Who among us doesn’t love The Sims? The game, which launched in 2000, sold more than 200 million units and gave most of us our first taste of primitive artificial intelligence. Now a group of AI researchers at Stanford University and Google have used the powerful AI tool GPT to turbocharge a Sims-inspired world they call Smallville, and populated it…
On April 13, a C6 Bank customer in Brazil shared screenshots of his online bank account, revealing that the financial institution was tracking CO2 emissions from his purchases and urging him to compensate monetarily. C6 Bank states that the new tool aims to inspire Brazilians to adopt more sustainable behaviors. ‘CBDC Preview’ — Bank Customer Explains How His Brazilian Bank…
The Chia Network blockchain said April 14 that it had submitted a proposal for an initial public offering (IPO) to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The size and price range of the offering have not been determined, the company said. The proposal was submitted confidentially and the announcement was made under a Securities Act of 1933 rule to…
Generative artificial intelligence may be having its banner moment, but the technology existed long before ChatGPT and DALL-E. It began in 2014 with a paper by Ian Goodfellow and several other researchers entitled “Generative Adversarial Networks” (GANs). Goodfellow is a computer scientist who worked for Google Brain and Apple and is currently with DeepMind. Today, his paper has been cited…
Rostin Behnam, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), recently spoke out about the allegations levied against Binance, claiming that the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange’s leadership knowingly operated outside of U.S. laws governing the exchange of commodities and futures. Speaking at a fireside chat that took place at the DeCenter Spring Conference at Princeton University on April 14, Bloomberg reports…
Court documents reveal that Justin Sun, Tron’s founder, has been sent a summons from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the civil complaint filed against him last month. Youtuber Austin Mahone and rapper Soulja Boy, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, have also been summoned. The SEC accuses Sun of orchestrating an unregistered sale and offer of…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced it will be revisiting the proposed redefinition of an “exchange” under the agency’s rules — a move which could include crypto market participants in decentralized finance, or DeFi. In an April 14 open meeting with SEC commissioners and staff, chair Gary Gensler said the proposed rule amendments could benefit investors…
Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith posted on Twitter earlier this week that she had been detained in Costa Rica and not allowed to leave the country. “I’m being detained at the Liberia airport in Costa Rica,” Smith tweeted on Wednesday. “We’re told we can’t leave until tomorrow and need to sleep here at the airport.” Smith tweeted on Thursday that…
The show Macro Markets, hosted by crypto analyst Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday on the Cointelegraph Markets & Research YouTube channel, explains complex concepts in layman’s terms and focuses on the cause and effect of traditional financial events on the day-to-day crypto activity. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States Federal Reserve foresee an impending economic recession,…
Bitcoin faces a formidable trend line in $31,000, with United States equities providing a continued boost for BTC price upside. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/btc-price-targets-see-33k-next-as-bitcoin-eyes-key-resistance-flip
