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View More NewsDespite Bitcoin failing to hold above $80,000 following the recent rally, the cryptocurrency is unlikely to revisit the lower price levels it has hovered near for much of this year, according to CoinMarketCap Head of Research Alice Liu.“I think we might have already touched the bottom,” Liu tells Cointelegraph on Trade Secrets, referring to Bitcoin falling to around $59,000 in June this year, approximately 53% below its October all-time high of $126,100. Bitcoin recently tapped $81,600 at the start of September, an approximate 28% rally since mid-August. It pushed the CoinMarketCap Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which measures overall sentiment in…
Crypto’s moment of CLARITY arrivesThe CLARITY act heads for a crucial Senate vote on September 15, with Politico reporting that Democrat senators were called to a meeting on Sunday by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss their position. While Polymarket puts the odds of CLARITY becoming law this year at just 24%, the odds of there being 60 votes in favor of the cloture vote on Tuesday are higher, as it would simply move the bill into the amendment and debate phase. That’s where the rubber would hit the road on issues that have drained support so far including ethics…
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It was nearly ten years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory—hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction. And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who…
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“Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune. Read the full…
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems…
The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing. Read the full article here
In brief BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo gave Reform UK £36 million on Friday, the largest single donation in British political history. Tether investor Christopher…
When President Donald Trump announced a takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last year, he claimed to be fighting…
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, the firm said Saturday, but…
Did you see the news? Everybody is freaking out about artificial intelligence, which poses a significant likelihood of killing everyone on the planet once…
the 9/11 attack. (NA) Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. I have written about my memories of that event and reflections…
Adam Abdullah came to the United States as an asylum seeker and was legally working in the country when he was arrested by federal…
The post Remember: The "S" in "Artificial Intelligence" Stands for "Safety" appeared first on Reason Magazine. Read the full article here
A majority of Democratic voters in Providence, Rhode Island, signaled support for aggressive rent regulation by voting for state Rep. David Morales over incumbent…
From his post last week: I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised…