Wed. 01/10 – The X Post That Sent Crypto Reeling
The SEC’s X account was compromised by somebody jumping the gun on that Bitcoin ETF thing. Layoffs are back, even at companies that are about to ship their first, high profile products. The hardware AI device at CES that everybody was talking about yesterday. And what AI could do for medical drug discovery, like, right now.
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Show Notes
The SEC’s X account was compromised by somebody jumping the gun on that Bitcoin ETF thing. Layoffs are back, even at companies that are about to ship their first, high profile products. The hardware AI device at CES that everybody was talking about yesterday. And what AI could do for medical drug discovery, like, right now.
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Links:
- SEC Has Not Approved Bitcoin ETFs, but Its Hacked X Account Briefly Said Otherwise (CoinDesk)
- Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff (Bloomberg)
- Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin (The Verge)
- Rabbit’s Little Walkie-Talkie Learns Tasks That Stump Siri and Alexa (Wired)
- SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games (Variety)
- Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform (Quora)
- DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals (Financial Times)
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