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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has declared his support of Bitcoin, describing the leading cryptocurrency as an "international asset" with the potential to transform the financial industry, he said.

A bankrupt cryptocurrency platform has been permanently prohibited from managing client assets and given a suspended $4.7 billion judgement in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC's case will proceed in federal court against three former company executives, who have not agreed to a settlement.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the opening of the financial assistance application process for landowners who faced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs before January 2021.

Operators and owners of data centers will need to respond by the extended survey deadline of September 30 for their data centers to be included in the updated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 1-100 ENERGY STAR scores.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is continuing its work to address exposure to this known carcinogen and strengthen the evidence that will be used to further protect people from this hazardous chemical, announced a final rule on July 6, 2023 that will require comprehensive reporting on all six fiber types of asbestos. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a further measure to safeguard the public from asbestos exposure by finalizing a rule that mandates comprehensive reporting.

Truist Financial Corporation has joined the IBM Quantum Accelerator program and welcomed the technology company to the bank's Innovator in Residence Program.

A report by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Labor and a Just Economy highlights the impact of community enforcement programs in tackling wage violations and enhancing labor standards.

The American Petroleum Institute (API), along with more than 100 trade groups across the transportation field, asked the Biden Administration to rethink its new rules on tailpipe emissions. In a press release from July 11, the API said that the new standards set forth by the EPA would hurt not only American consumers, but also American economic interests.

The decision by the European Union to put the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) agreement into action on Monday, July 10, 2023 was hailed by the international trade group for technology called the International Technology Information (ITI) Council.

U.S. Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) have introduced a bill that would broaden the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' (CFIUS) jurisdiction over land purchases by foreign investors.

The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a security official in Serbia. The sanctions against Aleksandar Vulin were implemented on July 11, a Treasury Department press release said.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), widely regarded as the leading think tank for science and technology policy, has released a press release and a report saying that forcing organizations and countries around the globe to adopt clean energy policies will fail unless clean energy sources "are at price and performance parity (P3) with the dirty technologies that need to be replaced."

The federal government is investing $60 million to support small businesses that are developing technologies designed to increase coastal resilience to climate change. The program partners companies with business accelerators to develop technologies and bring them to market.

Following a proposal sent June 8 to the United Nations Education, Culture and Science (UNESCO) Director-General, the United States outlined a concrete financial plan to repay its estimated arrears of $619 million and expressed its desire to rejoin the organization as early as July.

There were 21 press releases published by the Federal Reserve System in May.

As part of a court order, the digital asset exchange company Kraken will be mandated to provide the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with select user account and transaction information from 2016 to 2020.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies held a live panel discussion July 12 on the recently published report on competing for the future of cloud computing.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently outlined how robotics simulation offers virtual training and programming that can leverage physics-based digital representations of environments, robots, machines, objects and other assets.

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced its intent to invest up to $1 billion in a demand-side initiative called Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs).

A public school district in Wisconsin has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to settle violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

During a keynote address Monday at the Berlin Summit for the Earth Virtualization Engines program, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told delegates that AI and faster computing will assist climate researchers in performing the miracles they need to accomplish to make advances in climate research.

Moody's Corporation and Microsoft announced a new strategic alliance to provide financial services and international knowledge workers with cutting-edge data, analytics, research, collaboration and risk solutions.

The nation's imprisoned population are again eligible for federal need-based college grants for low-income undergraduates which is a real game changer for inmates, the president of a New York-based nonprofit justice advocacy group said in a news release.

Mind Network, a Web3 data security and privacy platform, announced on June 30 that it had closed a $2.5 million seed round, which attracted key investors such as Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance.