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OpenAI backs deepfake cybersecurity startup Adaptive Security newsthirst.

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity company Adaptive Security announced Wednesday that it closed a $43 million funding round in March, co-led by OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz. The investment marks OpenAI’s first outside backing of a cybersecurity firm. Adaptive Security simulates AI-powered attacks against companies, specializing in training for deepfake attacks and other phishing threats. “The technology is…

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Chalmers accuses Coalition of ‘horrendous contradiction’ as Taylor appears to backflip on insurance crackdown | Coalition newsthirst.

Angus Taylor has appeared to backflip on the Coalition’s commitment to crack down on insurance companies if they do not bring down premiums. In February, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, told Sky News the Coalition was prepared to “intervene” in the insurance market. “As we’ve done with the supermarkets, where we have threatened divestment, if…

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Trump pardons anti-abortion activists ahead of rally newsthirst.

Watch: Trump calls abortion activists’ conviction ‘ridiculous’ as he signs pardon US President Donald Trump has pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists, including some convicted of blockading a reproductive health clinic and intimidating staff and patients. The pardons were part of a round of executive orders signed by Trump on Thursday, one of several in the first…

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Powell squashes the possibility that the Fed will develop its own digital currency newsthirst.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 11, 2025.  Craig Hudson | Reuters Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell asserted Tuesday that the central bank will not develop its own…

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Trump tariff day setting stage for peak market uncertainty: Evercore newsthirst.

Market uncertainty should “peak” around the Wednesday tariff deadline, according to Evercore ISI. In a note this week, Julian Emanuel wrote investors should resist tariff angst and accumulate stocks. “All you need is a little less uncertainty,” the firm’s senior managing director said Monday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.” Emanuel compares the market pessimism to the…

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Pod, Stephen Starr’s Restaurant, Is Closing After Nearly 25 Years in Philly newsthirst.

Pod, Stephen Starr’s futuristic University City restaurant, will close just before its 25th anniversary. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported the news confirmed by the University of Pennsylvania, the restaurant’s landlord, where it sits adjacent to campus. Resy reservations will not be available after February 22. When Pod opened in 2000, it was a sushi spot…

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US homeland security guts three oversight offices, laying off 100 workers | Trump administration newsthirst.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday gutted three oversight offices by placing more than 100 workers on paid leave, a Trump administration official and two former officials said. The workers, including those in the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, were given layoff notices as part of a large-scale government…

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