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Reimagined as an ambitious and visionary bridge investment focus on infrastructure development, job creation, innovation and education.Photo by Curtis Macnood The global economic landscape is about to undergo a once-in-a-generation paradigm shift, as the World Subnationals and Nations (WSANDN), in partnership with development firm Juvidoe Technologies, prepares to roll out the first-ever Economic Growth Capital Resource (EGCR) initiative. This visionary plan to eliminate barriers and create a global infrastructure development boom is projected to generate a staggering $300 trillion in new economic value that will energize local communities around the globe, lifting people out of poverty and lifting countries’ debts.…

United States tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports took effect on Tuesday. The levies, set at 25 percent by US President Donald Trump, have been followed by the doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20 percent. Levies on Canadian energy are limited to 10 percent. Mexico and Canada, the top US trading partners, account for more than 30 percent of total goods traded, exceeding $1.6 trillion. The move has triggered trade tensions, including retaliatory tariffs, that could slow economic growth and drive up prices for Americans still recovering from years of high inflation. “We estimate the tariffs could lead…

A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media over the past week. The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and Andreessen Horowitz. GibberLink allows an AI agent to recognize when it’s speaking on the phone with another AI agent, the project’s creators, Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko, told TechCrunch in an interview. Once an AI agent realizes it’s talking to another AI agent, GibberLink prompts…

Proofpoint warns of a highly targeted campaign targeting several United Arab Emirates organizations across multiple sectors with a new backdoor. The attacks, attributed to an Iranian threat actor tracked as UNK_CraftyCamel, employed polyglot files to hide the malicious payload, a technique relatively uncommon in espionage attacks. The threat actor, Proofpoint says, compromised an Indian electronics company’s email account in October 2024 and then used it to send malicious email messages to UAE organizations in the aviation and satellite communications, and critical transportation infrastructure sectors. The messages contained a malicious URL to download a ZIP archive that appeared to contain an…

PARIS (AP) — Stella McCartney ’s star-studded fall show was a bold statement on power, sensuality, and self-possession. Set inside the ‘Stella Corp’ offices in northern Paris, the runway blurred the lines between boardroom and nightlife, business and pleasure. The Paris collection, provocatively titled “Laptop to Lapdance,” explored the modern working woman’s ability to shift seamlessly between roles, embracing both structure and seduction. It was a natural evolution of 1980s power dressing, when broad-shouldered tailoring became the armor of ambition. Stars among the water coolersCameron Diaz, Jeff Koons, Olivia Colman, Kate Moss, Richard E. Grant, and French First Lady Brigitte…

Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t seem likely to be seriously used,” Sara Beery, a computer vision researcher at MIT, told TechCrunch. “I’m not sure that there is demand for this type of hypothesis-generation system from the scientific community.” Google is the latest tech giant to advance the notion that AI…

As regulatory reporting challenges intensify, central banks around the world are increasingly turning to RegTech and SupTech to bolster their supervision capabilities.A 2024 survey by Central Banking highlights the growing trend among financial authorities to adopt these advanced solutions to streamline operations and improve oversight.The survey included 13 central banks and two supervisory authorities from various global regions, providing a broad perspective on the adoption of these technologies. The distribution of participants is as follows: Americas with five participants (33%), Asia Pacific and the Middle East with three each (20% each), and Africa and Europe with two each (13.3% each).Key…

Before cofounding CoreWeave, CEO Michael Intrator worked at asset managers with strategies in the natural gas and carbon credit markets.Bruno de Carvalho/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cloud computing startup CoreWeave’s three cofounders—Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee—and board member Jack Cogen are now billionaires, Forbes estimates, according to information revealed about their stakes and private market sales in the company’s initial public offering prospectus filed Monday. CEO Intrator, Chief Strategy Officer Venturo and Chief Development Officer McBee own 15%, 9% and 7% of CoreWeave’s shares, respectively, while Cogen owns 5%. CoreWeave hasn’t yet priced its public stock offering, but…

A network of North Korean fake IT workers has been creating personas on GitHub to obtain remote engineering and full-stack blockchain developer positions in the US and Japan, threat monitoring firm Nisos warns. The GitHub personas, which are reusing matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content, claim to be in Asia, and some of them appear to be employed at small companies. The network employs the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) previously associated with North Korean fake IT workers, including their claims of experience, accounts on multiple employment platforms, digitally manipulated photos, and the use of the same email addresses…