AI


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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Tech

Story Protocol Works With Crypto-AI Firm Ritual To Train and Track Models On-Chain

Story Protocol will be used to "prove that outputs like text, image, and voice are generated by specific models" so that IP can be tracked, attributed, and compensated correctly.

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Opinion

Reddit Is Making a Deal With the AI Devil

The social media giant's $60 million real-time data deal with Google is latest example of internet companies selling out their users who have nominally "consented" to share their personal information, but have no control. Blockchains and ZK-proofs could help prevent corporate overreach, Nym CEO and privacy advocate Harry Halpin writes.

Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women by Daniel Hopfer ca. 1515 (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Creative Commons)

Finance

Near Protocol's Token Almost Doubles in a Week, Ahead of Nvidia's AI Conference

Near Protocol will be only few crypto-related firm that will be presenting at Nvidia's conference next week.

NEAR rises ahead of Nvidia conference (Gerard Siderius/Unsplash)

Consensus Magazine

Robert Alice Made NFT History, Now He’s Writing About It

Legendary art book publisher TASCHEN is putting out the first major survey of NFT art, while Christie's launches his new art project tonight.

"On NFTs" is the  largest art historical study on NFTs to date. (Robert Alice)

Markets

First Mover Americas: AI Tokens Reclaim the Spotlight

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 7, 2024.

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Videos

The Catalysts for This Crypto Bull Market: AI, DeFi, Real World Assets?

As the crypto bull market gets started, Alex Pack of Hack VC dives into why he thinks crypto is still so early and how his firm believes crypto and AI will intersect.

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Tech

USC Professor's Crypto Startup 'Sahara' Raises $6M to Reward AI Trainers

Sahara co-founder Sean Ren, a computer science professor at the University of Southern California, says his tech can help workers and businesses get compensated for their knowledge, data and expertise in the age of AI.

Sahara co-founders Sean Ren and Tyler Zhou (Sahara)