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Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s weekly news recap. The weather’s getting hotter — but not quite as hot as the generative AI space, which saw a slew of new models released this week, including Meta’s Llama 3.
In other AI news, Hyundai-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics unveiled...
Bitcoin halving is upon us! And in honor of this event, Splinterlands launched two new promotional cards, available only for a limited time. Each promo card will have the Halving ability, which is currently only available on two other cards in the entire Splinterlands collection!
Another Bitcoin halving and another...
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After years of booming growth, the AI industry is now experiencing a significant slowdown in investment, as detailed in a recent...
In a surprise announcement this week, Yuga Labs announced that HV-MTL and the Otherside brands have both been sold to Faraway. Faraway now owns the IPs and most of the associated NFT collections, promising to push forward with game development.
Faraway, who started off with a rather simple, web-based FPS,...
Meta has released the latest entry in its Llama series of open source generative AI models: Llama 3. Or, more accurately, the company has open sourced two models in its new Llama 3 family, with the rest to come at an unspecified future date.
Meta describes the new models — Llama...
Starting this year, thousands of buildings in New York City will have to start reducing their carbon emissions. But before that happens, owners need to understand how much pollution they are generating.
Electricity alone makes up 60% of the total energy use in commercial buildings, according to the U.S. Energy...
The art powerhouse Christie’s concluded its first-ever Bitcoin Ordinals online auction yesterday, featuring four collections from the Ordinals Maxi Biz (OMB) series. Renowned in the digital art market, the OMB series frequently ranks among the top five in market caps for Bitcoin NFTs. It includes a limited edition of 5,141 works...
The art powerhouse Sotheby’s concluded its first-ever Bitcoin Ordinals online auction yesterday, featuring four collections from the Ordinals Maxi Biz (OMB) series. Renowned in the digital art market, the OMB series consistently ranks among the top five in market caps for Bitcoin NFTs. It includes a limited edition of 5,141 works and boasts...
Trending Bitcoin Ordinals Following the highly anticipated Halving event, coinciding with the launch of a new Ordinals protocol called Runes, there has been a noticeable surge in these Bitcoin NFTs in particular:Must read: The Bitcoin Runes Protocol Will Debut Soon—Why Care? (nftplazas.com)RunestoneLaunched in March, Runestone airdropped over 112,000 Ordinals assets for free to...
