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Finance

NEAR to Hire Artificial-Intelligence Engineers as Part of AI Roadmap

The company will begin its AI initiative in the next 3-6 months according to a document reviewed by CoinDesk.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment

Blockchain firms are attempting to address concerns that Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet will build an artificial-intelligence oligarchy

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Has 'Too Many Tokens' and Mergers Are Coming

M&As could give birth to tokens such as 'ShibaPepes' and 'FlokiDoges,' according to one expert.

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Opinion

The SEC’s Shot Across the Bow on 'AI Washing'

The agency is right to go after fraudsters seeking to take advantage of investor enthusiasm in novel tech like machine learning and crypto, CryptoWhistleBlower founder Daren Firestone writes.

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Finance

Three Decentralized Platforms to Merge AI Tokens, Create AI Alliance

Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol agreed to combine their crypto tokens into one and create an alliance for decentralized AI.

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Finance

Tether to Establish AI Unit, Starts Recruitment Drive

The unit will focus on the development of open-source AI models and collaborate with other firms to integrate the models into products that could address real-world challenges.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Policy

FTX to Sell $884M of Anthropic Shares to Two Dozen Institutional Investors

The value of FTX's FTT token surged 10% on the news.

Sam Bankman-Fried, right, outside court in July 2023. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Web 3 Startup Tensorplex Labs Raises $3M Seed Funding to Decentralize AI

Tensorplex said decentralization can help prevent tech giants monopolizing artificial intelligence, making them prone to biases or censorship.

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Tech

Bitcoin Virtual Machine Will Soon Let Users Create AI Models on Bitcoin Network

“We've figured out a way to put AI on-chain,” lead developer punk3700 told CoinDesk in an X message.

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