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View More NewsUS tech giant Meta has launched USDC payouts for creators on its platforms in the Philippines and Colombia, with plans to expand to additional markets. Creators who opt into the service will receive payments directly into crypto wallets on the Solana and Polygon blockchains. However, Meta does not offer a built-in conversion option, so an external exchange is required to convert USDC into fiat currency, according to the announcement on Wednesday. The service is currently available only to select creators in Colombia and the Philippines, but Polygon said Wednesday that the stablecoin rollout is expected to expand to more jurisdictions soon.“Live in…
In brief Talkie-1930 is a 13B open-weight LLM trained on 260 billion tokens of text published before January 1, 1931. The hard knowledge cutoff eliminates benchmark contamination by design, making it a uniquely clean tool for AI generalization research. Claude Sonnet 4.6 prompts it live 24/7 at talkie-lm.com/chat. The team plans a GPT-3-level vintage model by summer 2026. Every AI model you’ve ever used was trained on roughly the same stuff: the internet. That shared ancestor shapes everything—what they know, how they talk, what they think is obvious. A research team just decided to build something completely outside that lineage.Talkie-1930…
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Every day that passes without a final conclusion to hostilities in the Persian Gulf multiplies possibilities and deepens a situation already fraught with uncertainty. Each new morning brings news of potential deals or threats to scupper them, new measures and new countermeasures. Nevertheless, matters are not so muddled that they obscure certain economic realities. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, which is denying the world some twenty percent of its seaborne oil and gas supplies from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the other oil-rich states in the region. Energy prices remain high. Furthermore, a renewal of fighting could well bring destruction to…
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The shares of Twenty One Capital (XXI), the bitcoin-focused firm, are up over 8% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after majority shareholder Tether Investments…
Los Angeles, California, April 29, 2026 – RealOpen, the leading platform for buying real estate with crypto, today announced the conclusion of its collaborative…
In brief The Labor Department launched an AI apprenticeship portal on Wednesday. The site offers AI literacy tools and industry-specific training resources. The move…
Governments around the world are adopting new laws and policies aimed at addressing online harms, including laws intended to curb cybercrime and disinformation, and…
The latest holding pattern for the bill to fully insert the crypto sector into the U.S. financial system was centered on Senator Thom Tillis’…
Global payments giant Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement pilot to include Polygon and four other blockchain networks, signaling continued experimentation with crypto-based payment…
In brief Christopher Harborne, who holds a 12% stake in Tether, gave Nigel Farage an undisclosed £5 million personal gift in 2024. The payment…
Crypto-related stocks are tumbling across the board on Wednesday with exchanges taking the biggest hit after Robinhood’s earnings miss and escalating tensions between Iran…
Dogecoin’s latest rebound resembled bounces witnessed in mid-2023, raising the odds of a rally toward $0.33 in the coming weeks. Read the full article…
In brief OpenAI faces a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT played a role in a February mass shooting in British Columbia. Plaintiffs say OpenAI’s safety team…
from the impossible-to-trust-or-verify dept The administration’s anti-migrant tactics are now months into an indefinite period of continuous escalation. That protest efforts have escalated alongside…
Washington, D.C., April 29, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Kuwaiti government’s decision to revoke the citizenship of U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and…