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Nearly a dozen firms are already paying up to $100,000 per month for early access Trump’s Truth Social posts — fortune.com
More Wall Street customers are signing up for a Trump Media & Technology Group service that allows earlier access to new Truth Social posts, a feature some economists are calling a form of insider trading. Trump Media, founded by President Donald Trump in
Billionaire Michael Saylor says Elon Musk is wrong about AI making money irrelevant: ‘Everybody doesn’t get their own private jet’ — fortune.com
Elon Musk has perhaps been the most bullish on AI’s potential to reshape the world, predicting that work will eventually become optional, goods and services will become abundant, and money could become irrelevant as AI drives toward a “universal high
This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location — 404media.co
The advertising industry is simultaneously everywhere and incredibly difficult to investigate. Ads can power all sorts of surveillance, from the relatively mundane like inferring someone’s age or gender, right up to harvesting their precise location data
Paraguay probe into Hong Kong-born crypto exec’s death triggers ‘wrench attack’ warning — scmp.com
Police in Paraguay have launched an investigation into the death of a Hong Kong-born cryptocurrency fund executive as speculation swirled over the case. Experts on Wednesday also warned of a global rise in violent extortion attempts targeting digital asset
Hong Kong stablecoin selection expands with Standard Chartered-led venture’s launch — scmp.com
A Standard Chartered-led joint venture kicked off institutional use of Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoins on Wednesday, a year after the city put its stablecoin law into effect as part of an effort to become a global hub for digital assets. Retail use of
The Roll Call and 535 deep dive on permitting reform — rollcall.com
Roll Call Editor in Chief Jason Dick and 535 Editor in Chief Brody Mullins discuss the bipartisan legislative efforts on permitting reform with CQ Roll Call Energy and Environment Staff Writer David Jordan for the Roll Call/535 Policy Podcast Series. Show
Fed Deep State Undercuts Kevin Warsh, Who Wins Some Surprise Support — freebeacon.com
The new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is facing his own version of the same problem that the president who appointed him encountered—an entrenched and highly partisan bureaucracy that fiercely resists change while taking itself very
Congress Needs Its Tech Experts Back — liberalcurrents.com
On July 4th, the charter for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) expired. While DOGE had wound down and scattered their alumni throughout the government long before then, the nation is still dealing with the consequences of their arson and
How Hamas Hijacks the Aid Pipeline — spectator.org
On July 31, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest in Britain of Mohammad Yousef Hasna, also known as Orhan Korkmaz and Abu al-Baraa, a Turkey-based aid executive charged with conspiring to support Hamas. Hasna, who is presumed innocent, faces
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