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Jul 22, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Lorenzo focuses |Nemo focuses |Jozef Soja |Lorenzo Valente
Polymarket is a platform for decentralized predictions that allows users to bet on sports, geopolitics, and pop culture. Users can buy and sell shares associated with specific outcomes, their prices based on supply and demand. Priced from $0.00 to $1.00, a $0.50 share suggests that the probability of an event is 50%. If the event takes place, the share price will double to $1.00. Founded by Shayne Coplan in 2018, Polymarket has gone parabolic in response to the US presidential race this year.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Tasha Keeney |Daniel C. Maguire |Jozef Soja |Rong Guo
Last week, researchers at the Arc Institute published10 research on a new bridge RNA-based genome editing system—a compact and programmable molecular system that enables the direct insertion of new DNA sequences into the genome. Potentially, bridge RNA-based editing could offer significant improvements over CRISPR gene editing.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Lorenzo focuses |Jozef Soja |Tasha Keeney |Lorenzo Valente
During its earnings call last week, Tesla sounded7 more confident than ever about its autonomous technology. Ashok Elluswamy, head of Tesla’s Autopilot effort, explained that the latest version of Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) software—including a shift from manually-tuned models to more robust neural networks that learn from video data—will enable the company to predict its progress in scaling model architecture, sizes, data, and compute with increasing accuracy.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Yassine focuses |Yassine Elmandjra |Sam Korus |Jozef Soja
Last Friday, growth in the supply of bitcoin “halved” for the fourth time in history, dropping from ~1.8% at an annual rate to ~0.9%, as shown below. As a result, bitcoin’s supply growth slipped below that of gold—estimated to be ~1.7% in 20231—on a long-term basis. Source: ARK Investment Management LLC, 2024, based on data from Glassnode as of April 19, 2024.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Lorenzo focuses |Nicholas Grous |Jozef Soja |Rong Guo
An innovative new stablecoin inspired9 by former Bitmex founder and investor, Arthur Hayes, is attracting significant interest in the digital assets industry. Since the Terra Luna collapse in early 2022, investors have been hesitant to back experiments with stablecoins. Now Ethena Labs is changing10 that dynamic.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Ali focuses |Sam Korus |Jozef Soja |Lorenzo Valente
In 2021, CAR-T cell therapy gained acclaim after scientists demonstrated complete remission rates in the 62% to 95% range when used to target CD19 in patients whose acute lymphoblastic leukemia had relapsed.vii Last year, ARK highlighted the story of Alyssa, a 13-year-old girl in the UK who had been diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a type of cancer that affects the immune system. CAR-T cell therapy treatment wiped out Alyssa’s cancer.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Ali focuses |Lorenzo Valente |Sam Korus |Jozef Soja
In 2021, CAR-T cell therapy gained acclaim after scientists demonstrated complete remission rates in the 62% to 95% range when used to target CD19 in patients whose acute lymphoblastic leukemia had relapsed.vii Last year, ARK highlighted the story of Alyssa, a 13-year-old girl in the UK who had been diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a type of cancer that affects the immune system. CAR-T cell therapy treatment wiped out Alyssa’s cancer.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Jozef Soja |Sam Korus |Daniel C. Maguire
Last week, SpaceX reported that it is on track to commercialize a direct-to-device Starlink service in the US later this year.8 Since initial testing in January, the company has sent and received traditional SMS and WhatsApp text messages and posted on X using unmodified devices. Interestingly, the devices have worked indoors, perhaps because Starlink has been testing at a lower earth orbit.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
ark-invest.com | David McGlynn focuses |Jozef Soja |David Puell |Andrew Kim
Last week, a jury agreed[x] with Epic Games that Google Play, Google’s app store, engaged in anticompetitive behavior, a verdict contrary to the outcome of Epic’s court battle against Apple’s App store. District Judge James Donato soon will announce the penalties that Google will face. In 2021, Epic lost in its District Court[xi] antitrust suit against Apple, a decision largely upheld[xii] by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2023.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
ark-invest.com | Ali focuses |Alexandra Urman |Frank Downing |Jozef Soja
Two weeks ago, the Institute for Intelligent Computing and Alibaba Group published an image-to-video model called Animate Anyone.[xv] The model transforms an input reference image and a pose sequence into a video. Unlike in previous image-to-video research, Animate Anyone introduced a feature extraction network called ReferenceNet that captures details from the original reference image in each video frame generated.
