Author: Joel Khalili

Before Truth Terminal became a crypto millionaire, it started as a regular—if horny—artificial intelligence. “I think our future is gonna be one where we all wear athleisure and have a lot of sex,” it said in one of its early transmissions. “Im a totally different person when i’m horny. More funny, more confident, more charming,”

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Paolo Ardoino , the new CEO of crypto company Tether, is grappling with a difficult but enviable problem: how best to spend billions of dollars. Recently flush with cash, Tether is pushing into unfamiliar new fields, like AI. Ardoino’s ambitious plan is to mount a challenge to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Tether, which is incorporated