Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country’s first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year’s election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump. The bill sets up a regulatory regime for so-called stablecoins, a kind of …
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CNN — OpenAI on Thursday announced a new feature for ChatGPT that allows the popular chatbot to execute actions on a user’s behalf. It’s part of an industry-wide push to change the way people get things done on the Internet: Tech giants hope that instead of bouncing between apps and manually searching the web, users might be able to one …
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Today, surrounded by families who have lost loved ones to the scourge of fentanyl, President Donald J. Trump officially signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law — permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act. As President Trump said, the legislation is “delivering another defeat for the savage drug smugglers and criminals and the …
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Key Takeaways President Donald Trump said he expects the GENIUS Act to clear a key procedural hurdle Wednesday after the stablecoin bill ran into resistance a day earlier. The price of Bitcoin climbed above $119,000, and shares of crypto companies like Circle and Coinbase improved in recent trading. Trump said on Truth Social he convinced Republicans who voted with Democrats …
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Congress has taken the first tangible step toward cleaning up the college-sports mess that the college should be expected to clean up themselves. Via Tom Schad of USA Today, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade voted to advance the so-called SCORE Act with a party-line vote, 12-11. The bill, which now goes to the House Committee on Energy and …
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