US Pentagon Approved Grok AI for Military Operations
Monday, March 2, 2026 by Richard Harris
US Pentagon Approved Grok AI for Military Operations
The US Pentagon approved Elon Musk's Grok AI for classified military operations while threatening Anthropic with penalties for refusing to remove ethical safeguards from its Claude AI. That single sentence carries a lot of weight. It is the moment when the center of gravity in defense AI shifted from models tha...
AI startups continue their surge
Saturday, August 2, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
AI startups are on track for another record year, driven by strong early investment and major funding deals. Big deals, such as Elon Musk's xAI aiming for $10 billion and Figure AI seeking $1.5 billion, have sparked investor interest and put more pressure on startups to develop real-world AI solutions. This perfect storm of events has led to the strongest start to t...
DOGE API key leak
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by Austin Harris
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), inadvertently exposed a private API key for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, in a public GitHub repository over the weekend. The leak granted potential access to over 50 large language models (LLMs) developed by xAI, raising serious concerns about operat...
Security trade-offs and Xs vulnerabilities
Friday, March 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
The latest cyberattack on X raises an important question: Was this an external attack or a result of internal instability? While hacktivist group Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, it is just as crucial to examine X’s own security posture, particularly in light of the drastic staffing cuts that followed Elon ...
AI cybersecurity impacts according to NetLib Security
Monday, December 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
This is an easy call to make: NetLib Security predicts that Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI - will continue to heavily impact the world of cybersecurity, upping the game for defensive players, while giving cybercriminals more tools on the offensive side.
2023 was a year in which AI seemed suddenly to be everywhere. Although AI is not a new field, ChatGPT and ...
Dogecoin searches skyrocket after Twitter logo change
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 by Richard Harris
Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for 'Dogecoin' have surged 1,182 percent in the US over the last seven days after Elon Musk changed Twitter's bird logo to Dogecoin's Shiba Inu on Monday, 3rd April.
The analysis, by online casino guide 6Takarakuji, reveals that US-based searches for 'Dogecoin' exploded by 1,182 percent abov...
Communication trends and predictions for 2023 from SendBird
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 by Richard Harris
As Twitter morphs around Elon Musk’s vision and Meta dives deeper into the Metaverse, businesses are reconsidering how they want to communicate with their customers. In 2023, we’ll see not only more companies but a wider variety of companies take a page from WhatsApp, Line, and WeChat as they bring the community and dynamic conversations into their own apps....
Federal Reserve will not stop the ETH merge surge
Saturday, August 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Stefan Rust, CEO of Laguna Labs, shares his comments about the recent price surge in Ether (ETH), why it will not be derailed by the Federal Reserve interest rate hikes for long, and how Ethereum’s upcoming merge to Proof of Stake is a very promising development for the future for decentralized finance.
The Federal Reserve can’t stop Ethereum’s...
NFT art value amid crypto crash
Friday, July 29, 2022 by Richard Harris
New research has revealed how much money NFT artists can make per month, with the top 35% earning over the U.S minimum wage, the top 20% achieving at least $96,000 per year, and the top 10% earning enough to be in the top 5% income threshold in the United States.
The research, conducted by crypto and blockchain news site Crypto.news, analyzed the last 30 days of glob...
Elon Musk and finfluencers are changing investor behaviors
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 by Richard Harris
The Investor Index, an annual survey of investor behaviors conducted amongst 1080 UK adults (18+) with £10,000+ invested, was launched in April 2020 to assess the immediate impact of Covid 19 on the UK investment marketplace. Conducted jointly by London-based communications agency AML Group and the research and planning experts, The Nursery, th...
Most searched NFTs of 2021
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Everything went digital last year, including art. Throughout 2021 interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) increased dramatically, with many celebrities and artists releasing their own series of virtual work.
The influx of interest has caused the cost of NFTs to skyrocket and this year the most expensive of all time were sold, demonstrating serious investor appetite. O...
Investing in Bitcoin by baby boomers and Gen X
Thursday, February 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Baby boomers and Gen X are piling into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations.
The observation from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group comes from a global poll of clients aged over 55 found that 70% of those surveyed are already invested...
Bitcoin reaches new highs in first part of 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny.
This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations.
It comes...
How governments can harness the power of blockchain
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, ConsenSys will release a paper that offers governments a clear roadmap to harness the power of blockchain technology and implement robust blockchain strategies. Participating in the Summit, ConsenSys continues to develop its relationship with Dubai, which has established itself as a clear adopter of blockchain and a growing hub o...
