British multinational universal bank HSBC applied for NFT and Metaverse-related trademarks for its name and logo. On December 15, 2022, HSBC filed with the United States Trademark and Patents Office (USPTO).
HSBC intends to create virtual goods, such as bank cards, cash cards, cheque cards, debit cards, and others that are NFT-authenticated for use in online virtual worlds. Virtual payment card transactions, virtual prepaid cards, virtual debit cards, and virtual credit cards are also in the works in the metaverse. HSBC also intends to host an online website for the distribution of financial information, data security services, online communities for digital assets, NFTs, metaverse, and other services.
Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesn’t plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. “I hope Claude reaches as many people as possible,” Krieger told me onstage at the HumanX AI conference earlier this week. “But I think, [for] our ambitions, the critical path isn’t through mass-market consumer adoption right now.” Instead,… Source link
Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th. The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US – but Meta won’t publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community Notes in January, saying it would be “less prone to bias.” So far, around 200,000 potential contributors have signed up for the waitlist. Not everyone will be able to write and rate Community Notes at launch, as… Source link
An arbitrator has decided in favor of Meta in a case the company brought against Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Meta employee who wrote a memoir published this week detailing alleged claims of misconduct at the company. Macmillan Publishers and its imprint that published the memoir, Flatiron Books, were also named as respondents. The memoir, titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, details alleged claims of sexual harassment, including by current policy chief Joel Kaplan, who was her boss, according to NBC News. In… Source link
