Dynamic Yield by Mastercard, a digital personalization and artificial intelligence subsidiary of Mastercard, announced the launch of its Shopping Muse generative AI chatbot assistant for ecommerce on Nov. 30. The AI system was revealed in a company blog post. According to Dynamic Yield, Shopping Muse is “an advanced generative AI tool that revolutionizes how consumers search for and discover products…
The shadowy hacker behind last week’s massive $48 million drain of decentralized finance (DeFi) market maker KyberSwap has finally listed their demands: nothing short of complete control of the company, forever. The exploiter, who now apparently has embraced the moniker “Kyber Director,” wrote an open, on-chain letter sent via an Ethereum transaction Thursday requesting Kyber’s leadership hand them the keys…
Kingship, a fictional “supergroup” composed of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT avatars that was created by Universal Music Group’s 10:22PM label, has expanded into Roblox with Thursday’s launch of an interactive world on the popular gaming platform. The Kingship Islands game on Roblox sees players “crash land in an island paradise and embark on a quest to unite the band…
Crypto exchange Coinbase received three times as many law enforcement requests this year as it did in 2020, according to its new transparency report. Nearly half of those requests came from the United States. Germany accounted for another 15% of the 13,079 requests for information, followed by the United Kingdom and Spain. Almost all of the requests, 96% of them,…
IOTA, an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency focused on the Internet of Things (IOT), saw its native IOTA token rally 43% on Nov. 29 after announcing the creation of the Iota Ecosystem DLT Foundation and its registration in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. This makes IOTA the first DLT foundation to be regulated by the Abu…
The Central Bank of Solomon Islands has launched a proof-of-concept for a central bank digital currency called Bokolo Cash. Japanese blockchain Soramitsu is providing support. Bokolo Cash will be worth one Solomon Islands dollar. Project participants can use it in retail settings in the island nation’s capital Honiara and for person-to-person transfers. Wholesale transfers between commercial banks and simulated cross-border…
Elon Musk claims ChatGPT has been infected with “woke mind virus”, 4chan thinks OpenAI broke all encryption, and the web seems 99% AI fakes. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/outrage-chatgpt-wont-say-slurs-qstar-breaks-encryption-99-fake-web-ai-eye/
So much for the “console wars.” Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have been rival titans of the video game industry for decades, but now a Microsoft executive said that the company wants to bring its Xbox Game Pass subscription service to their platforms. Xbox Chief Financial Officer Tim Stuart made the comments at this week’s Wells Fargo TMT Summit, as first…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) called on the public to comment on a proposed rule change that could allow asset management firm Fidelity to offer shares of its spot Ether exchange-traded fund, or ETF. In a Nov. 30 notice, the SEC said “interested persons” may comment on the Fidelity offering, proposing the Cboe BZX Exchange list and…
Microsoft is set to launch a $3.2 billion investment in the United Kingdom for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and training. This marks the company’s largest U.K. investment since it started doing business in the area 40 years ago. .@Microsoft is committed as a company to ensuring that the UK as a country has world-leading #AI infrastructure, easy access to the…
