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Binance’s lawyers submitted documents suggesting Gary Gensler, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was interested in serving as an advisor to the crypto exchange, according to a CNBC report. This was discussed over a series of meetings with Zhao and executives from Binance in March 2019…

Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as its PR puts it. There’s no word on who will attend as yet — but…

LGBTQ representation in government has made leaps and bounds over the past year, but there’s still a long way to go before equitable representation is achieved, according to numbers released Thursday by the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute. The number of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people elected to public office between June 2022 and…

In April, the National People’s Congress, China’s legislative branch, passed the “Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) Ecosystem Protection Act” (hereafter referred to as the QTP Act). The QTP Act is China’s first legislative vision for the environmental protection of the Tibetan plateau and its surroundings, covering an area of 2.6 million km2…