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Biz Breakdown: Bitcoin Hits 18-Month Low, Google Might Have A Sentient AI, Amazon Starts Drone Deliveries

take a look at some of the other business headlines we're watching for you this morning. Bitcoin suffered its largest price drop in years that as investors dumped crypto amid the broader selloff in riskier assets, the world's most dominant Cryptocurrency trading near 27,000. You see it right there that after dropping below the $23,000 mark just a day ago, Bitcoin down over 22% in the last seven days, marking its lowest level since december 2020. Meanwhile, the crypto lending platform Celsius paused, withdraws for its customers, sparking fears of contagion in the broader crypto market. The overall Cryptocurrency market cap is now below a trillion dollars for the first time since early 2021 with big losses in tokens including Selena and coin. Meanwhile, a wild story here a google engineer is now on paid leave that for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies. After claiming that the company's ai chat bot had become sentient. The tech giant placed blake limone on leave that after he published transcripts of conversations between himself and the company's Ai chat interface called lambda. Now Lemon describes the chat box system as sentient with the ability to express thoughts and feelings that are equivalent to a human child. The engineer told the Washington post quote if I didn't know exactly what it was, I think it was a seven year old, eight year old kid that happens to know Physics Lemon says, lambda is advocating for its rights as a person and wants to be acknowledged as an employee of google rather than the property of google. Now, Google is disputing this claim. Finally, Amazon Prime customers in lock for California will start receiving package deliveries by drone later this year. The community of 3500 will be among the first US locations to receive free drone deliveries all within 30 minutes. A spokesperson from Amazon says that they're contacting residents to ask them to opt into these drone deliveries. Now, once a customer enrolls an amazon employee will then visit to ensure that their yard has enough clear space to accept those drone deliveries. Drone delivery will be free for Prime members and only Prime members can use the service. The commerce giant says that there'll be thousands of items for you to get on drone delivery.