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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has previously warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the next financial crisis. Gensler once again elaborated on this topic during a virtual fireside chat hosted by the non-profit advocacy organization Public Citizen on Jan. 17.  

By Amina Niasse

Despite a slide in the Bitcoin (BTC) price to fresh 2024 lows under $41,500 in recent trade, crypto degens hunting fast gains continue to drive explosive action in low-cap markets, with CBDC, TEST and TRUMP the biggest crypto gainers today on Uniswap.

BlackRock’s new spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT has attracted considerable interest from both retail and institutional investors since launching last week. The fund has already amassed over 25,000 BTC, representing more than $1 billion in holdings at current prices.

United States Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced a new bill to combat illicit finance across the crypto sector on Wednesday.

By Richard Cowan and Makini Brice

By Manya Saini, Niket Nishant and Lananh Nguyen

SitusAMC managing director Tim Rood analyzes the housing market after the interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage increased on Cavuto: Coast to Coast.

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) China announced plans to embark on a countrywide tour to exhibit its leading Cybertruck pickup, as revealed on WeChat, China's social media messaging platform.

By Caroline Valetkevitch

It is an unprecedented move that is likely to open the flood gates for infusion of fresh funds by foreigners into India’s stock market. One of India’s leading asset management companies (AMCs)—HDFC AMC has secured approval to start six feeder funds in GIFT City (IFSC) that will in turn invest in its domestic mutual fund (MF) schemes. The feeder funds will be structured as Category III AIFs, or alternative investment funds.

The U.S. hit a United Arab Emirates shipping firm and its 18 vessels with sanctions after it transported Russian crude oil above the $60 per barrel price cap

President Joe Biden says that U.S. military strikes against Iranian-back Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue, but he acknowledges that the American and British bombardment has yet to stop shipping attacks by the militants on vessels in the Red Sea

A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes

Federal officials have briefed a congressional committee on their investigations into a jetliner that lost a panel of its fuselage in midflight this month and revealed that airlines have inspected 40 identical Boeing planes

Apple says it will disable a blood-oxygen monitoring feature on its two most popular watches in the U.S. beginning Thursday to comply with a court-ordered revival of a sales ban stemming from a patent dispute

Lawmakers in the United States and the United Kingdom are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission not to allow JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange

France has announced more deliveries of its Caesar artillery system to Ukraine and is accelerating weapons production to avoid depleting its own military stocks while continuing to support the war effort against Russia’s invasion

Emma Raducanu demonstrated incredible resilience in her Grand Slam comeback at the Australian Open, refusing to quit despite facing physical challenges. In a hard-fought second-round match, the 21-year-old British player battled against China's Wang Yafan, ultimately losing 6-4 4-6 6-4, even while dealing with discomfort that included «throwing up» during the match. This match marked Raducanu's fourth appearance following wrist and ankle surgeries that sidelined her for eight months. Despite the adversity, she emphasized her newfound toughness, stating, «Everything I went through last year has made me so much tougher.» Raducanu made it clear that pulling out was not an option, declaring, «There was no way I was going to pull out. She was going to have to beat me — and she did.»

content without permission? Or misattributing content to someone else and deflecting blame in the process? It is possible that both could result in equally disastrous consequences. In a recent lawsuit, The New York Times accused Microsoft-owned ChatGPT of creating large-language-model (LLM) products out of copyrighted material derived from, and competing with, its authentic journalism, while also attributing incorrect and false information to the publication. The legal case involves violating copyright protection, and exploiting commercial value that is enabled by such protections. An investigation revealed that of all the training datasets used in GPT-3, the most highly weighted dataset — 'common crawl', operated by an 'eponymous 501©(3) organisation run by wealthy venture capital investors' — had www.nytimes.com as the most highly represented proprietary source. No matter how the courts in the US eventually rule in the case, there are two fundamental questions that need to be considered here:

SAEL Ltd, which converts agricultural waste into energy, is close to finalising a fundraise of $1 billion (about ₹8,300 crore) from US and European investors, said people aware of the matter. US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Norfund, which is owned by the Norway government, are likely to participate in the fundraising along with some domestic investors who could collectively pump in funds in a combination of equity and debt in the company, according to the people. The fundraising is likely to include an equity component of $150 million and the remaining $850 million could be raised by way of loans or debt securities issued to investors, they said. DFC recently committed around $500 million of financing to Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone's port terminal project in Sri Lanka. Norfund is an existing investor in SAEL. ET's queries to SAEL, DFC and Norfund did not elicit a response till press time. Delhi-based SAEL, promoted by Jasbir Awla, has established waste-to-energy conversion projects in Haryana, UP, Rajasthan and Punjab and also operates solar power plants. Awla's other business interests include warehousing and agro-processing.