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Virtual personal assistants powered by artificial intelligence are becoming ubiquitous across technology platforms, with every major tech firm adding AI to their services and dozens of specialized services tumbling onto the market. While immensely useful, researchers from Google say humans could become too emotionally attached to them, leading to a host of negative social consequences. […]

We do the research, you get the alpha! Get exclusive reports and access to key insights on airdrops, NFTs, and more! Subscribe now to Alpha Reports and up your game! Go to Alpha Reports The Bitcoin halving has come and gone, and along with the milestone, the new Runes token protocol went live on the

To fight the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), a coalition of top generative AI developers—including Google, Meta, and OpenAI—vowed to enforce guardrails around the emerging technology. The group was pulled together by two non-profit organizations: children’s tech group Thorn and New York-based All Tech is Human. Formerly known as the DNA Foundation, Thorn

Space Nation Online is now in closed beta, offering gamers a glimpse into what the future of the sci-fi blockchain MMORPG—with NFTs on Ethereum, and plans to expand via scaling network Immutable zkEVM—will look like. But due to server overload, it’s been hard to fully appreciate the best parts of the game thus far. Founded

A draft version of an IRS form spread fear and uncertainty across the crypto industry this week, with sections of the document leading some to believe that American DeFi users may soon be required to report their self-custodial wallet addresses to the federal government.  Come 2025, the document, Form 1099-DA, will become a mandatory filing

Luxury Watches, Designer Shoes Will Soon Trade Like NFTs: Arianee CEO Arianee CEO Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel sat down with Rug Radio founder Farokh and Decrypt’s Sander Lutz at NFT Paris to discuss everything from the future of on-chain luxury to the secret hack to finding the best restaurants in France. Source link

Along with the anticipated Bitcoin halving event, 4/20 has come and gone—but the famed meme number is already back in the BTC conversation amid an attempt to change Bitcoin’s software. Advocates of restoring a Satoshi-era command in Bitcoin’s programming language introduced new code Monday, outlining how “OP_CAT” could be used to bring more functionality to

The oil industry in Venezuela will soon be back under U.S. sanctions after a six-month pause, and the economic impact has reportedly driven the South American nation to accelerate its adoption of cryptocurrency in oil trading. As part of efforts to encourage Venezuelan leadership to conduct a fair presidential election in July, the U.S. implemented