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The CEO of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been fined $4 billion and pleaded guilty for failing to prevent money laundering.

The U.S. government has made a significant impact on Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange globally. On Tuesday, the founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao admitted his guilt to a felony charge for not stopping money laundering on the platform and agreed to pay a $4 billion settlement. Zhao resigned from his position as the CEO of

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Musk’s company, X, files a lawsuit against liberal advocacy organization Media Matters for their report on advertisements appearing next to posts from hate groups.

X Corp, a social media company owned by Elon Musk, has taken legal action against Media Matters for America, a liberal advocacy group. The lawsuit claims that Media Matters fabricated a report in order to associate X Corp’s advertisements with content from neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups, with the intention of causing advertisers to boycott

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The new CEO of OpenAI has announced that he will be initiating an investigation into the termination of Sam Altman’s employment.

The recently appointed leader of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced on Monday that he plans to initiate an inquiry into the termination of co-founder Sam Altman and strive to improve the company’s leadership structure after a major reorganization that surprised the AI community. After a weekend filled with excitement and uncertainty, there have been

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The number of incidents of online abuse against politically engaged women in Afghanistan has tripled since the Taliban regained control, according to a report by a human rights organization.

A report released on Monday by a U.K.-based rights group revealed that there has been a significant rise in online harassment and hateful language directed towards politically engaged women in Afghanistan since the Taliban gained control of the country in August 2021. According to Afghan Witness, a project operated by the nonprofit organization Center for

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DeSantis is refusing to criticize Musk for supporting a post promoting antisemitism. He claims to not have seen the comment.

Ron DeSantis, a Republican running for president, declined to denounce a post by Elon Musk that endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Despite the post causing numerous companies to remove their ads from Musk’s X social media platform, DeSantis claimed he was not aware of the post. “I missed the comment,” Florida’s governor DeSantis stated on

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