Interest in the metaverse exploded when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of the social media company to “Meta” in 2021, a rebrand that focused on building the metaverse. Since then, a lot has happened in the space. MetaNews
Ordinals “sparked a fire” for NFTs built on Bitcoin, according to Stacks founder Muneeb Ali. However, fundamentalists criticized the protocol as an affront to Bitcoin’s founding ethos of facilitating peer-to-peer financial transactions. Software engineer Casey Rodarmor launched Ordinals on the
Luxury goods company Hermes International won a U.S. lawsuit against “MetaBirkins” NFTs creator Mason Rothschild – a ruling that could have massive implications on how items are bought and sold in the fledgling metaverse economy. The 186-year old French multinational
Microsoft announced on Tuesday the launch of its remodeled Bing search engine and Edge web browser. Both are powered by the artificial intelligence (AI) technology behind ChatGPT, as the U.S. tech company takes on Google’s market dominance. Chairman and CEO
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati has called for regulation of the company’s wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to prevent companies from deploying the tech irresponsibly. Murati’s comments contrast sharply with those of early Bitcoin visionaries
The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, is looking at ways to police crime in the metaverse, according to secretary general Jurgen Stock. However, the agency may find that to be hard in the absence of a universally agreed definition
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is now the fastest growing Internet application in history with a record 100 million monthly active users in January, according to a new report by Swiss investment bank UBS. This comes as web traffic
Damus, a Twitter-like client app built to be compliant with the decentralized protocol Nostr, was banned in China for publishing “illegal content” just 48 hours after it became available for download on the Apple App Store. Damus announced the App
Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said artificial intelligence (AI) will replace search engines such as Google in two years. “My prediction is that AI (not necessarily ChatGPT) will replace search, maybe within the next two years (current AI not
An artificially intelligent (AI) system has discovered “eight signals of interest” as scientists continue to search for evidence of life beyond Earth. The “promising extraterrestrial intelligence signals” have never been identified before, researchers wrote in a new paper, ‘A deep-learning
Shares of BuzzFeed Inc. soared about 300% after the digital media company announced it will start using OpenAI technology to create content. The stock price was also boosted by news of a separate $10 million deal with Facebook parent company,
DoNotPay has cancelled plans to have its AI-powered “robot lawyer” represent a defendant in a U.S. court after several human lawyer organizations objected to the experiment, according to company founder and CEO Joshua Browder. Browder hoped to make history by
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