11-10-2024 
Steve Kaaru
Author
Article by Steve Kaaru
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16 June, 2024
Project Leonidas update: Italian banks complete wholesale CBDC trial
The Italian Banking Association trialed a wholesale CBDC issuance within a DLT environment, with atomicity, transparency and traceability as the...
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15 June, 2024
Intel, African Development Bank to train millions in AI
Intel has joined hands with the AfDB to train three million Africans and 30,000 government officials in AI, as the...
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15 June, 2024
Russia to start using CBDC for international payments in 2025
Influential legislator Anatoly Aksakov says CBDC payments will be the norm in the next five years, and Russia will be...
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14 June, 2024
Switzerland extends neutrality to AI regulations
Switzerland has been a neutral haven for hundreds of years, and with AI, it chooses to retain this approach, allowing...
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13 June, 2024
nChain’s Luka Topolovec on ComplexCon Hong Kong app: We took the focus off blockchain and into the user experience
Luka Topolovec led the development of the ComplexCon Hong Kong event app, which builds on the underlying blockchain technology that...
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13 June, 2024
Nigeria remains global leader in ‘Bitcoin’ Google searches amid government crackdown
With a score of 100, Nigeria retained its spot at the top of ‘Bitcoin’ Google searches despite a crackdown that...
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12 June, 2024
European privacy group files complaints against Meta’s AI data scraping
Meta changed Facebook’s privacy policy to allow it to collect any public and non-public data to train its AI, which...
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12 June, 2024
nChain’s Christine Leong: We want to enable the future of experience with Web3
Christine Leong and the nChain team were at ComplexCon Hong Kong as the official tech partner, providing the event’s blockchain...
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11 June, 2024
OpenAI insiders accuse the company of prioritizing profits over safety
In an open letter this week, 13 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees revealed concerns about the artificial intelligence arms race...
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11 June, 2024
Zimbabwe cracks down on black market forex trade to prop up ZiG currency
Since the revived crackdown began, bankers say forex volumes on official channels have increased, but some merchants still refuse to...
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11 June, 2024
Thailand approves first spot BTC ETF
Thailand joins Hong Kong and the United States in approving BTC ETFs this year, with the Thai SEC giving the...
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10 June, 2024
Google searches for ‘onchain’ hit new record
In May, Google searches for "onchain" surged fivefold, with China and Singapore leading the searches as blockchain adoption beyond digital...
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