A new cryptocurrency called Pearl (ticker PRL), which secures its blockchain by running the matrix multiplication behind AI workloads instead of conventional hashing, has set off a short-lived GPU ...

When people talk about the winners of the artificial intelligence boom, names like Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta ...

Michael Intrator, CoreWeave's CEO, helped steer the company away from crypto after major "winters." It's now worth nearly $50 billion.

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A new research preprint claims that Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain marketed as turning cryptocurrency mining into useful artificial intelligence (AI) computation, is doing nothing of the sort, despite ...

As we've discussed at various points, the great cryptocurrency GPU mining craze of 2011 to 2014 (peaking in 2013) was great for GPU manufacturers' profit margins, but terrible for AMD's actual GPU ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A criminal investigation that saw raids of a European AI cloud company is focusing on whether the company used its $586 million worth of NVIDIA AI GPUs for ...

Aaron Parsons is both an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Head Graduate Advisor at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. His specialties are radio astronomy instrumentation, cosmic ...

Is crypto mining worth it in 2026? Learn the real costs of hardware, electricity, and taxes, plus beginner-friendly ways to mine altcoins and stack bitcoin.

Euny Hong is the former supervising editor at Investopedia.com. She is also the author of two critically-acclaimed, published books. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial ...