Crossmint Secures $23.6 Million to Facilitate the World’s Onchain Transition

With the participation of Ribbit Capital, Franklin Templeton, NYCA, First Round, Lightspeed Faction, and HF0, Crossmint will accelerate its mission to bring every business and AI agent onchain. Crossmint Raises $23.6 Million to Move Businesses to Blockchain The world is increasingly moving to include blockchain technology, and companies like Crossmint have risen to address this … Read more

China to Enforce AI Content Labeling Starting in September

The Cyberspace Administration of China stated that all artificial intelligence (AI) machine-generated content must be flagged with watermarks or metadata to identify its artificial origin. Unflagged content can still be produced, but creators must clarify the origin of the content, which will be logged by the source app for easier tracking. China Starts a Crusade … Read more

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Completes Acquisition of Stronghold Digital Mining

Bitfarms Ltd. has finalized its acquisition of Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc., marking an expansion of its U.S. operations and energy capabilities. The deal strengthens Bitfarms’ position in the PJM market and advances its high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. Bitfarms Advances HPC/AI Strategy with Stronghold Acquisition The acquisition increases Bitfarms‘ energy portfolio to … Read more

Crypto Scammers Exploit AI Deepfakes to Push Fake Giveaways With Trump and Musk

The evolution of deepfake scams has reached new levels of sophistication with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), making fraudulent schemes increasingly convincing and difficult to detect. A recent example involves a deepfake of U.S. President Donald Trump circulating on X, attempting to lure unsuspecting individuals into a cryptocurrency scam. AI-Generated Trump, Musk, and Buterin … Read more

Venice Burns One Third of Total Token Supply

The burn was conducted after the conclusion of Venice’s airdrop, which began at the end of January and ended on Wednesday. Crypto AI Startup Venice Burns $100M in Tokens Bitcoin and crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees’s Privacy-focused AI startup Venice concluded its airdrop on Wednesday after distributing 17.4 million Venice tokens (VVV) to more than 40,000 … Read more

Decentralizing Power: Unlocking AI Potential With io.net’s GPU Network

io.net is a decentralized GPU network that offers scalable and cost-effective computing power for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Boasting over 325,000 verified GPUs, io.net aims to address the GPU supply crunch by creating a more accessible and efficient marketplace for compute resources. Tausif Ahmed is the Chief Business Development Officer at io.net, a … Read more

11 AI Models Weigh In: Will Federal Reserve Easing Return in 2025 Amid Economic Uncertainty?

In recent months, we engaged artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to extract their forecasts on bitcoin and gold prices. On a separate occasion, before Donald Trump’s election in 2024, we challenged them to predict the next U.S. president. This time, we assembled 11 diverse AI models and posed a new question: Will the U.S. central bank … Read more

Mawari CEO: AI Coin Craze Normalizes AI Agents

Luis Oscar Ramirez, CEO of Mawari Network, perceives the AI coin surge not merely as speculative hype but as a pivotal moment that helps normalize the acceptance of AI agents. ‘Price of Innovation’ The recent surge of artificial intelligence (AI) coins in the cryptocurrency market sparked a whirlwind of investor attention, often overshadowing projects with … Read more

World Network’s New Chat App Ties Messaging to Crypto Transactions 

Sam Altman-backed World Network has launched World Chat, a beta-stage messaging app integrating end-to-end encryption, crypto transactions, and a verification system to distinguish humans from bots. Encrypted Messaging App World Chat Aims to Verify Users, Streamline Payments World Chat, a new Mini App on World Network, allows users to message and send cryptocurrency globally while … Read more

Deepseek-R1 Exposed: 74% of Output Mirrors OpenAI

Copyleaks found that 74.2% of text generated by Deepseek-R1 closely resembles OpenAI’s stylistic patterns, suggesting potential unauthorized reliance on OpenAI’s model during training. This raises concerns about intellectual property, transparency, and ethical AI practices. Copyleaks used a rigorous method involving three AI classifiers to analyze stylistic fingerprints, achieving high precision. This discovery allows for model-specific … Read more