LensLinks Issue 363

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• Solana drama continues as leading DeFi founder quits amid $150 million outflows

• Bill Gates Thought Blue-Collar Robots Would Come Before AI That Can 'Rewrite The Pledge Of Allegiance The Way Donald Trump Would Write It'

• OpenAI and Meta Close to Unleashing Super Smart AI

• Reddit Floats New Theory About True Identity of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

• Circle debuts way to trade BlackRock tokenized fund shares for USDC

• NASA created a VR metaverse to prep astronauts for life on the lunar space station

• The future of AI will run on Amazon, company CEO says

• Robots aren’t magic, but they could give humans ‘superpowers’ | MIT Sloan

• China's humanoid robot market to hit 10 billion yuan, eyes 119 billion yuan by 2030: report - Global Times

• Paradigm leads $225 million round for Monad Labs, which is building a layer 1 blockchain to take on Ethereum and Solana

• Bitget’s Crypto Trading Volume Surges over 100% in Q1 2024

• They’re ‘Desperate’—Leak Reveals A Huge China ETF Game-Changer Could Be About To Hit The Bitcoin Price And Crypto Market

• And Much, Much, More…

#regimentco #billgates #robotics #china #satoshi

QUOTABLE

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“If this revolution is correctly and intelligently steered, smart machines have the potential to improve the quality of human life as dramatically as the plow.”

- Daniela Rus, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

NOTABLE

Solana drama continues as leading DeFi founder quits amid $150 million outflows

Controversy erupts between DeFi lending platforms MarginFi, SolBlaze, and Solend with accusations of misconduct and misinformation being leveled by all sides.

cryptoslate.com/solana-problems-continue-as-leading-defi-founder-quits-amid-wider-ecosystem-drama

The Singularity
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-engineering & Other Stuff on the way

Bill Gates Thought Blue-Collar Robots Would Come Before AI That Can 'Rewrite The Pledge Of Allegiance The Way Donald Trump Would Write It'

In a thought-provoking episode of "Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates," Microsoft Inc. Founder Bill Gates delved into the intricacies and the unpredictable nature of artificial intelligence with Yejin Choi, a distinguished figure in artificial intelligence (AI) research. Choi, a computer science professor at the University of Washington and a senior resource manager at the Allen Institute for AI, shared insights into the current state of AI, highlighting its remarkable capabilities and its surprising limitations.

finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-thought-blue-collar-203014426.html

OpenAI and Meta Close to Unleashing Super Smart AI

The race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) that can mimic human reasoning and problem-solving skills is heating up, with tech giants OpenAI and Meta at the forefront. These companies are on the cusp of releasing AI models that could revolutionize the way we interact with technology, signaling a leap towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/openai-and-meta-close-to-unleashing-super-smart-ai/ar-BB1lt5x6?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=f11ec17b189d489098bf5a97385df6b5&ei=13

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Reddit Floats New Theory About True Identity of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

A new Reddit theory posits that Satoshi Nakamoto represents a group, not an individual.

www.techopedia.com/news/reddit-floats-new-theory-about-true-identity-of-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto

Crypto Trading

Circle debuts way to trade BlackRock tokenized fund shares for USDC

Holders of BlackRock’s first tokenized fund, BUIDL, will now be able to redeem shares for Circle's stablecoin.

blockworks.co/news/blackrock-tokenized-fund-trading-circle-usdc

VR, AR, Spatial Computing, Metaverse & Gaming

NASA created a VR metaverse to prep astronauts for life on the lunar space station

NASA is training astronauts for life aboard the Gateway lunar space station in a virtual reality metaverse environment.

cointelegraph.com/news/nasa-created-virtual-reality-vr-metaverse-life-moon-mars-artemis-lunar-space-station

The Singularity - a little more…

The future of AI will run on Amazon, company CEO says

SAN FRANCISCO — Less than two weeks after rolling back one of Amazon’s most ambitious artificial intelligence projects — a cashierless checkout technology called Just Walk Out — CEO Andy Jassy expressed confidence that the future of the company’s biggest breakthroughs for customers will come from generative AI.

bit.ly/4atIpbW

Robots aren’t magic, but they could give humans ‘superpowers’ | MIT Sloan

In a new book, MIT roboticist Daniela Rus looks at the powers and limitations of robots and how humans can work with them to unlock new capabilities.

mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/robots-arent-magic-they-could-give-humans-superpowers

China's humanoid robot market to hit 10 billion yuan, eyes 119 billion yuan by 2030: report - Global Times

Research unveiled during the inaugural China Humanoid Robot Industry Conference in Beijing from April 9 to 10 indicates that the global humanoid robot industry is entering a golden era, poised for sustained growth.

www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1310481.shtml

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

Paradigm leads $225 million round for Monad Labs, which is building a layer 1 blockchain to take on Ethereum and Solana

The crypto firm founded by ex–Jump Crypto traders also received investment from Electric Capital and Neil Mehta’s Greenoaks Capital.

fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/09/monad-paradigm-greenoaks-jump-crypto-funding-225-million

Pompliano, Ex-Journo Melinek Spin Up 'Token Relations' Startup for Blockchain Firms

The media startup will offer a "third bucket" of information to crypto startups' stakeholders.

www.coindesk.com/business/2024/04/09/pompliano-ex-journo-melinek-spin-up-token-relations-startup-for-blockchain-firms

A promise to remake the web with blockchain

If blockchain evangelists think the technology is poised to transform the world, some are fairly self-aware of the extent to which the average person still doesn’t quite understand what it does.

www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2024/04/10/a-promise-to-remake-the-web-with-blockchain-00151611

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Bitget’s Crypto Trading Volume Surges over 100% in Q1 2024

Bitget has released its Q1 2024 Transparency Report, revealing visible growth across various metrics.

www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/exchange/bitgets-crypto-trading-volume-surges-over-100-in-q1-2024

Welcome to crypto archipelago

One tiny, lightly regulated African nation plays an oversized role in global token trade

www.ft.com/content/ff55e8aa-7759-40aa-b9c6-a1f70472ccab

They’re ‘Desperate’—Leak Reveals A Huge China ETF Game-Changer Could Be About To Hit The Bitcoin Price And Crypto Market

A leak has revealed China could be poised to permit people to buy into bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong...

www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/11/theyre-desperate-leak-reveals-a-huge-china-etf-game-changer-could-be-about-to-hit-the-bitcoin-price-and-crypto-market/?sh=9e6cd645ad48

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Debating the Efficacy of AI in ESG Reporting

Debating the Efficacy of AI in ESG Reporting yTech

ytech.news/en/debating-the-efficacy-of-ai-in-esg-reporting

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