A 23-year-old Snapchat influencer has seemingly taken a leaf out of the SimpDAO book by launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based girlfriend version of herself via OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The influencer in question, Caryn Marjorie, has 1.84 million subscribers on Snapchat, along with 215,000 followers on Instagram. Dubbed CarynAI, the project was built by Forever Voices, which utilizes more than 2,000…
Tech giant Google announced a plethora of new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-backed features during its annual Google I/O conference, with updated AI tech set to appear across its major platforms. On May 10, the annual Google I/O conference took place in California, with CEO Sundar Pichai giving a keynote address on the most significant updates to the firm’s AI stack, among…
A call-center scammer impersonating President Joe Biden attempted to steal what they thought was $450,000 worth of Bitcoin from a streamer — instead, chaos ensu… Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/to-catch-a-scammer-kraken-builds-fake-crypto-account-to-bait-fraudsters
Bitcoin (BTC) miner Marathon Digital has disclosed that it received another subpoena from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to its 100-megawatt data center in Hardin, Montana. According to Marathon’s quarterly report filed May 10, it received the subpoena on April 10 “relating to, among other things, transactions with related parties” that occurred while it was creating…
An email newsletter sent out to Coinbase customers on May 10 caused significant backlash from the Pepe community. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/coinbase-calls-pepe-a-hate-symbol-prompting-calls-to-boycott-the-exchange
A New York lawmaker has introduced a new bill that would see dollar-pegged stablecoins accepted as a legal form of payment for bail bonds. The partisan bill, introduced on May 10 by New York State Democrat Latrice Walker, details the pre-existing methods of paying bail bonds, including cash, insurance bonds, and credit cards and seeks to add “fiat-collateralized stablecoins” to…
The Bitcoin mempool, otherwise known as the network’s transaction backlog, is still clogged with over 390,000 transactions waiting to be processed by miners. To clear the mempool, more than 190 blocks need to be mined. As the scaling issues continue to plague the network, a conversation between former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and the network’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been…
With CarynAI, Caryn Marjorie has launched something seemingly straight out of a science fiction movie. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/snapchat-influencer-turns-simps-into-cash-using-an-ai-doppelganger
Stablecoin issuer Circle has reportedly adjusted its reserves treasury in an effort to reduce the risks of United States debt defaults. According to a May 10 Politico newsletter, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that the firm has adjusted the mix of reserves backing its USD Coin (USDC) by switching to short-dated U.S. Treasuries to avoid getting caught up in a…
An email sent out to Coinbase customers describing memecoin Pepe (PEPE) as a “hate symbol” co-opted by alt-right groups has drawn significant ire from the memecoin community. Prominent crypto influencer Borovik.eth shared a screenshot of the email newsletter from May 10 to his 96,000 followers, which cites a 2016 decision from the Anti-Defamation League to place the frog-themed character in…
