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Bungie veteran Joseph Staten announced today that he has joined Netflix Games as its creative director, making him the latest of the games industry figures to join the brand. He added that, as creative director, he’s working on “a brand-new AAA multiplatform game and original IP” for the…
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PlayStation announced the games which launch for its Extra and Premium-tier subscribers on PS Plus this week, which include several triple-A titles. There are several…
OpenAI chief says age of giant AI models is ending; a GPU crisis could be one reason why
April 18, 2023
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The era of ever-larger artificial intelligence models is coming to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as cost constraints…
Tether Stablecoin Sees 22% Growth in 2023 Despite Dollar-Pegged Token Economy's Contraction
April 18, 2023
Since January 2023, the number of tether stablecoins in circulation has grown from 66 billion to the current 80.9 billion, representing growth of more than 22% this year. Tether’s growth is approaching the high of $83 billion in stablecoins in circulation that the project saw almost a year ago, in May 2022.
Tether Supply Is Nearing Its All-Time High
The stablecoin market has and is currently…
The police service of the Canadian city of Calgary is launching a Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre in partnership with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to help combat crypto crime. The center “will enable law enforcement to tackle crime that takes place using…
As AI agents like Auto-GPT speed up generative AI race, we all need to buckle up | The AI Beat
April 17, 2023
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If you thought the pace of AI development had sped up since the release of ChatGPT last November, well, buckle up. Thanks to the…
NFTs Will Persist for as Long as Communities Are Willing to Use Them — Lostworlds Co-Founder
April 17, 2023
According to Quaison Carter, the co-founder and CMO of the location-based NFT platform Lostworlds, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are still not widely used due to what he called “user friction.” Carter, however, insists that the value of NFTs will persist for “as long as there are communities willing to use them.”
The Role Played by PFP Communities
Concerning the process of onboarding users…
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Moves Below $30,000 on Monday, as US Dollar Rallies
April 17, 2023
Bitcoin started the week trading below $30,000, as the U.S. dollar strengthened during Monday’s session. USD/JPY rose to a one-month high, with the greenback also gaining against the euro and British pound. Ethereum was also lower, falling below $2,100.
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SEC Charges Crypto Exchange Bittrex With Operating Unregistered Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency
April 17, 2023
After the report revealing that the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex had received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the securities regulator charged Bittrex and the company’s CEO on April 17 for “operating an unregistered exchange…
Inflation soars in Argentina, El Salvador licenses digital assets, Venezuela probes crypto corruption
April 17, 2023
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of the most relevant crypto and economic development news from Latin America during the last week. In this issue: Inflation in Argentina goes over 100%, El Salvador issues its first digital assets licenses, and the crypto-linked corruption probe in Venezuela is still ongoing.
Argentina Registers 104.3% Inflation In March, the Highest in Latam
The National…
