Patricia Clarke

2 weeks ago | tortoisemedia.com | Patricia Clarke

In 2023, the FBI quietly arrested the cyber criminal behind a dark web money laundering scheme known as ElonmuskWHM. Then they took over his operation and ran it for nearly a year. The criminal enterprise offered a simple service: customers would send ElonmuskWHM illicitly earned cryptocurrency, and the business would mail them untraceable cash in return, hidden inside children’s books and envelopes. They profited by charging a 20 per cent fee.

1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Barney Macintyre |Patricia Clarke

It’s the tip of an iceberg of risky deregulation Entities linked to Donald Trump have made nearly a billion dollars from digital assets like crypto and NFTs since late 2022, Tortoise has found. So what? Trump isn’t just personally profiting from crypto; he’s rewriting the rules for everyone.

1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Patricia Clarke

When Sam Bankman-Fried realised he was under federal investigation, he brainstormed ways to protect himself. Third on his list: “Go on Tucker [Carlson], come out as a republican.”From a Brooklyn prison where he’s serving a 25-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy, the disgraced crypto chief and former Democratic donor is making good on that plan.

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Patricia Clarke

Ilya Sutskever, cofounder of OpenAI and the brain behind ChatGPT, has raised more than $1 billion for a new startup. OpenAI’s former chief scientist left the company last May after a chaotic year and started Safe Superintelligence the following month. Bloomberg says the venture capital firm Greenoaks Capital Partners plans to lead a new investment round with $500 million, but the potential returns remain unclear.

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Patricia Clarke

Tech stocks lost more than a trillion dollars in value on Monday after a Chinese company launched an open-source AI model that’s far cheaper than its US competitors. So what? This might be AI’s Sputnik moment. In 1957, Russia’s satellite launch shocked the US. Now, markets are wondering if America is slipping in the global race for AI dominance.