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You can now hire a digital human for your company for as little as $14,000 a year

Daniel Levi Posted On January 2, 2023

Happy New Year! Last year, ChatGPT dominated the news, sparking a flurry of excitement and infinite possibilities as over a million users signed up for the new OpenAI’s dialogue-based AI chatbot that does almost everything—from writing codes, and telling stories […]

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MultiDAG 2.0 Public Mainnet is LIVE!

Daniel Levi Posted On December 29, 2022

Early this year, we wrote about COTI Network after the organization announced its plan to create a new token standard for stablecoins issued on the new COTI’s MultiDAG 2.0 Layer, that will be the equivalent of the ERC20 token standard […]

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Geoengineering startup releases sulfur particles into the atmosphere in attempt to ‘stop climate change’

Daniel Levi Posted On December 28, 2022

”It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” that was a statement made by the founder of Make Sunsets about why his startup has to block the sun to save us from the climate apocalypse. […]

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Grocery delivery startup Instacart cuts internal valuation to $10 billion from $39 billion a year ago as it prepares for 2023 IPO

Daniel Levi Posted On December 28, 2022

In October, Grocery delivery startup Instacart postponed its much-anticipated IPO as stock market volatility, soaring inflation, and interest rates left investors worried about growing volatility in capital markets. The company had planned to go public this year but decided to shelve […]

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How much is OpenAI worth? Here’s what you need to know about the creator of ChatGPT

Daniel Levi Posted On December 23, 2022

We’re living in extraordinary times of artificial intelligence (AI). Things you saw in Sci-fi movies years ago are already becoming a reality. Two years ago, OpenAI shocked the world with the launch of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (popularly known as GPT-3), […]

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Facebook’s Meta agreed to pay $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica scandal for accessing 87 million users’ data without their consent

Daniel Levi Posted On December 23, 2022

Back in 2018, we wrote about the then-Facebook after the social media giant gave third parties, including British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, access to users’ personal data without their consent. At the time, Facebook revealed that up to 87 million of […]

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Astar Network wins ‘Product of the Year’ award at the JBA Annual Blockchain Award

Daniel Levi Posted On December 23, 2022

Quick Take Astar Network named the Product of the Year at the JBA Annual Blockchain Award. Astar Network’s founder, Sota Watanabe, bagged the ‘Person of the Year’ award for the second time in a row. The JBA comprises some of the leading […]

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How to best promote your crypto project

Daniel Levi Posted On December 22, 2022

Often, the process of creating and publishing a new crypto project can feel like the hardest part. While there are definitely challenges when coming up with a new crypto that has real usability, this is, unfortunately, only one piece of […]

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Former Spotify Director joins Walnut to lead research and development

Daniel Levi Posted On December 22, 2022

As it looks to continue to offer the first-of-its-kind platform that makes the sales demos process seamless and automated, Walnut has bulked up its executive team with the addition of Eyal Erez the former Spotify director, as Vice President of Research and Development […]

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Ankr shares a post-mortem report on the multi-million dollar aBNBc token exploit

Daniel Levi Posted On December 22, 2022

Early this month, we wrote about after BNB Chain-based protocol Ankr announced it was hit by a multi-million dollar exploit on December 1. The attack appeared to have first been discovered by on-chain security analyst PeckShield after it reported in […]

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Mark Cuban-backed Blocto is advancing blockchain adoption with solutions to bring the next billion users to Web3

Daniel Levi Posted On December 21, 2022

Despite the bear market that we are experiencing in the market, the crypto industry is seeing record turnouts in Asian countries, as seen by the turnout across various events during Taipei Blockchain Week in Taiwan. The event comes just a month […]

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Co-founder of $4 billion crypto pyramid scheme startup Onecoin faces 60 years in prison after pleading guilty

Daniel Levi Posted On December 20, 2022

Karl Sebastian Greenwood, the co-founder of the $4 billion crypto pyramid scheme Onecoin, has pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud charges, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He now faces up to 60 years in prison. Sebastian Greenwood […]

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Xscape Photonics raises $10M to usher in a new era of photonics chips and revolutionize computing with light

Daniel Levi Posted On December 20, 2022

About two centuries since its inception, today’s computers still use integrated circuits or semiconductors (also known as chips) which are based on bits in the form of binary 1s and 0s. Integrated circuits are microchip wafers that contain millions of tiny […]

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This startup just creates an AI system that teaches itself how to drive a car using ‘unsupervised’ learning; raises $31M in funding

Daniel Levi Posted On December 19, 2022

Early this month, ChatGPT took the internet by storm after the dialogue-based AI chatbot crossed one million users just five days after launch. Dubbed Google killer, the new OpenAI chatbot does almost everything—from writing codes and telling stories to engaging […]

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The developers that are changing the face of mobile gaming

Daniel Levi Posted On December 19, 2022

Mobile gaming is booming right now. Mobile gaming revenue, which is estimated to be at $98.22 billion by the end of the year, now accounts for more than half of the total games industry revenues. People aren’t just using their […]

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Binance’s FUD increases as proof-of-reserves auditor Mazars Group suspends all work with crypto clients

Daniel Levi Posted On December 16, 2022

Is another trouble brewing in crypto land? That’s the question everyone is asking after the global accounting firm Mazars Group suddenly suspended all work with its crypto clients including Binance, Crypto.com, and KuCoin. The decision to cut ties with these leading […]

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DeFi industry is poised for institutional adoption and rapid acceleration, HashKey Capital report reveals

Daniel Levi Posted On December 16, 2022

Despite the ongoing crypto winter and the news about the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry continues to weather the storm of the global economic slowdown. DeFi adoption has increased in the past two years as the […]

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OpenAI, the maker of the popular ChatGPT founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, projects $1B in revenue by 2024

Daniel Levi Posted On December 15, 2022

It’s been called a Google killer. ChatGPT is the new chatbot-powered AI is the latest from the Elon Musk-founded independent research body OpenAI foundation. ChatGPT took the internet by storm as thousands of users rave about the dialogue-based AI chatbot on […]

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Blockchain startup Orbs launches the TON Verifier to verify the ecosystem’s smart contracts code

Daniel Levi Posted On December 15, 2022

It has been four years since we last covered Orbs, a blockchain platform that serves as a decentralized execution layer between existing layer-1 and layer-2 chains and the application layer. Back then, Orbs raised $118 million to fund the development of its […]

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