High throughput blockchain Keeta is facilitating credit data platform SOLO to create PASS, an on-chain bank-grade financial identity layer. What to know: High throughput blockchain Keeta and credit data platform SOLO, companies both backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are introducing an on-chain credit bureau to give digital asset owners access to mortgages, small […]
The former PM says humanity is entering its biggest transformation since the Industrial Revolution and that it’s ‘absurd’ not to do more in the NHS Britain should embrace a future of AI doctors, nurses and even teachers or risk being left behind in the biggest upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, Sir Tony Blair has said. […]
“The emails showed the world’s leading climatologists busily working to organize a research cartel. Peer review was a legitimate source of authority when the process supported their positions. It was compromised, if not malicious, when it offered critics of the orthodoxy a platform. The wish to crush dissenting views, in their minds, had become indistinguishable […]
The group’s massive bet on Jony Ive’s hardware venture isn’t a strategy. It’s desperation, says Shaw Walters, the founder of Eliza Labs, and creator of ElizaOS. OpenAI just spent $6.4 billion acquiring io, Jony Ive’s nascent hardware venture. As someone who grew up idolizing the Jobs-Ive partnership—Mac Addict subscription, Marathon on shareware, one of everything they […]
The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth. What to know: Telegram has secured $1.7 billion by issuing five-year convertible bonds, aiming to refinance existing liabilities and push out repayment deadlines. The messaging app, which now counts over […]
Telegram will also receive 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via the app. What to know: Instant messaging app Telegram has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate the Grok AI service within the app. Telegram founder Pavel Durov, revealed on X, that the two companies agreed to a 1-year partnership that would […]
Newspapers are printing summer reading lists of AI-hallucinated books. Apple “Intelligence” is making up fake BBC headlines. People are losing their minds as ChatGPT calls them “spiral starchildren” and “river walkers.” Like characters in a Loony Tunes skit, we have just run off the edge of a cliff and—with the advent of a new generation […]
Technocracy and the Internet of Bodies by Greg Reese The software of life Read on Substack
Most people have heard the adage, “If you don’t use it, you lose it.” What happens when people start outsourcing their brain’s ability to synthesize information and think critically (or even just think period) with a middle man that doesn’t even think at all? What happens when entire generations of young people don’t hone any […]