Can NEAR price reclaim $3 as golden cross nears?

Most enterprise AI projects fail quietly. Nirmal Ganesh explains why, and what it takes to build workflows that actually deliver ROI.

Near Protocol's dynamic resharding could set a new standard for blockchain scalability, pressuring other Layer 1s to adopt similar innovations. The post Near Protocol to automate growth with dynamic resharding upgrade in June, NEAR token surges 27% appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose - mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of threes. (I'm aware this, too, is a list of threes, and I promise I wrote this post myself, unassisted, as I write all things.) I'll admit I was initially unconvinced by the allegation that Nazir's story had been generated by AI. I know people are using … Read the full story at The Verge.

Prompt something better than Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” I dare you. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from Spotify will make them even easier to generate and share. Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) signed a licensing deal that will allow users to generate remixes and covers from UMG's catalog. How exactly it will work, beyond being "powered by generative AI technology," or how much it will cost, is unclear. They're positioning this as a premium subscription add-on … Read the full story at The Verge.

Aside from HYPE, the other two big weekly gainers are NEAR and VVV.

Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.

The NEAR token jumped 30% to an intraday high of $2.25, marking a 70% increase since the start of May and briefly pushing its market capitalization past $2.9 billion. NEAR Token Surges Past $2 NEAR, the token of the artificial intelligence-native protocol Near, surged on Friday as it crossed the $2 threshold for the first […]

London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safety” after the London mayor blocked its £50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company. Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of politicising procurement after he rejected a two-year deal for Scotland Yard to use AI to process intelligence in criminal investigations, as first revealed by the Guardian. Mosley said: “What Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer.” Continue reading...