Second-largest Thai bank creates $100-million AI fund
The fund, named KXVC, will target AI, Web3, and Deep Tech startups with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. According...
Month: September 2023
Stoner Cats NFTs ‘fan crowdfunding’ not securities: SEC’s Peirce, Uyeda
SEC commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda described the NFT sales as a "common phenomenon" in the world of creators....
Brazil: Senate Commission will analyze the AI bill in 120 days
The bill, aimed at regulating the artificial intelligence in the country, was introduced to the Senate in December 2022. Catching...
Grab, Uber’s Southeast Asian rival, debuts Web3 services with Circle
Grab, Southeast Asia’s Uber-like super app, is working with the USDC issuer Circle to enable Web3 services for its 187...
Coinbase CEO champions DeFi, calls for court action to set legal precedent
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong cautioned the United States Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to avoid taking enforcement actions against...
Sui Network launches Google, Twitch and Facebook logins for DApps
Sui joins the growing ranks of Web3 firms looking to onboard users who are all too often “irretrievably lost" at...
Californian lawmaker proposes legislation to protect actors from AI clones
Californian Assembly Member Ash Kalra labeled the bill as a “common sense requirement” to help protect the work of actors,...
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman talk AI regs in Washington
The majority of the tech leaders in attendance agreed that AI needs to be regulated with Elon Musk calling the...
Singapore’s central bank slugs Three Arrows founders with 9-year ban
Three Arrows Capital founders Kyle Davies and Zhu Su are barred from regulated activities or acting as top execs at...
Meta ‘ruined’ the term metaverse, but now it’s evolving: Yuga Labs CEO
While Meta’s Horizon Worlds is suffering from a low user base, metaverse platforms have focused on building, says Yuga Labs...
Toughen up. Mt. Gox’s ex-CEO only had a ‘little calculator’ to prepare for trial
Mark Karpelès was seemingly drawing parallels to Sam Bankman-Fried's recent antics, claiming to have gotten through 20,000 pages of evidence...
How OKX convinced F1 star Daniel Ricciardo it’s safe to promote crypto
Australian F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo said it took him a while to get comfortable with the idea of crypto, and...
Shrapnel Web3 shooter won’t let US users cash out, thanks to Gensler
As soon as a gamer cashes out an in-game asset, they realize monetary value, which is where the problem with...
Web3 game Gods Unchained releases ‘Sealed Mode’ to mimic paper card games
Immutable’s Gods Unchained game launched a new tournament mode that allows players to build a deck with random cards. Web3...
SWIFT enrolls 3 central banks in CBDC interoperability beta test, expands sandbox
The bank messaging network has seen a dramatic increase in processing speed and is developing technology to connect CBDCs. Three...
