Artificial Intelligence

HIVE Blockchain's ethereum mining facility in Boden, Sweden (Sandali Handagama)
Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Touts Privacy of AI Models Running on Its GPUs
Hive wants to provide enterprise training in its fleet of GPUs as part of its pivot to artificial intelligence.
HIVE Blockchain's ethereum mining facility in Boden, Sweden (Sandali Handagama)

GPU prices have taken a toll, and it's hitting Nvidia's bottom line. (FritzchensFritz/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)
Web3 Can Actually Compete in the Computer Chip Race
Decentralized infrastructure, aka DePIN, offers competitive alternatives for GPU-hungry AI startups in need of cheap and secure data storage and other computational resources.
GPU prices have taken a toll, and it's hitting Nvidia's bottom line. (FritzchensFritz/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)
Sam Altman's Worldcoin Integrates With Identity Management Software Okta as It Pushes Into Germany
World ID, which uses biometric data to verify users, helps apps distinguish people from bots and is more private than alternatives like Google sign-in.
An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

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Blockchain May Offer Answers for AI Challenges
Artificial intelligence is already having a big impact on society, but it also has the potential to harm. Blockchain technology may help create safer, more effective AI system...
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Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
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...
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

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

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

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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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