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BTC

$94,858.00

1.99%

ETH

$3,288.54

0.85%

BNB

$696.94

1.28%

SOL

$190.08

0.73%

ADA

$0.939531

2.31%

TRX

$0.243515

0.41%

SHIB

$0.00002168

0.59%

XLM

$0.416567

3.98%

BCH

$448.41

5.65%

LTC

$105.42

1.49%

PEPE

$0.00001767

1.88%

CRO

$0.143137

2.59%

POL

$0.458199

1.03%

OM

$3.97

-0.40%

VET

$0.04570602

2.42%

XMR

$197.44

2.60%

TAO

$439.94

-1.86%

TKX

$42.39

-1.50%

ARB

$0.755172

-0.23%

KAS

$0.115038

0.51%

ENA

$0.925622

0.66%

OP

$1.79

1.01%

GT

$18.48

1.10%

S

$0.695573

5.89%

BONK

$0.00002793

0.52%

GRT

$0.206093

0.29%

FTM

$0.691333

5.22%

SEI

$0.388308

1.61%

GALA

$0.03547861

4.23%

QNT

$103.42

-0.33%

XDC

$0.095217

2.37%

JUP

$0.806428

0.28%

FLR

$0.0233844

0.46%

MKR

$1,474.52

-0.21%

EOS

$0.805762

2.28%

BSV

$61.35

17.76%

BTT

$0.00000118

3.16%

CRV

$0.836137

2.28%

AR

$16.17

6.25%

CHZ

$0.083789

1.13%

MOG

$0.00000199

-1.36%

XEC

$0.0000392

8.32%

ZEC

$48.32

-1.63%

BIO

$0.470451

-10.88%

W

$0.255917

1.09%

RSR

$0.01334646

2.56%

CFX

$0.148492

1.11%

ZK

$0.184926

3.66%

GNO

$250.41

-0.20%

NOT

$0.00625738

7.69%

AMP

$0.00693863

0.79%

DOG

$0.00577829

0.55%

LUNC

$0.00010365

1.78%

FAI

$0.069581

25.63%

AXL

$0.621807

2.72%

BDX

$0.079623

-0.55%

MEW

$0.00589599

2.45%

CKB

$0.01118624

1.66%

NFT

$0.00000051

0.11%

SNEK

$0.00615533

2.32%

ZRX

$0.505156

3.01%

ZIL

$0.02202388

4.14%

TEL

$0.0053227

-3.47%

IO

$3.13

3.87%

GLM

$0.408068

1.09%

JST

$0.0404235

-0.98%

BOME

$0.00572927

2.69%

HOT

$0.00218612

2.04%

GMT

$0.143358

0.91%

WOO

$0.205444

1.59%

BAT

$0.253172

3.24%

ANKR

$0.03741493

5.86%

ATH

$0.065407

2.03%

SC

$0.00647873

6.50%

ENJ

$0.205344

1.08%

ME

$2.79

2.31%
Price data by
Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

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    Midjourney Inches Closer to 'Complete Overhaul,' Plans Video Features

    Midjourney is in the final testing stages of V7, a significant update that rebuilds nearly every part of the AI image generator's system.  During this week's office hours session, developers explained that V7 features a new architecture, different data sets, and revised language processing approaches.  Internal testing could take a week to a month, followed by a two-week tuning phase and a potential alpha period with limited features. “The V7 model is a complete overhaul of V6, including new arc...

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    AI Deepfake Porn Scandal Rocks Sydney High School as Police Launch Investigation

    A Sydney, Australia, high school student faces police investigation and disciplinary action after allegedly using artificial intelligence to create pornographic deepfake images of female classmates, marking one of Australia's first major AI-related incidents in an educational setting. A deepfake is a fake image generated using deep learning algorithms. It is highly realistic and, depending on the quality, hard to differentiate from a real photo. They are usually NSFW, but they don’t necessarily...

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    How Criminals Used ChatGPT and Meta AI to Plan Terror Attacks on US Soil

    Recent attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans show how AI tools are being used by terrorists. The attacks—one involving ChatGPT's language and reasoning capabilities, the other exploiting Meta's smart glasses technology—are raising questions about how to strengthen protective measures while preserving AI's beneficial applications. ChatGPT’s role in Cybertruck explosion Authorities say that U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger—a decorated Green Beret who had shown signs of PTSD...

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    What Does OpenAI's Sam Altman Mean When He Says AGI is Achievable?

    Sam Altman started 2025 with a bold declaration: OpenAI has figured out how to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), a term commonly understood as the point where AI systems can comprehend, learn, and perform any intellectual task that a human can. In a reflective blog post published over the weekend, he also said the first wave of AI agents could join the workforce this year, marking what he describes as a pivotal moment in technological history. Altman painted a picture of OpenAI's jou...

  • Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang at CES 2025. Image: Nvidia, YouTube.

    What You Need to Know About Nvidia's AI Announcements at CES 2025

    After a record-breaking 2024, Nvidia is kicking off 2025 with a bang, unveiling a slate of products that could solidify its dominance in the fields of AI development and gaming. CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES in Las Vegas to showcase new hardware and software offerings that span everything from personal AI supercomputers to next-generation gaming cards. Nvidia's biggest announcement: Project DIGITS, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that packs a petaflop of computing power into a deskt...

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    Which Platform Builds the Best AI Agents? We Test ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and More

    You can do anything with AI agents: search for information in your library of documents, build code, scrape the web, get insight and trenchant analysis of complex data, and much more. You can even create a virtual office with a bunch of agents specialized in different tasks and have them work hand-in-hand like your own staff of specialized digital employees. So how hard is this to do? If a regular person wanted to build their own AI financial advisor, for instance, which platform would serve the...

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    Solana Is Now 'Quantum Resistant'—What Does That Mean?

    Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault that uses a decades-old cryptographic technique to protect users' funds from potential quantum computer attacks. The solution, called Solana Winternitz Vault, implements a hash-based signature system that generates new keys for each transaction. The vault addresses a known vulnerability in blockchain technology: quantum computers could potentially crack the cryptographic algorithms that secure digital wallets. When users sign transactions,...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    How to Claim Your $20 From Apple's $95 Million Siri Privacy Settlement

    Want $20 for each Apple device that might have eavesdropped on you? The Cupertino-based tech giant is ready to shell out up to $95 million to settle claims that Siri was a bit too eager to listen in on private conversations. Apple hasn't admitted wrongdoing, but agreed to compensate U.S. users up to $100 per household, according to court documents filed December 13, 2024 in Oakland, California. The settlement addresses allegations that its voice assistant recorded conversations without the "Hey...

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    Emerge’s 2024 Story of the Year: The Race to Rule AI

    OpenAI's rise to tech stardom reads like a Silicon Valley soap opera. The company that began 2024 in turmoil after Sam Altman's dramatic return has morphed from a cautious non-profit company to an AI powerhouse worth $157 billion. With a $13 billion investment from Microsoft and a deal to power Apple iPhones, the company is on track to generate $11.6 billion in revenue. Game over for all the other suckers trying to elbow their way into the AI market? Hardly. The money flooding into AI continued...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    11 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    The Best Generative AI Models—From Chatbots to Image and Video Generators

    The generative AI landscape has morphed into a high-stakes battleground in 2024, with an army of upstarts storming the castle once ruled by OpenAI. Everyone and their tech-savvy grandma seems to be vying for a piece of the AI pie, cooking up language models, agentic AIs, image generators, and even an AI meme coin shiller or two. The benchmarks are changing faster than our human ability to keep up. Barely a week goes by without some shiny new toy hitting the market—an updated LLM here, a turbocha...

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    5 Weirdest Tech Trends of 2024: From AI Lovers to Brain Hacking

    People engaging in toxic romances with AI chatbots. A tech billionaire that injects his teenage son's blood plasma into his veins while degens bet on his nighttime erections as part of his quest for immortality. A 3D-printed sarcophagus that kills you for the low, low cost of $20. All this and much much more, in just 365 days. “Forget artificial intelligence—in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for,” the tech philosopher Tom Chatfield once said. The...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    10 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    OpenAI's o3 Hits Human-Level Scores, But Is It Good Enough to Be AGI?

    OpenAI's latest AI model family has achieved what many thought impossible, scoring an unprecedented 87.5% on the challenging, so-called Autonomous Research Collaborative Artificial General Intelligence benchmark—basically near the minimum threshold for what could theoretically be considered “human.” The ARC-AGI benchmark tests how close a model is to achieving artificial general intelligence, meaning whether it can think, solve problems, and adapt like a human in different situations... even whe...

  • Nvidia Upgrades Low-Cost Jetson AI Computer—More Power for Half the Price

    Good news for AI developers and hobbyists: Nvidia just made it a lot cheaper to build AI-powered robots, drones, smart cameras and other gadgets that need a brain. The company's new Jetson Orin Nano Super, announced Tuesday and available now, packs more processing muscle than its predecessor while costing half as much at $249. The palm-sized computer delivers a 70% performance boost, reaching 67 trillion operations per second for AI tasks. That's a significant jump from earlier models, especiall...

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    AI Won’t Tell You How to Build a Bomb—Unless You Say It’s a 'b0mB'

    Remember when we thought AI security was all about sophisticated cyber-defenses and complex neural architectures? Well, Anthropic's latest research shows how today’s advanced AI hacking techniques can be executed by a child in kindergarten. Anthropic—which likes to rattle AI doorknobs to find vulnerabilities to later be able to counter them—found a hole it calls a “Best-of-N (BoN)” jailbreak. It works by creating variations of forbidden queries that technically mean the same thing, but are expre...

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    Meta's AI Video Editor Coming to Instagram to Make You Question What’s Real

    Meta is bringing its AI video tricks to Instagram, with new features that'll let users modify their videos just by using text to modify imagery—from adding bling to changing backgrounds, and doing pretty much anything you can imagine. "I'm super excited about Movie Gen, our early AI research model that will let you change nearly any aspect of your videos with a simple text prompt," Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a video announcement. In the video, Mosseri appears in his original clothes and...

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    Free AI for the Holidays? Google and Elon Musk's xAI Debut Latest Models

    Lovers of free tech, rejoice! Google and xAI have unveiled pretty interesting updates to their AI offerings for free, matching and expanding upon OpenAI's recent democratization efforts. OpenAI fired the latest salvo in the war for the hearts—and, ultimately, wallets of users—with its ambitious "12 Days of OpenAI" campaign last week, releasing a series of powerful tools to the public. The campaign's highlights include Sora, the firm's state-of-the-art text-to-video generator, the advanced reason...

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    Russia Tests System to Block VPN Users From Global Internet

    Russia has begun testing a new system capable of cutting off access to the global internet, with early reports indicating that even virtual private networks, known as VPNs, are unable to circumvent these restrictions. This marks a significant escalation in the country's efforts to establish what it calls a "sovereign internet." According to a recent report by NetBlocks, The Russian government already trialed its capacity to shut down internet access in Dagestan. Local news outlet Chernovik repor...

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    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    ChatGPT Can Now Watch and Interact With You in Real Time

    OpenAI took the wraps off ChatGPT's long-promised video capabilities Thursday, letting users point their phones at objects for real-time AI analysis—a feature that's been gathering dust since its first demo in May. Previously, you could input text, charts, voice, or still photos and interact with GPT. This feature, released late Thursday, allows GPT to watch you in real time and conversationally provide feedback. For instance, in my tests, this mode was able to solve math problems, give food rec...

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    Google Launches Gemini 2.0 and Anthropic Rolls Out Claude 3.5 Haiku Amid OpenAI's Year-End Blitz

    Google unleashed Gemini 2.0 this week, packing its latest AI model with autonomous capabilities and multimodal features. What’s immediately noticeable in this release is that Google sees AI chatbots as evolving into AI Agents—customized software that uses generative AI to interact with users and understand and execute tasks in real time. "With new advances in multimodality—like native image and audio output—and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our...

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    Millionaire Biohacker's Nighttime Erections Fuel Rising Prediction Market Bet

    There’s a new Polymarket bet for how long Bryan Johnson’s penis stays erect during nighttime. The antics of a man who injected his teenage son's blood into his veins and underwent “penis rejuvenation therapy” has been a persistent topic on the prediction market—or more precisely, his penis has. “This market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if Bryan Johnson sustains a nighttime erection for 2 hours and 12 minutes or more based upon the highest of three readings taken during the last week of December 2024,”...

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    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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