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Visa has recently taken a significant step in the digital payments landscape by launching USDC settlement in the United States. This initiative opens up new avenues for small businesses and financial institutions, enabling them to settle obligations using Circle’s USDC, a fully reserved, dollar-denominated stablecoin. With over $3.5 billion in annualized stablecoin settlement volume, thisContinueContinue reading “Visa Introduces USDC Settlement in U.S., Revolutionizing Payment Speed”

A refrigerator you can talk to and candy that plays music are both on the list of bad products from CES. source https://www.inc.com/associated-press/the-worst-in-show-ces-awards-are-here-and-the-products-share-one-clear-theme/91286441

Employees, meanwhile, are less likely to see salary growth than they were last year. source https://www.inc.com/brian-contreras/c-suite-leaders-raises-ceo-cfo-cto-coo-compensation-massive-jump/91286430

Kansas City Business Journal reporter Grace Mayer is leaving the business newspaper. Mayer covers Kansas City-area technology, health care and architecture and engineering. Before joining KCBJ in October 2023, she covered tech and retail at Business Insider and labor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she won the publication’s David W. Miller Award for YoungContinueContinue reading “KC Biz Journal reporter Mayer is departing”

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people.The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are maliciousContinueContinue reading “Musk’s Grok chatbot is now restricting image generation after wave of sexualized deepfakes”