2024-12-19
To end the year in suitably ridiculous style, my story on the AI chatbot that parlayed a graphic late '90s internet meme into a $40 million crypto nest egg: — www.wired.com/story/truth-...
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A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins
Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents.
2024-12-07
I spoke to the father of a kid that made $30,000 in under ten mins on a cryptocoin he'd created. — He didn't believe it at first. But when angry messages started to flood in, he realised his son was telling the truth—if not quite the full story. — www.wired.com/story/memeco...
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A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams
He didn't believe it at first. But when angry messages started to flood in, he realised his son was telling the truth—if not quite the full story. — www.wired.com/story/memeco.....