Category: Shorts

Meta Verified for creators ($12month) The companies behind the ad platform Meta announced an expansion of its Verified program today. Now businesses can buy verification on Facebook or Instagram for $22 a month or $35 per year, respectively. This comes as a surprise to Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year, the company announced Meta Verified for…

Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit Chief David Hirsch The head of the SEC Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit David Hirsch just sent a chilling warning to the crypto industry. Speaking on Tuesday at the Securities Enforcement Forum Central in Chicago, Hirsch said that aside from Coinbase and Binance, other centralized exchanges and decentralized finance companies…

Digital Ruble Legislation to Roll Out in Moscow Moscow Forges Ahead with CBDC Moscow moves ahead with its plans to integrate the digital currency into its tax system with legislation expected to come before the end of the year. The State Duma’s Committee on Budgets and Taxes has approved a bill that will allow tax…

Rashawn Russell Defrauded Investors This case comes against the backdrop of an ongoing crackdown on fraudulent activities related to digital assets by U.S. prosecutors and regulators. Former Deutsche Bank Investment Banker Faces up to 30 Years in Prison for Crypto FraudSource: Pexels A former investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Rashawn Russell, has pleaded guilty to…

MagicSchool teaches teachers how to use AI in their classrooms Many teachers are experimenting with generative AI and getting introduced to the technology in their classrooms, according to a study published in the Journal of Education. However, the report notes that there’s no sitting out AI in education . Many teachers are skeptical of new…

Babylon Health: The Rise and Fall of Artificial Intelligence In late 2016, Hugh Harvey was working as a consultant doctor on the UK’s National Health Service. He had dabbled in machine learning while doing a research degree, and had seen the potential for artificial intelligence to revolutionize health care. But he felt strongly that the…

ChatGPT: Intelligent Agents and AI Agents Flo Crivello accidentally scheduled a meeting with his artificial intelligence agent, Lindy, by mistake. The catch is that these agents can become confused in ways that lead to embarrassing, and potentially costly, mistakes. His company is one of several startups hoping to parlay advances in chatbots into assistants or…

AlphaMissense is a machine learning model that predicts the likelihood of About ten years ago, Žiga Avsec was a physics student taking a crash course in genomics through his university module on machine learning. He was soon working in the lab that studied rare diseases, on a project aiming to pin down the exact genetic…

Just Walk Out (Walk Out) at Lumen Field Just Walk Out shopping is both extremely cool and extremely complicated. Just grab what you want and walk out the door is the new way to do it. Before, shoppers had to go through a bunch of steps to make sure they got what they wanted out…

US v. Google vs. Google The Justice Department has removed some of the online exhibits from the US v. Google trial because of a dispute over whether documents should be made available online. The Verge reports that the decision will come back in the morning. Earlier, the Big Tech On Trial newsletter reported on the…