Month: December 2022
QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers
Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid, combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically creating short-form YouTube, Instagram TikTok and Snapchat videos. Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2, and … Read more
The Blind Spot
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Bithumb’s largest shareholder executive found dead following allegations of embezzlement
Mr. Park Mo was found dead after an investigation had been launched against him for embezzlement and stock price manipulation.
CFIUS Plans to Review Any Deals Made By Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager
The review could impact the completion, timing and terms of any such deals, CFIUS said.
Ethereum founder says he hopes Solana gets a ‘chance to thrive’
Vitalik Buterin says that “smart people” have told him Solana has an “earnest” developer community.
DeFi sees exploits and exit scam drama in the last week of 2022: Finance Redefined
The last week of 2022 didn’t turn out to be a good one as the industry recorded multiple exploits and an exit scam scare.
Macros in Nim – Tutorial
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I wrote a SQL engine in Python
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There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it
The first open source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived, but good luck running it on your laptop — or at all. This week, Philip Wang, the developer responsible for reverse-engineering closed-sourced AI systems including Meta’s Make-A-Video, released PaLM + RLHF, a text-generating model that behaves similarly to ChatGPT. The system combines PaLM, a large … Read more
Bitcoin Miners Got Crushed by Crypto Winter. 2023 May Bring More Pain
Bitcoin miners had a rough 2022, showing “how to not build a mining business,” However, industry experts don’t see 2023 as any better, unless markets improve significantly.
FTX, Congress, Stablecoins: What 2023 May Bring for Crypto Regulations
Can you believe this year started off with U.S. law enforcement officials arresting two individuals in connection with the 2016 Bitfinex hacked funds? For this week’s newsletter, the 102nd since we first launched in 2021, I asked CoinDesk’s Policy Team what they’re looking out for this upcoming year.
Show HN: Backup Scheduler
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Web3 Is Being Used to Preserve History Threatened by Wars
Theresa Kennedy, Black History DAO Founder, says using blockchain technology eliminates the need of a centralized storage facility.
BlackRock Gives Bankrupt Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific a New $17M Loan
BlackRock, which already was largest shareholder of the miner, also had $37.9 million secured convertible notes with Core.
On Reflection
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Crypto Biz: Did Michael Saylor buy the Bitcoin bottom for once?
MicroStrategy scooped up BTC at an average price of just under $17,200. Meanwhile, Binance’s CZ explains why there’s so much FUD surrounding his exchange.