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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.

Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

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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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)