Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. EU countries have agreed to use an estimated €3bn in profits arising from Russia’s frozen state assets to jointly buy weapons for Ukraine. The deal struck by the bloc’s 27 ambassadors on Wednesday only
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“The real world of deepfakes” — OpenAIs flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector. Ashley Belanger – May 7, 2024 10:19 pm UTC EnlargeBoris Zhitkov | Moment reader comments 43 As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakesdeceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that
A 16-year-old boy has kicked off a free speech debateone that’s already attracting spectators beyond his North Carolina countyafter he was suspended for allegedly “making a racially insensitive remark that caused a class disturbance.” The racially insensitive remark: referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegal aliens.” Invoking that term would produce the beginning of a legal
Loading… Loading… Editor's note: The headline of this story has been updated to reflect that Interactive Brokers' new desktop product is in addition to, rather than a replacement of, the TWS platform. Interactive Brokers Group Inc IBKR recently launched an updated desktop trading applicationfor Windows and Mac users. Benzinga spoke with Steve Sanders, the firms
Amazon’s ad affinity — Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause Amazon is adding three types of shoppable ads to Prime Video’s ad tier. Scharon Harding – May 7, 2024 10:55 pm UTC Enlarge / A scene from the Prime Video original series Fallout.Prime Video/YouTube reader comments 129
Loading… Loading… Benzinga spoke with Mehrak Hamzeh, the chief technology officer of AppTech Payments Corp APCX , about the future of fintech. "Fraud prevention and AI are essential," Hamzeh says. "We can monitor behaviors, detect unusual activities like keystrokes or device orientation, flag anomalies, and raise alerts for fraudulent activities." Here's an edited transcript of
worth the wait? — Hands-on with the new iPad Pros and Airs: A surprisingly refreshing refresh And the new Apple Pencil Pro does some cool things, too. Andrew Cunningham – May 7, 2024 8:06 pm UTC Enlarge / Apple’s latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that
A sign advertising a home for sale is displayed outside of a Manhattan building on April 11, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Mortgage rates are significantly higher than they were at the start of this year, but they pulled back slightly last week after several weeks of straight increases. That
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Fifty corporate winners from the coronavirus pandemic have lost roughly $1.5tn in market value since the end of 2020, as investors turn their backs on many of the stocks that rocketed during early lockdowns. According to
The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images More Americans are paying capital gains taxes on home sale profits amid soaring property values — but there are ways to reduce your bill, experts say. In 2023, nearly 8% of U.S. home sales yielded profits exceeding $500,000, compared to about 3% in 2019, according to an
Municipals were firmer in secondary trading as the primary market took focus, led by the accelerated pricing of $1.8 billion general obligation bonds from Illinois. U.S. Treasury yields fell out long and equities ended mixed. The two-year muni-to-Treasury ratio Tuesday was at 64%, the three-year at 63%, the five-year at 61%, the 10-year at 60%
Municipal issuers have seen more upgrades this year than downgrades, continuing a trend that began in 2021, while the overall rated universe of muni issuers has also grown. If current economic conditions persist, the trend will likely continue for the foreseeable future, market participants said. The total rated share of the market increased in the
Israel threatened to expand its military operation in Rafah after tanks and troops seized the main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as international mediators struggled to continue talks aimed at ending the conflict. Israel launched its ground offensive into eastern Rafah on Monday, hours after Hamas said it had accepted a draft proposal of
In this article TREE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT monkeybusinessimages | Getty Most U.S. homebuyers taking out a mortgage opt for a 30-year fixed-rate — but they may not realize how unusual that offering is. “The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is a uniquely American construct,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate. True to
Stanley Druckenmiller, Duquesne Family Office, at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha, Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller revealed Tuesday that he has slashed his big bet in chipmaker Nvidia earlier this year, saying the swift artificial intelligence boom could be overdone in the short run. “We did cut that and a lot of
Loading… Loading… Benzinga spoke with Mehrak Hamzeh, the chief technology officer of AppTech Payments Corp APCX , about the future of fintech. "Fraud prevention and AI are essential," Hamzeh says. "We can monitor behaviors, detect unusual activities like keystrokes or device orientation, flag anomalies, and raise alerts for fraudulent activities." Here's an edited transcript of
Loading… Loading… Major cryptocurrencies witnessed a drop on Monday as another top cryptocurrency company stared at an enforcement action by U.S. regulators.CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded 12:00 a.m. EDT)Bitcoin BTC/USD -1.01%$63,702Ethereum ETH/USD -2.46%$3,086Dogecoin DOGE/USD -4.36%$0.15 What Happened: World's largest digital asset by market cap, Bitcoin BTC/USD , failed to sustain its recent climb to $65,000, falling back
Dispatch from the LLM wars — New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters. Benj Edwards – May 6, 2024 7:51 pm UTC Enlarge / Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Inflection AI UK Ltd., during a town hall
VPN BUSTER — Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. Dan Goodin – May 6, 2024 8:35 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images reader comments 150 Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces