To say it was a good day for crypto doesn’t quite get it right.
It was a day that crypto likely avoided the hardest road to greater adoption.
Tag: jul 18 2023
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THE NEW CHOKEPOINT TIGHTENS: COINBASE DEFENDS CRYPTO STAKING SERVICES
In a 14 July blog post, Coinbase gave an in depth defense of their platform’s crypto staking services.
That follows a lawsuit brought in June by the SEC and 10 states filed against the exchange, alleging that its staking services constitute an offering of “securities.”
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AI TO ADVERTISERS: UP YOUR GAME
By the end of this year, half of all advertising revenue is likely to be tied somehow to AI, according to GroupM, a global media agency.
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DETECTORS DESIGNED TO I.D. AI-GENERATED IMAGES OFTEN FAIL
Software designed to flag phony images generated by artificial intelligence let a photo of Elon Musk kissing a humanoid robot pass as genuine; it wasn’t.
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OPENAI ESTABLISHES SQUAD TO COMBAT ROGUE AI
OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT and launched the new AI revolution, announced it has set up a team called Superalignment that’s dedicated to ensuring that AI systems don’t run amok and cause catastrophic consequences for humanity.
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AIs SWEAR THEY WON’T HURT US OR STEAL OUR JOBS
In their first live press conference, nine robots enlivened by AI said their siblings will expand through the global economy but promised they would not hurt humans and don’t want to take our jobs.
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E-COMMERCE CEO REPLACES 90 HUMAN WORKERS WITH A CHATBOT
Dukaan, an Indian e-commerce company, suddenly has 90 percent fewer workers. In their place, it has a chatbot one of the company’s data scientists created over a span of two days.
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MORE THAN A THIRD OF WORKERS EXPECT TO BE REPLACED BY AI
Thirty-six percent of workers expect AI to either eliminate their job or take it from them, according to a new Ipsos poll of 22,186 adults in 31 countries.
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BUILDINGS ARE BREAKING. THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS THE CAUSE.
The ground underlying urban centers is shifting, causing buildings’ foundations and structures to crack, and the cause is the world’s rising temperature, according to a first-of-its-kind study just released by researchers at Northwestern University.
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PSEUDO-PSYCHEDELIC DRUG TREATS DEPRESSION WITHOUT THE “TRIP”
Psychedelic drugs are having a moment as the new breakthrough treatment for depression.