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Open source AI models are now part of everyday software work. Developers download them, build on them and run them on their own hardware. Several groups try to count that activity, and their numbers do not always match. This article puts the main figures side by side. It covers downloads, token use, regional shifts, costs, developer surveys and company funding. Each figure comes with its source, its date and what it counts. One point applies to all of them. A download is a file request, not a person. A token count measures work done, not copies made. Most open models…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure MicroStrategy jest największym korporacyjnym posiadaczem Bitcoina, który w portfelu ma ponad 640 tys. BTC. Teraz spółka otrzymała od Amerykańskiego Departamentu Skarbu dużą ulgę, dzięki czemu uniknie podatku o wartości ponad 2 mld USD. Nic dziwnego, że ulga podatkowa MicroStrategy miała wpływ na kurs akcji, który urósł o blisko 5%. MicroStrategy jest największym bezpośrednim beneficjentem nowych interpretacji, ale decyzja jest ważna dla całego rynku krypto. W dalszej perspektywie może zostać rozszerzona o spółki inwestujące w altcoiny, zwłaszcza że już teraz są firmy gromadzące aktywa w takich kryptowalutach. Dobrym przykładem…

Key highlights:Salesforce agreed to acquire Braze for ~$5.66B, adding real-time cross-channel customer engagement and BrazeAI to Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud, Data 360, and Slack platformsBraze serves ~2,770 customers (Canva, Instacart, Venmo), with revenue doubling over 3 years to $738M, expected to exceed $1.2B by fiscal 2029, though the deal values Braze at ~60x forward earnings.The acquisition follows Salesforce’s $3.6B FinAI agent deal and $8B Informatica acquisition in 2025, signaling continued AI-driven consolidation with Jefferies maintaining a Buy on CRM ($300 target)Salesforce has agreed to acquire cloud software company Braze for approximately $5.66 billion, sending Braze stock soaring 51% after the announcement…

Crypto platforms Celsius and Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy in July 2022. Both froze customer accounts first, which left users unable to reach their assets. The filings raised a basic question. If an exchange fails, what happens to the crypto people had stored on it? This article uses the figures reported by CNBC in July 2022 to lay out the facts. It covers the debts involved, the protections that exist for bank and broker customers, and where crypto users stand when a platform fails. The short answer from legal experts is that recovery is slow and often partial. The sections…

In July, Tempo asked the Aave community a question: would DeFi’s largest lender come to the payments blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm? To make the case, it offered a sweetener.It would pay depositors a yield close to the US benchmark interest rate (SOFR) for a full year, and it said the deployment would help grow Aave’s GHO stablecoin. The community voted yes.Three months later, the formal proposal is out. I read it twice, and neither of those promises appears in it.Aave’s Formal Proposal for Tempo Lands on October 16The ARFC for deploying Aave V4 on Tempo was posted to…

Sky has published a ranking of smart contract auditors that will surprise a lot of people. ChainSecurity and Cantina are in the top tier. OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits and ConsenSys Diligence are in the mid tier, alongside 30 other firms. CertiK doesn’t appear at all.The list is part of an Atlas edit that Sky holders are voting on until October 22. The ranking will get the attention, but I’d argue the rules underneath it matter more. For the first time, Sky is spelling out exactly when it will trust an audit it didn’t commission, and the standard is stricter than…

The AI chip market grew fast in 2026, and a small group of companies earns most of the money. NVIDIA still leads by a wide margin. AMD, Broadcom and the large cloud companies are taking a bigger part of the spending. This article draws on four sources: Presenc AI, SQ Magazine, MarketsandMarkets and Zylos. Each one measures the market in its own way, so some numbers do not match. We name the source and time period for each figure. Each company also reports on its own fiscal calendar. Figures for NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom cover different quarters, so they should…

TLDR: White House crypto leadership has no publicly named successor after Patrick Witt announced his departure and return to the private sector. The departures of Witt, Bo Hines and Harry Jung leave questions about who will coordinate presidential priorities with lawmakers. A White House official said cryptocurrency and the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act remain priorities for President Donald Trump. Federal agencies continue digital asset rulemaking as the midterm elections approach and Congress faces further legislative work in 2027. White House crypto leadership faces a vacancy after Patrick Witt announced his departure from government service last week. Witt, executive director…

Crypto staking is often described as an easy way to earn passive income. Advertised rates range from about 3% to 19% a year, depending on the coin and the platform. Those headline numbers rarely match what ends up in your account. Fees, inflation, lock-up periods and price swings all change the final result. This article uses data from five published sources to show what staking pays in practice. It covers rates by asset, monthly earnings, platform fees and the risks that can cut returns. Rates change often, and one source uses data from 2019 and 2020. Treat every figure as…

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier has publicly clashed with former Mt. Gox chief Mark Karpelès over warnings about modified hardware wallets linked to an estimated $90 million in cryptocurrency thefts. Summary Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier challenged Mark Karpelès after criticism of the company’s warnings about tampered wallets. Karpelès pointed to a March security guide, but its September update leaves the original content uncertain. Ledger acknowledges its Genuine Check cannot detect added spying components when the original security chip survives. Researchers estimate losses above $90 million, although Ledger has not confirmed the final amount stolen publicly. The company paused CryptoBilis sales after…