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Philippine senator eyes proposal to place government budget on blockchain: reports
Philippine Senator Bam Aquino said at the Manila Tech Summit that he plans to file a bill in the next couple of weeks, local media reported....

Substack creators attribute their boost in subscribers to the platform’s community tools
Substack’s bet that writers want the platform to provide a community just as much as distribution appears to be paying off in 2025. Five newsletter creators who moved their operations over to Su...

In Graphic Detail: AI adoption increases, but U.S. consumers are still wary
For better or worse, generative AI has become a tech the industry can’t escape. Whether it’s taking over processes, agentic assistants or a way to scale productivity and creativity, AI is usually ...

Confessions: How an indie agency’s over-reliance on AI drove it out of business
Despite success stories at Unilever and Kellanova, skepticism about generative AI is mounting across the wider business world. An MIT study published last week, which estimated that 95% of organizatio...

Media Briefing: Here are the hurdles to Perplexity’s pitch as the publisher-friendly LLM
This week’s Media Briefing looks at Perplexity’s latest publisher revenue share model, and why despite the opportunity the AI startup company has to being the publisher-friendly LLM, concerns rema...

How Things Are Changing for Japan’s Largest Bitcoin Tank
Japanese company MetaPlanet has mirrored MicroStrategy by converting its balance sheet to Bitcoin. While the Japanese government has not adopted spot crypto ETFs and its taxation system has levied a h...

Resilient Consumers Lift Five Below’s Results as Transactions Surge 8.7%
Five Below’s second quarter results spotlighted a resilient consumer, as comparable sales surged 12.4% year over year. Management noted during commentary with analysts that transactions and ticket s...

FDA approves updated covid vaccines, but with severe new limits
On Wednesday, the FDA approved the new round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax for use by seniors over the age of 65. But for anyone younger than that, the FDA approval onl...

US and China Are Laundering Europeans’ Personal Data — Is Blockchain the Fix?
Incogni, a digital privacy firm, conducted a study on American and Chinese platforms harvesting sensitive data from Europeans. Despite alleged digital protection laws, these apps can circumvent them. ...

Chase Reminds Customers About Upcoming Federal Phaseout of Paper Checks
Chase is encouraging its customers who receive paper checks from the government to enroll in direct deposit as the U.S. Treasury’s Sept. 30 deadline for the phaseout of paper checks for most federal...

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