Cryptocurrency

Yesterday, rival Anthropic announced Claude, a ChatGPT competitor to OpenAI’s new GPT-4 model. In a related announcement, Quora stated that its Poe chatbot app will soon have a paid version that will allow you to communicate with bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 …

One reason why cryptocurrencies aren’t used by a lot of people is that fraud is common in the industry.Despite the fact that the amount was already almost 50% lower than the year before, an industry analysis claims that over $3.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency was “lost” last year alone. The …

The best piece of smart home hardware I’ve ever bought is the Nest Protect. Smoke detectors, more so than other household items, might benefit from being connected. They significantly contribute to your feeling of security while you’re away from home. Ideally, you won’t ever need it, but if you do, …

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, the Japanese marketing technology company Geniee, a member of the SoftBank Group, paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (previously known as AdPushup), providing investors in the startup that started out in India with a …

The Royal ransomware operation is getting a lot of attention. The U.S. government says that it targeted a number of important infrastructure sectors across the country. In a joint statement on Thursday, the FBI and the US cybersecurity agency CISA said that the Royal ransomware has affected businesses in the …

Wunderkind, a platform that lets brands target web visitors with emails, texts, and other digital ads, raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, a financial services company. Bill Ingram, Wunderkind’s new CEO, says the tranche, which brings Wunderkind’s total raised to over $150 million, will …

The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has confirmed that the same hackers who attacked Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash, and more than a hundred other companies last year briefly compromised their systems. Coinbase claimed in a post-mortem on the incident that the so-called “0ktapus” hackers stole one of its employees’ login information in an …

  Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), will launch a pilot to test a “digital yen” in April. The BoJ launched a central bank digital currency (CBDC) proof of concept experiment in October 2020, more than two years ago. In April 2021, the BoJ began testing CBDC issuance, …

Marketo, a company created, among other things, to improve marketing to social media users, was eventually purchased by Adobe. A new startup now seeks to replicate Marketo’s Web2 success in Web3. Digital fingerprinting startup Addressable claims to be able to link social media accounts with anonymous crypto wallets. In fact, …

To expand the cross-border payment and remittance markets, Strike, a financial app and payment network based on Bitcoin, is entering the Philippines. According to Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, “the Philippines is one of the largest remitting markets in the world, especially from the United States.” According to Statista data, …