finance
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OpenAI Founder Sam Altman Invests $AU273 Million in Life-Extension Startup
OpenAI’s founder Sam Altman has a finger in more than one tech pie, so to speak. The controversial former president of startup accelerator, Y Combinator, and current ChatGPT kingpin isn’t only interested in getting his company’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot into classrooms. He’s also interested in living forever — or at least longer than current human…
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Trump’s Shady Media Shell Company Could Lose Its Place on the Stock Market
Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), the Donald Trump-backed shell company angling to take the former president’s social media platform Truth Social public, has run into yet more trouble. The corporation has been warned it is in danger of being delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange.
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Senators Are Hopping Mad and Demanding Answers for the Crypto Collapse in a Hearing
Sceptical members of the Senate Banking Committee will hear from both crypto believers in a Valentine’s Day hearing to try and make sense of the recent “crypto crash” and advocate for new, more strenuous regulatory safeguards to protect consumers. The hearing comes at a pivotal moment for cryptocurrencies. Scandals, fraud, dramatic arrests, international manhunts, and…
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Coinbase Ex-Manager Pleads Guilty to Crypto Insider Trading Charges
It’s 2023 and financial crimes and their consequences have officially come to cryptocurrency. Relatively new on the laundry list of blockchain-based offences that can lead directly to jail: insider trading. A former product manager at the crypto exchange Coinbase pleaded guilty to insider trading charges on Tuesday. The news comes from a Justice Department press…