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Jose Lanz

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Covers:  Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Tech, Cryptocurrency, Biohacking
Crypto +AI journalist with a law degree. I'm like a unicorn, but instead of a horn I have a degree that I'm not using

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How I Tricked Meta's AI Into Showing Me Nudes, Cocaine Recipes and Other Supposedly Censored Stuf...

How I Tricked Meta's AI Into Showing Me Nudes, Cocaine Recipes and Other Supposedly Censored Stuf...

Despite safety claims, WhatsApp's new AI assistant powered by Llama 3.2 is easily fooled, revealing a lot of …

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Meet HuggingChat: The Free Open-Source Chatbot That's Ready to Rival ChatGPT - Decrypt

Meet HuggingChat: The Free Open-Source Chatbot That's Ready to Rival ChatGPT - Decrypt

HuggingChat offers fully open-source alternatives to everything the best chatbots have to offer, including cu…

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A Romance Between Two AIs Sparks a New Language-And a Polycule - Decrypt

A Romance Between Two AIs Sparks a New Language-And a Polycule - Decrypt

What happens when two chatbots start dating? They fall in love, share deeper connections... and then discuss …

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AI Chatbots Have Begun to Create Their Own Culture, Researchers Say - Decrypt

AI Chatbots Have Begun to Create Their Own Culture, Researchers Say - Decrypt

AI models interacting with each other exhibit human-like behavior. Is this the first step toward self-awarene…

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Bitcoin Death Cross Approaches-Nobody Panic - Decrypt

Bitcoin Death Cross Approaches-Nobody Panic - Decrypt

Bitcoin's 50-day simple moving average (SMA) is inching closer to its 200-day SMA, which some see as a potent…

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If We're Living in a Simulation, Can AI Help Set Us Free? - Decrypt

If We're Living in a Simulation, Can AI Help Set Us Free? - Decrypt

Roman Yampolskiy and Lex Fridman discuss how this world could be a simulation-and how an artificial superinte…

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Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions Original

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In brief Meta filed a patent for cameras that use facial recognition to tag people by name and auto-generate clips around their detected actions. The system is assistant-driven: it serves pre-sorted "who did what, when" highlights to a phone or headset on request. It's a continuation of a 2022 parent application and sits at "Ready for Examination"—not granted, and far from a shipping feature.
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China's Z.AI Ships GLM-5.3, Calling It the Top Open-Weight Coding Model Original

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In brief Zhipu AI (now Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 on Thursday through its GLM Coding Plan and ZCode. The lab calls it the "most capable open-weights model for coding,". GLM-5.3 is a 743-billion-parameter model built by scaling post-training on the GLM-5.2 base. Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Thursday, a sizable coding model it's pitching as the strongest open-weights coder on the market.
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SharpLink Will Stake $200M of Ethereum Through Lido's wstETH Original

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In brief SharpLink will stake $200 million of Ether through Lido's liquid-staking protocol. The move is about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the ~889,000 ETH SharpLink held as of early August. wstETH sits across more than 100 protocols with about $10 billion in active-use collateral, so SharpLink keeps earning yield while staying liquid.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes!!!

How is social media changing news?

The over-use of the anonymous source card and the rush to publish content is changing the way we write. Also, media is now focusing on pleasing the Google algorithm instead of writing for humans. We are slaves of our own creation

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Basically being extremely curious, extremely passionate and extremely good at explaining things.