Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis says some $9.9-billion was lost to crypto scams globally last year. Such scams are not new in Africa, but their scale and sophistication has grown as cryptocurrency spreads.
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions to recruit top artificial intelligence talent, triggering debates about whether the aggressive hiring spree will pay off in the competitive generative AI race.