From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of generative artificial intelligence systems to create convincing but fictional text and images is setting off alarms about fraud and misinformation on steroids. Indeed, a group of artificial intelligence researchers an...
Mehmet Fırat, a researcher at Anadolu University in Turkey, recently published research envisioning a multi-tech solution to the problems challenging the traditional educational system called the “Smart Open Education Ecosystem” (SOEE).The research combines blockchain, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), nonfungible tokens (NFTs), multimodal learning analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to form a self-contained educational ...
Luxury fashion powerhouse Gucci is preparing to gift two exclusive physical items – a wallet or bag – to holders of its Gucci Vault Material NFTs, which will be generally unavailable to Gucci’s usual clientele.
The Material NFTs debuted last March as part of a partnership between Gucci and the narrative NFT project, 10KTF. The collection dressed eleven selected NFT collections, including Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), ...
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) holders can now register their Ape-centric products and/or businesses with a special license on their recently launched “Made by Apes” platform, according to a tweet recently posted on BAYC’s X (formerly Twitter) account.
The platform is described as a “first-of-its-kind on-chain licensing for a club full of builders,” in partnership with blockchain protocol SaaSyLabs. It’s exclusively tai...
Sky Mavis, the company behind the popular play-to-earn (P2E) blockchain game Axie Infinity, has announced a partnership with the Ethereum-based nonfungible token (NFT) collection CyberKongz to create a more comprehensive gaming ecosystem for the Ronin blockchain.In the announcement, the company also teased the creation of a new game, though it only provided scant details about the upcoming game development. However, Kathleen Osgood, the hea...
Sam Altman’s ambitious attempt to create a blockchain-based global verification system that proves personhood via an eyeball-scanning “orb” just came to life. On July 24, the OpenAI CEO announced the launch of the Worldcoin protocol and the WLD token — its native currency — after years in development.
Worldcoin wants to be our “digital passport” into a new world where our human identity can never be questioned or co...
VeeFriends adds another collaboration under its belt as it announces an exclusive partnership with Squishmallows to bring a few beloved VeeFriends characters to life. Set to launch in August 2023, Gary Vee originally teased this collaboration in late 2022 when he posed for a photo with Squishmallows’ Chief Brand Officer, Jeremy Padawer.
Four cuddly characters
The ensemble to look forward to includes four char...
Don’t put Ed Balloon in a box.
The multidisciplinary artist has never lent himself well to labels, exploring his quirky creative vision through the lenses of music, film, and stop-motion animation with projects like Run Ed. Now it’s time to add generative art to the list.
His new project, Beauty Supply Is Out of Du-Rags, released this week on the newly-launched Prohibition platform, explores the complex cultural legacy ...
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The past week in DeFi saw new advancements in zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) as a scaling solution as more DeFi protocols embraced the technology.A new United States Senate DeFi bill attracted a lot of scrutiny — though not necessarily of the positive ki...
When former First Lady Melania Trump unveiled her newest NFT this week, she also found herself in potentially dangerous waters with NASA on the unauthorized use of its images that violate the federal agency’s strict image use policy, according to an initial report by Gizmodo.
Her new NFT, entitled “Man on the Moon,” dropped on Wednesday, showcasing NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the iconic 1969 photograph during the ...
