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Opinion | India Has A Rare Opportunity In Trump Tariffs
US policymakers and businesses recognise that they need a partnership with India's 1.4 billion people as well as with its tech-human capital to take on the China challenge.
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Solana Policy Institute Launched in Washington DC; Kristin Smith Named President
Founded by Miller Whitehouse-Levine, the Solana Policy Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit Web3 advocacy group based in Washington, DC. In the coming months, it will host educational sessions for US policymakers, featuring key leaders from the Solana ecosystem to provide in-depth insights into blockchain and crypto use cases.
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Luigi Mangione Case Exposes Dangers Of 3D Printed Firearms
These firearms, made partially or entirely with commercially available 3D printers, are increasingly appearing in criminal activity, posing significant challenges for law enforcement and policymakers worldwide.
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US Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate By 0.25%, Sending Stocks Tumbling
Policymakers voted 11-to-1 to lower the central bank's key lending rate to between 4.25 percent and 4.50 percent as expected, the Fed announced in a statement.
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PayPal USD Expected to Do Better Than Facebook's Libra in Stablecoin Market
PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...
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Coinbase Chief Brian Armstrong to Meet US Lawmakers to Discuss Crypto Future
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is gearing up to discuss the roadmap to a fruitful future for the crypto industry with the policymakers of the US. Armstrong, in his meeting, is expected to address topics like crypto taxes, concerns around privacy and data collection, as well as the current industrial climate around crypto in the US.
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European Union, US Working Towards Common Code of Conduct for AI Amid Growing Privacy, Civil Liberties Concerns
The EU and US said Wednesday that they would soon release a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, hoping to develop common standards among democracies as China makes rapid gains. Both political and technology industry leaders have been warning of the growing risks as AI takes off, with potentially wide-ranging effects on privacy and...
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OpenAI Exploring 'Democratic Decision-Making' to Gather Wikipedia-Like Broad Input on Its AI
At AI Forward, an event in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group and SV Angel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman discussed the broad contours of how the maker of the wildly popular chatbot is seeking regulation of AI globally.
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TikTok Usage Banned on Irish Government Devices Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
Irish government has been recommended to not use TikTok on official devices. A number of Western countries including Britain, the US and other European Union member states have barred TikTok over security concerns. The EU's two biggest policymaking institutions also banned the app last month.
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AI Must Be Regulated to Avoid Hurting Growth, National Security Risks, US Chamber of Commerce Says
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, should be regulated to avoid hurting growth or becoming a national security risk, the US Chamber of Commerce said on Thursday. In a departure from the lobbying group's usual stance against regulation, the US Chamber of Commerce has called for the development of flexible, industry-specific guidance and best practices ...
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'Hulk' Star Mark Ruffalo Joins "Tax The Rich More" Call
US actor Mark Ruffalo on Tuesday joined a call by over 150 wealthy people for governments to tax them more, as global elites and policymakers met at the World Economic Forum in Swiss resort Davos.
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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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Facebook Cannot Be Trusted to Manage Cryptocurrency, US Lawmakers Say
A group of US lawmakers said Facebook cannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency and urged the social media platform to discontinue immediately a small pilot of its cryptocurrency wallet named Novi, which was launched on Tuesday.
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Bitcoin Backers Not Satisfied With SEC’s Openness Towards an Exchange-Traded Fund
US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Gary Gensler gave what may be the strongest sign of support yet from the agency for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Crypto fans, though, are not exactly thrilled. At the centre of the issue is what an approved fund would track.
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Social Media Is Broken: MIT Report Suggests Solutions to Fix It
Vast powers concentrated in the hands of a few corporations, the spread of fake information and news, threats to privacy, election process and democracy were some of the key issues researchers, policymakers, and users in the US underscored about the social media ecosystem recently. Check out details here.
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Opinion | India Has A Rare Opportunity In Trump Tariffs
US policymakers and businesses recognise that they need a partnership with India's 1.4 billion people as well as with its tech-human capital to take on the China challenge.
-
Solana Policy Institute Launched in Washington DC; Kristin Smith Named President
Founded by Miller Whitehouse-Levine, the Solana Policy Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit Web3 advocacy group based in Washington, DC. In the coming months, it will host educational sessions for US policymakers, featuring key leaders from the Solana ecosystem to provide in-depth insights into blockchain and crypto use cases.
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Luigi Mangione Case Exposes Dangers Of 3D Printed Firearms
These firearms, made partially or entirely with commercially available 3D printers, are increasingly appearing in criminal activity, posing significant challenges for law enforcement and policymakers worldwide.
-
US Fed Cuts Key Interest Rate By 0.25%, Sending Stocks Tumbling
Policymakers voted 11-to-1 to lower the central bank's key lending rate to between 4.25 percent and 4.50 percent as expected, the Fed announced in a statement.
-
PayPal USD Expected to Do Better Than Facebook's Libra in Stablecoin Market
PayPal's stablecoin is likely to succeed where Facebook's failed, thanks to the payment giant's standing in Washington and policymakers' greater understanding of the issues in the last three years. PayPal this month said it was launching PayPal USD, a crypto token pegged to the US dollar, making it the second major global company to launch a stable...
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Coinbase Chief Brian Armstrong to Meet US Lawmakers to Discuss Crypto Future
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is gearing up to discuss the roadmap to a fruitful future for the crypto industry with the policymakers of the US. Armstrong, in his meeting, is expected to address topics like crypto taxes, concerns around privacy and data collection, as well as the current industrial climate around crypto in the US.
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European Union, US Working Towards Common Code of Conduct for AI Amid Growing Privacy, Civil Liberties Concerns
The EU and US said Wednesday that they would soon release a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, hoping to develop common standards among democracies as China makes rapid gains. Both political and technology industry leaders have been warning of the growing risks as AI takes off, with potentially wide-ranging effects on privacy and...
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OpenAI Exploring 'Democratic Decision-Making' to Gather Wikipedia-Like Broad Input on Its AI
At AI Forward, an event in San Francisco hosted by Goldman Sachs Group and SV Angel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman discussed the broad contours of how the maker of the wildly popular chatbot is seeking regulation of AI globally.
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TikTok Usage Banned on Irish Government Devices Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
Irish government has been recommended to not use TikTok on official devices. A number of Western countries including Britain, the US and other European Union member states have barred TikTok over security concerns. The EU's two biggest policymaking institutions also banned the app last month.
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AI Must Be Regulated to Avoid Hurting Growth, National Security Risks, US Chamber of Commerce Says
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, should be regulated to avoid hurting growth or becoming a national security risk, the US Chamber of Commerce said on Thursday. In a departure from the lobbying group's usual stance against regulation, the US Chamber of Commerce has called for the development of flexible, industry-specific guidance and best practices ...
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'Hulk' Star Mark Ruffalo Joins "Tax The Rich More" Call
US actor Mark Ruffalo on Tuesday joined a call by over 150 wealthy people for governments to tax them more, as global elites and policymakers met at the World Economic Forum in Swiss resort Davos.
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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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Facebook Cannot Be Trusted to Manage Cryptocurrency, US Lawmakers Say
A group of US lawmakers said Facebook cannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency and urged the social media platform to discontinue immediately a small pilot of its cryptocurrency wallet named Novi, which was launched on Tuesday.
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Bitcoin Backers Not Satisfied With SEC’s Openness Towards an Exchange-Traded Fund
US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Gary Gensler gave what may be the strongest sign of support yet from the agency for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Crypto fans, though, are not exactly thrilled. At the centre of the issue is what an approved fund would track.
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Social Media Is Broken: MIT Report Suggests Solutions to Fix It
Vast powers concentrated in the hands of a few corporations, the spread of fake information and news, threats to privacy, election process and democracy were some of the key issues researchers, policymakers, and users in the US underscored about the social media ecosystem recently. Check out details here.
