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Bitcoin took a hit this week, sliding to sixty-four thousand dollars after the Federal Reserve's Kevin Warsh struck a hawkish tone at his first FOMC press conference. Rate hike odds climbed, and crypto markets felt the pressure immediately. Some analysts are pointing fingers at Michael Saylor's leveraged Bitcoin strategy as an amplifying factor in the selloff, raising questions about how much institutional concentration is quietly bending these markets.
Meanwhile, LinkedIn is making a significant move on professional credibility. The platform is rolling out verified skill badges tied directly to your activity inside workplace apps like Microsoft three sixty-five and others. The idea is to replace self-declared expertise with something data-backed and harder to game — a meaningful shift in how recruiters and hiring managers might evaluate candidates going forward.
And on a quieter but interesting note, one developer is pushing back against cloud dependency by running local AI models on a pair of mini PCs, processing millions of tokens daily without touching a paid API. As inference costs climb and data center buildouts face planning delays, it's a compelling case that the edge might be where AI gets practical.
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