Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In line with a broader trend among major tech firms, Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba is downsizing its metaverse operations. The restructuring, which aims to improve efficiency, led to layoffs in Yuanjing, Alibaba’s metaverse unit, as the company recalibrates its focus in this sector. Downsizing Metaverse Unit According to the report by South China Morning Post, which is also owned by Alibaba, this move has affected “dozens” of employees. The layoffs reportedly impacted...

The advancement of computing power over the past few decades has been extraordinary. As computers become more powerful, hackers gain access to more sophisticated tools to launch attacks against crypto platforms. The threat of quantum and AI-driven hacks will soon be a major challenge for crypto entrepreneurs and developers. Web3 hacks are one of the biggest challenges the industry is facing and a significant barrier to institutional adoption and mainstream usage. According to...

On Oct. 22, Chainling announced the results of its industry-wide corporate actions initiative involving major financial players such as Euroclear, Swift, UBS, Franklin Templeton, and Sygnum Bank. Blockchain ecosystem partners included Avalanche, ZKsync, and Hyperledger Besu networks. The oracle provider successfully demonstrated how artificial intelligence, oracles, and blockchains “can solve a decades-long unstructured data challenge in finance.” Automating Corporate...

TL;DR Santiment ranked Oasis Network (ROSE) as the top AI cryptocurrency in development activity. Despite its 80% price rally over the past month, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) did not make the list. The Leaderboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) cryptocurrencies have been quite trendy lately due to the rising prices of many of the tokens encompassing that niche. The crypto analytics platform Santiment recently ranked the top 10 such assets in terms of monthly...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has introduced new guiding principles for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in consumer-facing applications, aimed at protecting end-users. These principles build upon the guidelines that were released in November 2019 and relate to big data and AI. The changes include governance and accountability, and integrity standards, including fairness, transparency and disclosure, data privacy, and protection. Alan Au, the executive director of...

Coinbase is launching a new initiative to explore the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with cryptocurrency wallets. The company has introduced an accelerator grant program offering $3,000 to each of five selected projects that demonstrate innovative ways to combine AI with crypto wallets. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT by OpenAI and Claude by Anthropic, can control funding operations using blockchain. According to...

In a candid conversation during EthCC, Greg Osuri, the founder of Akash Network, shares insights into his journey, Akash’s inception, and the future of decentralized cloud computing. Osuri’s venture into the world of decentralized cloud computing began long before Akash Network. Osuri, an experienced entrepreneur, first made waves with AngelHack, the largest hackathon-based accelerator globally. “Before AngelHack, hackathons were a very underground concept, and we made them...

The Casper network has resumed operations after being halted for a few days due to an attack on 26 July. The attacker conducted illicit transactions worth $6.7 million before the core team behind the blockchain noticed suspicious activity. Since then, it has identified the vulnerability, offered a fix, which its validators have manually updated, and scanned the entire chain for illicit transactions from its genesis block. “We are happy to report that Casper has resumed consensus, and network...

The prominent crypto asset manager announced the launch of the Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund LLC on July 17th, which aims to offer investors exposure to protocols in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence sector within the crypto ecosystem. The fund will rebalance quarterly and currently features a basket of decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) crypto protocols, such as Bittensor (TAO), Filecoin (FIL), Livepeer (LPT), Near (NEAR), and Render (RNDR). Grayscale’s...

Bitcoin miners have been one of the key players causing market declines as they engaged in intense selling after the latest halving event which slashed the mining rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC earlier this year. However, the latest data suggest that the selling pressure from these entities has significantly decreased. Such a trend could potentially bolster the asset’s price and trigger a market-wide surge. Weakening Miner Sell Pressure The recent bearish market conditions...