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22-year-old pleads guilty in $263 million crypto scheme

A 22-year-old California resident has pleaded guilty to participating in a multi-state social engineering scheme that stole approximately $263 million in virtual currency. Evan Tangeman of Newport Beach, California, admitted to laundering $3.5 million in cryptocurrency for a criminal enterprise, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Mr. Tangeman pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Colleen…

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Exodus introduces Exodus Pay for seamless fiat and crypto payments

Important points Exodus has launched a new payment platform, Exodus Pay. Exodus Pay integrates both fiat and cryptocurrencies for seamless daily transactions. Share this article Exodus, a cryptocurrency wallet provider, today introduced Exodus Pay for seamless fiat and cryptocurrency payments. Self-custodial payment platforms integrate fiat and cryptocurrencies to make digital dollars available for everyday use….

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MIT affiliates selected as 2025 Schmidt Science AI2050 Fellows | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

The 2025 membership of AI2050 Fellows includes two current MIT members and seven additional alumni. Zongyi Li, a postdoc in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Tess Smidt ’12, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), have both been named AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Seven MIT alumni were also…

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Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool invocation vision model for multimodal inference

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai releases GLM-4.6V seriesa new generation of open-source vision language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal inference, front-end automation, and high-efficiency deployment. This release includes two models "big" and "small" size: GLM-4.6V(106B)a larger 106 billion parameter model for cloud-scale inference. GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B)a small model with only 9 billion parameters designed…

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Argentina considers banks’ return to cryptocurrencies: report

Argentina is considering allowing local financial institutions to engage more directly with cryptocurrencies, according to local media reports, in a move that would mark a significant shift from its restrictive stance. Local news outlet La Nación reported on Friday that Argentina’s central bank, the Banco Centrale de Argentina (BCRA), is considering allowing traditional banks to…

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