🇺🇸 U.S. officials seek easier pathways to ban AI exports and keep tech secrets in.

Amid the global race to obtain high-level AI models, legislators in the U.S. have unveiled a new bill that would make it easier to ban exports of AI tech to safeguard against mal-intended foreign actors.

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🇺🇸 Mastercard, JPMorgan, Visa, Citibank & other big US banks are testing shared-ledger technology for tokenised asset settlements - Bloomberg

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🇺🇸 FED'S LOGAN:

- IT'S TOO EARLY TO THINK ABOUT CUTTING RATES

- Q1 INFLATION DATA IS DISAPPOINTING

- FED'S LOGAN: IT IS NOT A SOFT LANDING YET

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📣 Apple $AAPL has closed in on an agreement with Microsoft $MSFT backed OpenAI to use the startup’s AI technology on the iPhone - Bloomberg

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📣 Legendary mathematician and hedge fund manager Jim Simons has passed away, age 86.

His Medallion fund was called "Greatest Money-Making Machine of All Time" and made an annual return of 62% per year from 1988 to 2018 (before fees).

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🏛University of Michigan May Consumer Survey Report shows US 🇺🇸 Consumer Confidence Index drops to six-month low at 67.4.

The report also reveals rising consumer inflation expectations for the next year.

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🇺🇸 President Biden's $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle charging has only produced 7 stations in two years, Washington Post reports.

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🇺🇸 US to impose 100% tax on 🇨🇳Chinese electric vehicles imported into the country - Financial Times

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🇨🇳 Chinese Stocks now trading at 9-month highs

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📣 OpenAI has been showing some of its customers a new multimodal AI model that can both talk to you and recognize objects - The Information

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🇺🇸 President Biden's $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle charging has only produced 7 stations in two years, Washington Post reports.

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Income tax in European 💶 countries

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🇷🇺 Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory

The discovery is estimated at 511 BILLION barrels of oil – about 10x the North Sea’s entire 50-year output.

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🇺🇸U.S. ECONOMIC DATA THIS WEEK:

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump promises major tax cuts for all Americans if elected president. 

"Instead of a Biden tax hike, I'll give you a Trump middle class, lower class, business class, big tax cut. You're gonna have the biggest tax cut.".

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🇷🇺 Russian firms purchased $4 billion worth of weapons from India and paid in 🇮🇳 Indian rupees, reflecting a move towards de-dollarization.

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🇺🇸 58% of Americans say that they disapprove of President Biden's handling of the economy, according to a Financial Times poll.

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📣 HSBC expects Fed to cut interest rates once this year

HSBC: The Fed's forecast for interest rate cuts this year is revised from 75bp (3 times) to 25bp (1 time).

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