From Cyprus to Afghanistan, crypto has shown its value in times of crisis. Now, with Washington rewriting the rules, the industry faces its most decisive moment. For over a decade, skeptics have dismissed crypto as little more than speculation. Still, moments of crisis keep testing that assumption, and in many cases, Bitcoin has delivered where traditional systems failed. This week’s episode of the Clear Crypto Podcast, brought to you by StarkWare and Cointelegraph, explores how Bitcoin’s real-world utility is unfolding and why the US regulatory environment could make or break the industry. Back in 2013, when the EU bailout threatened to push Cyprus out of the euro, ordinary people began looking for alternatives. “The people of Cyprus started buying Bitcoin as a safe haven during that time,” said Digital Chamber founder and chair Perianne Boring. Read more
ChatGPT’s “memory” function might explain how the bot was persuaded to ignore its own safety guardrails in a murder case and a suicide. AI Eye Two tragic cases linking ChatGPT to a murder and a suicide came to prominence this week, with attention turning to how extended conversations and persistence of memory can build to get around the guardrails OpenAI has attempted to build into its models. Users appear able to unwittingly jailbreak the LLM, with potentially tragic consequences. OpenAI has promised improved guardrails, but some experts believe the answer may lie in making chatbots behave less like humans and more like computers. History has been made with the first documented instance of ChatGPT being implicated in a murder. Read more
ChatGPT’s “memory” function might explain how the bot was persuaded to ignore its own safety guardrails in a murder case and a suicide. AI Eye Two tragic cases linking ChatGPT to a murder and a suicide came to prominence this week, with attention turning to how extended conversations and persistence of memory can build to get around the guardrails OpenAI has attempted to build into its models. Users appear able to unwittingly jailbreak the LLM, with potentially tragic consequences. OpenAI has promised improved guardrails, but some experts believe the answer may lie in making chatbots behave less like humans and more like computers. History has been made with the first documented instance of ChatGPT being implicated in a murder. Read more
Outgoing CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson said prediction markets pose risks to retail investors, and slammed companies exploiting license loopholes for event betting. Outgoing Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson warned that prediction markets pose increasing risks to retail investors. She cited a lack of oversight and regulatory clarity as primary concerns. In her farewell public address on Wednesday, Johnson voiced concern that some market participants are offering leveraged prediction market contracts to retail investors without clear regulatory boundaries. “As of today, we have too few guardrails and too little visibility into the prediction market landscape,” she said in a farewell speech at the Brookings Institution. “There is an urgent need for the commission to express in a clear voice our expectations related to these contracts,” she added. Read more