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South Korean Universities Face Banking Hurdles in Converting Crypto Donations to Cash – Regulation Bitcoin News

South Korea’s regulations prohibiting corporations from opening virtual asset exchange accounts are making it impossible for local universities to liquidate their large cryptocurrency donations. Financial authorities cite money laundering concerns as the reason for maintaining the ban. Education Ministry and Financial Intelligence Unit Favor Maintaining Ban South Korean universities are…
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GamingNews

EA misses targets and offers weak forecasts for annual bookings (updated)

Video game publisher Electronic Arts forecasted full-year bookings for the coming year that fell below Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s forecast fell short of analyst expectations for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. The midpoint of EA’s forecast range $7.3 billion to $7.76 billion was $7.5 billion, and that fell short of analyst expectations of $7.7 billion for the FY25…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Kinetix and Overdare put generative AI in gamers’ hands

Kinetix, the generative AI startup creating user-generated emotes (UGE) for video games, has teamed up with Overdare to put generative AI in the hands of gamers. Overdare is a user-generated content (UGC) platform from South Korean publishing giant Krafton. Today, the companies are placing the power of generative AI directly into the hands of gamers. Enabling completely new, previously impossible…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI is devouring the media industry

Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Top US coal producer Wyoming just approved a $1.2B solar farm

Wyoming just approved its largest solar farm – 771 megawatts (MW) of utility-scale solar plus battery storage. Developer Enbridge has been issued a siting permit by the Industrial Siting Council to construct and operate Cowboy Solar I & II on private land leases in Laramie County, in the state’s southeast corner. Next steps will be to obtain county, environmental, and municipal…
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