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View More NewsMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI agent development at the firm is progressing more slowly than expected, even as technology and crypto firms continue pouring resources into the nascent technology. In a company meeting on Thursday, Zuckerberg said the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” according to Reuters, which reviewed a recording of the call.The bet on agent adoption hasn’t “come to fruition yet,” Zuckerberg said, adding that executives made an aggressive push into agentic infrastructure in January in part because of fears they weren’t…
In brief Russia’s digital ruble rollout is on track to begin on September 1, as mandated by a law passed last year. The CBDC is launching three years after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law enabling it. While the central bank is hoping for participation from banks and citizens, an independent report suggests there is “not significant public interest.” Major Russian banks and retailers are ready to allow citizens to use the national’s digital ruble by the September 1 deadline, Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said this week, according to a report from state-owned media.“Everything is ready…
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Anticipating the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson recalled: “We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government, they come from God Himself.” In 2018, President Trump likewise declared: “Our rights are not given to us by man; our rights come from our Creator.” And defence secretary Pete Hegseth recently stated: “Today we gather to recognize that our rights here in this great country come from a loving and benevolent God, not government.”But the US Constitution—the repository of those rights—makes no mention of God. Its authority…
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