$207 Million Invested in AI, Crypto and Blockchain Startups in 96 Hours

Based on data from the past four days, 14 distinct artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency and blockchain startups and projects secured approximately $207.28 million in investor funding. The leading entity for July is Sentient, an open-source AI platform, which garnered $85 million from Founders Fund, Framework Ventures, and Pantera Capital. Four-Day Funding Frenzy In the initial … Read more

Market Jitters: Analysts Warn of Looming US Stock Crash, Draw Parallels to 1929

As the U.S. stock market scales new heights, a growing chorus of analysts warns that a severe crash could be on the horizon, reminiscent of the devastating 1929 collapse. Concerns center around the meteoric rise of Nvidia and the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) sector, feared to be the latest bubble in a pattern echoing past … Read more

Digital Scarcity — Billionaire Michael Dell and Michael Saylor Exchange Dialogue on Bitcoin

On June 20, Michael Dell, the Chief Executive Officer of Dell, the American technology company known for developing, selling, repairing, and supporting computers and related products and services, shared his thoughts on bitcoin via the social media platform X. This interaction began with a response from Michael Saylor, the founder of Microstrategy. Dell CEO Michael … Read more

Anthropic Launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Surpassing Openai’s Chatgpt

Anthropic, one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the market, has released the latest iteration of its in-house large language model (LLM) Claude, identified as 3.5 Sonnet. Anthropic claims this new assistant competes with Openai’s GPT-4o, surpassing the latter in several benchmarks including Graduate Level Reasoning, Grade School Math, Multilingual Math, and Code. … Read more

Coinbase Investor and Openai Veterans Unite to Launch Safe Superintelligence

In a significant development in the Artificial intelligence (AI) industry, Daniel Gross, known among other things for his investment in the cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, has teamed up with Ilya Sutskever, former Chief Scientist at Openai, and Daniel Levy, a former Openai employee and an expert in AI privacy, to launch a new venture. The new … Read more