Companies Should Use It
Unlike legacy assets, Bitcoin is designed to make proof of ownership and solvency a native function of the asset itself. Through public key cryptography, on-chain auditability, and permissionless transparency, Bitcoin enables real-time, trust-minimized verification.
This isn’t just a technical capability—it’s a governance feature. Bitcoin allows companies to demonstrate, cryptographically and without intermediaries, that their reserves exist, are intact, and are unencumbered. No bank statements. No opaque custodial claims. Just data, on-chain.
The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act of 2025, as reflected in the latest available draft and discussions around the Senate vote on May 20, 2025, aims to create a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. Below is an overview of the bill’s key provisions, addressing whether technology companies can issue stablecoins, and other significant aspects, based on the most recent information available up to May 20, 2025.
!summarize #tesla #stock #investing
Dimon has long been skeptical of Bitcoin, labeling it a scam that he had no interest in buying in 2018 and calling it “worthless” during the 2021 crypto bull market.
“I’ve always been deeply opposed to crypto, Bitcoin, etc.,” he said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in 2023. “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance.”
“If I were the government, I’d close it down,” he said.
At the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Dimon said Bitcoin “does nothing. I call it the pet rock,” which came after the asset topped $100,000 for the first time.
Why Arthur Hayes is bullish on Ethereum, says ETH could outperform Solana
Ethereum (ETH) trades close to key support at $2,400 on Monday. The largest altcoin’s on-chain indicators currently support a bearish thesis for Ether, as seen on IntoTheBlock.
Ethereum (ETH) trades close to key support at $2,400 on Monday. The largest altcoin’s on-chain indicators currently support a bearish thesis for Ether, as seen on IntoTheBlock.
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, told Fortune Crypto in an interview that he is bullish on Ether and the altcoin could beat Solana in 2025. In their thesis, analysts at CryptoQuant suggest a turning point for Ethereum as the altcoin enters the undervaluation zone.
AI’s rapid expansion, backed by Tesla Megapacks, positions it to rival AI leaders like OpenAI and Google. The Colossus 2 deployment reflects a strategic blend of cutting-edge AI and sustainable energy. As Memphis’ infrastructure adapts to unprecedented power demands, xAI and Tesla are reshaping the AI landscape with a focus on efficiency and environmental responsibility.
The Innovation Isn’t the Token—It’s the Trust Framework Written By Robinhood
Robinhood’s proposal introduces some of the most important legal infrastructure yet seen in the RWA space. It calls for a unified national framework to replace the fragmented, state-by-state compliance approach that currently governs securities. It proposes that tokens representing assets—like equities or government bonds—should be legally equivalent to the underlying asset, not classified as derivatives or synthetic products.
That one change, if approved, would eliminate the need for duplicate systems and ambiguous ownership rights. It would also allow broker-dealers like Robinhood to custody and trade tokenized assets using existing regulatory guardrails, not separate, uncertain structures.
Proof Of Reserves Should Be The Standard For Bitcoin Treasury Companies
Proof of Reserves should be the baseline for Bitcoin treasury companies—shareholders deserve verifiable, on-chain evidence the BTC is truly there.
Bitcoin was created to eliminate the need for trusted intermediaries. It replaced opaque, permissioned systems with transparency, auditability, and decentralized verification. The ethos was clear from day one: don’t trust—verify.
And yet, many of the institutions now holding Bitcoin—custodians, exchanges, ETFs, even public companies—continue to rely on trust-based assumptions, the very problem Bitcoin was designed to solve.
For Bitcoin treasury companies, this contradiction is especially glaring. These are firms that claim to operate on a Bitcoin standard—yet without verifiable Proof of Reserves (PoR), there’s no way for shareholders to know whether the Bitcoin is actually there.
JPMorgan boss says bank users can soon buy Bitcoin
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has agreed to allow his bank's clients to buy Bitcoin through ETFs.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, said his bank will soon allow its clients to buy Bitcoin, but it won’t custody the cryptocurrency.
“We are going to allow you to buy it,” Dimon said at JPMorgan’s annual investor day on May 19. “We’re not going to custody it. We’re going to put it in statements for clients.”
CNBC reported that Dimon also remarked on his long-held skepticism about crypto assets, pointing to their use in money laundering, sex trafficking and terrorism.
“I don’t think you should smoke, but I defend your right to smoke. I defend your right to buy Bitcoin,” he said.
JPMorgan will offer clients access to Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), CNBC reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. Until now, the firm has limited its crypto exposure primarily to futures-based products, not direct ownership of digital assets.
JPMorgan rival Morgan Stanley has also moved to offer spot Bitcoin ETFs to qualifying clients. Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US have seen significant adoption, with almost $42 billion in total aggregate inflows since they launched in January 2024.
xAI receives more Tesla Megapacks for Colossus 2
xAI is bolstering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis with 168 Tesla Megapacks, enhancing the energy infrastructure for its ambitious AI supercomputer expansion. The deployment underscores xAI’s push to lead AI innovation while addressing environmental concerns.
The first Colossus site is connected to a 150 megawatts (MW) substation powered by MLGW and TVA. It is supported by approximately 156 Megapacks, providing 150 MW of stored energy backup to xAI’s supercomputer. The 168 Tesla Megapacks recently delivered to xAI’s Memphis site will provide battery storage backup to Colossus 2.
In December 2024, xAI doubled the capacity of Colossus to 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, which consumes 250 MW of power–enough to energize 250,000 homes. In March 2025, the AI company bought a 1-million-square-foot site in Whitehaven, Memphis, for $80 million. xAI’s Whitehaven site could host up to 350,000 GPUs with the potential to deploy the largest number of Tesla Megapacks for backup power.
xAI plans to scale Colossus up to 1 million GPUs to create the world’s largest AI supercomputer. A 1-million-GPU setup would require over 1 gigawatt, about one-third of Memphis’s peak summer demand.
!summarize #spacex #technology #heatpumps #space
Breaking: Robinhood’s RWA Proposal Could Bring Wall Street Onchain
Robinhood submitted a 42-page SEC proposal to create a federal framework for tokenized real-world assets, aiming to modernize U.S. securities markets.
For years, the financial world has talked about tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs). RWA tokenization is projected to become a $30 trillion market by 2030, according to research from The Trading View. This surge is driven by rising institutional interest in onchain financial products, offering faster settlement, greater transparency, and broader asset access.
The vision has always been tantalizing: frictionless trading of everything from Treasury bills to real estate, recorded transparently on a blockchain, available to all. But despite the headlines and hype, most of the progress has been confined to controlled pilots, sandboxes, and siloed platforms—largely disconnected from the regulated core of finance.
That may be about to change.
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!summarize #samaltman #elonmusk #grok #chatgpt #ai #llm
Microsoft Discovery lets scientists and researchers use AI to come up with new hypotheses and generate simulated experiments. The platform has already discovered a promising new technique for cooling data centers.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transforming-rd-with-agentic-ai-introducing-microsoft-discovery