Cannes to embrace generalized cryptography payments

Cannes, the French city famous for welcoming the Cannes Film Festival, should experience a digital transformation. Cannes traders are about to start accepting cryptocurrency payments this summer, aimed at attracting high spending customers and modernizing the city’s payment ecosystem. Artem Shaginyan, founder and manager of the strategy of the web payment company3, Lunu Pay, informed…

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Former U.S. Deputy Chief of Technology Officer speaks on AI and Regulation – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

On Wednesday, October 8, the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a webinar featuring former Biden administration U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Alexander Macgillivray. He spoke about his experience helping shape U.S. policy on artificial intelligence. Macgillivray’s talk, “The Past and Future of AI and Regulation: A Practitioner’s Perspective,” served…

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Ukraine floats 23% tax on certain cryptographic income, exemptions for stablescoins

The financial regulator of Ukraine proposed to impose certain cryptographic transactions as personal income at a rate of up to 23%, but excluding cryptographic and crypto transactions and stabaces. Cryptographic transactions would be taxed at 18% with a military levy of 5% more within the framework of the proposed framework, released April 8 by Ukraine…

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A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong

Shortly after Google announced its new universal commerce protocol for AI-powered sales agents, a consumer economy watchdog sounded the alarm. In a post now viral on X Viewed nearly 400,000 times, Lindsay Owens wrote on Sunday: “Big/bad news for consumers. Google today announced how it plans to integrate shopping into its AI offerings, including search…

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