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Jonathan Laa | nuphoto | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON – Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren warn that President Donald Trump’s private dinner with the owner of his meme coin constitutes corruption that “pay to play” and calls for ethical investigations.Democrat senators from California and Massachusetts respectively wrote to the U.S. Government Ethics Office on Friday to ask for an investigation to determine whether President Trump violated federal ethics regulations by providing exclusive access to top investors on Trump’s coins.The letter relates to a promotion announced on the Meme Coin website on Wednesday, offering the top 220 owners of token dinners with…
On April 22, 2025, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins is taking a look at the White House in Washington, DC, USA. Kevin Lamarck | ReutersWASHINGTON – SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said Friday that innovation in the crypto industry has been “controlled for the past few years,” and that the change is very necessary.”The market itself appears to indicate that current frameworks need caution,” Atkins said in a roundtable held by the SEC’s recently launched Cryptody Task Force.The half-day session at the SEC headquarters in Washington, DC, was a prominent event for Atkins, coming just weeks after the…
The Vatican says that around 250,000 mourners submitted it through St. Peter’s Basilica Island while lying in the state.Tens of thousands of people submitted to St. Peters Basilica to pay final respects to Pope Francis on his final day, when he lay in the state before his funeral. The cathedral has been open for most of Thursday evenings and Friday mornings, closing the door for just three hours overnight. The long lines meander around St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding roads before passing through the basilica’s centre to the central altar. People were slowly moving forward, slowly, to get a…
Vancouver, Canada — When Leslie McFarlane learned that she and her husband were being kicked out of a mobile home park outside Vancouver last year, she said she felt “absolute rage.” Her home was to be demolished as part of a redevelopment of a massive low-rise apartment. The 67-year-old retiree knew how difficult it would be to find a rental property in the infamous, expensive, downstream area. She correctly predicted: her housing hunt turned out to be futile. “We couldn’t afford anything,” MacFarlane told Al Jazeera. Couples’ housing costs have almost tripled, with apartments that are half the space skyrocketing…
When WFP warns that it is warning, it affects more than 400,000 people who rely on unsupplied diets.The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says Gaza food stocks are completely exhausted as Israeli aid lockdown continues for eight weeks. In a statement Friday, WFP confirmed it had confirmed with its local kitchen that it had “delivered the last remaining groceries” in Gaza. More than 400,000 people in Gaza rely on WFP aid, and if this lifeline fails, they have little relied on, and the organization’s Palestinian representative, Antoine Leonard, told Al Jazeera. “we [local NGOs] He said. “We’re exhausted,” he…
According to Nome Brown, the company’s leading research scientist, Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher who works at Open-Ee, who lived in the US for 12 years, was denied a green card. In X’s post, Brown said Chen learned of the decision on Friday and must leave the country immediately. “One of the best AI researchers I’ve worked with is deeply concerned […] I was denied a US green card,” Brown wrote. When we carry such talents, we put American AI leadership at risk. ” Another Openai employee, Dylan Hunn, said in a post that Chen is “important” for GPT-4.5,…
CFOs don’t just manage books anymore. They are making quick, strategic decisions – and AI is helping them make it better. The biggest shift? AI tools take over the tasks repeatedly, giving CFOS real-time insights into how money is being spent and where it is headed. The role is to move from financial manager to business drivers. Despite the benefits, adoption is low, with only 9% of the 900 CFOs actively using AI in 2024, and leaders are aware of handing over key processes to AI, fearing potential disruptions and internal pushbacks. Learn how to get ahead of the curve…
Google began testing the results of its expansion of AI in Google Search, AI Overview two years ago, and continues to expand its capabilities to new regions and languages. The company estimates it was a huge success. The AI overview is used by over 1.5 billion users every month in over 100 countries. AI Overview compiles results around the web to answer specific questions. When searching for something like “What is generative AI?”, AI overview displays the text generated in the AI at the top of the Google search results page. While this feature weakens traffic to some publishers, Google…
The North Korea-related threat actors behind the infectious interviews have set up front companies as a way to distribute malware during the fake employment process. “In this new campaign, Threat Actor Group uses BlockNovas LLC, three front-line companies in the cryptocurrency consulting industry (BlockNovas)[.] com), Angeloper Agency (Angeloper[.]com), and softglide LLC (softglide[.]co) – To spread malware via “employment interview lures”, Silent Push said in Deep Dive Analysis. According to the cybersecurity company, the activity is used to distribute three different known malware families: Beavertail, Invisibleferret and Ottercookies. The Infectious Interview is one of several employment-themed social engineering campaigns North Korea…
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the Sunlight Hotel meeting room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet dozens of youth leaders working on technology safety, policy and innovation. Young adults chatted on a black round table. After passing through various tables in the room, he took the stage to talk about the hopes and harms of this era of technological advancement. “I thank God that you exist, I appreciate that you are here,” he said. He spoke about high-tech platforms that have become more powerful than the government. Although these social media spaces were created based on communities, they…