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The World Liberty Financial website was adapted on a smartphone in New York, USA on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Senate passed the Genius Act on Tuesday. This is a groundbreaking bill that will establish the first federal guardrail of the silly stubcoins awarded by the US dollar, creating a regulated pathway for private companies to issue digital dollars with federal blessings.The bill was passed by 68-30 votes.It’s a milestone day for the crypto industry. It invested around $250 million in the 2024 cycle, and has now been elected what is considered the most…
TALHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – On the 105th day of the 60-day legislative meeting, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that would allow charter schools to “co-host” within traditional public schools. This is the latest move by Republican-controlled Congress. Conservative Education Policy.The measures to expand what is known as the “School of Hope” faced a fierce pushback from Democrats and public school advocates, and the proposal seemed to die in what appears to be the last day of a regularly scheduled session in May. But as budget speeches extended into the summer, lawmakers revived the measure, slipping it into the budget package,…
Openai said Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has granted contracts of up to $200 million to help identify and build prototype systems that use frontier models for management tasks and more. Openai offers several examples of possible tasks, such as helping service members get health care, streamlining data for various programs, and “supporting aggressive cyber defense.” The company also said, “All use cases must match Openai’s usage policy and guidelines.” The DoD announcement used simpler language. “Under this award, performers will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address key national security challenges in both the combat and enterprise…
Tesla vehicles featured four top spots in the 2025 American-made Index (AMI). This is an annual list calculated by CARS.COM, which ranks eligible vehicles built and purchased in the United States. Tesla’s domination at AMI is nothing new. The US automaker, which assembles four lightweight passenger cars in Texas and California, has landed in the top ten since starting to participate in the annual rankings five years ago. This year, the Model 3 was ranked as the most “made in America” vehicle sold in the United States. But this is what may surprise consumers – and even those who follow…
AI companies are fighting to dominate the industry, but sometimes they are also fighting at Pokemon gyms. As both Google and humanity are studying how modern AI models navigate early Pokemon games, the results can be just as interesting as enlightening. This time, Google Deepmind writes in a report that the Gemini 2.5 Pro relies on panic when Pokémon is nearing death. This means that AI performance, according to the report, may experience “qualitatively observable degradation in the model’s inference ability.” AI benchmarks – or the process of comparing the performance of different AI models – are suspicious art that…
June 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cyberspy Google Chrome’s now patched security flaw was utilized as a zero day by a threat actor known as Taxoff by deploying Backdoor CodeNead Trinper. The attacks observed by positive technology in mid-March 2025 included the use of a sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-2783 (CVSS score: 8.3). Google addressed the flaws later that month after Kaspersky reported wild exploitation in a campaign called ForumTroll’s operations targeting various Russian organizations. “The first attack vector was a phishing email with malicious links,” said security researchers Stanislav Pizov and Vladislav Lunin. “When the victim clicked on the link, it…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the company, spoke with the New York Economics Club in Manhattan, New York City on April 23, 2024.Mike Seger | Reutersjpmorgan chain It takes it a step further into the cryptocurrency space with its own Stablecoin-like token called JPMD.The US banking giant told CNBC on Tuesday that it plans to release a so-called deposit token. Coinbase Public blockchain based. Ethereum network. Each deposit token is intended to serve as a digital representation of commercial bank deposits.JPMD provides clients with 24-hour payments and the ability to pay interest to holders. It…
RAMP, which provides a financial management platform for corporate clients, has raised its valuation to $16 billion with a new funding led by longtime investor founder fund Peter Thiel. The $200 million round is fifth in the founder’s lead on the ramp and increased its valuation to $3 billion. Finally, we raised funds in March at a $13 billion valuation.Founded in 2019, RAMP offers services covering corporate cards, procurement, bookkeeping, travel bookings and vendor management, processing hundreds of billions of dollars in purchases each year for 40,000 companies. Lamp ranked 6th on the 2025 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.The client list…
June 17, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability / LLM Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now patched security flaw that can be used to capture sensitive data such as API keys and user prompts on Langchain’s Langsmith platform. The vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 is Agent Smith, codenamed by Noma Security. Langsmith is an observability and assessment platform that allows users to develop, test and monitor large-scale language model (LLM) applications, including those built using Langchain. The service also offers what is called Langchain Hub. It acts as a repository for all published prompts, agents,…
Detroit (AP) – Lawyer for accused Chinese scientist Conspiring to nurse toxic fungi The University of Michigan is already in talks to try to settle the lawsuit, according to court documents filed Tuesday.”The parties are currently engaged in judicial negotiations and are requesting this additional time so that they can continue to engage in judicial negotiations,” the prosecutor and defense attorney said in a joint filing.Yunkan Jiang, 33, was a researcher at the University of Michigan when he was arrested June 3rd. She attempted to work with a pathogen known as Fusarium graminearum, another Chinese scientist, that can attack wheat,…