AI companies commit to safe and transparent AI — White House

On July 21, The White House announced that prominent artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, have committed to de...

OpenAI launches official ChatGPT app for Android

On July 21, OpenAI revealed its plan to launch an Android version of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT chatbot in the coming week. The l...

Sam Bankman-Fried’s brother planned to buy island and prep for apocalypse: court filing

Gabriel Bankman-Fried, the brother of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, had a plan to survive a global catastrophe using funds from the now-defunct cry...

UK court grants appeal from Craig Wright in Bitcoin rights lawsuit

A British court granted an appeal on July 20 that gave Craig Wright the right to argue in litigation that the Bitcoin file format is well-defined enoug...

AI21 Labs debuts anti-hallucination feature for GPT chatbots

AI21 Labs recently launched Contextual Answers, a question-answering engine for large language models (LLMs). When connected to an LLM, the new engine ...

Crypto Biz: Binance slashes costs, Ripple ready for US banks and crypto VCs return

The crackdown on crypto firms by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to have severely affected Binance’s business. Dur...

Curve omnipool platform Conic Finance hacked for $3.2 million in ETH

Conic Finance, a liquidity pool balancing platform for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve, has suffered an exploit on the Ethereum omnipoo...

Binance CEO warns of phishing scams as Uniswap founder gets hacked

Binance CEO Changpeng CZ Zhao is the latest figure in the cryptocurrency industry to warn against the increasing number of phishing attacks. CZ took to...

Stablecoin dominance slides as market cap falls to near 2-year lows: CCData

The market capitalization of stablecoins has hit the lowest level since August 2021 following 16 consecutive months of decline, a new report says....

Coin Center and Blockchain Association slam ‘unworkable’ US Senate DeFi bill

Crypto industry advocacy bodies have slammed a newly proposed United States Senate bill for what they say is a confused approach to regulating the dece...