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The State Of Michigan Has Bought Bitcoin In Its Pension Fund
Yet another regional government has disclosed an allocation to the newly launched Bitcoin ETFs, forging another step in Bitcoin’s growing adoption among not only institutions but also governments.
In a Form-13F filed on Friday, the State of Michigan Retirement System revealed that it had $6.6 million allocated to Bitcoin ETF products as of June 30.
Michigan Buys Bitcoin
According to the filing, the pension fund made its first Bitcoin investment through the Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF – the fourth l
US Senator Elizabeth Warren Criticizes Foreign Crypto Miners, Says They Threaten National Security
Well-known cryptocurrency critic and United States Senator Elizabeth Warren is waging war on digital asset miners, especially foreign-owned facilities, for their supposed risks to environmental and national security.
During a recent Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing, Warren questioned the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for investment security, the Honorable Paul Rosen, about the threat such entities pose on U.S. soil.
A Threat on U.S. Soil
Warren said Chi
Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing
<div>DC went to YC to talk OS.</div>
People are overdosing on off-brand weight-loss drugs, FDA warns
Enlarge / Wegovy is an injectable prescription weight-loss medicine that has helped people with obesity. (credit: Getty | Michael Siluk)
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved two injectable versions of the blockbuster weight-loss and diabetes drug, semaglutide (Wegovy and Ozempic). Both come in pre-filled pens with pre-set doses, clear instructions, and information about overdoses. But, given the drugs' daunting prices and supply shortages, many patients are turni
Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy
<div><p>Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a merchant of record, Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In a […]</p>
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Jersey City Pension Fund to Invest in Bitcoin ETFs
Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, has announced that the city’s pension fund will allocate a portion of its investments into Bitcoin ETFs.
Fulop also expressed his long-standing belief in cryptocurrency, although he had not publicly mentioned Bitcoin or other assets before July 25.
Jersey City Updates Paperwork with SEC
In a July 25 post on X, Mayor Fulop announced that they are updating paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow Bitcoin
Epic Games pulls out of ‘rent collector’ distribution and will restore Fortnite to iOS in Europe
Epic unveiled its new game strategy for mobile game stores in a move that was driven by new regulation in Europe and ongoing platform wars.Read More
What happens when you’re mean to AI
<div><p>When you make mean remarks to an LLM, it is not the AI that gets hurt—it's you.</p>
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Apple reports iCloud Private Relay global outages for some users
<div><p>iCloud Private Relay has not been working for some Apple users across major markets, including the U.S., Europe, India and Japan.</p>
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How Salesforce’s MINT-1T dataset could disrupt the AI industry
Salesforce's MINT-1T, a trillion-token dataset, revolutionizes AI research by democratizing access and raising crucial ethical questions about the future of machine learning.Read More
Union game performers strike over AI voice and motion-capture training
Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a video game will not be a trope. Today is not that day.
SAG-AFTRA has called for a strike of all its members working in video games, with the union demanding that its next contract not allow "companies to abuse AI to the detriment of our members."
The strike mirrors similar actions taken by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) last year, which, while also broader in scope than ju
Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
<div>Measles, bedbugs, and dengue have all been cited as concerns for tourists and athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, with the tropical virus in particular forcing authorities into action.</div>
AI and ML enter motorsports: How GM is using them to win more races
Enlarge / The Cadillac V-Series.R is one of General Motors' factory-backed racing programs. (credit: James Moy Photography/Getty Images)
It is hard to escape the feeling that a few too many businesses are jumping on the AI hype train because it's hype-y, rather than because AI offers an underlying benefit to their operation. So I will admit to a little inherent skepticism, and perhaps a touch of morbid curiosity, when General Motors got in touch wanting to show off some of t
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Drew Afualo Will Never Stop Making Fun of Misogynist Men
<div>The TikTok influencer and podcast host amassed millions of followers for her roasts—and swears she’ll keep doing it even if TikTok goes away.</div>
Legal tech, VC brawls and saying no to big offers
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Ethereum Foundation Wallet Transfers Over $290 Million in ETH After 7 Years
A wallet associated with the Ethereum Foundation has transferred 92,500 ETH, worth $294.9 million, after being inactive for nearly 6.6 years.
According to Lookonchain, these tokens have been held at the same address since 2017.
The Transfer Details
On-chain data indicates that the ETH was originally received from the Ethereum Foundation on September 1, 2015. The transfer, recorded on July 25, occurred just minutes after a smaller transaction of 1 ETH from the same wallet.
Before the transaction,
ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino)
Internet service providers are eager to get money from a $42.45 billion government fund, but are trying to convince the Biden administration to drop demands that Internet service providers offer broadband service for as little as $30 a month to people with low incomes.
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program was created by a US law that requires Internet providers receiving federal funds to offer at least one
X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI)
Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users' data, and that's opt-out, not opt-in. If you're an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven't explicitly told it not to.
Over the past day or so, users of the platform noticed the checkbox to opt out of this data usage in X's privacy settings. The discovery w
Astronomers find first emission spectra in brightest GRB of all time
Enlarge / A jet of particles moving at nearly light-speed emerges from a massive star in this artist’s concept of the BOAT. (credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)
Scientists have been all aflutter since several space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) in October 2022—a burst so energetic that astronomers nicknamed it the BOAT (Brightest Of All Time). Now an international team of astronomers has analyzed an unusual energy peak