Full press conference: Rep. Scholten announces funding for GR Urban League youth center
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Jackson Holliday sent back to Triple-A after struggling in first 10 games with Orioles
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King Charles announces return to public royal duties following his cancer treatment. Here's what to know about his health journey.
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When IBM announced its intention to acquire HashiCorp for $6.4 billion on Wednesday at market close, it was easy to conclude that the two companies should fit well together, but a deal comes down to more than strategy. In his meeting with analysts after Wednesday's announcement, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said he sees HashiCorp as a critical piece of IBM's hybrid cloud management strategy, especially as it relates to generative AI. “As generative AI deployment accelerates alongside traditional workloads, developers are working with increasingly heterogeneous, dynamic and complex infrastructure strategies," Krishna told analysts.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman and other tech leaders join the federal AI safety board
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Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market. On Thursday the company announced that it would let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with just one currency in particular, USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon. This will be the first time that Stripe has taken crypto payments since 2018, when it dropped support for Bitcoin due to it being too unstable.
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