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When mom and creator Cathy Pedrayes was scrolling TikTok around Christmas, she started to notice a surplus of accounts using AI avatars to promote knockoff products. Since it was the holiday shopping season, she thought little of it — until she stumbled across a video that felt equal parts ridiculous and dangerous. It was a clip...
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American crypto exchange Kraken has announced it is buying futures trading platform NinjaTrader in a deal that would help it achieve its expansion goals and underscores the growing intersection of traditional finance and crypto.In a Thursday announcement, San Francisco-based Kraken valued the acquisition at $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.”This acquisition strengthens our...
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The Texas Senate approved legislation on March 19 that intends to ban consumable hemp products containing any amount of THC or other intoxicating cannabinoids in what would debilitate an $8 billion industry with 50,000 workers.Lawmakers in the upper chamber voted, 24-7, to pass Senate Bill 3, which Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, sponsors. Also, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
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Martine Grael, driver of Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team and Andy Maloney, flight controller, during a practice session ahead of the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas in Dubai, UAE on Friday, November 22, 2024.Courtesy: Ricardo Pinto for SailGP | Handout image supplied by SailGPAs women’s sports surge in popularity, professional leagues are increasingly touting the value of female athletes. New professional leagues like SailGP are launching with the advantage of building from the ground up, with gender diversity as part of their DNA.Noncontact and noncollision sports are leading the way. Formula 1’s F1 Academy has created a pipeline…
QINGDAO, CHINA – JANUARY 08: Customers browse at an electronics shop amid an ongoing nationwide trade-in subsidy program on January 8, 2025 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. Zhang Ying | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China’s latest move to boost consumption isn’t meant to jolt all kinds of spending.Policymakers last week doubled subsidies for a consumer trade-in program to 300 billion yuan ($41.47 billion) this year, matching market expectations — and again steering clear of cash handouts. The subsidies will go toward around 15% to 20% of the purchase price for select products, including mid-range smartphones and home…
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Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babuschkin, insisted that the company was in the right. The truth lies somewhere in between. In a post on xAI’s blog, the company published a graph showing Grok 3’s performance on AIME 2025, a collection of challenging math questions from a recent invitational mathematics exam. Some experts have questioned AIME’s validity…
Thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees have a collateral duty to work on wildland fires as a part of a firefighting militia. Aside from their work monitoring fragile ecosystems and educating people about “Leave No Trace” principles, they are frequently called upon to jump on an engine, go on assignments with the...
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As President Donald Trump continues to test the limits of executive authority by reshaping all manner of U.S. government agencies, one such battle appears poised to rope in the cryptocurrency industry: a brewing war against the Federal Reserve and its publicly stated mission to remain independent.Since the early 1950s, the Fed has enjoyed final say...
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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers sent cease-and-desist letters to 104 retail locations and franchised stores in Omaha on March 20 in connection with his office’s enforcement efforts to crack down on products containing THC.The state’s chief legal officer asked the stores to immediately stop selling any products containing noncompliant amounts of THC or face litigation.The...
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