Drug discovery, the art of identifying new molecules to develop pharmaceuticals, is a notoriously time-consuming and difficult process. Traditional techniques, like high-throughput screening, offer an expensive scattershot approach — one that is not often successful. However, a new breed of biotech companies are leveraging AI and advanced data technologies in an attempt to accelerate and streamline the process. Chai Discovery, an AI startup founded in 2024, is one such company. In a little over 12 months, its young co-founders have managed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and rally the backing of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors,…
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While talk has recently surfaced about a “supercycle” in XRP, the cryptocurrency's weekly SuperTrend is instead forming a sell signal. XRP SuperTrend forms sell signal In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez shares his weekly XRP price chart and writes, “I’m hearing about a $XRP supercycle…” A “supercycle” is a general term that refers to a period of sustained expansion in wealth. Recently, there have been several stories online about the XRP Supercycle, one of which was from Young Hoon Kim who claims to have the highest IQ in the world. “XRP is in a supercycle,” Kim said…
Jan 16, 2026 04:13 Anthropic names former Microsoft India MD Irina Ghose to head its first Indian office as Claude.ai ranks second globally in the country’s user base. Anthropic has hired Irina Ghose, former Managing Director of Microsoft India, to lead its expansion into the country as the AI safety company prepares to open its first office in Bengaluru.Ghose brings over 30 years of experience scaling technology businesses across Indian markets. At Microsoft, she drove enterprise AI adoption across banking, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government sectors—exactly the verticals Anthropic will need to crack as it competes for Indian enterprise…
The Trump administration signed a notable multibillion-dollar trade deal with Taiwan that’s designed to help the United States boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Under the deal announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday, Taiwanese semiconductor and tech companies have agreed to make direct investments of $250 billion into the U.S. semiconductor industry. These investments will span across semiconductors, energy, and AI “production and innovation,” according to a press release. Taiwan currently produces more than half of the world’s semiconductors. Taiwan will also supply an additional $250 billion in credit guarantees for additional investments from these semiconductors and tech enterprises,…
Key Takeaways Citrea debuts ctUSD to address fragmented liquidity and bridge risk in the Bitcoin ecosystem, with native issuance and M0-powered infrastructure. MoonPay handles compliant issuance, enabling ctUSD access across 160+ countries and integration with major payment methods. Share this article Citrea, a Bitcoin application layer, has launched ctUSD, a 1:1 dollar-backed stablecoin fully backed by T-bills and cash. Issued by MoonPay and powered by M0, ctUSD serves as Bitcoin’s native, compliant liquidity layer.The launch addresses Bitcoin’s lack of unified, secure, and compliant stablecoin rails. Rather than relying on third-party bridges or fragmented tokens, ctUSD is issued natively on Citrea.…
Although Litecoin has experienced a price decline over the past week, on-chain data shows that whale activity has increased to its highest level in recent weeks. Litecoin whale transactions have recently surged Data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment shows that the number of Litecoin whale transactions has recently surged. This indicator measures the total number of transfers in amounts greater than $100,000 that occur on the LTC network. In general, only whales can move such large amounts of money in a single trade, so the value of this indicator is likely to represent the activity of big-money investors. An increase…
Jan 14, 2026 21:15 NVIDIA releases detailed cuTile Python tutorial for Blackwell GPUs, demonstrating matrix multiplication achieving over 90% of cuBLAS performance with simplified code. NVIDIA has published a comprehensive developer guide for its cuTile Python framework, demonstrating how the new tile-based programming model can achieve over 90% of cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication operations on Blackwell architecture GPUs.The tutorial, authored by NVIDIA engineer Jinman Xie, walks developers through implementing high-performance matrix multiplication using the cuTile library introduced with CUDA 13.1 in December 2025. Testing on an RTX 5080 showed the cuTile implementation matching PyTorch’s cuBLAS-backed operations across matrix sizes…
AI agents are supposed to make work easier. But they’re also creating a whole new category of security nightmares. As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they’re facing a new risk: How do you let employees and AI agents use powerful AI tools without accidentally leaking sensitive data, violating compliance rules, or opening the door to prompt-based injections? Witness AI just raised $58 million to find a solution, building what they call “the confidence layer for enterprise AI.” Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan was joined by Barmak Meftah, co-founder and partner at Ballistic Ventures, and Rick…
Key Takeaways Pakistan is working with SC Financial Technologies, a firm affiliated with World Liberty Financial, to examine integrating the USD1 stablecoin into its regulated digital payments framework. The MoU formalizes discussions, knowledge sharing, and technical collaboration, allowing regulators and policymakers to assess feasibility, risks, and compliance requirements before any implementation. Share this article Pakistan has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with SC Financial Technologies, an affiliate of World Liberty Financial (WLFI), following a meeting between Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and a WLFI delegation led by CEO Zachary Witkoff. Today, World Liberty Financial signed an MoU with the…