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Consensus Magazine

Silicon Valley: The Mecca for Venture Capital May Be Cooling on Crypto

The storied birthplace of the U.S. tech industry is dripping with talent and money. But crypto founders who live in the No. 8 spot on CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 list say that Web3 is losing ground to artificial intelligence in the race to capture the Valley's wallets and minds.

Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Finance

APLD Signs Artificial Intelligence Hosting Deal Worth Up to $460M

APLD shares surged on Nasdaq after the firm announced its second AI cloud hosting deal.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Finance

Startup Kaito Gets $87.5M Valuation in New Funding to Build AI Search Engine for Crypto

The search engine combines real-time data with large language models like ChatGPT.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Revives High-Performance Computing Strategy Amid Booming Interest in AI

Miners are increasingly looking to fill data center space with AI and cloud computing.

New and old bitcoin mining rigs at CleanSpark's site in Georgia.

Finance

Startup Arbol Unveils AI and Blockchain-Powered Climate Insurance Platform

The market for climate insurance is estimated to triple in the next decade.

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Tech

Ethereum Scanner Etherscan Adds OpenAI-Based Tool to Analyze Smart Contract Source Code

The tool is meant for informational purposes only, Etherscan said.

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Markets

AI Crypto Tokens Lose Steam as Post-Nvidia Earnings Hype Wears Off

Render (RNDR) token has risen as a “unique case,” said an analyst.

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Tech

Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Releases AI-Powered Tools for Web3 Builders

AlchemyAI will launch as two new products – an in-app chatbot and a ChatGPT plugin – to help web3 developers access data faster and speed up product development.

Alchemy introduced its AI tool suite, AlchemyAI (Alchemy)

Opinion

When AI and Blockchain Merge, Expect the Mundane at First

As the transformative technologies of generative artificial intelligence and blockchain find their way in business, inevitably they will interact. The pairing has the potential to achieve wild, weird and presently unimaginable results, but expect the first experiments to be boring and predictable, says EY's Paul Brody.

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Consensus Magazine

12 Ways Web3 Media Could Embrace AI

From chatbots to deep blockchain data analysis, artificial intelligence can help Web3 news organizations function. But there are plenty of pitfalls too.

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