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Top Stories This Week Elon Musk threatens Microsoft with lawsuit, claims AI trained on Twitter data Microsoft has been threatened with a lawsuit from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who claimed the Big Tech firm “illegally” trained its artificial intelligence on Twitter data. The entrepreneur suggested that Microsoft mined user tweets to train its AI-powered applications.…

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Important questions about CBDCs remain unanswered for the Kiwi's central bank. 831 Total views 9 Total shares Financial authorities in New Zealand are in no hurry to issue a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, according to a central bank executive.Christian Hawkesby, assistant governor at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, claimed that the country…

While widely written off as a scam earlier this year, Richard Heart’s controversial HEX is fast approaching a $1 billion market cap. According to crypto analytics site CoinMarketCap, the HEX token had a market cap of over $979 million on May 14 with a value of $0.006 at the time of writing. Prior to mid-February, the…

Germany’s second largest stock exchange, the Stuttgart Börse, has revealed plans to develop a new platform for Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) as well as a multilateral crypto trading venue, Finextra reported August 2. The German bourse, which had a trading volume of EUR 81 billion (about $95 billion) across all asset classes in 2017, had…

Someone is pouring Bitcoin to OKEx despite the exchange having suspended withdrawals. 1828 Total views 2 Total shares Large Bitcoin (BTC) transactions from Huobi cryptocurrency exchange are moving to OKEx despite the latter having temporarily suspended crypto withdrawals.According to data from crypto tracking service Whale Alert, a total of 1,995 BTC ($22.5 million) was sent…

Market Talks discussed the Bitcoin bottom, DOGE’s price action and signs to follow in order to know when it’s time to ape into crypto. 182 Total views 4 Total shares On this week’s episode of Market Talks, we welcome Jake, also known as “Korean Jew Crypto” on Twitter and the founder of “The Trading Dojo,”…

As the public standoff between the two agencies approaches fever pitch, the Ministry of Finance makes a formal move. 125 Total views 1 Total shares Russia’s Ministry of Finance has upped the stakes in its drawn-out showdown against the country’s Central Bank by formally introducing a bill that proposes to regulate digital assets rather than…