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Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of the author, and do not represent those of funders, associations, any entity of Ball State University, its governing body or InkFreeNews.com. By Michael HicksGuest Columnist MUNCIE – We are in the midst of two historic global events with major macroeconomic effects that will linger for well over a generation. Both have at their core the failure of American foreign policy, coupled with a once-in-a-century revolution in warfare. I write of course about Ukraine’s historic, courageous and remarkable reversal of fortune in the war against Russian invaders. I also write about…

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Two moves this week, on top of a deal struck earlier this year, point to the same shift: the giants of Wall Street (and Wall Street South) are now central to how American soccer builds toward its next decade. U.S. Soccer confirmed Monday that Mauricio Pochettino will remain the U.S. Men’s National Team head coach through 2030, in a deal supported in significant part by a philanthropic leadership gift from Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the hedge fund and financial services giant Citadel. Griffin is again the lead donor (additional support comes from Scott Goodwin, Adam Freede and several…

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Artificial intelligence has been adopted by commercial real estate organizations at a pace that would have seemed remarkable just three years ago. Lease abstraction, underwriting support, document summarization, market analysis, the list of tasks that real estate professionals are now delegating to AI tools grows longer every quarter. But beneath the adoption numbers lies a more complicated picture. The industry is using AI extensively. It is trusting AI to make consequential decisions far less often, and the gap between those two things points toward a structural challenge that, when it is finally resolved, could fundamentally change the architecture of real…

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BlackRock has announced the launch of its first tokenized fund access offering in Europe through on-chain share classes for select money market funds within the BlackRock Institutional Cash Series (ICS) range. Through this initiative, the asset manager expands blockchain-based capabilities to Europe’s largest liquidity management platform, with the objective of enhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility.To execute this, BlackRock will leverage J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys asset tokenization platform, enabling the new ICS fund share classes to issue digital tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. According to the manager, this framework will allow eligible investors to access tokenized versions of existing liquidity management strategies…

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A major vulnerability in bitcoin wallets manufactured by a Toronto-based company has brought renewed scrutiny to the security of investments in cryptocurrency after hackers exploited the weakness to steal more than $140-million worth of bitcoin in the past week.Bitcoin enthusiasts say that the hack, which took advantage of a coding error in hardware wallets made by Coinkite Inc., has shaken the cryptocurrency community and raised doubts over the best way for holders to store their assets.“There is a lot of soul-searching and re-evaluating going on. The bug was just shockingly bad,” said Eric Chennells, a Vancouver-based cybersecurity analyst and cloud…

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The Palworld Official Card Game has been on the market for a few days and is already showing the same supply and pricing problems that have plagued other major trading card games. Local card shops in many areas are sold out of product, while individual chase cards are commanding high prices on secondary markets such as eBay. Pocketpair, the developer behind both the original game and the new TCG, reported that 3.5 million packs had been sold by early July. Despite that volume, availability at retail remains tight in the immediate launch window. First-edition cards from the inaugural set are…

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Forget memecoins and hype cycles — AI-utility tokens are a new breed of crypto making waves, and this time, they actually do something. They’re quietly building the bridge between blockchain and the massive computational machinery that powers artificial intelligence. And as AI barrels its way into everything from writing scripts to designing molecules, these tokens are evolving right alongside it — shifting from speculative chips on a casino table to genuine tools that keep decentralized networks humming. Three projects stand at the forefront of this shift: Bittensor (TAO), Fetch.ai (FET), and Render Token (RNDR). Bittensor operates a decentralized machine learning…

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