OpenAI is addressing concerns about ChatGPT’s perceived “laziness” by introducing an enhanced model, aiming to rejuvenate its AI’s performance and responsiveness after complains that it was refusing to do its job. “Today, we are releasing an updated GPT-4 Turbo preview model,” OpenAI announced. “This model completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended…
Month: January 2024
‘GameStop’ Meme Coin on Solana Pumps 330% as Gaming Giant Bails on NFTs
GameStop’s “meme stock” resurgence is largely in the past now, but now there’s a new GME that’s skyrocketing—and it’s a meme coin with no real connection to the gaming retailer. The GameStop (GME) token is minted on Solana, and it’s seen surging demand and a rising price since being minted on Saturday. GME is up over 330% in the last…
$675 Million Recovered From $2.6 Billion Stolen in 2023 Crypto Hacks: PeckShield
The good news: Users were able to recover nearly $675 million worth of crypto assets stolen last year. But the bad news is that criminals were able to steal a total of $2.6 billion, according to a new report from blockchain security firm PeckShield. By PeckShield’s count, that means the total amount stolen through illicit means dropped from $3.6 billion…
OpenAI Counters ‘Laziness’ Complaints with ChatGPT Upgrade, API Price Cuts
OpenAI is addressing concerns about ChatGPT’s perceived “laziness” by introducing an enhanced model, aiming to rejuvenate its AI’s performance and responsiveness after complains that it was refusing to do its job. “Today, we are releasing an updated GPT-4 Turbo preview model,” OpenAI announced. “This model completes tasks like code generation more thoroughly than the previous preview model and is intended…
Floki Halts Staking Program in Hong Kong After Regulator Warning
Meme coin Floki Inu has blocked users in Hong Kong from accessing its Floki and TokenFi staking programs, after the local regulator flagged them as “suspicious investment products.” In a blog post, the Floki Inu team announced that it had taken “practical measures” to block users in Hong Kong from joining its staking programs, as well as placing “prominent warnings”…
Bitcoin Gains 3%, Solana Up 6.9% Ahead of Jupiter Airdrops
Bitcoin gained 3% overnight as markets look ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate announcement on Wednesday. The hope is that the U.S. Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged, but that comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will hint at lowering interest rates later this year. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading for $43,439. That’s 11%…
A Neuralink Chip Has Been Implanted In a Human for the First Time
A computer chip developed by Neuralink has been implanted in its first human test subject, according to company co-founder and owner Elon Musk, marking a milestone in the cutting-edge field of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research. The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk announced on Twitter late Monday. “Initial results show promising neuron spike…
DOJ Charges Three People in $1.9 Billion Crypto Scam
An Australian and two Americans have been charged with orchestrating a $1.9 billion cryptocurrency scam based around a purported DeFi platform, HyperFund, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. The DOJ accused Australian citizen Sam Lee of co-founding HyperFund and Rodney Burton and Brenda Chunga of promoting it, together defrauding investors of $1.89 billion by claiming that investment returns…
Binance Pours Cold Water on NFT Game That Pulled In $115 Million for Its Mint
SkyArk Chronicles, an anime-style fantasy game, just held a huge NFT mint with eager collectors pledging $115 million worth of Ethereum for a chance to claim one of its character assets. But now Binance Labs says that its investment in the studio behind the game was misrepresented in the run-up to the mint. Earlier this month, SkyArk Studio announced that…
Hallucination Nation: How Crazy Is Your Favorite AI Model?
For all the transformative and disruptive power attributed to the rise of artificial intelligence, the Achilles’ heel of generative AI remains its tendency to make things up. The tendency of Large Language Models (LLMs) to “hallucinate” comes with all sorts of pitfalls, sowing the seeds of misinformation. The sphere of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be dangerous, especially when people…