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RM is slated to return to the charts in America in just a few hours. The BTS superstar’s new solo album Right Place, Wrong Person has been announced by Billboard as a sizable commercial win from the jump, and when the company refreshes its weekly tallies, the singer and dancer will appear on a number of them with the title. According to Billboard, Right Place, Wrong Person marks a new best showing in several ways for RM. Fans of the singer and BTS were quick to support the project, and all their purchases and streams have helped the title become…

Donald Trump’s legal team has asked for the judge who presided over his criminal hush-money trial to lift his gag order, which would give him a free hand to criticize witnesses and jurors in the trial.The former president has spent much of the six weeks of his criminal trial — which concluded Thursday with a thundering guilty verdict on all 34 counts — complaining about the gag.The order from New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan forbade Trump from saying anything about possible witnesses, staff members at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, court staff, or any of their family members,…

Podcaster Lex Fridman said in a recent episode that most AI engineers he speaks with estimate between a one and 20% chance that artificial general intelligence will eventually kill off humans.The prediction varies depending on how you ask. For example, a recent study conducted with 2,700 AI researchers indicated there’s only a 5% chance that AI will lead to human extinction.But Fridman said it’s important to talk to people who estimate a much higher likelihood AI could wipe us out — like AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy, who told the podcaster in an interview released Sunday that he pegs it as…

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday rejected suggestions by Republican senators that the Treasury is deliberately increasing issuance of short-term Treasury bills at higher interest rates to try to stimulate the economy ahead of the November presidential election. Yellen told a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing that Treasury’s mix of debt issuance, despite a higher share of short-term bills since the COVID-19 pandemic, is in line with historical norms and with the advice of market participants in the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. “First of all, let me say that we never time the market.…

By Elizabeth Howcroft and Hannah Lang AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The president of U.S. crypto firm is “optimistic” that a lobbying push by the crypto industry will yield results in this year’s U.S. elections, after her company helped the industry lead a record fundraising haul to back political candidates who are crypto-friendly. San Francisco-based Ripple is the second-largest donor to Fairshake, a so-called super PAC, which has raised $92.9 million in a bid to influence the congressional elections in November in favor of the crypto industry, according to OpenSecrets, a research group that tracks influence in politics. Super PACs backed…

New York could soon become the first state to pass a law restricting social media platforms from using algorithms to promote content to minors. New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are nearing a legislative deal on the proposal, according to a person familiar with the matter. The bill would push platforms such as TikTok and Meta’s Instagram to rank content in chronological order by default for young users. That could mean significant changes to how kids in New York interact with social media apps and would make algorithmically generated content feeds an opt-in experience requiring parental consent.…

Canadian Dollar backslides 0.4% against Greenback after mixed US data. Canada delivers BoC’s latest rate call on Wednesday. Broader markets pivot to Wednesday’s ADP jobs data, Friday’s NFP. The Canadian Dollar (CAD) broadly fell on Tuesday, further erasing recent gains against the US Dollar (USD). 1.3600 is proving too tough of a nut for USD/CAD sellers to crack, and the pair remains mired in technical congestion since falling from the year’s highs near 1.3840 in mid-April. Canada is absent from the economic data docket on Tuesday, leaving the Canadian Dollar at the mercy of broad market sentiment. Mixed US data,…

Telegram-based game Notcoin has been responsible for this year’s biggest gaming token launch—and the price has only surged since then, more than tripling in value recently as The Open Network-based NOT token gains steam. Now the team has rewarded the earliest traders who made a bet on Notcoin’s future performance. Back in March, before the NOT token launched and Notcoin was purely playing with in-game coins, developer Open Builders launched a novel “pre-market vouchers” model. Players who had mined at least 10 million in-game coins could swap them for a tradeable NFT that could be redeemed for the eventual on-chain…

Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared defiant Tuesday as he spent hours fielding questions from lawmakers on a range of topics, occasionally sparring with Republican House members seeking to use his testimony to attack the Justice Department. Over the course of a roughly five-hour-long hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Garland defended the department’s work and role in several high-profile criminal cases, including those brought against former President Donald Trump and Hunter Biden. Garland’s testimony comes as Republican lawmakers have argued that the Justice Department is being weaponized against conservatives and just a few weeks after the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and Oversight Committee…

One of the most difficult questions my clients wrestle with is, “How much is a new customer worth to you?” A customer’s value isn’t static. It can shift based on economic factors like GDP or inflation, and also as your business model evolves. It’s a challenging question, but one that you absolutely must be able to answer in order to strategically set a marketing budget and evaluate a campaign’s success. That means being able to identify a metric that you’ll use to know how much you’re willing to spend to acquire a new customer. Keep in mind that the metric…