Mastercard, Billboard to Drop 5 New Artist Singles as NFTs

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Mastercard and Billboard are poised to unveil a brand new showcase on Thursday, July 27 at 3 pm ET, dropping five new singles as NFTs through the culminating release of its trailblazing Web3 music initiative, The Mastercard Artist Accelerator. The Accelerator, which was announced earlier this year and officially kicked off in April, was initially…

Unchecked AI Could Create Bioweapons, Leaders Tell Congress

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In a congressional hearing on July 25, leading researchers in the artificial intelligence (AI) community voiced their concerns about the rapid pace of AI development, cautioning that it could be weaponized by rogue states or terrorists to create bioweapons in the near future. Yoshua Bengio, a renowned AI professor from the University of Montreal and…

Reddit Drops Gen-4 of Its Collectible Avatars with Cool Cats

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On July 26, the social media juggernaut Reddit dropped its latest series of Collectible Avatars on July 26 in partnership with the cat-centric Web3 brand Cool Cats. The new Collectible Avatar series, called Retro Reimagined, marks the social media platform’s fourth generation of collectible avatars since it first stepped into the Web3 domain in July 2022….