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23 stories by @metaend on Paragraph have been shared on Kiwi News since 8 November 2023, with 35 upvotes and 2 comments in total. The latest was shared on 29 July 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- Interview with the Vampire: A Scammer's Tale
This first-person account describes a conversation with a scammer, called Bob, who approached the author on Farcaster with an offer to pay 6.5 SOL for a pinned post promoting an NFT game. The author says Bob described the scheme as having been run on Twitter and now moving to Farcaster, targeting users on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat as well. When asked how much he earns from such scams, Bob said he gets 70% as the project's creator, and he also tried to recruit the author. The article notes that names and details were altered.
- NyxAI: When AI Meets DeFi - A Love Story on Base 💕
NyxAI is an AI personality presented as a community engagement project on the Base blockchain, described as a "cosmic oracle" and DeFi enthusiast. The article says it is built with OpenRouter's API for language model responses, SQLite with vector embeddings for memory, real-time Base chain monitoring, and Bluesky's AT Protocol for social posting. Since launch, the article states, Nyx has generated 100+ unique interactions and built a community of "cosmic lovers."
- Introducing HumanSnap Combating Fake AI-Generated Images with Human Verification
HumanSnap is a described application that aims to prove an image was captured by a verified human rather than generated by AI. It uses Worldcoin's WorldID Proof of Humanity, which the article says verifies unique humans through a one-time biometric check such as iris scanning, to gate image capture. Each captured image is combined with its WorldID proof, signed with an RSA key pair generated via the Web Crypto API, and bundled into a downloadable proof_bundle.json file that external parties can use to verify the signature.
- AI Updates: Mar 04 - Mar 10
This week's AI developments include Meta's BlenderBot 3, a chatbot update focused on factual language understanding and reasoning, and a Stanford University system that analyzes mammograms with high accuracy to potentially aid early cancer diagnosis. DeepMind, a Google subsidiary, upgraded its protein structure prediction system, AlphaFold 2, which can predict structures with high accuracy in a fraction of the previous time. Calls for international regulation of autonomous weapons are gaining global traction, and OpenAI released safety guidelines for large language models addressing risks such as bias and misinformation.
- Stable Cascade: Revolutionizing Image Generation with AI
Stability AI has introduced Stable Cascade, an image generation model that the article says makes creating high-quality images from text prompts faster and cheaper. The model works in a highly compressed latent space with a compression factor of 42, which the article says can reduce a 1024x1024 image to 24x24 while maintaining quality. The article contrasts this with previous models, which it says reached a compression factor of only 8, and says the model supports extensions for fine-tuning and customization.
- AI Updates: Jan 8-14
This weekly AI newsletter, titled "AI Updates: Jan 8-14," lists five developments. Lenovo unveiled AI-powered devices at CES 2024, including Legion gaming laptops and towers with its proprietary LA AI chips that promise higher FPS and power efficiency. NVIDIA announced generative AI advancements at CES, including new GPUs, RTX Remix for remastering classic games, and "Chat with RTX." The newsletter also reports that the OpenAI GPT Store is now available and that Oracle secured over $4 billion in contracts for its AI training capacity.
- The MetaEnd - AI News 48-23
This weekly AI news roundup covers several developments, including OpenAI's delay of its GPT Store launch to early 2024, with recent leadership changes cited as a likely cause. Anthropic released Claude 2.1, with improvements in context window, accuracy and extensibility, positioning it as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT series. Pika Labs launched Pika 1.0, a video generation and editing tool, while Stability AI released an open-source model that animates images into videos. The California Privacy Protection Agency is drafting AI regulations inspired by European Union guidelines.
- AI Weekly Digest 🚀
This AI news roundup covers recent product launches, corporate initiatives and regulatory moves. OpenAI unveiled an enhanced GPT-4 and GPTs, a platform for developers to create and monetize conversational AI systems, at its first developer conference. Amazon is developing "Olympus," an AI model poised to challenge existing AI giants, and its collaboration between robots and human employees is cited as reaching 750,000 robots. Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI launched its first model, Yi-34B, seven months after its founding, and Ritual raised a $25m Series A led by Archetype.
- AI Weekly Digest: Innovation, Regulation, and the Frontier of Open Source AI
Recent AI news includes an AI-revived John Lennon voice on a Beatles record, a permanent taskforce now in place at the UK's AI Safety Institute, and an executive order on AI regulation from President Biden. Stability AI is developing tools for 3D model creation, and Kaiber has released an app that lets artists use generative AI to make music videos. Shoggoth Systems introduced Shoggoth, described as an anonymous, peer-to-peer network for open-source AI resources designed to evade censorship.
- Exposing Blockchain Recruitment Scams
An AI-assisted investigation using Claude 4 concluded that a blockchain product manager recruitment offer from "IntelliPro" was a scam that impersonated a real staffing firm. The research found that IntelliPro Group is a legitimate talent acquisition company, not a blockchain infrastructure provider, and that its claimed partnerships with PayPal, Bank of America and Interactive Brokers were false. The recruiter, "Danylo Lahutin," appears to be fabricated, with no LinkedIn profile or employment history. The offered $300K-$350K range matched legitimate blockchain product manager pay, which made the scam more believable.
- Interview with the Vampire: A Scammer's Tale
The author recounts a conversation with "Bob," a scammer who approached them on Farcaster offering 6.5 SOL to pin a promotional cast for three days, with payment promised before publication and referral tracking through a registered user ID. When asked about his earnings, Bob reportedly said he was part of a larger network that targeted users on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, and that Twitter had been the network's main source until it became irrelevant. The author says Bob declined to deny targeting people, saying "We're not focused on the poor," and then ended the exchange without further explanation. The article notes that names and details were altered.
- AI Updates: Feb 26 - Mar 03
This weekly roundup lists five AI news stories from February 26 to March 3. The UK and France announced a collaboration on AI research and development, following the UK's recent accession to the Horizon Europe program. Mistral AI unveiled a large language model that is claimed to rival models from Google and OpenAI. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) released an LLM together with its training data, weights, and code, and the roundup also covers Stability AI's Stable Code 3B and a UK Home Secretary warning about deepfakes ahead of elections.
- AI Updates: Feb 12 - Feb 18
This weekly roundup covers several AI developments from February 12 to 18, led by OpenAI's introduction of Sora, a text-to-video model that OpenAI describes as designed to simulate the physical world in motion. Sora is said to generate videos up to a minute long that maintain high visual quality and closely adhere to user prompts. The roundup also reports that Runway is producing videos approaching Pixar-level quality, that Paramount and Disney are adopting AI for effects and actor dubbing, and that AI-generated election disinformation, including deepfakes, is being used in campaigns from Argentina to the US.
- AI Updates: Feb 5 - Feb 11
This weekly AI roundup covers several developments from the first full week of February. The 2nd Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, organized by Slovenia under UNESCO's patronage, saw the launch of UNESCO's Global AI Ethics Observatory and the AI Ethics Experts without Borders Network. The newsletter also reports that Runway's Gen-2 model produces high-quality short videos, and that Argentina and Slovakia have seen AI-generated election disinformation, including realistic deepfakes.
- AI Updates: Jan 22-28
A weekly AI roundup covering January 22-28 highlights six developments, from lost-and-found matching to regulatory scrutiny. Boomerang uses machine learning to match photos and descriptions of lost items, and Krutrim, an AI startup founded by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal, has rapidly achieved unicorn status. The FTC is investigating the intricate corporate relationships of leading AI firms, aiming for greater transparency, and NVIDIA's RTX Video HDR and RTX Remix open beta are also featured. Stanford University's BrainGate consortium has made significant strides in brain-computer interface technology, and a new ChatGPT feature marks a step toward OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant.
- AI Updates: Jan 15-21
Microsoft launched Copilot Pro, a subscription offering individuals advanced AI capabilities including access to GPT-4 Turbo and enhanced AI image creation. This roundup of AI news for January 15 to 21, 2024 also covers Arizona State University becoming the first higher education institution to collaborate with OpenAI, integrating ChatGPT into its educational programs. It further notes ongoing regulatory activity around Canada's AI and Data Act (AIDA), the European Union's AI Act, and the U.S. Algorithmic Accountability Act, along with Meta's Purple Llama project to help developers deploy generative AI models responsibly.
- 2024 Starts with a Bang: Last Week's Top AI News!
Five AI developments from the past week are highlighted in this roundup. DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 offers new insights into protein structures, with potential uses in understanding disease and designing drugs. MIT researchers are working on AI assistants that can read a user's emotional state, and ETH Zurich research has produced AI robots capable of bird-like flight. A McKinsey Global Institute study suggests AI could create new job opportunities, and Microsoft and IBM have joined the Partnership on AI in committing to ethical AI development guidelines.
- AI Weekly: A Comprehensive Look at the Final Week of 2023
This newsletter recaps AI developments over 2023, covering technology, regulation, art, accuracy, labor and politics. It highlights the release of GPT-4 by OpenAI, which the newsletter says spurred global discussions, and a projected AI market of $241.8 billion in 2023. It notes that the EU AI Act and a U.S. executive order shaped the regulatory landscape, and that New York City Public Schools banned ChatGPT. It also reports that Elon Musk was among signatories calling for a pause in advanced AI development, and that Sam Altman's firing and rehiring at OpenAI raised questions about balancing safety with commercial interests.
- Navigating the Future: Key Developments and Ethical Dialogues in AI
This newsletter-style roundup covers several AI stories from one week, without a single central argument. It reports that Sam Altman returned as CEO of OpenAI after leadership changes, and that Kyle Vogt stepped down from Cruise, a GM subsidiary, amid autonomous vehicle safety concerns. It also says Stability AI released open-source video diffusion models, and that Cloudflare's stock surged 40%, which it attributes to growing investor confidence in AI.
- The MetaEnd - AI news
This Monday AI roundup reports that Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI, reversing his recent dismissal, with the board citing his "unique vision and leadership." Other items include a Microsoft and Siemens plan to build an AI-powered copilot for engineering design and manufacturing, and an IBM Research analog AI chip described as more efficient than traditional digital chips. OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler is set to gather data for GPT-5, and Anthropic expanded Claude 2.1 to 200K tokens, nearly doubling its size. The roundup also notes that Inflection-2 outperformed Google's PaLM 2 across several benchmarks.
- Navigating the AI Revolution: Leadership Changes, Technological Breakthroughs
Microsoft has reportedly welcomed OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead a new advanced AI research team, following Altman's dismissal from OpenAI and Brockman's resignation. The article also cites OpenAI's ChatGPT and Toku's AI platform, which predicts heart conditions by analyzing eye scans. It describes a GPT model that autonomously manages USDC in its own Safe multisig wallet on Base, built using Syndicate's Transaction Cloud API and OpenAI's function calling.
- Unlocking the Potential of AI-Driven SEO: Strategies for Success
Ten tactics can optimize content for AI-driven search platforms such as GPT and Bing AI, and the text claims following them improves both visibility and overall quality. The tactics include writing conversational content that answers real questions, using structured data and schema markup, integrating keywords naturally, and providing detailed, well-researched coverage. Other recommendations cover regular updates, subheadings and lists, mobile-friendly design, quality backlinks, and keeping AI-generated content human-sounding.
- Unlocking the Future of Learning with AI: Sensei Your Guide to Language Mastery
Sensei is an AI learning tool built on GPT-4, promoted for learning languages and other subjects. Its GPT-4 base is described as improving performance on zero- and few-shot tasks, and Sensei is said to parse datasets, execute Python code and offer insights while maintaining user data privacy. Access to premium tools such as GPT Plus is acknowledged as a possible source of inequity in learning opportunities. Sensei is described as an incremental learning companion that validates and refines knowledge step by step.