Elizabeth Warren proposes taxing AI companies to benefit all Americans

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of how the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) handled national trust bank charters for digital asset firms has triggered a direct response from the crypto industry.  On Tuesday, The Digital Chamber (TDC) sent a letter to Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould, pushing back on Warren’s claims and […]

After Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's claimed that the Comptroller may have violated US banking laws by approving crypto companies’ charters, The Digital Chamber urged the regulator to defend the applications.

If intelligence were a true utility, you wouldn’t need to send people to every customer to make the faucet work.

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, says Warren’s anti-crypto crusade was a ‘pure own-goal’ for Democrats. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham posted on X that Senator Elizabeth Warren’s sustained campaign against crypto was a “pure own-goal,” characterising it as a…

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with unmonitored access to the family computer. With the help of a basic text editor program, I learned how to make websites – first basic, then increasingly complex – from scratch. The results were never as beautiful or polished as in my imagination, but I could live with that, because I was learning a craft. The painstaking hours of debugging and poring over arcane documentation for projects that I eventually abandoned never felt wasted. Wendy Liu is a writer based in San Francisco and the author of Abolish Silicon Valley Continue reading...

The executive order could delay AI product launches, increase compliance costs, and create uncertainty, impacting AI companies and investors. The post President Trump to sign executive order on AI and cybersecurity Thursday appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

National trust charters pushed crypto custody into a broader regulatory clash as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed the OCC over approvals tied to Coinbase, Ripple, Bitgo, and other firms. Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe countered that fiduciary custody separates client property from lending risks. OCC Charter Fight Puts Digital Asset Custody Under Scrutiny The crypto bank […]

We would like to hear from people who regret turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal or social lives People are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal and social lives. But researchers and even some AI companies are beginning to worry that some users are becoming overly dependent on their chatbots. Have you taken the advice of an AI chatbot to make a significant decision - and regretted it? Continue reading...