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A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world's most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centric videos up to five minutes long — a dramatic leap beyond the capabilities of rivals including OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.CraftStory, which launched Tuesday with $2 million in funding, is introducing Model 2.0, a video generation system that addresses one of the most significant limitations plaguing the nascent AI video industry: duration. While OpenAI's Sora 2 tops out at 25 seconds and most competing models generate clips of 10 seconds or less,…

In brief Retail wallets of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP investors are selling at a loss, signaling capitulation. Bitcoin is stabilizing as sell signals slow, but it remains weak compared to the localized strength seen among altcoins. Analysts dismiss the ongoing bounce and hint that a recovery driven by macro catalysts is key.  The recent sell-off in crypto has triggered a wave of retail capitulation, which, historically, signals a potential market bottom and a rebound, according to analysts.Bitcoin is down 2.3% over 24 hours and is trading at $91,510.80, according to Coingecko data.Retail investor wallets holding less than 0.01 BTC have…

Anchorage Digital and Mezo have formed a strategic partnership aimed at expanding institutional access to Bitcoin-based borrowing and yield opportunities, marking one of the most significant integrations to date between a regulated digital asset custodian and a Bitcoin-native finance protocol. Mezo — a bank-free Bitcoin finance platform built by Thesis — will now offer institutional clients low-cost borrowing through its MUSD stablecoin and new BTC yield opportunities via veBTC.  Anchorage Digital will provide the custody and infrastructure layer, giving asset managers, digital asset treasury (DAT) firms, and publicly traded companies a secure way to participate in BitcoinFi applications. At launch,…

The US government’s ending of the shutdown and return to the normal legislative session may spark a surge in new crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) approvals by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2026, according to market analysts.There is “huge” demand for crypto ETFs and exchange-traded products (ETPs), Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at investment firm Bitwise, told CNBC on Wednesday. Hougan said:“It’s going to be ETF-palooza in crypto land. I think there will be 100-plus launches. We’re going to see a lot of single-asset crypto ETPs. What I’m most excited about, though, is the growth of index-based crypto ETPs.”Hougan…

Key Takeaways Kraken has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering with the SEC. The IPO timeline is pending regulatory review and market conditions. Share this article Payward, the company behind Kraken, a well-known US-based crypto, has confidentially submitted a draft registration for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a Wednesday statement.The specifics, including the number of shares and price range, have not been determined. The IPO is anticipated following the SEC’s review, contingent on market conditions.The move comes after Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi said earlier this month that the company…

Schiff argues Bitcoin’s slide versus gold exposes the ‘digital gold’ narrative as a fraud and will eventually drive investors to sell. Long-term Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff is back again, this time saying the flagship cryptocurrency’s latest dip is worse when priced in gold. He also predicts that BTC could surrender all its 2025 gains if the current trend continues. BTC’s Downturn Is Worse Than It Seems Schiff claimed in a November 18 post on X that Bitcoin has lost 40% of its value when measured against gold. He added that its decline relative to the metal exposes the “digital…

Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA are setting a bar for cloud infrastructure investment and AI model availability with a new compute alliance. This agreement signals a divergence from single-model dependency toward a diversified, hardware-optimised ecosystem, altering the governance landscape for senior technology leaders.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the relationship is a reciprocal integration where the companies are “increasingly going to be customers of each other”. While Anthropic leverages Azure infrastructure, Microsoft will incorporate Anthropic models across its product stack.Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity. This figure shows the immense computational requirements necessary to train and deploy…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to comments from longtime researcher and computer scientist Nick Szabo, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are trust-minimized, not trustless, and that difference matters for how states and private actors can push back. Szabo warned that while the layer one of a strong trust-minimized system can endure many kinds of interference, legal routes remain a meaningful vulnerability. He said financial rules are one set of risks the ecosystem has learned to handle, helped by developers and an expanding legal profession focused on crypto, but that laws tied to…

Chipmakers are increasingly stacking transistor-packed layers on top of each other to cram even more computing power into any given space. However, today’s technologies for spotting buried defects that can ruin these 3-D chips are either inadequate or downright destructive. But, new quantum sensors based on artificial diamonds might help foundries quickly catch these hidden defects during production without damaging chips, possibly saving billions of dollars, a startup says.Defects that arise with regards to the interconnects through which current flows in a microchip, “whether they come from metal not deposited right, or a crack in the silicon, or whatever, will…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto exchange Binance has announced that BlackRock’s tokenized fund, BUIDL, will now be accepted as collateral on the platform. This comes as the tokenized fund expands to the BNB chain, a move welcomed by the exchange’s former CEO, Changpeng Zhao.  What The Binance Partnership With BlackRock’s BUIDL Means Binance has partnered with BlackRock’s BUIDL to expand its collateral offerings for institutional off-exchange settlement services, Binance Banking Triparty, and MirrorRSV. The exchange has now added support for BUIDL, which is a tokenized short-term U.S. Treasury fund. The exchange…