#airdrop #cent Still waiting for the Claim Button... I want to believe! But the fact they closed the Chat on their Discord isn't very convincing... Oh, well... The token is already being traded on CEXes right now. #crypto
$ASRR's #airdrop made me the most active on Twitter (formerly X) I've been in months!!! #crypto So, that's a thing, I guess... Ah~ I guess I really should just sleep and see if anything change by the time I wake up... #cent #bbh
This is my favorite scene starring Seign in the entire story. He tells his father about what he discovered of the Empire's injustices. His father tells him, as the head of the family, he can't condone his treason of the Empire. Yet, he still asks him why he did it? Seign's answer is following his brother's footsteps of doing what's right.
Creating meaningful content on X can earn you quite a lot if active and consistent. The new meta: Kaito, Cookie.fun, GetRep... this new attention farming. It's new but pretty interesting.
Task, based on your chats with @khaleelkazi , is it envisioned that $LEO on ARB will be used to curate posts on INLEO, or will there be more of a division, with LEO on Hive being used to curate, and LEO on ARB to stake on LeoDex?
I still think it would be interesting to see Inleo & LeoDEX being more tied together, like a seamless integration, you know, like a box with a live price feeds here on Inleo, click that and, poof! you are on LeoDEX
Question
Do you think the deflationary nature of LEO will be sustainable for a lifetime as the number of users accelerates? I hope I asked that correctly.
Until CEXs adds more to their methodology and action potentials DEXs will keep having winning, it might not be seen much more now but later on evidence will win d race .
Yeah, pop-ups on any trading platform are just the worst thing... I remember on some CEXs getting trading competition pop-up ads in the middle of making a damn trade! 🤯
AI is old timer neural network that is now on steriods, AI is the new meta and it has solved many problems that has yet to be solved. You cannot live without it, it is integrated into many technologies already.
Agreed to Leo AI better not being available, if not fed with timely and correct information. Anyone relying on faulty or biased AI is going to live in world of hurt.
Just today I read that they identified two wallets worth tens of millions tied to that LIBRA scam (Milei). By US court order, Circle(USDC) forced Solana to freeze the assets. This could raise some debate...
Do we have numbers about which rewards $LEO holders could expect as soon as the payments for holders go live? (Based on actuel numbers, not on hopium )
So basically is khal gonna regulate the way the coin is been distributed among users and also the way it's been sold so as help give more value to Leo token or is there a better way?
Yes, I know that nothing is changing on our use of INLEO, and the new tokenomics are awesome.
It's just that in this space the tech is changing at the speed of light, and I could imagine INLEO being organically "plugged into" the Arbitrum chain, or a functional bridge with INLEO on Hive. Just my 2 $LEO 😅
Social Media on a blockchain just like certain messenger apps simply were too late to the game. The herd, the masses or numbers were already settled in comfy web2 couches and as long as no „herd heads“ or „multipliers“ are pulling these lazy (m)asses out of their comfy couches we‘ll keep being perceived as an exhausting, complicated niche outside their comfy zones. That’s what i get back when talking to people. A lot of them are even still convinced the whole blockchain/crypto thing is a giant scam.
The drive force behind the value data proposition of AI won't end unless humans aren't existing. This is so because we are even the one feeding AI with the answers it is giving to us through data we upload.
The drive force behind the value data proposition of AI won't end unless humans aren't existing. This is so because we are even the one feeding AI with the answers it is giving to us through data we upload.
Estimates for monthly active users (MAUs) on X (formerly Twitter) as of early 2025 range from about 586 million to 650 million, depending on the source.
X ranks as the 14th most popular social media platform by monthly active users. The platform also sees 240–300 million daily active users.
In terms of social media, I still see future for protocols or platforms that are based on freedom money and decentralization, like "Nostr" and "INLEO". The other ones, starting with "Meta" and "X", will control the users' funds - and data.
AI TAKES OVER THE INTERNET - SITES ARE NOW BUILT FOR BOTS, NOT HUMANS
Still writing for people? That’s cute.AI doesn’t care about your clever headlines or pixel-perfect UX - it skims, strips, and spits you back out with none of the charm. ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity? They're the new power users, and they don’t click - they consume. Publishers now optimize for algorithms, not eyeballs.And brands? Some are straight-up redesigning for AI agents. Not humans. Because humans bounce. Bots index. Congrats: the internet is no longer a place for humans. It's a buffet for bots.
I've seen that Tether plans to integrate USDT payments through "Rumble". Hope they'll inform all users that USDT is a centralized and censorable stablecoin...
Money Moves: Matthias Niessner, one of Europe's top AI researchers, has picked up a $13M seed round for his new venture SpAItial, which aims to crack the "holy grail" of AI — generating interactive 3D environments from simple text prompts.
Security researchers uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's MCP server: An exploit is reportedly letting attackers dupe AI assistants into exposing users' private repositories. Attackers use a simple prompt injection attack, where malicious issues filed in public repos instruct the AI to "helpfully" compile information about all repositories the user works on — including private ones. According to prominent software engineer Simon Willison, this creates a perfect security storm by granting access to private data and exposing it to malicious instructions.
Trouble continues to mount at Meta AI: The company’s flagship AI team is reportedly hemorrhaging brainpower, with 11 of the 14 researchers behind the landmark 2023 Llama paper having packed their bags. Many of these AI engineers have joined French startup Mistral, including co-founders and key Llama architects Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. The departures come as Meta faces a lukewarm reception to Llama 4, delays to its "Behemoth" project, and leadership reshuffles at its AI research division.
Leaks suggest xAI’s Grok 3.5 could be shipping soon: AI news site Testing Catalog has noticed references to the model in the startup’s latest web build, suggesting the much-awaited upgrade could drop any day now. It’s expected to excel at "reasoning from first principles" according to Musk, potentially addressing current coding bottlenecks where Grok currently lags behind competitors. The model is also likely to include screen-sharing for iOS voice mode and API access, similar to ChatGPT.
Binance is the largest digital assets exchange in the world by volume. It recently forged ties with World Liberty Financial, a project that aspires to be a crypto bank and funnels 75% of profits to entities linked to the Trump family. Binance is taking a $2 billion investment from the Emirati state fund MGX entirely in USD1, a stablecoin newly launched by the World Liberty team.
Binance and World Liberty are also deepening their footprint in Pakistan, where WLF co-founder Zack Witkoff, the son of U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, recently struck a deal with the government. Around the same time, Zhao was appointed as an adviser to Pakistan's newly formed Crypto Council, a state-backed body tasked with shaping national digital asset policy.
On the other hand, stablecoins offer instant transactions with fees being significantly less than those of FX, Collison said, making a perfect case for payment use globally.
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US big banks hold early talks on joint crypto stablecoin: WSJ
“A lot of our future payment volume is going to be in stablecoins,” Collison said. “This is, for sure, a big part of our business on a go-forward basis,” he added.
Stablecoins have already made an impact on traditional finance, beating volumes of Visa and Mastercard combined in 2024.
Collison referred to the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation taking force in late 2024, while the UK Financial Conduct Authority is still seeking public feedback on new stablecoin rules as recently as May 28.
The latest insights by Collison align with reports suggesting that banks in the United States have been seeking even clearer guidelines from the government clarifying what they can do in crypto.
On the other hand, despite falling behind in terms of stablecoin regulation, the UK has seen the largest increase in new crypto owners in the past year, outpacing Europe, according to Gemini.
Dell is one of Nvidia's primary vendors that builds systems around the chipmaker's AI graphics processing units. Dell said on Thursday that it was seeing "unprecedented demand" for AI systems, especially for second-tier cloud providers, such as Coreweave.
Texas-based Dell said that it has $14.4 billion in confirmed orders for AI systems in its backlog that will ship in the coming quarters. It recorded $12.1 billion in confirmed AI orders during the first quarter, the company said. These numbers will turn into recorded revenue when Dell ships the system to its clients. In February, Dell said it expected $15 billion in AI server sales during its fiscal 2026, up from $10 billion last year.
"Synopsys is currently assessing the potential impact of the BIS Letter on its business, operating results and financial condition," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
On a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Ghazi had said the company saw a slowdown in China during its fiscal second quarter, which ended on April 30. Around 10% of Synopsys' $1.6 billion in quarterly revenue came from customers in China.
Competition in China is fierce. Synopsys has said the Chinese government has put in place policies that favor its own companies and has backed investment funds while looking to develop independent chip design know-how.
Meta has also been pitching its open-source Llama family of AI models to government agencies and in November said it would make the those tools available to government units "working on defense and national security applications, and private sector partners supporting their work."
"Meta has spent the last decade building AI and AR to enable the computing platform of the future," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. "We're proud to partner with Anduril to help bring these technologies to the American service members that protect our interests at home and abroad."
In February, Anduril and Microsoft said that the defense tech startup would take over the enterprise giant's AR headset program with the U.S. army.
Meta and Anduril have placed a joint bid on an Army contract for VR devices that is worth up to $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The two companies are working on EagleEye, a system that carries sensors that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision, according to the report. Meta and Anduril will move forward on their partnership whether or not they win the Army contract, per the Journal.
The two companies pitched their partnership as helping the U.S. maintain a "technical edge" while aiding national security and saving the military "billions of dollars by utilizing high-performance components and technology originally built for commercial use."
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The president said he saw what was happening and "didn't like it, for them, not for us."
"I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I didn't want to see that happen," he said. "Because of this deal, everything quickly stabilized and China got back to business as usual. Everybody was happy! That is the good news!!!"
Trump Tears Into Leonard Leo, Federalist Society After Tariffs Decision
President Donald Trump late Thursday tore into Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, the man who had once advised him on his Supreme Court picks, calling him a "sleazebag" who "probably hates America" after a panel of judges said most of his tariffs were illegal.
"I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges," Trump posted on Truth Social late Thursday. "I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real 'sleazebag' named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions."
Leo and the Federalist Society have been connected with Trump since his first campaign in 2016, when he promised that "We're going to have great judges, conservative, all picked by the Federalist Society."
Trump was also advised on his Supreme Court picks by Leo, who, along with other attorneys, helped him assemble lists of potential justices that were used to select his three nominees to the court.
Shortly after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement in 2018, Leo said the president had "called and asked to meet and suggested the idea of doing a list."
The seat ended up being filled by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Trump said during a 2019 event that Leo and others worked "very hard" on the list of justices.
The figures show inflation is still declining from its post-pandemic spike, which reached the highest level in four decades in July 2022. Economists and some business executives have warned that prices will likely head higher as Trump’s widespread tariffs take effect, though the timing and impact of those duties are now in doubt after they were struck down late Wednesday in court.
The inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve said at their most recent meeting May 6-7 that inflation is still elevated, compared to their target of 2%. Fed officials, who focus more on core prices, broadly support keeping their key interest rate steady while they evaluate the impact of the tariffs on inflation and jobs.
"You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed," she said. "Because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."
As she and her peers graduate, "there are no universities left in Gaza. We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it," the student said.
"The Israeli occupation forces are the only foreign military that MIT has research ties with," she said. "This means that Israel's assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school."
"But to ignore warnings and allow the class president to deliver hateful and dividing speech with no response from President Kornbluth, who followed, shows the gravity of the situation," Levi stated. "The president that failed to recognize that calling for genocide is harassment failed once again to show moral compass and clarity."
"MIT deserves a better leader," he said.
Talia Khan, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT who has testified before the House education panel, wrote that "on what should've been a unifying day at MIT, president Sally Kornbluth let a commencement speaker hijack the stage to demonize Israel."
"Nearly two years of antisemitic hostility, and still Jewish students get silence while bigotry gets a mic. Shameful," she wrote.
When someone asked her why Jewish graduates and their families at the graduation didn't heckle the speaker, Khan wrote that "my friends were scared and in shock. They said they were almost to tears at their own graduation."
As reported earlier this morning on the "This Morning" radio program on Kan Reshet Bet, the updated framework presented by Witkoff maintains ambiguity regarding the end of the war. It states that negotiations for a permanent ceasefire will continue during the 60-day temporary ceasefire, and that fighting will not resume as long as the talks are held "in good faith" after that period.
Unusually, the document also includes specific references to the involvement of envoy Witkoff – who will arrive in the region to manage the negotiations – and President Donald Trump, who will personally announce the ceasefire agreement.
Trump's administration has enacted massive funding cuts for academic research, curbed visas for foreign students - especially those from China - and plans to hike taxes on elite schools.
Trump alleges top U.S. universities are cradles of anti-American movements. In a dramatic escalation, his administration last week revoked Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, a move later blocked by a federal judge.
Masaru Ishii, dean of the graduate school of medicine at Osaka University, described the impact on U.S. universities as "a loss for all of humanity."
Japan aims to ramp up its number of foreign students to 400,000 over the next decade, from around 337,000 currently.
International students - 54% of them from India and China - contributed more than $50 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Trump's crackdown comes at a critical period in the international student application process, as many young people prepare to travel to the U.S. in August to find accommodation and settle in before term starts.
Dai, 24, a Chinese student based in Chengdu, had planned to head to the U.S. to complete her masters but is now seriously considering taking up an offer in Britain instead.
"The various policies (by the U.S. government) were a slap in my face," she said, requesting to be identified only by her surname for privacy reasons. "I'm thinking about my mental health and it's possible that I indeed change schools."
Reuters reported earlier this week that Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards.
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said earlier on Friday that Russia's concern over the eastward enlargement of NATO was fair and the United States did not want to see Ukraine in the U.S.-led military alliance.
Commenting on Kellogg's statement, Peskov said that Putin has been consistently conveying Russia's position on the inadmissibility of NATO's eastward expansion.
"We are pleased that these explanations by the president are understood, including in Washington. And, of course, this is quite appealing to us in terms of the mediating role that Washington continues to play," Peskov said.
"We stand ready to strengthen dialog and cooperation in the field of export control with relevant countries and regions and stay committed to maintaining the stability of global production and supply chains," foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Friday when asked about the controls.
Chinese state media reported on Wednesday that the country could relax its curbs on rare earths exports for Chinese and European semiconductor firms after meetings between industry and the Ministry of Commerce where the issue of shortages was raised.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that the United States suspended some sales of critical technologies to China, including parts for state-owned plane maker COMAC, in response to China's restriction on exports of critical minerals.
Over the past several months, IS has claimed responsibility for attacks against the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast.
IS was defeated in Syria in March 2019 when SDF fighters captured the last sliver of land that the extremists controlled. Since then, its sleeper cells have carried out deadly attacks, mainly in eastern and northeast Syria.
In January, state media reported that intelligence officials in Syria's post-Assad government thwarted a plan by IS to set off a bomb at a Shiite Muslim shrine south of Damascus.
Al-Sharaa met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia earlier this month during which the American leader said that Washington would work on lifting crippling economic sanctions imposed on Damascus since the days of Assad.
"He became police commissioner when they thought crime couldn't be reduced any further, yet he reduced it further. His work helped New York become the safest big city in America and a shining example of urban renaissance. Then he faced the worst foreign attack since the war of 1812 on American soil — September 11th. He was at my side within 20 minutes of the attack and never left.
"During the first collapse, we were trapped in a building for what seemed like 20-30 minutes. In fact, the governor of New York and some of my own staff thought we were gone and went as far as to draft papers for a new mayor. Through extraordinary bravery that allowed us to concentrate on the doable and with substantial additional assistance, we escaped safely. That attitude permeated the way in which the recovery was handled for the next four months.
"Mr Prime Minister, after Hamas rejected the deal proposal again -- there are no more excuses," far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on his Telegram channel, addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The confusion, the shuffling and the weakness must end. We have already missed too many opportunities. It is time to go in with full force, without blinking, to destroy, and kill Hamas to the last one."
The White House said on Thursday that President Donald Trump and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff had "submitted a ceasefire proposal to Hamas that Israel backed."
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt added that discussions were "continuing" with the militants.
Israel has not confirmed that it approved the new proposal.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that European countries should "harden the collective position" against Israel if it does not respond appropriately to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
With international pressure mounting on Israel over the deepening hunger crisis, Macron said action was needed "in the next few hours and days".
In its latest update Thursday, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 3,986 people had been killed in the territory since Israel resumed major operations on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 54,249, mostly civilians.
Hamas's attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
The Kremlin repeated Friday that it would hand over its version at the talks on Monday, but Kyiv is pressuring Moscow to send a copy in advance.
Ukraine has for more than two months been urging Russia to agree to a full, unconditional and immediate 30-day ceasefire — an idea first proposed by Trump.
Putin has repeatedly rejected those calls, despite pressure from Washington and Europe, while the Russian army has intensified its advances in eastern Ukraine.
He has said that a ceasefire is possible as a result of negotiations, but that talks should focus on the "root causes" of the war.
Moscow typically uses that language to refer to a mix of sweeping demands that have at times included limiting Ukraine's military, banning it from joining NATO, massive territorial concessions and the toppling of Zelenskyy.
As with many of the court's orders issued in an emergency fashion, the decision was unsigned and gave no reasoning. Two of the court's three liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, publicly dissented.
The court botched its assessment of whether the administration was entitled to freeze Talwani's decision pending the litigation, Jackson wrote in an accompanying opinion.
The outcome, Jackson wrote, "undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending."
Talwani in April found that the law governing such parole did not allow for the program's blanket termination, instead requiring a case-by-case review. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put the judge's decision on hold.
In its filing, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that Talwani's order had upended "critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry," effectively "undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election" that returned Trump to the presidency.
The plaintiffs told the Supreme Court they would face grave harm if their parole is cut short given that the administration has indefinitely suspended processing their pending applications for asylum and other immigration relief.
Witkoff has been pushing for a new 60-day cease-fire deal that would involve Israeli withdrawal from its recent gains in Gaza; letting the U.N. back in to distribute aid; and the release of only about half of the remaining 58 hostages, ten living and 18 dead, in two groups, in exchange for the release of terrorists being held by Israel (Trump had previously said he was frustrated with these sorts of piecemeal proposals). As of this writing, the fate of the deal remains unclear.
A meeting in Washington between Witkoff and Israel’s strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer, was described in a report by the Times of Israel as “uneasy,” with Witkoff said to be growing impatient with Israel. These are the sorts of stories we would regularly read about Biden administration officials venting at Israelis, and we had hoped that the election of Trump would put an end to them.
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the lower court’s ruling, Solicitor General D. John Sauer submitted an emergency application to the Supreme Court arguing that Noem has “broad discretion over categories of immigration determinations.”
Sauer further argued that the lower court had “needlessly” upended “critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry” and had undone “democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election.”
Attorneys for the migrants called the Trump administration’s order “the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.”
Spreadsheets drastically reduced the demand for bookkeepers and accounting clerks. Did this end the profession of accounting? No, there was an increase in more sophisticated accounting roles.
The job market has never been stuck in amber. The MIT economist David Autor co-authored a study that found that the majority of current jobs are in occupational categories that arose since 1940.
It’s true that artificial intelligence is projected to affect white-collar jobs — computer programming, consulting, law, and the like — more than prior waves of technological change. But these kinds of jobs shouldn’t be immune from the effects of automation any more than factory work has been.
The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, ending one of the last crypto enforcement actions by the agency.
The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, bringing an end to one of the last remaining crypto enforcement actions brought by the agency.
In a Thursday filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers for the SEC and Binance jointly moved to dismiss the case, which was first brought in June 2023.
The original complaint accused the crypto exchange of violations including illegally serving U.S. users, inflating trading volumes, and commingling customer funds. The agency also claimed that Binance unlawfully enabled trading in crypto assets it viewed as unregistered securities, an argument that was also used against Coinbase, Kraken, and others under prior SEC leadership.
The dismissal marks a symbolic end to one of the most aggressive crypto crackdowns in U.S. history, and comes as the Trump administration makes a concerted effort to prove that it's an ally to the industry. The Justice Department has already shut down its crypto enforcement team, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is now set to be led by a venture capitalist with close ties to crypto.
Payment giant Stripe has held early discussions with banks about their potential integrations of stablecoins, signaling growing interest from the banking industry.
Payment giant Stripe has reportedly held early discussions with banks about potentially integrating stablecoins, signaling growing acceptance in global banking.
After debuting stablecoin-based accounts in 100 countries in early May, Stripe has noticed significant interest in stablecoins — cryptocurrencies tied to fiat currencies like the US dollar — from global banks.
“In the conversations we have with them, they’re very interested,” Stripe co-founder and president John Collison said in an interview with Bloomberg News on May 30.
“This is not something that banks are just kind of brushing away or treating as a fad. Banks are very interested in how they should be integrated with stablecoins into their product offerings as well,” he stated.
Stablecoins will be a big part of future payments
The growing interest by banks to integrate stablecoins comes from understanding that such cryptocurrencies offer significantly lower transaction costs for payments, including foreign exchange fees by banks.
“It’s extremely expensive to do. It’s very slow. It takes a matter of days,” Collison said. “No one is happy with that equilibrium today. And so I think you will see those kind of profit pools come under attack.”
Dell Technologies reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that missed expectations, but offered a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter.
Shares of Dell Technologies rose on Thursday in extended trading after the company raised its full-year earnings forecast and issued a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter.
However, Dell's adjusted earnings per share came up short versus LSEG estimates on in-line revenue.
Here's how the computer maker did versus LSEG consensus estimates:
Earnings per share: $1.55 adjusted vs. $1.69 estimated
Revenue: $23.38 billion vs. $23.14 billion estimated
Dell said it expects $2.25 in adjusted earnings per share for the current quarter, with between $28.5 billion and $29.5 billion in revenue. That was significantly higher than LSEG expectations.
Company officials attributed the strong guidance to $7 billion in artificial intelligence systems that are expected to ship during the quarter, which are higher-margin than other Dell systems.
For the full year, Dell still expects about $103 billion in revenue, in line with LSEG expectations, but it raised its forecast for full-year adjusted earnings to $9.40, which was a 10 cent increase from the company's prior outlook.
Meta and Anduril defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey formed a partnership to create virtual reality and augmented reality devices for the U.S. army.
Meta and Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, announced Thursday that they've formed a partnership to create virtual and augmented reality devices intended for use by the U.S. army.
The partnership represents a major step by Meta to supply cutting-edge technology to the government in addition to working once again with Luckey, who sold his Oculus VR startup to the social media company for $2 billion in 2014.
Luckey and Meta had an acrimonious split, with the Anduril founder telling CNBC in 2019 that he "got fired" from the company formerly known as Facebook "for no reason at all," suggesting that a $10,000 donation to a pro-Donald Trump group ahead of the 2016 U.S. election could have contributed to the decision.
With Trump winning the U.S. presidency in November for the second time, Zuckerberg and other tech executives have since courted favor with the White House by making sweeping policy changes like relaxing content-moderation guidelines.
That’s the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a “white-collar bloodbath.” The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and drive the unemployment rate up to 10–20 percent, or roughly Great Depression levels.
This sounds dire, but we’ve been here before. In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes thought that labor-saving devices were “outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” Analysts thought the same thing in the 1960s, when John F. Kennedy warned that “the automation problem is as important as any we face,” and in our era, too.
If a prediction has been consistently wrong, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will forever be wrong. Still, we shouldn’t have much confidence in the same alarmism, repeated for the same reasons.
If technological advance was really a net killer of jobs, the labor market should have been in decline since the invention of the wheel.
In all the studies I have run through the computer, no matter how I rephrase the inquiry, it always returns the same answer – Migration & War = Deadly Disease Cycle. I have input all the major plagues into the computer database from ancient times. The last “plague” that we were all taught in history class was the famous Spanish Flu of WWI: A Perfect Storm. WWI directly facilitated the virus’s global spread, intensity, and lethality. An estimated 50-100 million people died from the Spanish Flu – far more than the roughly 20 million military and civilian deaths from WWI itself.
A simple correlation of wars and migrations to disease demonstrates beyond opinion that these events have always been a major killer in wars (e.g., more soldiers died from disease than battle in many conflicts prior to the 20th century). Recent conflicts (e.g., Syrian Civil War, Yemeni Civil War) have seen the collapse of healthcare systems and the resurgence of diseases like cholera, polio, and measles. War is a powerful engine for disease spread. WWI provided the specific conditions – massive global troop movements, unprecedented crowding, malnutrition, shattered healthcare, and censorship – that turned the 1918 influenza virus into the deadliest pandemic in modern history. The connection between war and infectious disease is undeniable and devastating.
US Crypto Market Structure Bill Is Finally Here: Will It Start an Altcoin Rally?
The CLARITY Act is proof that the crypto market is moving towards a more favorable regulatory environment. Start of a new altcoin rally?
The House of Representatives has introduced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which looks to adopt a structured legislative approach towards the crypto market.
Well, this is exactly what the crypto community was hoping for ever since the appointment of the pro-crypto Donald Trump as US President.
As the crypto market is finally moving toward a more legislative-focused growth, will it have a positive impact on altcoins? Let’s explore the CLARITY act in more detail and whether it can push the top altcoins to higher peaks.
The CLARITY Act gives more power to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including ‘exclusive’ jurisdiction over ‘digital commodity cash or spot markets.’
For those out of the loop, digital commodities are digital assets that behave more like a commodity (oil or gas) instead of a typical security.
While there’s no definitive list of digital commodities, Bitcoin and Ethereum definitely count among them.
The CLARITY Act requires crypto platforms choose to either register with the CFTC or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This will depend on the types of digital assets they offer: digital commodities, securities, or both.
What’s more, the platforms registered with the CFTC as digital commodity exchanges, brokers, or dealers must also comply with the Bank Secrecy Act.
This would require these platforms to comply with KYC requirements, monitor suspicious activities, and file regular Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), thereby increasing record-keeping requirements for enforcing legal compliance.
Crypto Custodian Provisions
The Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 (SAB121) passed by the SEC in 2022 required crypto custodians to record crypto assets and liabilities belonging to their clients in their own balance sheet. However, the CLARITY Act proposes a more logical approach.
Regulators like the SEC cannot ask digital asset custodians to record digital assets held by their clients on their own balance sheets. After all, the ‘asset belongs to the client, not the custodian.’
Stablecoin Oversight
The Act has also cleared the air around stablecoins, expressly stating that these are not securities, and the SEC, therefore, has no say on their regulation. Stablecoins like $USDC, $USDT, or PayPal USD will be regulated by ‘whichever regulator already oversees the firm involved.’
This means that if a stablecoin has been issued by a bank, bank regulators such as the FED or OCC will regulate it. Similarly, USDC will be regulated by the agency that oversees Circle, the issuer of $USDC.
It’s also worth noting that the Stablecoin Bill is due for discussion next week. It aims to establish clearer rules for managing and issuing stablecoins, protecting consumers, and preventing financial instability.
However, a few experts believe that the Stablecoin Bill and the CLARITY Act must merge for a more unified approach towards crypto markets.
Overall, the CLARITY Act is a good first step towards a more regulated and structured crypto market, with clear demarcation between spot and cash markets, as well as stablecoin treatment.
As the crypto market becomes more organized, investor confidence in digital assets is bound to skyrocket. This may lead to a massive increase in investments over time, which puts retailers like yourself at the perfect spot to buy and hold the next big crypto coin.
This gain-of-function disease, COVID-19, may be the new Black Plague. I believe that those who will be the most vulnerable will be those who have been vaccinated. That’s just my opinion – not the computer. The computer has not identified the actual disease agent. Our politicians are IGNORANT of history, and if they ever bothered to look, disease ALWAYS spreads with migration. Just open a history book, and they might read that overwhelmingly, the historical consensus is that disease was the primary killer of Indigenous peoples in the Americas following European contact, responsible for a vastly greater number of deaths than warfare.
Pre-contact population estimates for the Americas range widely (40-100+ million), but post-contact decline was catastrophic. Scholars generally agree that 80-95% of the Indigenous population died within the first 100-150 years after sustained European contact due to disease. This represents one of the most devastating demographic catastrophes in human history due to migration, and Europeans brought diseases unfamiliar to the American Indigenous population.
The SEC was the last major regulator still pursuing Binance after a $4.3 billion settlement with the U.S. government last year that saw Zhao plead guilty and step down as CEO, while avoiding jail time and retaining much of his wealth.
The agency's motion to dismiss was granted with prejudice, meaning the SEC can't refile the same claims.
Commissioner Hester Peirce, speaking with CNBC in Las Vegas, said the move reflects a shift toward clearer rulemaking after years of ambiguity.
"What we're trying to do with the enforcement cases is look at them on a facts and circumstances basis," said Peirce. "We didn't have a clear set of rules. There were a lot of questions about how this particular activity in the crypto space intersected with our existing securities laws."
The commissioner added, "We're trying to take a step back, use our regulatory tools to write those rules, and then enforce those rules."
But Peirce made clear that loosening enforcement doesn't mean open season for scammers. "It is not time for people to think, 'I have a free pass to go rip people off in the name of crypto.' That is not the case."
Stablecoin growth requires green lights from regulators
While showing interest in stablecoins, some jurisdictions like the United Kingdom might be falling behind in the race to attract stablecoin operators if they don’t move faster with regulations, Collison said.
“You have companies that are being set up to serve this industry — if maybe there was a really good regulatory framework, they would choose to base here,” the Stripe exec said, adding:
“Without that certainty they go somewhere else. I think that’s the risk that we need to be aware of.”
Under the SEC's new leadership, the agency has shifted away from enforcement and toward engagement and regulatory rollback. It's held a series of roundtables led by Peirce and newly appointed Chair Paul Atkins.
The SEC has also begun dismantling key rules that once kept Wall Street on the sidelines. In January, it scrapped Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 — a controversial directive issued under former Chair Gary Gensler that forced banks to count crypto holdings as liabilities on their balance sheets. Peirce celebrated the reversal on X, posting, "Bye, bye SAB 121! It's not been fun."
In February, the agency followed up with new guidance indicating that it doesn't view most meme coins as securities under federal law, providing a boon to the Trump family.
President Trump and several of his family members are closely tied to crypto ventures, including the $TRUMP token, which launched just before his January inauguration. The coin currently boasts a market cap of about $2.4 billion, with its website claiming that 80% of the supply is held by the Trump Organization and affiliated entities.
Overall, Dell's revenue grew 5% on an annual basis. It said it expects revenue to grow 8% during the fiscal year.
Dell's server business is reported as part of its Infrastructure Solutions Group, which had $10.3 billion in sales during the quarter, a 12% rise. Of that, $6.3 billion was sales for servers and networking, and $4 billion was for computers that store data.
The company's laptop and PC business, its Client Solutions Group, recorded $12.5 billion in sales as the global PC market is expected to recover this year after several slumping years.
The computer maker also said it significantly stepped up its shareholder capital return during the quarter, spending $2.4 billion on share repurchases and dividends during the period. It spent $2.58 billion on share repurchases for all of its fiscal 2025, which ended in January.
Synopsys pulls full-year guidance, citing new China export restrictions
Synopsys was already facing a slowdown in China. Now it's trying to assess the impact of new export restrictions.
Synopsys pulled its guidance for the full fiscal year on Thursday, citing a letter it received from the U.S. Commerce Department on restrictions of sales of its products in China. The stock closed down 1.6%.
The announcement comes one day after Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi disputed a report that the White House told the company, as well as rivals Cadence and Siemens, to stop selling to clients in China. He said he had wanted to address the swirling of speculation.
"Recall as we started sometime in FY 2024 communicating that we are seeing both a cumulative impact of the restrictions in China as well as the macro situation inside China have caused us to continue on communicating that this deceleration will continue, and that headwind has gotten stronger as we go through the each quarter over the last year, year and a half," he said. The 2025 fiscal year ends in October.
The Bureau of Industry and Security informed Cadence last week that the company will need a license to export its chip design software to customers in China, according to a Thursday filing.
"The letter stated that BIS has determined that these shipments pose an unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to a 'military end use' in China or for a Chinese 'military end user,'" Cadence said.
"I am glad to be working with Meta once again." Luckey said in a statement. "Of all the areas where dual-use technology can make a difference for America, this is the one I am most excited about."
Anduril also announced in December that it partnered with OpenAI on an artificial-intelligence initiative related to "national security missions."
Wall Street is giving back some of its gains from the week following a mixed set of profit reports from Gap, Ulta Beauty and other companies navigating the challenges created by President Donald Trump’s on-and-off tariffs.
The S&P 500 was down 0.44% in early trading Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked down by 39.16 points, or 0.09%, and the Nasdaq composite was down 0.85% as of 10 a.m. EST.
Gap slumped after saying tariffs on imports from China and other countries could add up to $300 million to its costs this fiscal year. Wall Street has been preoccuppied with questions about what will happen with Trump’s tariffs.
Shares of Google parent Alphabet were largely stagnant ahead of closing arguments in a legal proceeding that will determine the changes imposed upon the company after being declared an illegal monopoly by a federal judge last year.
A key inflation report from the Commerce Department Friday morning showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September.
The Fed has left its benchmark borrowing rate steady at its last three meetings, in part due to uncertainty about how tariffs will impact prices.
Investors will be paying close attention as three Fed members are scheduled to make public comments on Friday.
Newsmax Renews Verizon Carriage Agreement, Makes SEC Filing
Newsmax Inc. (NYSE: NMAX) (“Newsmax” or the
“Company”) announced the filing of an 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”).
The Company informed the SEC of the following:
Newsmax Inc. has entered into a multi-year renewal for distribution with Verizon Fios for its cable channel, Newsmax.
Newsmax, which is available on channel 616 (116 in SD) on Fios, will retain its current distribution on the Verizon pay TV platform.
The Verizon platform reaches approximately three million subscribers, mainly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions
Trump Accuses China of Violating Deal on Tariffs
President Donald Trump on Friday accused China of breaking its tariff agreement with the U.S., despite the deal he said had protected the country from grave economic danger.
In his comments on Truth Social, Trump said that the high tariffs he initially set on China made it "virtually impossible for China to TRADE into the United States marketplace, which is, by far, number one in the World."
On May 12, the two countries agreed on a 90-day suspension on most of the tariffs, but Trump on Friday said that the "bad news is that China, perhaps not surprisingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!"
Trump said his initial tariffs were "devastating" for China, as "many factories closed and there was, to put it mildly, 'civil unrest.'"
Earlier in the day, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of International Trade found that Trump had overstepped his authority when imposing tariffs on imports from U.S. trading partners.
Two of the judges deciding the case were Republican appointees, including one Trump had seated on the bench, reports CBS News.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit quickly granted an emergency motion to stay the ruling, after the administration argued that stopping the decision was "critical for the country's national security."
In addition to attacking Leo, Trump also slammed the Federalist Society and the three judges who ruled against his tariffs.
"Where do these initial three Judges come from?" he said. "How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of 'TRUMP?' What other reason could it be?"
Leo, in a statement to Politico, said he's grateful for Trump's work in "transforming the Federal Courts, and it was a privilege being involved."
"There's more work to be done, for sure, but the Federal Judiciary is better than it's ever been in modern history, and that will be President Trump's most important legacy," Leo added.
Thursday, though, Trump posted that he was "disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations" and said that Leo left the conservative organization to "do his own thing.'"
Trump's relationship with Leo also reportedly became strained after Justices Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, the three conservative justices he appointed to the Supreme Court, did not intervene to keep him in office after his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
Three other conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, have also been linked to the Federalist Society, mainly through Leo, reports Time.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops.
China Signals Softer Stance on Rare Earth Export Curbs
China said it would cooperate further with other countries over its rare earth export controls as shortages put auto and semiconductor makers in Europe and India at risk of closure.
China, which controls over 90% of global processing capacity for the rare earth magnets used in everything from automobiles and fighter jets to home appliances, imposed restrictions in early April requiring exporters to obtain licenses from Beijing.
While a handful of licenses have been granted, including to some Volkswagen suppliers, Indian automakers say they have received none and will have to stop production in early June.
Islamic State Group Claims 1st Attack on Syrian Govt Forces Since Assad's Fall
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be adopted by the extremists since the fall of Bashar Assad.
In two separate statements issued late Thursday, IS said that in the first attack, a bomb was detonated targeting a "vehicle of the apostate regime," leaving seven soldiers dead or wounded. It said the attack occurred "last Thursday," or May 22, in the al-Safa area in the desert of the southern province of Sweida.
IS said that the second attack occurred this week in a nearby area during which a bomb targeted members of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, claiming that it killed one fighter and wounded three.
There was no comment from the government on the claim of the attack and a spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the attack on government forces killed one civilian and wounded three soldiers, describing it as the first such attack to be claimed by IS against Syrian forces since the fall of the 54-year Assad family's rule in December.
IS, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, is opposed to the new authority in Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once the head of al-Qaida's branch in Syria and fought battles against IS.
Mayor Giuliani Statement on Bernie Kerik Passing
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani remembers the late Bernie Kerik.
"On September 11th, Bernie Kerik and I saved each other's lives," Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a statement to Newsmax.
"If we weren't already friends, that bound us together forever," Giuliani added. "He was my best friend, a true Patriot, and one of the bravest men I've ever known.
"He was driven by an unwavering love of this country and a commitment to serving others. He was one of the most decorated New York City police officers of his time. He served as Commissioner of Rikers Island, where he reduced violence by over 90%. CBS's 60 Minutes described his work at Rikers as the best example of how to take the worst jail in America and make it the best.
"Bernie's leadership helped guide the people of a very frightened city to draw from their inherent individual strength as Americans and children of God.
"My heart goes out to his wife Hala, his son Joe, and two daughters — my goddaughters — Angelina and Celine. Joe is following in his footsteps as a brave and accomplished police officer. I also share this inexpressible grief with so many mutual friends and admirers, and to all of them, I offer the thought that we are all much better for knowing him."
Israel Minister: 'Time to Go in With Full Force' in Gaza
An Israeli far-right minister said on Friday it was time to use "full force" in Gaza, after Hamas said a new U.S.-backed truce proposal failed to meet its demands.
An Israeli far-right minister said on Friday it was time to use "full force" in Gaza, after Hamas said a new U.S.-backed truce proposal failed to meet its demands.
Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March ending a six-week truce.
Israel recently intensified its offensive in what it says is a renewed push to destroy Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023 attack triggered the war.
Hamas sources said last week the group had accepted a U.S.-backed deal, but on Thursday political bureau member Bassem Naim said the new version meant "the continuation of killing and famine... and does not meet any of our people's demands, foremost among them halting the war."
"Nonetheless, the movement's leadership is studying the response to the proposal with full national responsibility," he added.
A source close to the group said the new version "is considered a retreat" from the previous one, which "included an American commitment regarding permanent ceasefire negotiations."
According to two sources close to the negotiations, the new proposal involves a 60-day truce, potentially extendable to 70 days, and the release of five living hostages and nine bodies in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during the first week.
It also involves a second exchange of the same number of living and dead hostages during the second week, according to the sources.
The same sources said Hamas had agreed last week to two exchanges on the same terms, but one during the first week of the truce and the other during the final week.
Out of 251 hostages seized during the October 2023 attack, 57 remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
The humanitarian situation in the territory remains dire despite aid beginning to trickle in after a more than two-month Israeli blockade.
Food security experts say starvation is looming for one in five people.
Medical facilities in Gaza, meanwhile, have come under increasing strain and repeated attack.
A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below the March figure of 2.6%. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.
The court ruling last Wednesday said that most of Trump’s tariffs were unlawful, including his duties on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, as well as those on more than 50 other countries. Tariffs on steel, aluminum, and cars were implemented under different laws and remain in place.
But the duties were allowed to remain in effect while the Trump administration appeals the ruling against them. And administration officials say they will find other legal authorities, if needed, to implement the tariffs. As a result, what tariffs will end up in place and for how long remains highly uncertain.
Student Speaker Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' at MIT Graduation
Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's class of 2025, addressed graduates at the school's commencement on Thursday.
Clad in a red keffiyeh, Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's class of 2025, addressed graduates at the school's commencement on Thursday.
"You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine," she said.
"It is no secret that at this time, academic institutions across the country are shrouded in a dark cloud of uncertainty," she said. "The question of what will happen next echoes in our minds, and there is a lot of fear in many of our hearts."
Vemuri told graduates, to some applause, that "last spring, MIT's undergraduate body and graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with the genocidal Israeli military."
"As scientists, engineers, academics and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding now as alumni that MIT cuts the ties," she said.
After telling students to turn their rings around so the MIT emblem faces outward, the student said that the school "is directly complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, and so we carry with us the obligation to do everything we can to stop it."
Sally Kornbluth, the MIT president who has retained her job unlike the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, who testified alongside her in December 2023 at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Jew-hatred, spoke following Vemuri.
"OK, listen, folks. At MIT, we value freedom of expression," she said, without pushing back on the "genocide" accusation against the Jewish state. "But today's about the graduates, so it's time for me to charge you all. So good afternoon, everyone."
"Just throw academia in the garbage," wrote Vickie Paladino, a Republican member of the New York City Council who represents part of Queens.
"It's time to start from scratch," she stated. "There's literally nothing left to lose at this point. None of these people deserve the status, prestige or authority that comes with an elite credential."
Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management who notes in his bio that he served in the Israel Defense Forces for nearly 12 years, wrote, "that MIT trains woke minds that fail to see the only genocidal entity in Gaza is Hamas is known."
Senior Hamas Official: We Reject the New US Ceasefire Proposal
The BBC reported Friday that Hamas is expected to reject the latest ceasefire and hostage-release proposal based on U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's plan, according to a senior Hamas official.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Friday morning, citing a senior Hamas official, that the terror organization is expected to reject the new ceasefire and hostage-release proposal based on U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's framework.
According to the official, the framework fails to address Hamas' core demands – namely, a commitment to turn the temporary ceasefire into a permanent one, and a protocol that would allow an increase in the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The official added that Hamas is still in contact with the mediators and will issue an official response soon.
Thursday night on Kan News, it was reported that senior Israeli officials involved in the hostage negotiations believe the chances of reaching an agreement are currently high – but depend on Hamas' position. The U.S. administration has also expressed strong optimism, to the point that Witkoff wants to finalize an agreement in the coming days – even after this weekend's round of nuclear talks (with Iran).
However, the matter hinges on Hamas' response to the contentious issue of American guarantees to uphold the agreement and the ceasefire. According to sources, this is how the Witkoff framework phrases it: "Negotiations for a permanent ceasefire will continue during the 60-day temporary ceasefire, and the ceasefire will be extended beyond those 60 days as long as negotiations continue positively." According to sources familiar with the issue, this is a "sophisticated formulation" that does not include a firm commitment to end the war.
While critics are rightfully concerned about the many direct side effects of the C-19 vaccines, few are aware of the threat posed by the large-scale and out-of-control gain-of-function experiment that has been triggered by irrational human intervention in highly C-19 vaccinated populations. After psychotic infection-prevention measures and insane C-19 mass vaccination drove viral escape from anti-SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) immunity, making the virus more infectious, ongoing vaccine breakthrough infections now appear to be evolving in a way that facilitates immune deficiency against SC-2 altogether, thereby facilitating increased viral virulence of newly emerging, highly transmissible SC-2 lineages. As I always said: This is not going to have a happy ending (in highly C-19 vaccinated populations).
A political source stated that contrary to reports, Israel does not recognize any Hamas agreement to Witkoff's framework. Hamas also denied any agreement, with the terror group's Al-Aqsa news channel report that "Hamas is still reviewing the latest proposal; it is not true that it has agreed to it."
Additionally, Kan News reported on Thursday for the first time that sources involved in the negotiations said Hamas is not satisfied with Witkoff's new framework and is struggling to accept it. According to the sources, the organization was angered by the fact that the framework does not guarantee a comprehensive ceasefire and a full IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Former Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Wins Libel Suit Against BBC
A jury at the High Court in Dublin ruled in Adams’ favor and he was awarded 100,000 euros ($113,000) in damages.
Adams sued Britain’s public broadcaster over a claim in a documentary and online article that he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson, a long-serving Sinn Fein official who acknowledged in 2005 that he had worked for British intelligence. He was shot dead at his cottage in rural Ireland four months later.
In the BBC program broadcast in September 2016, an anonymous source claimed the shooting was sanctioned by the political and military leadership of the IRA and that Adams gave “the final say.”
Adams denies involvement and called the allegation a “grievous smear.”
Adams, 76, is one of the most influential figures of Northern Ireland’s decades of conflict, and its peace process. He led the IRA-linked party Sinn Fein between 1983 and 2018. He has always denied being an IRA member, though former colleagues have said he was one of its leaders.
In 2009, a splinter group opposed to Northern Ireland’s peace agreement, the Real IRA, claimed responsibility for killing Donaldson. An Irish police investigation remains ongoing.
Universities Seek to Lure US-bound Students Amid Trump Crackdown
Universities around the world are seeking to offer refuge for students impacted by President Donald Trump's crackdown on academic institutions, targeting top talent and a slice of the billions of dollars in academic revenue in the United States.
Osaka University, one of the top ranked in Japan, is offering tuition fee waivers, research grants, and help with travel arrangements for students and researchers at U.S. institutions that want to transfer.
Japan's Kyoto University and Tokyo University are also considering similar schemes, while Hong Kong has instructed its universities to attract top talent from the United States. China's Xi'an Jiaotong University has appealed for students at Harvard, singled out in Trump's crackdown, promising "streamlined" admissions and "comprehensive" support.
Jessica Turner, CEO of Quacquarelli Symonds, a London-based analytics firm that ranks universities globally, said other leading universities around the world were trying to attract students unsure of going to the United States.
Germany, France, and Ireland are emerging as particularly attractive alternatives in Europe, she said, while in the Asia-Pacific, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and mainland China are rising in profile.
Chinese students have been particularly targeted in Trump's crackdown, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday pledging to "aggressively" crack down on their visas.
More than 275,000 Chinese students are enrolled in hundreds of U.S. colleges, providing a major source of revenue for the schools and a crucial pipeline of talent for U.S. technology companies.
Students from Britain and the European Union are also now more hesitant to apply to U.S. universities, said Tom Moon, deputy head of consultancy at Oxbridge Applications, which helps students in their university applications.
There has been an uptick in applications to British universities from prospective students in the U.S., said Universities UK, an organization that promotes British institutions. It cautioned, however, that it was too early to say whether that translates into more students enrolling.
Ella Rickets, an 18-year old first year student at Harvard from Canada, said she receives a generous aid package paid for by the school's donors and is concerned that she won't be able to afford other options if forced to transfer.
"Around the time I was applying to schools, the only university across the Atlantic I considered was Oxford... However, I realized that I would not be able to afford the international tuition and there was no sufficient scholarship or financial aid available," she said.
If Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students is revoked, she would most likely apply to the University of Toronto, she said.
Analytics firm QS said overall visits to its 'Study in America' online guide have declined by 17.6% in the last year — with interest from India alone down over 50%.
"Measurable impacts on enrolment typically emerge within six to 18 months. Reputational effects, however, often linger far longer, particularly where visa uncertainty and shifting work rights play into perceptions of risk versus return," said QS' Turner.
That reputational risk, and the ensuing brain drain, could be even more damaging for U.S. institutions than the immediate economic hit from students leaving.
"If America turns these brilliant and talented students away, they will find other places to work and study," said Caleb Thompson, a 20-year-old U.S. student at Harvard, who lives with eight international scholars.
Kremlin: Russia, Ukraine to Discuss Ceasefire Conditions in Istanbul
The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine are expected to discuss ceasefire conditions next week in Istanbul, and it praised th
Russia has proposed holding the second round of talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2. However, Ukraine wants to see Russia's proposals for a peace deal before it sends a delegation to Turkey, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian delegation would be traveling to Istanbul and would be ready for talks with Ukraine on Monday morning.
"At the moment, everyone is focused on the direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations. A list of conditions for a temporary truce is being developed," Peskov told reporters. He said the details of the memorandum will not be published.
Consistency is the bridge between goals and results. It's not about doing everything at once, but about showing up every day, even when it’s hard. Progress is built one small, steady step at a time.
No mother desires a son who is frail. No woman longs for a husband who lacks strength. No son wishes for a feeble father. No sibling needs a weak brother. No one seeks a man who is diminished.
ETF's can simplify things with built-in diversification. It's all about matching your strategy with your goals and available time. Each method has its perks, keeping long-term objectives in focus is what really matters
I completely agree. I definitely won't say stockpicking isn't a valid option. Just not the best one for me personally as I don't have much time to invest in picking stocks.
A long-term mindset with reasonable goals is indeed important!
Totally understand that; ETF strategy can free up time while still keeping you invested in the market. At the end of the day, it's all about finding the method that syncs with your lifestyle and long-term goals
An unwillingness to overcome temptation breeds deviance. An unwillingness to let go of resentment fuels hatred. An inability to concentrate leads to indolence. A failure to show empathy results in arrogance.
Unrestrained government spending is posing a grave risk to the country's well-being by amassing unsustainable debt. The nation is edging closer to a financial precipice, leaving little room for delay.
The sole potential remedy seems to be DOGE, which is showing promise. Allegedly, the primary objective of some Democrats is to thwart DOGE's progress. No prominent Democrat or Tesla protester has been challenged to justify this viewpoint.
🧵/1 Should every child be taught how to code in school? Is it necessary for everyone or are we forcing too much too early in education?
#outreach #threadstorm #coding
🧵/2 Coding is important, but I don’t believe it should be forced on every child. Introduce it early, yes but let each child decide their own path eventually.
Before serving, use a damp towel to clean the plate’s rim of smudges and fingerprints by choosing a starting point and wiping around. When delivering the plate, hold it by the underside of the edges to keep the clean finish intact."
Your only chance to get Bitcoin under $1.
Assisterr's Discord Is BURNING 🥵🔥🔥
#airdrop #cent Still waiting for the Claim Button... I want to believe! But the fact they closed the Chat on their Discord isn't very convincing... Oh, well... The token is already being traded on CEXes right now. #crypto
https://inleo.io/threads/view/ahmadmanga/re-leothreads-s8vdu4vc?referral=ahmadmanga
$ASRR's #airdrop made me the most active on Twitter (formerly X) I've been in months!!! #crypto So, that's a thing, I guess... Ah~ I guess I really should just sleep and see if anything change by the time I wake up... #cent #bbh
Wow.this is a beautiful project. Well sir. Great project. But this airdrop i missed. But i want to try my to join your next airdrop.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
This is my favorite scene starring Seign in the entire story. He tells his father about what he discovered of the Empire's injustices. His father tells him, as the head of the family, he can't condone his treason of the Empire. Yet, he still asks him why he did it? Seign's answer is following his brother's footsteps of doing what's right.
The father says, he's proud of both of his boys.
A truly beautiful scene. #gaming #bbh #cent #ctp
my whole feed is Geyser re threads.
Let’s get the man paid!
Hahaha! Somewhere there is a communication breakdown I feel.
I didn’t even know there was payment for pools.
I think there must have been once upon a time.
My goal today!
Here is the #threadcast for today's episode of the Lion's Den. We will start at 1 PM eastern time.
We will discuss the deflationary nature of LEO with the tokenomics change along with how AI is going to impact things in the future.
Drop all questions and comments here.
Good afternoon friends, greetings to all present.
Good day
Could this be addressed in today's show? 👇
That's a quite a long time for radio silence and a pretty big amount of LEO.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2mwjacfzr?referral=onealfa
Would it be possible to label bots in some way? I think on X the AI agents have a checkmark. Noticed that some users are accidentally voting for bots.
Creating meaningful content on X can earn you quite a lot if active and consistent. The new meta: Kaito, Cookie.fun, GetRep... this new attention farming. It's new but pretty interesting.
Just published a post about it. 👍
Checking in. Hello Lions.
We have an interesting topic of discussion for today.
the chinese have the bigger numbers!
QUESTION
Task, based on your chats with @khaleelkazi , is it envisioned that $LEO on ARB will be used to curate posts on INLEO, or will there be more of a division, with LEO on Hive being used to curate, and LEO on ARB to stake on LeoDex?
CEX vs. DEX is interesting. I'm thinking it might still take some time but DEXs are going for the kill.
Hyperliquid & Jupiter are pretty damn close to offering a much better experience than any CEX.
Yeah, that's a good idea. Each crypto ticker could lead to LeoDEX 👌
What's up guys, hope y'all having a great time.
Listen to the latest news rumors and update on Lion's Den
Thanks! Great show 👌
DEX means custody in own hands, but don't get ripped off adding permissions to scam websites. I had that bad experience. LOL
thx 💪🏽🦁👍🏽 cyall onchain … where were you @khaleelkazi …
Created an image for my Inleo posts thumbnail while listening to the Den. 👍
Multitasking.
I still think it would be interesting to see Inleo & LeoDEX being more tied together, like a seamless integration, you know, like a box with a live price feeds here on Inleo, click that and, poof! you are on LeoDEX
100%
During the last AMA, Khal mentioned they'll make the "INLEO" button more visible on the LeoDex UI. It's a start, hehe.
It's a start! and I know it can take time and resources to add live feeds, etc.
Question
Do you think the deflationary nature of LEO will be sustainable for a lifetime as the number of users accelerates? I hope I asked that correctly.
I do trade perps! Although I always keep in mind what a wise man once said to me: only use leverage to increase your spot holdings.
Delivery on time is most important, it hurts reputation and investors cry is inevitable, the name can be on stake in the market.
At the tail end, technology is winning though, we keep innovating, we keep changing for good
You mean Zealy marketing?
Just trying to set up the TikTok stream, we will be up soon.
We will be on air in a couple minutes.
I Keep asking Did AI do us better or worse?
Better in many ways ...morning African man
Good morning to you too.
How's the day?....
Until CEXs adds more to their methodology and action potentials DEXs will keep having winning, it might not be seen much more now but later on evidence will win d race .
yeah... Rafiki, or something like that, could be a great LEO token sink, staking, never selling
Don't hope for anything. Don't fight the market. JUST FOLLOW THE MARKET.
One thing that's super annoying with CEXs is too much dropdowns, pop-ups, too much everything! It's like the old days internet...
Yeah. I get annoyed each time I see the pop up on Leodex too.
Yeah, pop-ups on any trading platform are just the worst thing... I remember on some CEXs getting trading competition pop-up ads in the middle of making a damn trade! 🤯
AI is old timer neural network that is now on steriods, AI is the new meta and it has solved many problems that has yet to be solved. You cannot live without it, it is integrated into many technologies already.
Watch Wolf of Wall Street as well.
Agreed to Leo AI better not being available, if not fed with timely and correct information. Anyone relying on faulty or biased AI is going to live in world of hurt.
Just today I read that they identified two wallets worth tens of millions tied to that LIBRA scam (Milei). By US court order, Circle(USDC) forced Solana to freeze the assets. This could raise some debate...
What are your expectations regarding the change in Leo tokenomics
Hope I can catch it!
What will be the max cap of $LEO ?
SEX ultimately beats CEX and DEX! 😜
When will the new changes go live in regards to $LEO
What changes?
I heard the tokenomics are going to be changed, no longer inflationary?
Yes the inflation will be eliminated and the payouts will come from token buys.
Do we have numbers about which rewards $LEO holders could expect as soon as the payments for holders go live? (Based on actuel numbers, not on hopium )
It looks like we will have @khaleelkazi joining us again on air. A lot of stuff to talk about.
AI, apps, dapps, whatever, I just like money. 🤑 Whichever solution helps me to get more money, in using that. 👌 I'm down with that.
In my opinion, the amount bots on Inleo has become a real turn off.
If user numbers are declining, could this be the reason? Bots with their nonsense taking space from real users while annoying the shit out of people?
https://cointelegraph.com/bittensor-price-index
Which emotional intelligence can one have about cryptocurrency in general?
hey brando, got your old profile pic on x 👍🏽 is that really you?
Yeah, it's me! Got the old one there
and is this also really you in the pic? 👀
No, it's not a pic OF me, just the old profile pic
👍🏽
https://cointelegraph.com/bittensor-price-index
We are live
@khaleelkazi is going to be late. He had another meeting scheduled.
He will join us as soon as he can.
Wish I could hear it.
Best of luck 🤞 for the show.
Yea thats Tasks voice, missed it, it's been awhile.
What’s the expected max supply of LEO once inflation ends? And how soon are we getting there?
How does the new deflationary model impact long-term holders vs short-term traders?
Will we see burn mechanisms tied directly to LeoDex fees or ad revenue from Inleo?
Are there plans to visualize or track real-time LEO burn stats in the UI for better transparency?
What portion of the total supply is expected to be locked/staked post-deflation transition?
How exactly is AI being integrated into the Inleo ecosystem — content curation, moderation, onboarding, or something more?
Will AI be used to detect and reward high-value content automatically?
Can AI play a role in improving LeoDex UX for new users like a built-in assistant or trading coach?
How do you ensure that AI tools won’t introduce centralization risks within a decentralized platform?
Just let $BTC do its thing, no hurry to go risk-on(alts).
Let it play out.
Any sneak peeks on agentic AI or personalized Leo experiences coming soon?
Looks like CUBfinance is finally done!
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2szq6gkmf?referral=onealfa
I was having issues converting my hive token or HBD so as to subscribe for premium, why can't we pay for premium using hive token?
Which emotional intelligence can one have about cryptocurrency in general?
Good to know Khal will be joining us today.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/taskmaster4450le/re-taskmaster4450-2oreww2fq?referral=taskmaster4450le
Since the crypto market and prices of stuffs can be influenced, which better way can one use to tackle the bad outcomes that can come from it?
To have no emotions at all.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/the-african-man/re-taskmaster4450-2k1pguqs2?referral=the-african-man
no khal there …
At the end of the day it's just crypto, no wonder it starts with Cry, lolz.
X Spaces is tripping off.
Can't connect to live broadcast, it returns me to main X page.
Inflation is a good thing when it favors you.
Inflation is bad when you aren't getting the percentage gain you used to gain when there wasn't much inflation.
Inflation is worst when one isn't getting anything at all from it.
Yea, Leo is a value capture asset.
So basically is khal gonna regulate the way the coin is been distributed among users and also the way it's been sold so as help give more value to Leo token or is there a better way?
you have several audio dropouts task …
Yea, staking Leo isn't the solution, it's just a temporary solution.
The latest Cubfinance released pending rewards and it has affected the price today, maybe more reduction to come in coming days.
Haha. Don't ask Task about Rafiki.
we‘re talking for ages about „number go up“ …
Talking about AI, I think we haven't seen all of it yet.
Buy Buy Buy 😜
where it will go? the chinese will overrun the planet with ai robots is one possible scenario … 😎
Looks like we have to wait for a little more for khal. Anyways Task is doing a nice work to hold us on with this discussion.
Yes, I'm almost always listening the Den from the start, but "Cloudflare" uses to block me, lol.
My Internet connection didn't allow me get all of what Task was saying about how Leo would be distributed.
Yes, I know that nothing is changing on our use of INLEO, and the new tokenomics are awesome.
It's just that in this space the tech is changing at the speed of light, and I could imagine INLEO being organically "plugged into" the Arbitrum chain, or a functional bridge with INLEO on Hive. Just my 2 $LEO 😅
$LEO
is this even a live ticker anymore? can‘t remember seeing a different number 😜
Actually it's inaccurate: on Hive-Engine it's around $0.015 (and better so, for the time being 😄).
yeah, but it’s rounded and from 5 on one rounds up in business …
Sure.
However, that 25% off is healthy for my purchase schedule 🙃
true true
This is how we will reach $1 and maintain it.
I mean user-growth. New users.
So the idea behind this is just to raise the value standard of Leo as a token which would affect its price?
so where are all those thousands and thousand of new onboarded users?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Venuses used to know what a night was... and a wonderful one, at that 😜
Social Media on a blockchain just like certain messenger apps simply were too late to the game. The herd, the masses or numbers were already settled in comfy web2 couches and as long as no „herd heads“ or „multipliers“ are pulling these lazy (m)asses out of their comfy couches we‘ll keep being perceived as an exhausting, complicated niche outside their comfy zones. That’s what i get back when talking to people. A lot of them are even still convinced the whole blockchain/crypto thing is a giant scam.
The fact is the herd is dying - literally.
A long and painful agony, since 2021.
The drive force behind the value data proposition of AI won't end unless humans aren't existing. This is so because we are even the one feeding AI with the answers it is giving to us through data we upload.
The drive force behind the value data proposition of AI won't end unless humans aren't existing. This is so because we are even the one feeding AI with the answers it is giving to us through data we upload.
Estimates for monthly active users (MAUs) on X (formerly Twitter) as of early 2025 range from about 586 million to 650 million, depending on the source.
X ranks as the 14th most popular social media platform by monthly active users. The platform also sees 240–300 million daily active users.
In terms of social media, I still see future for protocols or platforms that are based on freedom money and decentralization, like "Nostr" and "INLEO". The other ones, starting with "Meta" and "X", will control the users' funds - and data.
I see LeoDex and INLEO as twins:
on one we swap coins,
on the other we swap words.
Yeah, the threadcasts have reduced. We usually have about 5-10 daily threadcasts.
AI TAKES OVER THE INTERNET - SITES ARE NOW BUILT FOR BOTS, NOT HUMANS
Still writing for people? That’s cute.AI doesn’t care about your clever headlines or pixel-perfect UX - it skims, strips, and spits you back out with none of the charm. ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity? They're the new power users, and they don’t click - they consume. Publishers now optimize for algorithms, not eyeballs.And brands? Some are straight-up redesigning for AI agents. Not humans. Because humans bounce. Bots index. Congrats: the internet is no longer a place for humans. It's a buffet for bots.
Source: Le Monde
I've seen that Tether plans to integrate USDT payments through "Rumble". Hope they'll inform all users that USDT is a centralized and censorable stablecoin...
When is LeoAI gonna be active or we haven't given it the data it needs to function yet?
This should be addressed by the LEO team immediately. Manual transfer for 6 accounts as requested.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2mwjacfzr
I have no idea either, @onealfa but I believe if you make enough noise, @khaleelkazi will listen.
Did you open a Ticket on their Discord? They're really slow, but even if it took 6 months, I was refunded my stuck #leodex funds in the end.
I've answered this probably 3 dozen times and won't answer again
Feel free to look through my prior responses
Thank you for your rethread, @logen9f
This action sure deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
Friday Morning Push Good morningg , I love you!!!!
You made it to Friday, but don’t slow down now!
Let this be your launchpad, not your landing zone.
Reminder:
• Your goals don’t take weekends off.
• Your grind doesn’t get tired.
• Your purpose is still calling.
Push through. Show up. Finish strong.
The reward is waiting on the other side of your push!!!!!
Stunning monsoon
Sunset in Bangkok
this is so beautiful. Waoooo
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2mwjacfzr
Thank you for your rethread, @ sofiabee
This action sure deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
b00m !
Thank you for the boom.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 5/30/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Money Moves: Matthias Niessner, one of Europe's top AI researchers, has picked up a $13M seed round for his new venture SpAItial, which aims to crack the "holy grail" of AI — generating interactive 3D environments from simple text prompts.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/one-of-europes-top-ai-researchers-raised-a-13m-seed-to-crack-the-holy-grail-of-models
Security researchers uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's MCP server: An exploit is reportedly letting attackers dupe AI assistants into exposing users' private repositories. Attackers use a simple prompt injection attack, where malicious issues filed in public repos instruct the AI to "helpfully" compile information about all repositories the user works on — including private ones. According to prominent software engineer Simon Willison, this creates a perfect security storm by granting access to private data and exposing it to malicious instructions.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/github-mcp-exploited
Trouble continues to mount at Meta AI: The company’s flagship AI team is reportedly hemorrhaging brainpower, with 11 of the 14 researchers behind the landmark 2023 Llama paper having packed their bags. Many of these AI engineers have joined French startup Mistral, including co-founders and key Llama architects Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix. The departures come as Meta faces a lukewarm reception to Llama 4, delays to its "Behemoth" project, and leadership reshuffles at its AI research division.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-llama-ai-talent-mistral-2025-5
Leaks suggest xAI’s Grok 3.5 could be shipping soon: AI news site Testing Catalog has noticed references to the model in the startup’s latest web build, suggesting the much-awaited upgrade could drop any day now. It’s expected to excel at "reasoning from first principles" according to Musk, potentially addressing current coding bottlenecks where Grok currently lags behind competitors. The model is also likely to include screen-sharing for iOS voice mode and API access, similar to ChatGPT.
https://mashable.com/article/new-leak-grok-3-point-5-release
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Binance is the largest digital assets exchange in the world by volume. It recently forged ties with World Liberty Financial, a project that aspires to be a crypto bank and funnels 75% of profits to entities linked to the Trump family. Binance is taking a $2 billion investment from the Emirati state fund MGX entirely in USD1, a stablecoin newly launched by the World Liberty team.
Binance and World Liberty are also deepening their footprint in Pakistan, where WLF co-founder Zack Witkoff, the son of U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, recently struck a deal with the government. Around the same time, Zhao was appointed as an adviser to Pakistan's newly formed Crypto Council, a state-backed body tasked with shaping national digital asset policy.
On the other hand, stablecoins offer instant transactions with fees being significantly less than those of FX, Collison said, making a perfect case for payment use globally.
Related:
US big banks hold early talks on joint crypto stablecoin: WSJ
“A lot of our future payment volume is going to be in stablecoins,” Collison said. “This is, for sure, a big part of our business on a go-forward basis,” he added.
Stablecoins have already made an impact on traditional finance, beating volumes of Visa and Mastercard combined in 2024.
Collison referred to the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation taking force in late 2024, while the UK Financial Conduct Authority is still seeking public feedback on new stablecoin rules as recently as May 28.
The latest insights by Collison align with reports suggesting that banks in the United States have been seeking even clearer guidelines from the government clarifying what they can do in crypto.
On the other hand, despite falling behind in terms of stablecoin regulation, the UK has seen the largest increase in new crypto owners in the past year, outpacing Europe, according to Gemini.
Dell is one of Nvidia's primary vendors that builds systems around the chipmaker's AI graphics processing units. Dell said on Thursday that it was seeing "unprecedented demand" for AI systems, especially for second-tier cloud providers, such as Coreweave.
Texas-based Dell said that it has $14.4 billion in confirmed orders for AI systems in its backlog that will ship in the coming quarters. It recorded $12.1 billion in confirmed AI orders during the first quarter, the company said. These numbers will turn into recorded revenue when Dell ships the system to its clients. In February, Dell said it expected $15 billion in AI server sales during its fiscal 2026, up from $10 billion last year.
"Synopsys is currently assessing the potential impact of the BIS Letter on its business, operating results and financial condition," the company said in a statement on Thursday.
On a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Ghazi had said the company saw a slowdown in China during its fiscal second quarter, which ended on April 30. Around 10% of Synopsys' $1.6 billion in quarterly revenue came from customers in China.
Competition in China is fierce. Synopsys has said the Chinese government has put in place policies that favor its own companies and has backed investment funds while looking to develop independent chip design know-how.
Meta has also been pitching its open-source Llama family of AI models to government agencies and in November said it would make the those tools available to government units "working on defense and national security applications, and private sector partners supporting their work."
"Meta has spent the last decade building AI and AR to enable the computing platform of the future," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. "We're proud to partner with Anduril to help bring these technologies to the American service members that protect our interests at home and abroad."
In February, Anduril and Microsoft said that the defense tech startup would take over the enterprise giant's AR headset program with the U.S. army.
Meta and Anduril have placed a joint bid on an Army contract for VR devices that is worth up to $100 million, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The two companies are working on EagleEye, a system that carries sensors that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision, according to the report. Meta and Anduril will move forward on their partnership whether or not they win the Army contract, per the Journal.
The two companies pitched their partnership as helping the U.S. maintain a "technical edge" while aiding national security and saving the military "billions of dollars by utilizing high-performance components and technology originally built for commercial use."
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The president said he saw what was happening and "didn't like it, for them, not for us."
"I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I didn't want to see that happen," he said. "Because of this deal, everything quickly stabilized and China got back to business as usual. Everybody was happy! That is the good news!!!"
Trump Tears Into Leonard Leo, Federalist Society After Tariffs Decision
President Donald Trump late Thursday tore into Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, the man who had once advised him on his Supreme Court picks, calling him a "sleazebag" who "probably hates America" after a panel of judges said most of his tariffs were illegal.
"I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges," Trump posted on Truth Social late Thursday. "I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real 'sleazebag' named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions."
Leo and the Federalist Society have been connected with Trump since his first campaign in 2016, when he promised that "We're going to have great judges, conservative, all picked by the Federalist Society."
Trump was also advised on his Supreme Court picks by Leo, who, along with other attorneys, helped him assemble lists of potential justices that were used to select his three nominees to the court.
Shortly after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement in 2018, Leo said the president had "called and asked to meet and suggested the idea of doing a list."
The seat ended up being filled by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Trump said during a 2019 event that Leo and others worked "very hard" on the list of justices.
The figures show inflation is still declining from its post-pandemic spike, which reached the highest level in four decades in July 2022. Economists and some business executives have warned that prices will likely head higher as Trump’s widespread tariffs take effect, though the timing and impact of those duties are now in doubt after they were struck down late Wednesday in court.
The inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve said at their most recent meeting May 6-7 that inflation is still elevated, compared to their target of 2%. Fed officials, who focus more on core prices, broadly support keeping their key interest rate steady while they evaluate the impact of the tariffs on inflation and jobs.
"You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed," she said. "Because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."
As she and her peers graduate, "there are no universities left in Gaza. We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it," the student said.
"The Israeli occupation forces are the only foreign military that MIT has research ties with," she said. "This means that Israel's assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school."
"But to ignore warnings and allow the class president to deliver hateful and dividing speech with no response from President Kornbluth, who followed, shows the gravity of the situation," Levi stated. "The president that failed to recognize that calling for genocide is harassment failed once again to show moral compass and clarity."
"MIT deserves a better leader," he said.
Talia Khan, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT who has testified before the House education panel, wrote that "on what should've been a unifying day at MIT, president Sally Kornbluth let a commencement speaker hijack the stage to demonize Israel."
"Nearly two years of antisemitic hostility, and still Jewish students get silence while bigotry gets a mic. Shameful," she wrote.
When someone asked her why Jewish graduates and their families at the graduation didn't heckle the speaker, Khan wrote that "my friends were scared and in shock. They said they were almost to tears at their own graduation."
As reported earlier this morning on the "This Morning" radio program on Kan Reshet Bet, the updated framework presented by Witkoff maintains ambiguity regarding the end of the war. It states that negotiations for a permanent ceasefire will continue during the 60-day temporary ceasefire, and that fighting will not resume as long as the talks are held "in good faith" after that period.
Unusually, the document also includes specific references to the involvement of envoy Witkoff – who will arrive in the region to manage the negotiations – and President Donald Trump, who will personally announce the ceasefire agreement.
Trump's administration has enacted massive funding cuts for academic research, curbed visas for foreign students - especially those from China - and plans to hike taxes on elite schools.
Trump alleges top U.S. universities are cradles of anti-American movements. In a dramatic escalation, his administration last week revoked Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, a move later blocked by a federal judge.
Masaru Ishii, dean of the graduate school of medicine at Osaka University, described the impact on U.S. universities as "a loss for all of humanity."
Japan aims to ramp up its number of foreign students to 400,000 over the next decade, from around 337,000 currently.
International students - 54% of them from India and China - contributed more than $50 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Trump's crackdown comes at a critical period in the international student application process, as many young people prepare to travel to the U.S. in August to find accommodation and settle in before term starts.
Dai, 24, a Chinese student based in Chengdu, had planned to head to the U.S. to complete her masters but is now seriously considering taking up an offer in Britain instead.
"The various policies (by the U.S. government) were a slap in my face," she said, requesting to be identified only by her surname for privacy reasons. "I'm thinking about my mental health and it's possible that I indeed change schools."
Reuters reported earlier this week that Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards.
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said earlier on Friday that Russia's concern over the eastward enlargement of NATO was fair and the United States did not want to see Ukraine in the U.S.-led military alliance.
Commenting on Kellogg's statement, Peskov said that Putin has been consistently conveying Russia's position on the inadmissibility of NATO's eastward expansion.
"We are pleased that these explanations by the president are understood, including in Washington. And, of course, this is quite appealing to us in terms of the mediating role that Washington continues to play," Peskov said.
"We stand ready to strengthen dialog and cooperation in the field of export control with relevant countries and regions and stay committed to maintaining the stability of global production and supply chains," foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Friday when asked about the controls.
Chinese state media reported on Wednesday that the country could relax its curbs on rare earths exports for Chinese and European semiconductor firms after meetings between industry and the Ministry of Commerce where the issue of shortages was raised.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that the United States suspended some sales of critical technologies to China, including parts for state-owned plane maker COMAC, in response to China's restriction on exports of critical minerals.
Over the past several months, IS has claimed responsibility for attacks against the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast.
IS was defeated in Syria in March 2019 when SDF fighters captured the last sliver of land that the extremists controlled. Since then, its sleeper cells have carried out deadly attacks, mainly in eastern and northeast Syria.
In January, state media reported that intelligence officials in Syria's post-Assad government thwarted a plan by IS to set off a bomb at a Shiite Muslim shrine south of Damascus.
Al-Sharaa met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia earlier this month during which the American leader said that Washington would work on lifting crippling economic sanctions imposed on Damascus since the days of Assad.
"He became police commissioner when they thought crime couldn't be reduced any further, yet he reduced it further. His work helped New York become the safest big city in America and a shining example of urban renaissance. Then he faced the worst foreign attack since the war of 1812 on American soil — September 11th. He was at my side within 20 minutes of the attack and never left.
"During the first collapse, we were trapped in a building for what seemed like 20-30 minutes. In fact, the governor of New York and some of my own staff thought we were gone and went as far as to draft papers for a new mayor. Through extraordinary bravery that allowed us to concentrate on the doable and with substantial additional assistance, we escaped safely. That attitude permeated the way in which the recovery was handled for the next four months.
"Mr Prime Minister, after Hamas rejected the deal proposal again -- there are no more excuses," far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on his Telegram channel, addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The confusion, the shuffling and the weakness must end. We have already missed too many opportunities. It is time to go in with full force, without blinking, to destroy, and kill Hamas to the last one."
The White House said on Thursday that President Donald Trump and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff had "submitted a ceasefire proposal to Hamas that Israel backed."
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt added that discussions were "continuing" with the militants.
Israel has not confirmed that it approved the new proposal.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that European countries should "harden the collective position" against Israel if it does not respond appropriately to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
With international pressure mounting on Israel over the deepening hunger crisis, Macron said action was needed "in the next few hours and days".
In its latest update Thursday, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 3,986 people had been killed in the territory since Israel resumed major operations on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 54,249, mostly civilians.
Hamas's attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
The Kremlin repeated Friday that it would hand over its version at the talks on Monday, but Kyiv is pressuring Moscow to send a copy in advance.
Ukraine has for more than two months been urging Russia to agree to a full, unconditional and immediate 30-day ceasefire — an idea first proposed by Trump.
Putin has repeatedly rejected those calls, despite pressure from Washington and Europe, while the Russian army has intensified its advances in eastern Ukraine.
He has said that a ceasefire is possible as a result of negotiations, but that talks should focus on the "root causes" of the war.
Moscow typically uses that language to refer to a mix of sweeping demands that have at times included limiting Ukraine's military, banning it from joining NATO, massive territorial concessions and the toppling of Zelenskyy.
As with many of the court's orders issued in an emergency fashion, the decision was unsigned and gave no reasoning. Two of the court's three liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, publicly dissented.
The court botched its assessment of whether the administration was entitled to freeze Talwani's decision pending the litigation, Jackson wrote in an accompanying opinion.
The outcome, Jackson wrote, "undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending."
Talwani in April found that the law governing such parole did not allow for the program's blanket termination, instead requiring a case-by-case review. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put the judge's decision on hold.
In its filing, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that Talwani's order had upended "critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry," effectively "undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election" that returned Trump to the presidency.
The plaintiffs told the Supreme Court they would face grave harm if their parole is cut short given that the administration has indefinitely suspended processing their pending applications for asylum and other immigration relief.
Benitez was taken into custody where she was booked on counts of aggravated assault with a firearm.
She was being held in the St. Lucie County Jail awaiting extradition to Broward County.
Witkoff has been pushing for a new 60-day cease-fire deal that would involve Israeli withdrawal from its recent gains in Gaza; letting the U.N. back in to distribute aid; and the release of only about half of the remaining 58 hostages, ten living and 18 dead, in two groups, in exchange for the release of terrorists being held by Israel (Trump had previously said he was frustrated with these sorts of piecemeal proposals). As of this writing, the fate of the deal remains unclear.
A meeting in Washington between Witkoff and Israel’s strategic affairs minister, Ron Dermer, was described in a report by the Times of Israel as “uneasy,” with Witkoff said to be growing impatient with Israel. These are the sorts of stories we would regularly read about Biden administration officials venting at Israelis, and we had hoped that the election of Trump would put an end to them.
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the lower court’s ruling, Solicitor General D. John Sauer submitted an emergency application to the Supreme Court arguing that Noem has “broad discretion over categories of immigration determinations.”
Sauer further argued that the lower court had “needlessly” upended “critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry” and had undone “democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election.”
Attorneys for the migrants called the Trump administration’s order “the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.”
Spreadsheets drastically reduced the demand for bookkeepers and accounting clerks. Did this end the profession of accounting? No, there was an increase in more sophisticated accounting roles.
The job market has never been stuck in amber. The MIT economist David Autor co-authored a study that found that the majority of current jobs are in occupational categories that arose since 1940.
It’s true that artificial intelligence is projected to affect white-collar jobs — computer programming, consulting, law, and the like — more than prior waves of technological change. But these kinds of jobs shouldn’t be immune from the effects of automation any more than factory work has been.
SEC drops Binance lawsuit, ending one of last remaining crypto enforcement actions
The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, ending one of the last crypto enforcement actions by the agency.
The SEC has formally dropped its lawsuit against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao, bringing an end to one of the last remaining crypto enforcement actions brought by the agency.
In a Thursday filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers for the SEC and Binance jointly moved to dismiss the case, which was first brought in June 2023.
The original complaint accused the crypto exchange of violations including illegally serving U.S. users, inflating trading volumes, and commingling customer funds. The agency also claimed that Binance unlawfully enabled trading in crypto assets it viewed as unregistered securities, an argument that was also used against Coinbase, Kraken, and others under prior SEC leadership.
The dismissal marks a symbolic end to one of the most aggressive crypto crackdowns in U.S. history, and comes as the Trump administration makes a concerted effort to prove that it's an ally to the industry. The Justice Department has already shut down its crypto enforcement team, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is now set to be led by a venture capitalist with close ties to crypto.
Banks ‘very interested’ in stablecoin use —Stripe exec
Payment giant Stripe has held early discussions with banks about their potential integrations of stablecoins, signaling growing interest from the banking industry.
Payment giant Stripe has reportedly held early discussions with banks about potentially integrating stablecoins, signaling growing acceptance in global banking.
After debuting stablecoin-based accounts in 100 countries in early May, Stripe has noticed significant interest in stablecoins — cryptocurrencies tied to fiat currencies like the US dollar — from global banks.
“In the conversations we have with them, they’re very interested,” Stripe co-founder and president John Collison said in an interview with Bloomberg News on May 30.
“This is not something that banks are just kind of brushing away or treating as a fad. Banks are very interested in how they should be integrated with stablecoins into their product offerings as well,” he stated.
Stablecoins will be a big part of future payments
The growing interest by banks to integrate stablecoins comes from understanding that such cryptocurrencies offer significantly lower transaction costs for payments, including foreign exchange fees by banks.
“It’s extremely expensive to do. It’s very slow. It takes a matter of days,” Collison said. “No one is happy with that equilibrium today. And so I think you will see those kind of profit pools come under attack.”
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Dell shares climb after company raises full-year profit outlook on AI demand
Dell Technologies reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that missed expectations, but offered a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter.
Shares of Dell Technologies rose on Thursday in extended trading after the company raised its full-year earnings forecast and issued a stronger-than-expected forecast for the current quarter.
However, Dell's adjusted earnings per share came up short versus LSEG estimates on in-line revenue.
Here's how the computer maker did versus LSEG consensus estimates:
Earnings per share: $1.55 adjusted vs. $1.69 estimated
Revenue: $23.38 billion vs. $23.14 billion estimated
Dell said it expects $2.25 in adjusted earnings per share for the current quarter, with between $28.5 billion and $29.5 billion in revenue. That was significantly higher than LSEG expectations.
Company officials attributed the strong guidance to $7 billion in artificial intelligence systems that are expected to ship during the quarter, which are higher-margin than other Dell systems.
For the full year, Dell still expects about $103 billion in revenue, in line with LSEG expectations, but it raised its forecast for full-year adjusted earnings to $9.40, which was a 10 cent increase from the company's prior outlook.
Meta and Anduril defense startup partner on VR, AR project intended for U.S. Army
Meta and Anduril defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey formed a partnership to create virtual reality and augmented reality devices for the U.S. army.
Meta and Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, announced Thursday that they've formed a partnership to create virtual and augmented reality devices intended for use by the U.S. army.
The partnership represents a major step by Meta to supply cutting-edge technology to the government in addition to working once again with Luckey, who sold his Oculus VR startup to the social media company for $2 billion in 2014.
Luckey and Meta had an acrimonious split, with the Anduril founder telling CNBC in 2019 that he "got fired" from the company formerly known as Facebook "for no reason at all," suggesting that a $10,000 donation to a pro-Donald Trump group ahead of the 2016 U.S. election could have contributed to the decision.
With Trump winning the U.S. presidency in November for the second time, Zuckerberg and other tech executives have since courted favor with the White House by making sweeping policy changes like relaxing content-moderation guidelines.
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Don’t Fear AI
ChatGPT is coming for your job.
That’s the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a “white-collar bloodbath.” The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and drive the unemployment rate up to 10–20 percent, or roughly Great Depression levels.
This sounds dire, but we’ve been here before. In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes thought that labor-saving devices were “outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” Analysts thought the same thing in the 1960s, when John F. Kennedy warned that “the automation problem is as important as any we face,” and in our era, too.
If a prediction has been consistently wrong, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will forever be wrong. Still, we shouldn’t have much confidence in the same alarmism, repeated for the same reasons.
If technological advance was really a net killer of jobs, the labor market should have been in decline since the invention of the wheel.
This is the data feed to get a fat Leo Lion. The database needs to be huge.
In all the studies I have run through the computer, no matter how I rephrase the inquiry, it always returns the same answer – Migration & War = Deadly Disease Cycle. I have input all the major plagues into the computer database from ancient times. The last “plague” that we were all taught in history class was the famous Spanish Flu of WWI: A Perfect Storm. WWI directly facilitated the virus’s global spread, intensity, and lethality. An estimated 50-100 million people died from the Spanish Flu – far more than the roughly 20 million military and civilian deaths from WWI itself.
A simple correlation of wars and migrations to disease demonstrates beyond opinion that these events have always been a major killer in wars (e.g., more soldiers died from disease than battle in many conflicts prior to the 20th century). Recent conflicts (e.g., Syrian Civil War, Yemeni Civil War) have seen the collapse of healthcare systems and the resurgence of diseases like cholera, polio, and measles. War is a powerful engine for disease spread. WWI provided the specific conditions – massive global troop movements, unprecedented crowding, malnutrition, shattered healthcare, and censorship – that turned the 1918 influenza virus into the deadliest pandemic in modern history. The connection between war and infectious disease is undeniable and devastating.
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US Crypto Market Structure Bill Is Finally Here: Will It Start an Altcoin Rally?
The CLARITY Act is proof that the crypto market is moving towards a more favorable regulatory environment. Start of a new altcoin rally?
The House of Representatives has introduced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which looks to adopt a structured legislative approach towards the crypto market.
Well, this is exactly what the crypto community was hoping for ever since the appointment of the pro-crypto Donald Trump as US President.
As the crypto market is finally moving toward a more legislative-focused growth, will it have a positive impact on altcoins? Let’s explore the CLARITY act in more detail and whether it can push the top altcoins to higher peaks.
The CLARITY Act gives more power to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including ‘exclusive’ jurisdiction over ‘digital commodity cash or spot markets.’
For those out of the loop, digital commodities are digital assets that behave more like a commodity (oil or gas) instead of a typical security.
While there’s no definitive list of digital commodities, Bitcoin and Ethereum definitely count among them.
The CLARITY Act requires crypto platforms choose to either register with the CFTC or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This will depend on the types of digital assets they offer: digital commodities, securities, or both.
What’s more, the platforms registered with the CFTC as digital commodity exchanges, brokers, or dealers must also comply with the Bank Secrecy Act.
This would require these platforms to comply with KYC requirements, monitor suspicious activities, and file regular Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), thereby increasing record-keeping requirements for enforcing legal compliance.
!summarize #congress #crypto #clarityact #cftc #sec
Crypto Custodian Provisions
The Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 (SAB121) passed by the SEC in 2022 required crypto custodians to record crypto assets and liabilities belonging to their clients in their own balance sheet. However, the CLARITY Act proposes a more logical approach.
Regulators like the SEC cannot ask digital asset custodians to record digital assets held by their clients on their own balance sheets. After all, the ‘asset belongs to the client, not the custodian.’
Stablecoin Oversight
The Act has also cleared the air around stablecoins, expressly stating that these are not securities, and the SEC, therefore, has no say on their regulation. Stablecoins like $USDC, $USDT, or PayPal USD will be regulated by ‘whichever regulator already oversees the firm involved.’
This means that if a stablecoin has been issued by a bank, bank regulators such as the FED or OCC will regulate it. Similarly, USDC will be regulated by the agency that oversees Circle, the issuer of $USDC.
It’s also worth noting that the Stablecoin Bill is due for discussion next week. It aims to establish clearer rules for managing and issuing stablecoins, protecting consumers, and preventing financial instability.
However, a few experts believe that the Stablecoin Bill and the CLARITY Act must merge for a more unified approach towards crypto markets.
Overall, the CLARITY Act is a good first step towards a more regulated and structured crypto market, with clear demarcation between spot and cash markets, as well as stablecoin treatment.
As the crypto market becomes more organized, investor confidence in digital assets is bound to skyrocket. This may lead to a massive increase in investments over time, which puts retailers like yourself at the perfect spot to buy and hold the next big crypto coin.
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This gain-of-function disease, COVID-19, may be the new Black Plague. I believe that those who will be the most vulnerable will be those who have been vaccinated. That’s just my opinion – not the computer. The computer has not identified the actual disease agent. Our politicians are IGNORANT of history, and if they ever bothered to look, disease ALWAYS spreads with migration. Just open a history book, and they might read that overwhelmingly, the historical consensus is that disease was the primary killer of Indigenous peoples in the Americas following European contact, responsible for a vastly greater number of deaths than warfare.
Pre-contact population estimates for the Americas range widely (40-100+ million), but post-contact decline was catastrophic. Scholars generally agree that 80-95% of the Indigenous population died within the first 100-150 years after sustained European contact due to disease. This represents one of the most devastating demographic catastrophes in human history due to migration, and Europeans brought diseases unfamiliar to the American Indigenous population.
The SEC was the last major regulator still pursuing Binance after a $4.3 billion settlement with the U.S. government last year that saw Zhao plead guilty and step down as CEO, while avoiding jail time and retaining much of his wealth.
The agency's motion to dismiss was granted with prejudice, meaning the SEC can't refile the same claims.
Commissioner Hester Peirce, speaking with CNBC in Las Vegas, said the move reflects a shift toward clearer rulemaking after years of ambiguity.
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"What we're trying to do with the enforcement cases is look at them on a facts and circumstances basis," said Peirce. "We didn't have a clear set of rules. There were a lot of questions about how this particular activity in the crypto space intersected with our existing securities laws."
The commissioner added, "We're trying to take a step back, use our regulatory tools to write those rules, and then enforce those rules."
But Peirce made clear that loosening enforcement doesn't mean open season for scammers. "It is not time for people to think, 'I have a free pass to go rip people off in the name of crypto.' That is not the case."
Stablecoin growth requires green lights from regulators
While showing interest in stablecoins, some jurisdictions like the United Kingdom might be falling behind in the race to attract stablecoin operators if they don’t move faster with regulations, Collison said.
“You have companies that are being set up to serve this industry — if maybe there was a really good regulatory framework, they would choose to base here,” the Stripe exec said, adding:
“Without that certainty they go somewhere else. I think that’s the risk that we need to be aware of.”
Under the SEC's new leadership, the agency has shifted away from enforcement and toward engagement and regulatory rollback. It's held a series of roundtables led by Peirce and newly appointed Chair Paul Atkins.
The SEC has also begun dismantling key rules that once kept Wall Street on the sidelines. In January, it scrapped Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 — a controversial directive issued under former Chair Gary Gensler that forced banks to count crypto holdings as liabilities on their balance sheets. Peirce celebrated the reversal on X, posting, "Bye, bye SAB 121! It's not been fun."
In February, the agency followed up with new guidance indicating that it doesn't view most meme coins as securities under federal law, providing a boon to the Trump family.
President Trump and several of his family members are closely tied to crypto ventures, including the $TRUMP token, which launched just before his January inauguration. The coin currently boasts a market cap of about $2.4 billion, with its website claiming that 80% of the supply is held by the Trump Organization and affiliated entities.
Overall, Dell's revenue grew 5% on an annual basis. It said it expects revenue to grow 8% during the fiscal year.
Dell's server business is reported as part of its Infrastructure Solutions Group, which had $10.3 billion in sales during the quarter, a 12% rise. Of that, $6.3 billion was sales for servers and networking, and $4 billion was for computers that store data.
The company's laptop and PC business, its Client Solutions Group, recorded $12.5 billion in sales as the global PC market is expected to recover this year after several slumping years.
The computer maker also said it significantly stepped up its shareholder capital return during the quarter, spending $2.4 billion on share repurchases and dividends during the period. It spent $2.58 billion on share repurchases for all of its fiscal 2025, which ended in January.
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Synopsys pulls full-year guidance, citing new China export restrictions
Synopsys was already facing a slowdown in China. Now it's trying to assess the impact of new export restrictions.
Synopsys pulled its guidance for the full fiscal year on Thursday, citing a letter it received from the U.S. Commerce Department on restrictions of sales of its products in China. The stock closed down 1.6%.
The announcement comes one day after Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi disputed a report that the White House told the company, as well as rivals Cadence and Siemens, to stop selling to clients in China. He said he had wanted to address the swirling of speculation.
"Recall as we started sometime in FY 2024 communicating that we are seeing both a cumulative impact of the restrictions in China as well as the macro situation inside China have caused us to continue on communicating that this deceleration will continue, and that headwind has gotten stronger as we go through the each quarter over the last year, year and a half," he said. The 2025 fiscal year ends in October.
The Bureau of Industry and Security informed Cadence last week that the company will need a license to export its chip design software to customers in China, according to a Thursday filing.
"The letter stated that BIS has determined that these shipments pose an unacceptable risk of use in or diversion to a 'military end use' in China or for a Chinese 'military end user,'" Cadence said.
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"I am glad to be working with Meta once again." Luckey said in a statement. "Of all the areas where dual-use technology can make a difference for America, this is the one I am most excited about."
Anduril also announced in December that it partnered with OpenAI on an artificial-intelligence initiative related to "national security missions."
Stocks Give Back Some of Their Recent Gains
Wall Street is giving back some of its gains from the week following a mixed set of profit reports from Gap, Ulta Beauty and other companies navigating the challenges created by President Donald Trump’s on-and-off tariffs.
The S&P 500 was down 0.44% in early trading Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked down by 39.16 points, or 0.09%, and the Nasdaq composite was down 0.85% as of 10 a.m. EST.
Gap slumped after saying tariffs on imports from China and other countries could add up to $300 million to its costs this fiscal year. Wall Street has been preoccuppied with questions about what will happen with Trump’s tariffs.
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Shares of Google parent Alphabet were largely stagnant ahead of closing arguments in a legal proceeding that will determine the changes imposed upon the company after being declared an illegal monopoly by a federal judge last year.
A key inflation report from the Commerce Department Friday morning showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September.
The Fed has left its benchmark borrowing rate steady at its last three meetings, in part due to uncertainty about how tariffs will impact prices.
Investors will be paying close attention as three Fed members are scheduled to make public comments on Friday.
Newsmax Renews Verizon Carriage Agreement, Makes SEC Filing
Newsmax Inc. (NYSE: NMAX) (“Newsmax” or the
“Company”) announced the filing of an 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”).
The Company informed the SEC of the following:
Newsmax Inc. has entered into a multi-year renewal for distribution with Verizon Fios for its cable channel, Newsmax.
Newsmax, which is available on channel 616 (116 in SD) on Fios, will retain its current distribution on the Verizon pay TV platform.
The Verizon platform reaches approximately three million subscribers, mainly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions
Trump Accuses China of Violating Deal on Tariffs
President Donald Trump on Friday accused China of breaking its tariff agreement with the U.S., despite the deal he said had protected the country from grave economic danger.
In his comments on Truth Social, Trump said that the high tariffs he initially set on China made it "virtually impossible for China to TRADE into the United States marketplace, which is, by far, number one in the World."
On May 12, the two countries agreed on a 90-day suspension on most of the tariffs, but Trump on Friday said that the "bad news is that China, perhaps not surprisingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!"
Trump said his initial tariffs were "devastating" for China, as "many factories closed and there was, to put it mildly, 'civil unrest.'"
Earlier in the day, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of International Trade found that Trump had overstepped his authority when imposing tariffs on imports from U.S. trading partners.
Two of the judges deciding the case were Republican appointees, including one Trump had seated on the bench, reports CBS News.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit quickly granted an emergency motion to stay the ruling, after the administration argued that stopping the decision was "critical for the country's national security."
In addition to attacking Leo, Trump also slammed the Federalist Society and the three judges who ruled against his tariffs.
"Where do these initial three Judges come from?" he said. "How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of 'TRUMP?' What other reason could it be?"
Leo, in a statement to Politico, said he's grateful for Trump's work in "transforming the Federal Courts, and it was a privilege being involved."
"There's more work to be done, for sure, but the Federal Judiciary is better than it's ever been in modern history, and that will be President Trump's most important legacy," Leo added.
Thursday, though, Trump posted that he was "disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations" and said that Leo left the conservative organization to "do his own thing.'"
Trump's relationship with Leo also reportedly became strained after Justices Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, the three conservative justices he appointed to the Supreme Court, did not intervene to keep him in office after his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
Three other conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, have also been linked to the Federalist Society, mainly through Leo, reports Time.
It is really hot in this part of the world.
Friday. Looking forward to the weekend.
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Thank you Sir for making my day.
When will this be figured out?
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Happy friday to all.
#thoughtoftheday #quotes
Happy Friday to you as well!
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Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops.
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China Signals Softer Stance on Rare Earth Export Curbs
China said it would cooperate further with other countries over its rare earth export controls as shortages put auto and semiconductor makers in Europe and India at risk of closure.
China, which controls over 90% of global processing capacity for the rare earth magnets used in everything from automobiles and fighter jets to home appliances, imposed restrictions in early April requiring exporters to obtain licenses from Beijing.
While a handful of licenses have been granted, including to some Volkswagen suppliers, Indian automakers say they have received none and will have to stop production in early June.
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Islamic State Group Claims 1st Attack on Syrian Govt Forces Since Assad's Fall
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be adopted by the extremists since the fall of Bashar Assad.
In two separate statements issued late Thursday, IS said that in the first attack, a bomb was detonated targeting a "vehicle of the apostate regime," leaving seven soldiers dead or wounded. It said the attack occurred "last Thursday," or May 22, in the al-Safa area in the desert of the southern province of Sweida.
IS said that the second attack occurred this week in a nearby area during which a bomb targeted members of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, claiming that it killed one fighter and wounded three.
There was no comment from the government on the claim of the attack and a spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the attack on government forces killed one civilian and wounded three soldiers, describing it as the first such attack to be claimed by IS against Syrian forces since the fall of the 54-year Assad family's rule in December.
IS, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, is opposed to the new authority in Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once the head of al-Qaida's branch in Syria and fought battles against IS.
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Mayor Giuliani Statement on Bernie Kerik Passing
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani remembers the late Bernie Kerik.
"On September 11th, Bernie Kerik and I saved each other's lives," Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a statement to Newsmax.
"If we weren't already friends, that bound us together forever," Giuliani added. "He was my best friend, a true Patriot, and one of the bravest men I've ever known.
"He was driven by an unwavering love of this country and a commitment to serving others. He was one of the most decorated New York City police officers of his time. He served as Commissioner of Rikers Island, where he reduced violence by over 90%. CBS's 60 Minutes described his work at Rikers as the best example of how to take the worst jail in America and make it the best.
"Bernie's leadership helped guide the people of a very frightened city to draw from their inherent individual strength as Americans and children of God.
"My heart goes out to his wife Hala, his son Joe, and two daughters — my goddaughters — Angelina and Celine. Joe is following in his footsteps as a brave and accomplished police officer. I also share this inexpressible grief with so many mutual friends and admirers, and to all of them, I offer the thought that we are all much better for knowing him."
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Israel Minister: 'Time to Go in With Full Force' in Gaza
An Israeli far-right minister said on Friday it was time to use "full force" in Gaza, after Hamas said a new U.S.-backed truce proposal failed to meet its demands.
An Israeli far-right minister said on Friday it was time to use "full force" in Gaza, after Hamas said a new U.S.-backed truce proposal failed to meet its demands.
Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in Gaza in March ending a six-week truce.
Israel recently intensified its offensive in what it says is a renewed push to destroy Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023 attack triggered the war.
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Hamas sources said last week the group had accepted a U.S.-backed deal, but on Thursday political bureau member Bassem Naim said the new version meant "the continuation of killing and famine... and does not meet any of our people's demands, foremost among them halting the war."
"Nonetheless, the movement's leadership is studying the response to the proposal with full national responsibility," he added.
A source close to the group said the new version "is considered a retreat" from the previous one, which "included an American commitment regarding permanent ceasefire negotiations."
According to two sources close to the negotiations, the new proposal involves a 60-day truce, potentially extendable to 70 days, and the release of five living hostages and nine bodies in exchange for Palestinian prisoners during the first week.
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It also involves a second exchange of the same number of living and dead hostages during the second week, according to the sources.
The same sources said Hamas had agreed last week to two exchanges on the same terms, but one during the first week of the truce and the other during the final week.
Out of 251 hostages seized during the October 2023 attack, 57 remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
The humanitarian situation in the territory remains dire despite aid beginning to trickle in after a more than two-month Israeli blockade.
Food security experts say starvation is looming for one in five people.
Medical facilities in Gaza, meanwhile, have come under increasing strain and repeated attack.
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Inflation Cools to 2.1% With Little Tariff Impact
A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below the March figure of 2.6%. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.
The court ruling last Wednesday said that most of Trump’s tariffs were unlawful, including his duties on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, as well as those on more than 50 other countries. Tariffs on steel, aluminum, and cars were implemented under different laws and remain in place.
But the duties were allowed to remain in effect while the Trump administration appeals the ruling against them. And administration officials say they will find other legal authorities, if needed, to implement the tariffs. As a result, what tariffs will end up in place and for how long remains highly uncertain.
Student Speaker Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' at MIT Graduation
Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's class of 2025, addressed graduates at the school's commencement on Thursday.
Clad in a red keffiyeh, Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's class of 2025, addressed graduates at the school's commencement on Thursday.
"You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine," she said.
"It is no secret that at this time, academic institutions across the country are shrouded in a dark cloud of uncertainty," she said. "The question of what will happen next echoes in our minds, and there is a lot of fear in many of our hearts."
Vemuri told graduates, to some applause, that "last spring, MIT's undergraduate body and graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with the genocidal Israeli military."
"As scientists, engineers, academics and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding now as alumni that MIT cuts the ties," she said.
After telling students to turn their rings around so the MIT emblem faces outward, the student said that the school "is directly complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, and so we carry with us the obligation to do everything we can to stop it."
Sally Kornbluth, the MIT president who has retained her job unlike the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, who testified alongside her in December 2023 at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Jew-hatred, spoke following Vemuri.
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"OK, listen, folks. At MIT, we value freedom of expression," she said, without pushing back on the "genocide" accusation against the Jewish state. "But today's about the graduates, so it's time for me to charge you all. So good afternoon, everyone."
"Just throw academia in the garbage," wrote Vickie Paladino, a Republican member of the New York City Council who represents part of Queens.
"It's time to start from scratch," she stated. "There's literally nothing left to lose at this point. None of these people deserve the status, prestige or authority that comes with an elite credential."
Retsef Levi, a professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management who notes in his bio that he served in the Israel Defense Forces for nearly 12 years, wrote, "that MIT trains woke minds that fail to see the only genocidal entity in Gaza is Hamas is known."
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Senior Hamas Official: We Reject the New US Ceasefire Proposal
The BBC reported Friday that Hamas is expected to reject the latest ceasefire and hostage-release proposal based on U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's plan, according to a senior Hamas official.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Friday morning, citing a senior Hamas official, that the terror organization is expected to reject the new ceasefire and hostage-release proposal based on U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's framework.
According to the official, the framework fails to address Hamas' core demands – namely, a commitment to turn the temporary ceasefire into a permanent one, and a protocol that would allow an increase in the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The official added that Hamas is still in contact with the mediators and will issue an official response soon.
Thursday night on Kan News, it was reported that senior Israeli officials involved in the hostage negotiations believe the chances of reaching an agreement are currently high – but depend on Hamas' position. The U.S. administration has also expressed strong optimism, to the point that Witkoff wants to finalize an agreement in the coming days – even after this weekend's round of nuclear talks (with Iran).
However, the matter hinges on Hamas' response to the contentious issue of American guarantees to uphold the agreement and the ceasefire. According to sources, this is how the Witkoff framework phrases it: "Negotiations for a permanent ceasefire will continue during the 60-day temporary ceasefire, and the ceasefire will be extended beyond those 60 days as long as negotiations continue positively." According to sources familiar with the issue, this is a "sophisticated formulation" that does not include a firm commitment to end the war.
While critics are rightfully concerned about the many direct side effects of the C-19 vaccines, few are aware of the threat posed by the large-scale and out-of-control gain-of-function experiment that has been triggered by irrational human intervention in highly C-19 vaccinated populations. After psychotic infection-prevention measures and insane C-19 mass vaccination drove viral escape from anti-SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) immunity, making the virus more infectious, ongoing vaccine breakthrough infections now appear to be evolving in a way that facilitates immune deficiency against SC-2 altogether, thereby facilitating increased viral virulence of newly emerging, highly transmissible SC-2 lineages. As I always said: This is not going to have a happy ending (in highly C-19 vaccinated populations).
A political source stated that contrary to reports, Israel does not recognize any Hamas agreement to Witkoff's framework. Hamas also denied any agreement, with the terror group's Al-Aqsa news channel report that "Hamas is still reviewing the latest proposal; it is not true that it has agreed to it."
Additionally, Kan News reported on Thursday for the first time that sources involved in the negotiations said Hamas is not satisfied with Witkoff's new framework and is struggling to accept it. According to the sources, the organization was angered by the fact that the framework does not guarantee a comprehensive ceasefire and a full IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Former Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Wins Libel Suit Against BBC
A jury at the High Court in Dublin ruled in Adams’ favor and he was awarded 100,000 euros ($113,000) in damages.
Adams sued Britain’s public broadcaster over a claim in a documentary and online article that he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson, a long-serving Sinn Fein official who acknowledged in 2005 that he had worked for British intelligence. He was shot dead at his cottage in rural Ireland four months later.
In the BBC program broadcast in September 2016, an anonymous source claimed the shooting was sanctioned by the political and military leadership of the IRA and that Adams gave “the final say.”
Adams denies involvement and called the allegation a “grievous smear.”
Adams, 76, is one of the most influential figures of Northern Ireland’s decades of conflict, and its peace process. He led the IRA-linked party Sinn Fein between 1983 and 2018. He has always denied being an IRA member, though former colleagues have said he was one of its leaders.
In 2009, a splinter group opposed to Northern Ireland’s peace agreement, the Real IRA, claimed responsibility for killing Donaldson. An Irish police investigation remains ongoing.
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Universities Seek to Lure US-bound Students Amid Trump Crackdown
Universities around the world are seeking to offer refuge for students impacted by President Donald Trump's crackdown on academic institutions, targeting top talent and a slice of the billions of dollars in academic revenue in the United States.
Osaka University, one of the top ranked in Japan, is offering tuition fee waivers, research grants, and help with travel arrangements for students and researchers at U.S. institutions that want to transfer.
Japan's Kyoto University and Tokyo University are also considering similar schemes, while Hong Kong has instructed its universities to attract top talent from the United States. China's Xi'an Jiaotong University has appealed for students at Harvard, singled out in Trump's crackdown, promising "streamlined" admissions and "comprehensive" support.
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Jessica Turner, CEO of Quacquarelli Symonds, a London-based analytics firm that ranks universities globally, said other leading universities around the world were trying to attract students unsure of going to the United States.
Germany, France, and Ireland are emerging as particularly attractive alternatives in Europe, she said, while in the Asia-Pacific, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and mainland China are rising in profile.
Chinese students have been particularly targeted in Trump's crackdown, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday pledging to "aggressively" crack down on their visas.
More than 275,000 Chinese students are enrolled in hundreds of U.S. colleges, providing a major source of revenue for the schools and a crucial pipeline of talent for U.S. technology companies.
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Students from Britain and the European Union are also now more hesitant to apply to U.S. universities, said Tom Moon, deputy head of consultancy at Oxbridge Applications, which helps students in their university applications.
There has been an uptick in applications to British universities from prospective students in the U.S., said Universities UK, an organization that promotes British institutions. It cautioned, however, that it was too early to say whether that translates into more students enrolling.
Ella Rickets, an 18-year old first year student at Harvard from Canada, said she receives a generous aid package paid for by the school's donors and is concerned that she won't be able to afford other options if forced to transfer.
"Around the time I was applying to schools, the only university across the Atlantic I considered was Oxford... However, I realized that I would not be able to afford the international tuition and there was no sufficient scholarship or financial aid available," she said.
If Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students is revoked, she would most likely apply to the University of Toronto, she said.
Analytics firm QS said overall visits to its 'Study in America' online guide have declined by 17.6% in the last year — with interest from India alone down over 50%.
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"Measurable impacts on enrolment typically emerge within six to 18 months. Reputational effects, however, often linger far longer, particularly where visa uncertainty and shifting work rights play into perceptions of risk versus return," said QS' Turner.
That reputational risk, and the ensuing brain drain, could be even more damaging for U.S. institutions than the immediate economic hit from students leaving.
"If America turns these brilliant and talented students away, they will find other places to work and study," said Caleb Thompson, a 20-year-old U.S. student at Harvard, who lives with eight international scholars.
Kremlin: Russia, Ukraine to Discuss Ceasefire Conditions in Istanbul
The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia and Ukraine are expected to discuss ceasefire conditions next week in Istanbul, and it praised th
Russia has proposed holding the second round of talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2. However, Ukraine wants to see Russia's proposals for a peace deal before it sends a delegation to Turkey, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Friday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian delegation would be traveling to Istanbul and would be ready for talks with Ukraine on Monday morning.
"At the moment, everyone is focused on the direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations. A list of conditions for a temporary truce is being developed," Peskov told reporters. He said the details of the memorandum will not be published.
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This song continues to age like fine wine .
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A happy Friday to all. Last day of the week once more, have a great day and a happy start to the weekend when it arrives.
Happy Friday to you as well!
Thank you. Same to you.
I saw this on recently . This explains a lot .!!
#quotes #anxiety
So true!
Every day is another opportunity to better yourself . Its all in what you want to preserve your self, health & longevity .
There’s no time like the present to take action to look good and feel great.
Consistency is the bridge between goals and results. It's not about doing everything at once, but about showing up every day, even when it’s hard. Progress is built one small, steady step at a time.
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#earn #passive
#cent
Bitcoin is bullish above 103,330 but risks turning bearish below it.
No mother desires a son who is frail. No woman longs for a husband who lacks strength. No son wishes for a feeble father. No sibling needs a weak brother. No one seeks a man who is diminished.
Indeed, strength is a fundamental responsibility for every man.
Evaluating stocks can be demanding.
Acquiring them often seems straightforward.
However, maintaining an investment for over a decade is where the real challenge lies.
It's the reason I prefer etf's. Not much time is needed to evaluate them in detail / every quarter.
ETF's can simplify things with built-in diversification. It's all about matching your strategy with your goals and available time. Each method has its perks, keeping long-term objectives in focus is what really matters
I completely agree. I definitely won't say stockpicking isn't a valid option. Just not the best one for me personally as I don't have much time to invest in picking stocks.
A long-term mindset with reasonable goals is indeed important!
Totally understand that; ETF strategy can free up time while still keeping you invested in the market. At the end of the day, it's all about finding the method that syncs with your lifestyle and long-term goals
All malice stems from fragility
An unwillingness to overcome temptation breeds deviance. An unwillingness to let go of resentment fuels hatred. An inability to concentrate leads to indolence. A failure to show empathy results in arrogance.
A reluctance to make sacrifices nurtures selfishness. Even the most violent individuals are spiritually frail.
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Just took a walk on the Wild Beach "The Crow" at the Black Sea, such an untouched beautiful place.
#travel #beach #photo #blacksea
Happy weekend 🧑🍳🎂 #inleo #leo #cake #foodie
A yummy 😋 weekend.
Yes yummy weekend, Two for sale and one not to stay at home 🤤.
Have a great weekend with best sales.
That looks really good and I'm craving a slice of cake.
Really very good, I send you a virtual slice
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Content should clearly convey identity and explain the problem being solved. This approach has proven highly effective in recent years.
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Unrestrained government spending is posing a grave risk to the country's well-being by amassing unsustainable debt. The nation is edging closer to a financial precipice, leaving little room for delay.
The sole potential remedy seems to be DOGE, which is showing promise. Allegedly, the primary objective of some Democrats is to thwart DOGE's progress. No prominent Democrat or Tesla protester has been challenged to justify this viewpoint.
1/ Un día diferente en compartir
#spanish
2/ el día de ayer realizamos un compartir entre compañeros de trabajo, para celebrar el cumpleaños de una teacher en "GRAN COMBO".
https://peakd.com/hive-108045/@yeral-diaz/celebrando-el-cumpleaos-de-la-profe-ruth-esp-eng-dfh
🧵/1 Should every child be taught how to code in school? Is it necessary for everyone or are we forcing too much too early in education?
#outreach #threadstorm #coding
🧵/2 Coding is important, but I don’t believe it should be forced on every child. Introduce it early, yes but let each child decide their own path eventually.
🧵/3 Give every child a chance to learn coding, but don’t make it compulsory. Read more about this post by clicking the link below.
https://inleo.io/@eunice9200/does-every-child-really-need-to-learn-coding-csd?referral=eunice9200
A16Z's perspective on stablecoin legislation that enjoys bipartisan backing. 🪙🇺🇸
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2mwjacfzr
How to present food like an expert – advice from chef James Simpkins:
"Pair square items (like a salmon fillet) with round plates. Conversely, use square plates for more rounded dishes.
Opt for contrast and favor odd numbers—serving five pork pieces even if six are available for a more appealing look.
Before serving, use a damp towel to clean the plate’s rim of smudges and fingerprints by choosing a starting point and wiping around. When delivering the plate, hold it by the underside of the edges to keep the clean finish intact."