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United Nations agency to upskill thousands of staff in blockchain tech

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is tasked with eliminating poverty in over 170 countries, wants to educate its 22,000 staff on distributed ledger technology.

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Gemini’s Travel Rule measures reflect ‘worrying creep’ of overregulation

Gemini will be restricting its UK users to sending only to 58 virtual asset service providers that are registered under the Travel Rule starting Nov. 17. A Trezor analyst argues the measures will go against the principles of Bitcoin and financial freedom.

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Bitcoin price and energy use for mining highly correlated: UN Report

The UN scientists evaluated the activities of 76 Bitcoin mining nations during the 2020–2021 period and found that the global Bitcoin mining network consumed 173.42 Terawatt hours of electricity.

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UN launches international effort to tackle AI governance challenges

The list of participants includes tech industry leaders, government representatives from Spain to Saudi Arabia, and scholars from the U.S., Russia, and Japan.

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UNESCO and Netherlands design AI supervision project for the EU

The United Nations’ UNESCO and the Dutch government launched a new project for supervising AI to help create a framework for the wider EU area.

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North Korean crypto hacks down 80% but that could change overnight: Chainalysis

Crypto bad actors from the DPRK have stolen $340.4 million in 2023, down from $1.7 billion from the prior year, but that’s no reason to feel at ease.

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AI unlikely to destroy jobs, but cost to certain workers may be ‘brutal’ — UN study

A study from the United Nations agency International Labour Organization suggests AI will more likely augment jobs than destroy them, though certain roles could be at more risk than others.

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The UN holds a robot press conference about the state of AI

The AI for Good global summit hosted by the UN tech agency invited a panel of robots and their creators to a press conference to answer questions from reporters.

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