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#bbc.com. Coinbase boss claims SEC will drop crypto lawsuit. The SEC's 2023 lawsuit formed part of a crackdown on crypto firms which President Trump pledged to reverse.

#techcrunch.com. AI wearables 1.0: Was Humane’s Ai Pin too ambitious?. It's he end of Humane's AI pin. Equity is digging into HP's acquisition and other headlines from the week, including the loss of Duolingo’s mascot, the latest in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe, Uber vs. Doo

#huffpost.com. I Suspected My Husband Was Getting Conned. Then I Did A Google Search That Left Us Stunned.. "Brian didn’t want to assume the worst. I remained unconvinced and kept digging through the digital trail. Then, buried on the 10th page of Google, I found it."

#wired.com. DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government. The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.

#wired.com. The Lunar Economy Is Coming. The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon supply chain.

#wired.com. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings. Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.

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#wired.com. The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. This week, the “Uncanny Valley” hosts discuss the lawsuits, bidding wars, and power plays over OpenAI.

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#wired.com. DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards. The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.

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#wired.com. USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’. “I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” wrote Anne Marshall in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.

#economist.com. Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals. Why the American government could turn against consultants

#wired.com. This USAID Program Made Food Aid More Efficient for Decades. DOGE Gutted It Anyways. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump administration.

#techcrunch.com. ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading | TechCrunch. ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading.

#theguardian.com. Nigeria sues crypto giant Binance for $81.5bn in economic losses and back tax. Authorities blame crypto exchange, already facing four counts of tax evasion in the country, for currency woes

#wired.com. Before Going to Tokyo, I Tried Learning Japanese With ChatGPT. WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language tutor for travelers.

#techcrunch.com. Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever's AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B | TechCrunch. Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation.

#wired.com. Mira Murati Is Ready to Tell the World What She’s Working On. The former OpenAI CTO has launched Thinking Machines Lab to make AI more accessible.

#theguardian.com. ‘No micro transactions, no bullshit’: Josef Fares on Split Fiction and the joy of co-op video games. Fares is a refreshingly unpredictable voice, starting as a film director before moving into games; now, he says, working on a movie would be ‘a vacation’

#wired.com. Chokepoint 2.0: An Investigation Promises the Truth About Crypto's Biggest Conspiracy. Did bureaucrats in the US plot to cut the crypto industry out of the banking system? An investigation begins.