Crypto AI Updates

Astra Nova raises $48.3 million to grow Web3, AI entertainment ecosystem

Astra Nova, an AI-focused Web3 entertainment and infrastructure company, has raised $48.3 million to grow its suite of tokenized content tools and creator platform. According to an announcement shared with CoinDesk, the funding includes $41.6 million from a recent strategic round and builds on previous investments led by Outlier Ventures, as well as family offices…

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Stripe’s Tempo blockchain raises $500 million at $5 billion valuation

Stripe’s blockchain project Tempo has raised $500 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital, valuing the payments-focused network at $5 billion, according to Fortune magazine. Sequoia Capital, Rivit Capital and Ron Conway’s SV Angel also participated in the round, but Stripe and Paradigm did not provide additional capital, according to…

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Developers can now add live Google Maps data to the output of Gemini-powered AI apps

Google is adding new features for third-party developers building on the Gemini AI model, which likely won’t be readily available from rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as China’s growing number of open source options. It’s based on Google Maps. This addition allows developers to connect the inference capabilities of Google’s Gemini…

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Cryptocurrency market falls due to stress in US local banks and prolonged government shutdown

Important points Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies experienced significant declines due to stress in U.S. local banks and concerns of a prolonged government shutdown. The market capitalization of cryptocurrencies fell 6% as investors moved to safe-haven assets following disclosures of large loan losses by regional US banks. Share this article Bitcoin lost more than $5,000 in…

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Researchers found that adding this one simple sentence to the prompt made AI models more creative

One of the best things about generative AI models (both large-scale language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators) is that they "Non-deterministic." That is, despite its reputation among some critics, "fancy autocorrect," Generative AI models actually generate output by choosing from a distribution of the most likely next tokens (units of information) to fill out…

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Daylight Energy raises $75 million to expand distributed energy infrastructure network

Daylight Energy has secured $75 million to expand its distributed physical energy network. Framework Ventures led the funding. A16z Crypto and Coinbase Ventures participate. The new DayFi protocol connects energy infrastructure yields to DeFi investors. Daylight Energy has raised $75 million in new funding to accelerate the growth of its distributed energy network. This marked…

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