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What to Expect With Bitcoin Next Year
In 2024, amid global financial uncertainty, Bitcoin’s stability could attract attention from individuals, institutions, and governments seeking to reduce chaos. Bitcoin is reaching record values against weak currencies, gaining support from global politicians, and being used more by people and businesses worldwide. Bitcoin’s growth is natural, without central control, and driven by millions of people…
The Year of Institutional Investment in Real World Assets
Recent macroeconomic shifts and improvements in technology for secure custody, trading and settlement have made investment in tokenized treasuries, private equity and debt that much more attractive. Ultimately, it’s regulatory clarity and property rights enforcement that will make 2024 the year of RWAs. Source link
2024: The Year of Regulatory Compromises
After a year of conflict between crypto companies and agencies like the SEC and CFTC, we can expect to see greater dialogue and progress on regulation in 2024, says Michael Selig, of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Source link
2023 was the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream
ChatGPT emerged as the front-runner among a wave of AIs with wide-ranging abilities Bildagentur-online/Ohde/Alamy IT WAS hard to avoid artificial intelligence in 2023, with the vertiginous rise of chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs). By February, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing app of all time. By the year’s end, it had become an everything…
Why weight-loss drugs became more popular than ever this year
This year, celebrity gossip, a national shortage and eyebrow-raising clinical trials made household names of weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro. The buzzy drugs belong to a class of powerful medications that can manage blood sugar levels and drastically reduce body weight — a hot property that kicked them into the mainstream….
Climate change made 2023 the hottest year on record
This year didn’t just shatter records. It changed the scales. Graph after graph tracking this year’s soaring global temperatures reveal that not only were the numbers higher than ever recorded in many places around the world, but the deviation from the norm was also astonishingly large. “The margins by which records are being broken this…
U.S. CPI Inflation Trended Lower in November, Rising 3.1% From a Year Ago
This morning’s inflation data Source link
Generative AI grabbed headlines this year. Here’s why and what’s next
Ask ChatGPT “Why is the sky blue?” and seconds later, it will tell you: “The blue color of the sky is primarily due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering,” which the chatbot goes on to explain in a textbook-like, six-paragraph response. Follow up with, “Explain like I am 5 and make it short, please,” and…
The Apple iPad Air will get an M2 chip when it launches next year
Apple is reportedly making some changes next year that it hopes will make it easier for people to fit a specific iPad to their needs. For instance, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter today that the next iPad Air will get an M2 chip in addition to the larger second model…
Solana (SOL) Prices Are up 500% This Year, But its Phone Hasn’t Seen Similar Success
“We have to decide if there’s a place for a smart wallet, a much cheaper version that an iPhone user could use as a secondary device. We haven’t seen a ton of signal whether that’s a compelling enough thing to sell 50,000 units,” he said, saying that this was the magic number to determine the…