Why Binance Fired an Investigator Hired to Clean Up Its Crypto Exchange
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:29.2 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, May 10th. I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | Coming up on today's show, a new generation of gadgets |
| 0:43.0 | is designed to put artificial intelligence front and center. |
| 0:46.2 | And I'm not talking about smartphones. |
| 0:48.6 | W.S.J. Senior Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern |
| 0:52.0 | tread out the latest devices and tells us which ones are worth. tech columnist But when an internal investigation found a top client was manipulating markets, |
| 1:04.6 | Binance kept the client and fired its lead investigator. |
| 1:08.0 | W.S.J. reporter Angus Barric tells us about the investigation and what it means for the company's future. |
| 1:17.4 | But first, what do AI gadgets look like beyond the smartphone? |
| 1:21.4 | Some companies are betting on a new crop of separate devices that contain an AI assistant, |
| 1:26.0 | kind of like in the movie Herr. |
| 1:28.0 | W.S.J. Senior Personal Tech Call, Miss Joanna Stern, tried out three devices to get a sense of how we might interact with AI in the future. |
| 1:35.8 | There was a humane AI pin which attaches to your clothes like a broach and also has a laser projector |
| 1:41.1 | for a touch screen. There's the Rabbit R1, a square gadget that has a touch screen |
| 1:45.8 | and scroll wheel. And she also tried Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. For all three, the primary way to |
| 1:52.2 | interact with them is to use your voice. |
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