Category Cryptocurrency

Phil Ferguson Show interview

I did an interview with Phil Ferguson, a financial advisor with a podcast. First half is crypto, second half is AI. This came out very well! The content you crave! The sound is not awesome (Zoom being weird?) but you…

OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably

OpenAI has secured its $40 billion in fresh funding from SoftBank — probably. The FT lists $30 billion from SoftBank and $10 billion more from Microsoft and various venture capital funds. [OpenAI; FT, archive] That $30 billion from SoftBank may…

Scientific peer review by AI — with its own cryptocurrency! As promoted in Nature

You might think top journal Nature telling scientists to use an LLM instead of doing proper peer review was bad enough. But how about Nature promoting schemes that say they’ll pay for AI peer review in cryptocurrency? [Nature, archive] YesNoError…

Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump

After the 2022 cryptocurrency crash, we saw incredible numbers of crypto guys pivot to pushing “AI.” Today’s pivoteer is Barry Silbert, one of the higher-end crypto guys to attempt the AI shuffle. Silbert started investing in crypto companies in 2013.…

Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to ‘World’, still wants your eyeballs

You might think that, come the artificial general intelligence, humanity will enjoy a world of unlimited abundance and prosperity for all, beyond money, under the watchful sensors of the superintelligent AI. But Silicon Valley bros talking up the Singularity still…

An Post releases ‘Imagine Ireland’ AI stamp that’s also an NFT — in 2024

An Post, the Irish post office, has released a new series of stamps, “Imagine Ireland,” generated by “AI artist” and advertising executive Kasia Oźmin. [An Post; RTÉ] The publicity posits Oźmin as a “renowned designer and AI artist.” Her main…

Proton Mail adds a bitcoin wallet. Yes, really.

We wrote last week about Proton Mail adding an AI assistant that just sent a wafer-thin slice of your email in plaintext to sit on Proton’s servers — unlike the zero plaintext that was stored there previously. Many commenters said…

Tether and Northern Data pivot from crypto to an AI hype IPO

Bitcoin mining is washed up and losing money. Crypto miners have been jumping on the AI bandwagon — hoping to get rich converting their crypto wastes of energy into AI wastes of energy. Over on our crypto blogs, we’ve written…