Bitcoin Dips Below $90K: Trump Tariffs and Market Jitters Spark Sell-Off

Bitcoin fell below $90,000, on February 25, 2025, marking its lowest level since late November 2024, as a combination of macroeconomic pressures and crypto-specific factors triggered a broader market decline. U.S. President Donald Trump’s confirmation of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, alongside a 10% tariff on Chinese goods, stoked inflation fears, prompting investors to retreat from risk assets like Bitcoin, which dropped over 4.5% in 24 hours.

The total crypto market capitalization shed 8%, slipping from $3.31 trillion to $3.09 trillion, exacerbated by a slowdown in institutional demand through spot ETFs and a lack of breakout momentum, leaving Bitcoin vulnerable to sell-offs. Analysts note that while the $90,000 support level is critical, a breach could push prices toward $70,000, reflecting the market’s sensitivity to Trump’s policies and a correlating dip in traditional equity markets like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.

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Ethiopian Blockchain Network Launches Research for bETB Stablecoin

Ethiopian Blockchain Network (EBN) announced the start of research and technical development for bETB, a stablecoin pegged to the Ethiopian Birr (ETB), aiming to bolster financial inclusion and modernize the country’s financial infrastructure.

The initiative will explore blockchain frameworks, regulatory compliance, and use cases like affordable remittances and digital payments for Ethiopia’s unbanked population, while prioritizing security and collaboration with regulators, financial institutions, and local stakeholders. This move aligns with Ethiopia’s digital transformation push, though commercial rollout details remain forthcoming as the focus stays on technical groundwork.

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In a bold move reflecting China's aggressive push into the global AI race, DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based startup founded by billionaire hedge fund manager turned AI visionary Liang Wenfeng, is accelerating the launch of its latest AI model, R2, ahead of its originally planned timeline, with the release expected before May 2025, signaling the nation's all-in commitment to technological innovation.

Building on the success of its cost-efficient R1 model, launched in January 2025, which has already made waves by rivaling top Western AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT despite U.S. restrictions on advanced chip exports, DeepSeek is now racing to roll out R2 as soon as possible, with anticipated enhancements in coding capabilities and multilingual reasoning that could further solidify China’s growing dominance in the AI landscape.

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OpenAI Expands Deep Research Access with Enhanced Features for ChatGPT Users

OpenAI announced that its deep research feature is now available to all ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, following an initial launch that has seen several enhancements.

These improvements include embedded images with citations in the output and better understanding and referencing of uploaded files.

As part of the rollout, Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users will receive 10 deep research queries per month, while Pro users will enjoy an increased limit of 120 deep research queries per month.

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Replit’s Launches Replit Agent V2: Redefining Rapid Development in 2025

Replit Agent V2, recently unveiled by Replit, marks a significant evolution in AI-driven software development, empowering users to create sophisticated applications with unprecedented ease. Building on its predecessor, this version integrates Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, enhancing its reasoning capabilities and enabling it to tackle complex coding tasks autonomously.

Unlike traditional coding, which can take hours or days to set up environments, install dependencies, and write code, Replit Agent V2 interprets natural language prompts to autonomously generate complex applications—often completing the process in under five minutes for simpler projects, as demonstrated by its ability to build a QR code generator or a news scraper app in record time. Its intelligent reasoning allows it to hypothesize, debug, and adapt on the fly, slashing the time spent troubleshooting compared to manual methods or even its V1 predecessor.

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Estonia Pioneers AI-Driven Education with OpenAI Partnership

Estonia partnered with OpenAI to launch the "AI Leap 2025" initiative, a groundbreaking effort to integrate ChatGPT Edu—a specialized version of ChatGPT tailored for educational systems—into its national education framework, making it the first country to do so on a nationwide scale. Starting September 1, 2025, this public-private collaboration will provide free access to AI tools for 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers, with plans to expand to vocational schools and an additional 38,000 students and 3,000 teachers by 2026.

Aimed at enhancing digital skills and preparing students for an AI-driven future, the program includes teacher training and is supported by negotiations with OpenAI and Anthropic, positioning Estonia as a global model for AI integration in education, as announced by the Estonian government and praised by both companies for its forward-thinking approach.

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Do You Know About the First Airdrop in Ethiopia : Ethio Netsa Coin ($ETN)

Ethio Netsa Coin ($ETN) is a cryptocurrency project rooted in Ethiopia, operating on The Open Network (TON), and it features a community-driven airdrop as a key component of its initiative. Designed to engage and educate its growing community of over 24,000 members, $ETN has outlined plans to distribute 2,000,000 of its 5,000,000 total token supply through an airdrop, as detailed on its official website, aiming to make digital assets accessible to a wide Ethiopian audience.

This effort, tied to the ET Netsa Apps ecosystem, seeks to introduce Ethiopians to blockchain technology and digital assets, leveraging Telegram live streams and the ETN Learn platform to foster participation and learning, while building a strong local base through interactive community activities like polls and real-time market discussions. With its base in Ethiopia, $ETN exemplifies a localized approach to cryptocurrency adoption.

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Amazon Unveils Alexa+: The AI-Powered Future of Smart Assistants

Amazon unveiled Alexa+, a major upgrade to its virtual assistant, on February 26, 2025, in New York City, introducing a generative AI-powered version that’s smarter and more conversational than its 2014 predecessor. Priced at $19.99 monthly (free for Prime members), Alexa+ can order groceries, book reservations, suggest personalized recipes, and proactively assist with tasks like notifying users about events, all while integrating with Amazon’s ecosystem and third-party services like OpenTable and Uber.

Built on Amazon’s Nova models, Anthropic’s tech, and other advanced systems, it aims to compete with ChatGPT, rolling out in early access in March 2025, optimized for Echo Show devices. With over 600 million Alexa devices globally,

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NUNA Ethiopia Launches ADMAS Chatbot to Empower Entrepreneurs

NUNA Ethiopia has introduced ADMAS Chatbot, an AI-powered business development tool designed to support Ethiopian startups, SMEs, and entrepreneurs by providing easy access to business resources, industry insights, and mentorship opportunities.

Developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Innovation and Technology – Ethiopia, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and industry stakeholders, ADMAS offers 24/7 access to business insights on market trends and regulations, along with AI-driven guidance to tackle entrepreneurial challenges.

Aimed at enhancing Ethiopia’s startup ecosystem, this innovative tool promises to deliver scalable solutions and improve access to critical business knowledge, potentially transforming support for the country’s growing entrepreneurial community as NUNA Ethiopia continues its focus on innovation and business development.

Source - Addis Insight
Link - https://admas.works/

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ElevenLabs’ Scribe: Revolutionizing Speech-to-Text with Amharic Segmentation

ElevenLabs unveiled Scribe on February 26, 2025, a revolutionary speech-to-text model that’s transforming transcription with a 96.7% accuracy rate for English and support for 99 languages. Scribe has also included Amharic, Ethiopia’s language spoken by over 25 million people, is included with robust segmentation capabilities tailored to its complex Ge’ez script and syllabic structure.

Priced at $0.40 per hour of audio (with an introductory $0.20 rate for six weeks), Scribe outshines competitors like Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash and OpenAI’s Whisper v3, offering speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and non-speech detection, all while tackling the phonetic and script complexities of Amharic, a Semitic language often underserved by AI tools.

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Tron’s Gas-Free USDT Move Signals Bold Push to Reclaim Cost Advantage

In a bid to reclaim its edge in the stablecoin arena, Tron founder Justin Sun announced a gas-free USDT feature on February 27, 2025, set to roll out within a week.

This update eliminates the need for TRX tokens to cover transaction fees, tackling recent spikes that saw USDT transfer costs soar to $3.20–$6.50—far above Ethereum’s $0.40 fees. Following a $824 million stablecoin influx this month and building on Sun’s January pledge to slash costs, Tron’s latest move could solidify its rank as the second-largest stablecoin network.

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Bitcoin's Plummet Below $85,000: ETF Outflows and Macroeconomic Pressures in February 2025

The decline of Bitcoin's price below $85,000 in February 2025 stems from multiple factors. Major outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling over $1.77 billion since mid-February, have created significant selling pressure and eroded investor confidence. Additionally, macroeconomic issues, including U.S. inflation fears, potential interest rate hikes, and proposed U.S. tariffs on imports from the EU, Canada, and Mexico, have increased market volatility and driven investors toward safer assets, negatively affecting Bitcoin's value.

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Unveiling the Link: Global M2 Money Supply and Bitcoin Price Dynamics

M2 money supply refers to a broad measure of money in circulation, including cash, checking deposits, savings deposits, money market securities, and other time deposits, which reflects the total liquid assets available in an economy.

The chart "Bitcoin & Global M2" illustrates a correlation between global M2 money supply and Bitcoin's price (XBT-USD Cross Rate) from December 12, 2019, to February 25, 2025, suggesting that Bitcoin's price tends to lag behind changes in global M2 by approximately 10 weeks.

This indicates that increases in global liquidity, as represented by M2, may drive demand for assets like Bitcoin, potentially influencing its price over time, though with a delay.

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Unveiling GPT-4.5: OpenAI’s Next Leap in AI Innovation

OpenAI announced a research preview of GPT-4.5 on February 28, 2025 (today). This model is described as their "largest and best model for chat yet" and is being rolled out initially to ChatGPT Pro users, with plans to extend access to Plus and Team users next week, followed by Enterprise and Education users the week after.

GPT-4.5 includes features like access to up-to-date information via search, support for file and image uploads, and a canvas feature for working on writing and code. However, it does not currently support multimodal features like Voice Mode, video, or screensharing in ChatGPT.

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Breaking : The Price of Bitcoin just dropped below 80K!

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GPT-4.5: Why OpenAI’s Latest Falls Short in Math and Code

GPT-4.5, released by OpenAI on February 28, 2025, ranks below specialized models in math and coding benchmarks because it’s a general-purpose conversationalist, not a niche problem-solver like OpenAI’s o1 or o3-mini, scoring 36.7% on AIME 2024 (vs. o1’s 83/120 or o3-mini’s 102/120).

It is also lagging behind frontier coders like DeepSeek v3 or Claude Sonnet 3.7 on tests like HumanEval—its modest 5% boost over GPT-4o reflecting diminishing returns from massive compute focused on broad fluency rather than precision, with trade-offs favoring safety and polish (78% hallucination reduction on PersonQA) over the raw, iterative reasoning needed for advanced math or flawless code.

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Elicit AI Outshines Other Tools in Deep Research: Expert PhD Ratings

Seventeen external evaluators with PhDs rated various AI tools on a scale of 0 to 10 for their effectiveness in deep research tasks, with Elicit Reports receiving the highest score of 7.3, making it the most favorably perceived tool among the group.

Elicit AI, developed by Ought, is an advanced AI-powered research assistant designed to streamline and automate research. It uses language models to find relevant academic papers. It has access to over 125 million papers from the Semantic Scholar Corpus.

However, it’s best suited for empirical research in fields like biomedicine and machine learning, and it may not handle non-academic or theoretical questions well.

In comparison, ChatGPT Deep Research scored 6.1, Perplexity Deep Research received a 4.6, and Gemini Deep Research had the lowest rating at 3.9, indicating Elicit’s superior performance for deep research as of February 28, 2025, according to these expert evaluators.

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In my POV, I think ChatGPT Deep Research is the best, but the Elicit AI Deep Research is also very good. Especially, in referring to scholar papers, I think it is better than ChatGPT Deep Research...

Should I share a research I did with both to showcase their depth?

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Low Graduation of Tokens from Pump Fun : Why?

The PumpFun Stats table, updated as of February 28, 2025, provides a snapshot of token activity on the PumpFun platform across various time periods.

The data highlights a consistent trend of many tokens being launched on the platform, with significantly fewer tokens graduating in each time period, reflecting the dynamic nature of token creation and progression on PumpFun.

The low token graduation rate on the PumpFun platform can be attributed to several factors. Many tokens fail to graduate—reaching the $69,000 market cap required to move to Raydium—because they lack sustained community interest or viral appeal, which is crucial for memecoins to gain traction.

The memecoin market is highly volatile and driven by hype, which can fade quickly, leaving most tokens stagnant or losing value shortly after launch.

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Zemenu, a company focused on advancing AI-driven solutions for Ethiopia, has launched an early access program for its next-generation AI assistant, Lucy, as of March 2025.

The initiative, detailed in a recent weekly update, invites a limited number of users to test Lucy’s capabilities as the company works to scale its server infrastructure and refine key areas such as accent refinement for Ethiopian linguistic nuances, performance optimization, security, and user experience.

Interested individuals can apply via the official website, https://lucy.zemenu.org, to participate in shaping Lucy into a seamless, accessible, and culturally relevant AI tool for the Ethiopian market, with Zemenu emphasizing the importance of user feedback in this developmental phase.

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Here are the two documents generated with Elicit and ChatGPT Deep Research.

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