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BTC

$87,118.00

-2.72%

ETH

$2,948.42

-6.16%

BNB

$866.44

-2.36%

SOL

$128.47

-3.00%

TRX

$0.28007

-0.66%

ADA

$0.386212

-3.96%

WBT

$58.03

-3.53%

BCH

$545.24

-3.53%

WBTC

$87,008.00

-2.55%

XMR

$414.61

0.50%

XLM

$0.222862

-3.39%

ZEC

$392.38

-4.07%

LTC

$78.65

-2.66%

SHIB

$0.00000792

-3.24%

CRO

$0.095389

-1.65%

M

$1.69

0.85%

RAIN

$0.00780494

-2.71%

CC

$0.073075

3.12%

TAO

$260.88

-7.00%

OKB

$108.48

-1.45%

ETC

$12.45

-5.34%

PEPE

$0.00000407

-5.52%

ENA

$0.222197

-6.11%

PI

$0.195978

-3.84%

HASH

$0.03098208

16.61%

SOL

$128.53

-3.23%

HTX

$0.00000164

-0.61%

PUMP

$0.00245294

-8.69%

KCS

$10.36

-3.73%

SKY

$0.058414

2.82%

WLD

$0.532992

-7.89%

GT

$10.22

-2.79%

POL

$0.113244

-5.55%

KAS

$0.04346761

-2.01%

ARB

$0.197511

-7.50%

QNT

$75.65

-2.88%

FBTC

$86,516.00

-3.45%

LBTC

$87,291.00

-2.62%

FLR

$0.01156885

-3.91%

VET

$0.01069419

-4.94%

XDC

$0.04906869

4.25%

WM

$1.00

0.03%

SEI

$0.119067

-4.44%

BONK

$0.00000865

-5.43%

WBTC

$86,949.00

-2.69%

BDX

$0.091275

1.65%

WFLR

$0.0115582

-3.85%

DAI

$0.999927

-0.01%

JUP

$0.193663

-0.45%

FET

$0.222742

-6.55%

IP

$1.71

-6.49%

OP

$0.293582

-5.73%

TBTC

$87,099.00

-2.37%

CRV

$0.366825

-3.93%

WETH

$35,382,014.00

0.00%

LDO

$0.552149

-7.55%

XTZ

$0.461879

-4.78%

SPX

$0.514194

-7.27%

STX

$0.263025

-6.03%

GHO

$0.999999

0.03%

AB

$0.00500072

-6.87%

TIA

$0.510121

-7.58%

MERL

$0.392957

-17.05%

GRT

$0.03869918

-3.89%

TWT

$0.973317

-3.46%

JST

$0.03982171

1.97%

BTT

$0.00000039

-2.16%

TEL

$0.00409199

-9.58%

SUN

$0.02023528

-1.17%

SBTC

$87,020.00

-2.41%

2Z

$0.108779

-4.39%

WIF

$0.371813

-6.26%

CFX

$0.071375

-3.76%

BSV

$18.27

-5.33%

OHM

$22.03

-0.13%

NFT

$0.00000035

-3.87%

BAT

$0.226136

-7.44%

KAU

$138.12

-1.29%

USX

$0.999257

0.02%

S

$0.083193

-7.85%

DCR

$18.32

-4.93%

GALA

$0.00663189

-4.64%

GNO

$116.71

-6.81%

CHZ

$0.03027358

-7.08%

USR

$0.999865

-0.06%

VSN

$0.085827

-5.47%

UBTC

$87,195.00

-2.77%

XPL

$0.133364

-6.80%

A

$0.163673

-2.96%

RAY

$0.949582

-7.19%

BBTC

$87,093.00

-1.50%

ZK

$0.02940477

-5.13%

MWC

$23.51

-9.31%

ZBCN

$0.00249375

-2.50%

FF

$0.102996

-3.15%

AR

$3.62

-3.42%

KAG

$63.13

-1.42%
Price data by
Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

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    Free AI for the Holidays? Google and Elon Musk's xAI Debut Latest Models

    Lovers of free tech, rejoice! Google and xAI have unveiled pretty interesting updates to their AI offerings for free, matching and expanding upon OpenAI's recent democratization efforts. OpenAI fired the latest salvo in the war for the hearts—and, ultimately, wallets of users—with its ambitious "12 Days of OpenAI" campaign last week, releasing a series of powerful tools to the public. The campaign's highlights include Sora, the firm's state-of-the-art text-to-video generator, the advanced reason...

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    Russia Tests System to Block VPN Users From Global Internet

    Russia has begun testing a new system capable of cutting off access to the global internet, with early reports indicating that even virtual private networks, known as VPNs, are unable to circumvent these restrictions. This marks a significant escalation in the country's efforts to establish what it calls a "sovereign internet." According to a recent report by NetBlocks, The Russian government already trialed its capacity to shut down internet access in Dagestan. Local news outlet Chernovik repor...

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    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    ChatGPT Can Now Watch and Interact With You in Real Time

    OpenAI took the wraps off ChatGPT's long-promised video capabilities Thursday, letting users point their phones at objects for real-time AI analysis—a feature that's been gathering dust since its first demo in May. Previously, you could input text, charts, voice, or still photos and interact with GPT. This feature, released late Thursday, allows GPT to watch you in real time and conversationally provide feedback. For instance, in my tests, this mode was able to solve math problems, give food rec...

  • Image created by Decrypt using AI

    Google Launches Gemini 2.0 and Anthropic Rolls Out Claude 3.5 Haiku Amid OpenAI's Year-End Blitz

    Google unleashed Gemini 2.0 this week, packing its latest AI model with autonomous capabilities and multimodal features. What’s immediately noticeable in this release is that Google sees AI chatbots as evolving into AI Agents—customized software that uses generative AI to interact with users and understand and execute tasks in real time. "With new advances in multimodality—like native image and audio output—and native tool use, it will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us closer to our...

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    Millionaire Biohacker's Nighttime Erections Fuel Rising Prediction Market Bet

    There’s a new Polymarket bet for how long Bryan Johnson’s penis stays erect during nighttime. The antics of a man who injected his teenage son's blood into his veins and underwent “penis rejuvenation therapy” has been a persistent topic on the prediction market—or more precisely, his penis has. “This market will resolve to ‘Yes’ if Bryan Johnson sustains a nighttime erection for 2 hours and 12 minutes or more based upon the highest of three readings taken during the last week of December 2024,”...

    NewsHealth
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    Meet AI16z DAO: An AI-Based Investment Project That Aims to Upend Silicon Valley

    AI16z DAO is flipping the script on how crypto communities invest, govern, and operate—whether for the memes or for the untapped potential of relying on AI to make data-driven, non-subjective financial decisions. The decentralized autonomous organization project, featuring its own token, promises to “flip a16z,” one of Silicon Valley’s premier venture firms, and “redefine what it means to be a venture capitalist in the age of artificial intelligence.” As of this writing, the project's AI16Z toke...

  • Robot filming. Image created by Decrypt using AI.

    Tencent's New AI Video Generator Takes On OpenAI's Sora For Free

    While OpenAI keeps teasing Sora after months of delays, Tencent quietly dropped a model that is already showing comparable results to existing top-tier video generators.  Tencent has unveiled Hunyuan Video, a free and open-source AI video generator, strategically timed during OpenAI's 12-day announcement campaign, which is widely anticipated to include the debut of Sora, its highly anticipated video tool. “We present Hunyuan Video, a novel open-source video foundation model that exhibits perform...

  • Image created by Decrypt using AI

    Need Gift-Buying Advice for That Special Someone? Our AI SantaBot is Here to Help

    If you’ve been riding the wave of Bitcoin’s latest surge or watching your crypto wallet grow, the holidays might feel like the perfect time to turn those gains into memorable gifts. But as any seasoned gifter knows, a big price tag doesn’t always guarantee a big impression. That's where SantaBot—our AI agent experiment designed to help you step up your gift-giving game—can help. The project started with a simple question: Could AI decode personal chat messages to suggest more meaningful presents...

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    AI Models ‘Secretly’ Learn Capabilities Long Before They Show Them, Researchers Find

    Modern AI models possess hidden capabilities that emerge suddenly and consistently during training, but these abilities remain concealed until prompted in specific ways, according to new research from Harvard and the University of Michigan. The study, which analyzed how AI systems learn concepts like color and size, revealed that models often master these skills far earlier than standard tests suggest—a finding with major implications for AI safety and development. "Our results demonstrate that...

  • AI could help solve the quantum problem. Image created by Decrypt using AI

    Google's AI Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computing Closer to Real-World Applications

    Google researchers have discovered a new technique that could finally make quantum computing practical in real life, using artificial intelligence to solve one of science's most persistent challenges: more stable states. In a research paper published in Nature, Google Deepmind scientists explain that their new AI system, AlphaQubit, has proven remarkably successful at correcting the persistent errors that have long plagued quantum computers. "Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize...

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    Chinese Scientists Report 'Promising Results' From Novel Alzheimer's Surgery

    Chinese researchers have reported initial results from an experimental surgical procedure they say aims to address Alzheimer's disease through manipulating the brain's waste clearance systems. The findings, published in General Psychiatry, detail outcomes from what the team describes as a "cervical shunting" operation performed on a patient with Alzheimer who was able to achieve what the researchers describe as “promising” results. Alzheimer's disease progressively damages brain cells, primarily...

    NewsHealth
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    Stanford Researchers Built AI Agents That Accurately Predict Human Behavior

    Stanford University researchers have developed AI agents that can predict human behavior with remarkable accuracy. A recent study, led by Dr. Joon Sung Park and his team, demonstrates that a two-hour interview provides enough data for AI to replicate human decision-making patterns with 85% normalized accuracy. Digital clones of a physical person go beyond deepfakes or "low-rank adaptations" known as LoRAs. These accurate representations of personalities could be used to profile users and test th...

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    Mistral AI’s New Chatbot Rivals GPT, But For Free

    Mistral AI, the French AI company founded by ex-Google and Meta employees, just overhauled its free, multimodal AI platform—and it comes close to matching, and sometimes even exceeding, paid offerings from OpenAI or Anthropic.  The suite of AI tools from the Paris-based startup now features web search and image generation capabilities alongside a new visual model that outperforms larger rivals on key benchmarks. The company has pushed an update to analyze documents, an updated Large Language Mod...

  • Lord Vinheteiro. Image: YouTube

    You Think You Had a Bad Day? Brazilian YouTube Star's Bitcoin Nightmare Led to Hospitalization

    One of the world’s most popular pianists on YouTube has apparently been hospitalized after losing access to a Bitcoin stash worth over 2 million reais (over $366,000). The story has been big news in Brazil, where the classical pianist, a Brazilian known as Lord Vinheteiro (his real name is Fabrício André Bernard Di Paolo), has over 7 million YouTube subscribers. "I lost the password to my BTC wallet. I think the housekeeper threw it away along with some old sheet music I donated to a second-hand...

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    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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    Need Help Creating Good AI Prompts? Try Decrypt’s ‘Prompt Improver’

    By now, you probably know that the advent of consumer-facing AI tools like ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini changes everything. If so, you might also know that the results you get from these tools are only as good as the “prompts” (or queries) you enter. Effective prompt engineering is way more complicated than doing a Google search. Knowing the tricks of prompt design is so important (and potentially complex) that some people even make a living as prompt engineers. That’s why th...

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    The Best Use of AI Ever: A 'Grandma' Built To Waste Telescammers’ Time

    British telecom giant O2 announced what could be the first deployment of conversational AI specifically designed to counter telephone fraud in the UK telecommunications sector. The hero: a clueless grandma who endlessly and frustratingly digresses while idiot scammers attempt to hoodwink her out of money. The system, dubbed "Daisy," uses AI models to snare fraudsters in meandering conversations lasting up to 40 minutes, potentially preventing millions in losses across the network's 24 million mo...

  • Anthropic CEO Warns of Multiple Threats Posed by Human-Level AI in Coming Years

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says humanity is closer than expected to where AI models are as intelligent and capable as humans. Amodei is also concerned about the potential implications of human-level AI. “Things that are powerful can do good things, and they can do bad things," Amodei warned, “With great power comes great responsibility." Indeed, Amodei suggests Artificial General Intelligence could exceed human capabilities within the next three years, a transformative shift in technology that s...

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    Does Mike Tyson Have a Shot Against Jake Paul? Here's What Our AI Model Says

    Netflix is reportedly paying at least $60 million in purses to make history in its first-ever, live, non-pay-per-view sports broadcast. The streaming giant's venture into live programming pits 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul against Mike Tyson, 58, in a November 15 clash at AT&T Stadium that's already drawing intense scrutiny from prediction markets and sports analysts. “I’m here to make $40m and knock out a legend,” Jake Paul told interviewers. "This fight is not going to change my...

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    OpenAI's Next-Gen Model Hits Performance Wall: Report

    OpenAI's upcoming artificial intelligence model is delivering smaller performance gains than its predecessors, sources familiar with the matter told The Information. Employee testing reveals Orion achieved GPT-4 level performance after completing only 20% of its training, The Information reports. The quality increase from GPT-4 to the current version of GPT-5 seems to be smaller than that of GPT-3 to GPT-4. “Some researchers at the company believe Orion isn’t reliably better than its predecessor...

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    Trump's Crypto Renaissance Could Accelerate Latin American Adoption, Experts Say

    Donald Trump's election victory and promised crypto-friendly policies could accelerate digital asset adoption in Latin America, where stablecoins and Bitcoin already serve as inflation shields and remittance channels for millions, experts say. Regional exchanges are reporting a spike in crypto activity as the President-elect's pro-Bitcoin stance resonates in inflation-hit economies. The president-elect's pledge to establish a national Bitcoin reserve and ease regulatory burdens arrives as Latin...

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    4 min read
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