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With the aim of bolstering safety measures for younger audience, Instagram has announced steps that will protect their accounts. Instagram recently announced a significant update on how it is handling teen accounts to make the platform safer for younger users. This will include defaulting teen accounts to be private and adding advanced privacy and messaging…
Microsoft and BlackRock have formed a joint venture with the intention of raising $100 billion in the investment in AI data centers and power. Microsoft and BlackRock announced a seminal partnership that is to pool up to $100 billion in investments into the development of AI data centers and power infrastructure through the Global AI…
Recently, the Biden-Harris Administration gave the computer corporation Intel about $3 billion in financing under the CHIPS and Science Act. Through the CHIPS and Science Act, Intel Corporation received up to $3 billion in support from the Biden-Harris Administration in 2024. The grant supports Intel’s “Secure Enclave” program, focusing on making investments into the production…
With a safety-focused agenda, OpenAI had launched a new, independent board committee as the pressure mounted on AI to be safer. In March 2024, OpenAI revealed an independent board oversight committee dedicated solely to safety and security. The move came as pressure mounted on AI to be safer, with the latest being fears over the…
Bitcoin miners are switching to AI as profits decline even though the Bitcoin network is surging to its all-time-high power levels. The Bitcoin network has reached an all-time high in power in 2024 in terms of hash rate, which means unproportionally large computational powers securing the network. Despite reaching that all-time high in hash rate,…
Ransomware has always plagued the U.S.; the recent attack on Ohio’s municipality this past July has been more severe than the mayor admitted. Currently, in a lawsuit appearing in courts, there is the city of Columbus, Ohio, on one side, and a dark web researcher who says his name is Ross Goodwolf. The city recently…
In the aftermath of the infamous FTX blowout, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, caught herself in the midst of a judiciary storm, fervently hoping to dodge a possible lengthy prison sentence. The legal machinery grinding towards her sentencing on September 24, 2024, makes the unfolding scene around Ellison complex-cooperation and consequence intertwined…
Falling not behind in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race, China wants to challenge the United States, creating their own AI model in the past 18 months. Pressing forward vigorously by September 2024, China’s artificial intelligence capabilities are doggedly rivaling the United States’ in this highly sensitive area of technology. This is not only about technological…
The Coinbase-backed lobby urges ABC to make cryptocurrency one of the central discussion points and to present their stand in the forthcoming presidential debate. Since then, the Coinbase-backed lobby has been pushing ABC to include a discussion on cryptocurrency during the upcoming presidential debate between Trump and Harris. This reflects how increasingly relevant the world…
The US e-commerce giant Amazon Web Service is to invest £8 billion ($10.45 billion) over the next five years in the UK to build AI and cloud infrastructure. Amazon is said to invest £8 billion in the UK to create more extensive cloud computing and AI infrastructure in the UK via AWS. In return, this…
