Government 2, crypto 0. En Garde In what could be a game-changing moment in crypto history, the co-founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has stepped down and pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes. As the New York Times reports, the resignation and guilty plea of CEO Chengpeng Zhao, better known as… Continue reading Binance CEO Steps Down, Pleading Guilty to Money Laundering
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Oil Is Pouring Into the Gulf of Mexico
For shame. Crude Awakening A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana has poured more than a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, alarming local authorities and wildlife conservationists. As the Washington Post reports, officials traced the spill back to near a pipeline operated by oil company Main Pass Oil Gathering,… Continue reading Oil Is Pouring Into the Gulf of Mexico
Crypto Company Says Oops, Its Coin Was Being Used in a Human Trafficking Scam
It’s freezing $225 million worth of crypto. Deep Dive A crypto company is working with the feds after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars worth of its coins were being used for human trafficking. In a press release, the people behind the stablecoin Tether, whose value is pegged to the US dollar, explained that… Continue reading Crypto Company Says Oops, Its Coin Was Being Used in a Human Trafficking Scam
In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman
Back to square one. Uno Reverse After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker once again. In a statement released late Tuesday evening, the company said it had “reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO” —… Continue reading In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman
Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes
See ya. Flash in the Pan See ya! As Mashable reports, a video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter. A gas giant, Jupiter has a powerful gravitational pull that’s caused similar spectacular crashes over the years. This one wasn’t… Continue reading Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes
Twitter Is in Extremely Deep Trouble
Even before advertisers began jumping ship over Elon Musk’s antisemitic shenanigans, the site had been in deep doo-doo — and now, it’s hard to see how he plans to pull the site up by its bootstraps this time. As TechCrunch reports, an October analysis from the market research firm Insider Intelligence found that X-formerly-Twitter was… Continue reading Twitter Is in Extremely Deep Trouble
OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic
The offer was swiftly declined. No Thanks In the scramble to find a new CEO after the ousting of former chief executive Sam Altman, OpenAI’s non-profit board approached Dario Amodei, the CEO of its competitor Anthropic, with an offer to merge the two buzzy AI firms — and make Amodei CEO in the process, The… Continue reading OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic
App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible
Disastrous. Reverse, Reverse Remember last week, when the alt-smartphone company Nothing — pause for the sigh — announced that it was releasing an app, dubbed Nothing Chats, that would allow its customers to send blue-bubbled iMessage sans iPhone? Well, forget about it. As Ars Technica reports, the messaging service didn’t even make it a full… Continue reading App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible
Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?
Everyone’s still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday, a decision that has led to absolute carnage at the company and beyond. Beyond some vague language accusing him of not being “consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its… Continue reading Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?
OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago
“That should cause you to s*** your pants.” Doom and Gloom Emmett Shear, the guy currently tasked with running OpenAI amid its leadership tumult, has some pretty bizarre ideas about AI for someone who’s now at the helm of the most famous AI company in the world. In a resurfaced clip from June, the new… Continue reading OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago