Alex Tapscott

1 month ago | streetwisereports.com | Alex Tapscott

Canada has long been a hotbed of AI research, training, and talent. Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton's pioneering work on machine learning and neural networks at the University of Toronto helped lay the groundwork for today's AI revolution. Institutions like the Vector Institute continue to push that frontier. Yoshua Bengio, a Professor at the Universite de Montreal, won The Turing Award for his pioneering work in the field.

2 months ago | nypost.com | Alex Tapscott

The tech world experienced a costly and highly consequential wake-up call this week with the revelation that Chinese newcomer DeepSeek had developed an advanced AI model requiring just millions — rather than billions — of dollars in development costs. Despite concerns about DeepSeek security and that it possibly copied rival ChatGPT, the news sent US AI leaders reeling, causing them to lose more than $1 trillion in total market value — including nearly $600 billion from chip king Nvidia alone.

Jan 17, 2025 | streetwisereports.com | Alex Tapscott

Last week, we wrote about the impending convergence of AI and crypto, focusing on AI agents. This week, I want to focus on financial services. AI agents are basically software that can perform tasks in some human direction and, perhaps, eventually autonomously. They need a way to transact, store value, and enter binding relationships with people (and other agents).

Jan 13, 2025 | streetwisereports.com | Alex Tapscott

As readers of this newsletter know, we have long been interested in the intersection of crypto and AI, which in our view are two of the leading technologies ushering in a new digital age in business, entrepreneurship, culture and society. And increasingly, these technologies are converging. The most recent example being AI 'agents' like chatbots, virtual assistants, and trading bots, which use cryptoassets like a digital bank account.

Jan 1, 2025 | coindeskjapan.com | Alex Tapscott

ビットコインETF、イーサリアムETFは2024年、大成功を収めた。だが、暗号資産における飛躍的なイノベーションは「トークン化」にあると『Web3: Charting the Internet’s Next Economic and Cultural Frontier』の著者アレックス・タプスコット（Alex Tapscott）氏は語る。 ◇◇◇ ETF（上場投資信託）は、運用資産残高が20年足らずで1兆ドルから10兆ドル超へと拡大し、バンク・オブ・アメリカは2030年までに50兆ドル市場になると予測している。投資家がETFに惹きつけられているのは、投資信託の分散性と株式の流動性を兼ね備え、手数料も低いからだ。 だが、それだけでは成功の理由を説明できない。 ETFの核心は、かつてはほとんどの投資家にとっては手の届きにくかった資産クラスと戦略へのアクセスを民主化した金融テクノロジーだ。ETFには、地方債から外国株式、株式オプション、プライベートクレジットまで、あらゆるものが含まれる。参入障壁を下げ、柔軟性を向上させることで、ETFは人々の投資方法を根本的に変えた。...