Artificial intelligence just got a new player—and it’s fully open-sourced. Aria, a multimodal LLM developed by Tokyo-based Rhymes AI, is capable of processing text, code, images, and video all within a single architecture.
Worldcoin, newly rebranded World—the crypto-fueled, eyeball-scanning identity platform co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—launched the mainnet for its own Ethereum layer-2 network called World Chain on Thursday.
Escalating tensions in the Middle East triggered a sharp downturn in the crypto market on Tuesday. This volatility led to the liquidation of over $500 million in positions. Leading altcoin Ethereum (ETH) was particularly affected, with long traders suffering significant losses.