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Sweat, a move-to-earn platform that rewards users for physical activity, has launched a personalized AI agent and expanded its multichain infrastructure. The update is designed to improve user onboarding by offering interactive guidance and simplifying asset management across blockchains.The AI agent, named Mia (short for Movement in Action), is powered by Near.AI — an open-source AI model platform with crosschain capabilities. Integrated into the Sweat wallet, Mia helps users to bridge, swap and manage their crypto rewards without needing deep crypto knowledge..Sweat is rolling out support for Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum and BNB Chain. Within the app, users can now bridge…

Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have. That’s according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company developing a holistic benchmark for AI models. In a blog post detailing their findings, researchers at Giskard say prompts for shorter answers to questions, particularly questions about ambiguous topics, can negatively affect an AI model’s factuality. “Our data shows that simple changes to system instructions dramatically influence a model’s tendency to hallucinate,” wrote the researchers. “This finding has important implications for deployment, as many applications prioritize concise outputs…

What is ​VanEck’s Onchain Economy ETF ($NODE) VanEck’s Onchain Economy ETF ($NODE) exposes investors to companies driving blockchain adoption across multiple industries. The fund is scheduled to begin trading on May 14, 2025, following its inception on May 13, 2025.As the global economy shifts to a digital core, NODE offers active equity investment in real-world companies shaping that future. This ETF is actively managed, meaning a portfolio manager and not just an algorithm, selects the included stocks.The ETF may allocate up to 25% of its assets to crypto-linked exchange-traded products (ETPs) via a Cayman Islands subsidiary, providing indirect exposure to…

Space and Time, a blockchain project supported by Microsoft, has launched its public, permissionless mainnet to bring zero-knowledge (ZK)-proven data infrastructure to crypto applications.Built by MakeInfinite Labs, Space and Time offers a decentralized, verifiable database for smart contracts to query historical, crosschain and offchain data, according to a news release shared with Cointelegraph.The platform indexes data from major networks like Ethereum and makes it accessible through a decentralized network of validators. Developers can query this data using Space and Time’s Proof of SQL — a sub-second ZK coprocessor that delivers cryptographic proofs with every query.“Prior to Space and Time, onchain…

The official X/Twitter account for the anime based on Natsu Hyūga and Touko Shino’s The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) light novel series revealed on Thursday that the anime’s second season has cast Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Lahan, Lakan’s adopted son. The character will debut in the 42nd episode on Friday. Image via The Apothecary Diaries anime’s X/Twitter account© 日向夏・イマジカインフォス／「薬屋のひとりごと」製作委員会The second season’s second cours (quarter of a year) premiered on April 4. Image via The Apothecary Diaries anime’s X/Twitter account© 日向夏・イマジカインフォス／「薬屋のひとりごと」製作委員会The season premiered on January 10 on Nippon TV’s FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT programming block, and it will air for two consecutive…

CNN  —  Pierce Brosnan only ever appeared with Robin Williams in one film, but the Irish actor now says he didn’t quite work with Williams. “I really never worked with Robin Williams,” Brosnan recalled recently. ”I only worked with Mrs. Doubtfire.” The star rewatched some of his old films during a chat with Vanity Fair, including his beloved 1993 comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” in which Williams plays a father who poses as a female nanny in order to spend time with his children after his wife seeks a divorce. Brosnan played Stuart “Stu” Dunmeyer, a man who starts dating the estranged…

You may disagree, but we think that the Pironman is the best case for Raspberry Pi 5. It gives your Pi a miniature gaming rig look with RGB lights and tower fans. It also adds SSD option among other enhancements. Specializing in STEM education, SunFounder is a company known for its Arduino kits, displays, and smart devices. Pironman 5 case is one of their most popular products.Now, this awesome case is getting an upgrade in the form of Pironman Max.Pironman 5-MAX Dual NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe PC Case for Raspberry Pi 5 NAS RAID 0/1 Hailo-8L AI Accelerator PWM Tower…

61% of security leaders reported suffering a breach due to failed or misconfigured controls over the past 12 months. This is despite having an average of 43 cybersecurity tools in place. This massive rate of security failure is clearly not a security investment problem. It is a configuration problem. Organizations are beginning to understand that a security control installed or deployed is not necessarily a security control configured to defend against real-world threats. The recent Gartner® Report, Reduce Threat Exposure With Security Controls Optimization, addresses the gap between intention and outcome. We feel it discusses a hard truth: without continuous…

Doodles’ non-fungible token (NFTs) sales surged by 97% in the last 24 hours as digital collectible traders anticipate the project’s token generation event and airdrop. On May 8, data from CryptoSlam showed Doodles NFT sales topping $1.1 million, nearly doubling the previous day’s total. The spike placed Doodles in the third spot for daily NFT sales, following DMarket and Courtyard NFTs.Over the past week, Doodles recorded $2.6 million in total sales volume, up 368% from the week prior and ranking fifth among all NFT collections, according to CryptoSlam.The surge comes ahead of the launch of Doodles’ long-awaited DOOD token. The project…

Hims & Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO, Andrew Dudum, was intentional. Hims & Hers on Thursday said its next CTO would be Mo Elshenawy, the former president and CTO of self-driving car company Cruise. Elshenawy left Cruise earlier this year after its parent company GM shut down the autonomous vehicle program. The jump from AVs to health may seem unlikely, but Dudum told TechCrunch he purposefully turned to the autonomous driving sector to find…