• Sep 09, 2024

AI, Robotics Advances Will Bring ‘Crisis of Meaning’, Elon Musk Says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he sees a future where humans will have to figure out new ways to give their lives purpose, thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. During a panel discussion at the 2024 All-In Summit hosted by the All-In Podcast on Monday, Musk echoed comments he made during a fireside chat at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in England last year. He said he foresees a future where a human workforce is a thing of the past. “I think the actual issue, the mos...

  • Sep 09, 2024

Elon Musk-Themed Telegram Game ‘X Empire’ Opens Pre-Market Trading Ahead of Airdrop

X Empire, a rising Telegram tap-to-earn game, is following the Notcoin playbook, launching pre-market trading Tuesday through the use of custom NFT vouchers ahead of the upcoming token launch and airdrop. While fellow Telegram games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen have rolled out pre-market trading through established exchanges, X Empire (originally Musk Empire) is instead letting players redeem an early share of their airdrop allotment by minting an NFT. Those NFTs, minted on The Open Network (...

  • Sep 09, 2024

What Is Fractal? What You Need to Know About the Buzzy Bitcoin Scaler

A hot and highly anticipated Bitcoin scaling network went live this week, although its code is almost indistinguishable from Bitcoin’s own layer-1 blockchain. What gives? On Sunday, Fractal Bitcoin announced the mainnet launch of its Bitcoin sidechain network. As a tribute, Fractal included in its genesis block the same message embedded in Bitcoin’s first block concerning bank bailouts—attributed to pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite a rocky start concerning some of its block mining...

  • Sep 09, 2024

Crypto’s Venture Capital Gap

The lack of a central hub for crypto, compared to other tech movements, may be holding innovation back, says Azeem Khan.