SEC Proposes Certain Crypto Interfaces Don’t Need to Register as Brokers

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a staff statement clarifying how the agency plans to interpret software interfaces facilitating crypto transactions in its broker-dealer regulations. In a Monday statement, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets staff said that under certain circumstances, interfaces that “assist users engaging in user-initiated crypto asset securities…

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2.0 Flash, Flash-Lite, Pro Experimental

In December, we kicked off the agentic era by releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash — our highly efficient workhorse model for developers with low latency and enhanced performance. Earlier this year, we updated 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental in Google AI Studio, which improved its performance by combining Flash’s speed with the ability…

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Vance Heads To Pakistan For Highest-Level US-Iran Talks In Decades, Trump Warns Of New Strikes If They Fail

US Vice President JD Vance has departed Washington for Islamabad for their first peace talks of the war in what could be the most consequential diplomatic encounter between the United States and Iran in over four decades. Before boarding Air Force Two, Vance said on April 10 that he expects “positive” negotiations even as disputes…

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Cassidy pans Landry for moving forward with Louisiana Senate primary after voting rights decision

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Thursday that Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) deciding to move forward with the state’s Senate primary election next month was “disappointing.” Landry signed an executive order earlier Thursday suspending the House primary elections in Louisiana, a day after the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s congressional map was unconstitutional. All……

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