What happens when money comes with conditions attached? India is testing a digital currency that allows some welfare payments to be spent only on approved goods from approved vendors. It's one of the developments driving interest in the Human Rights Foundation's free Financial Freedom webinar, which returns this month: 22-24 June @npub17xvf...c9as | @npub13rvv...d4e0 | @npub1d39s...h33r | @BITCOINSAFARITZ | #Bitcoin #BTC #freedommoney View article →

A government doesn't need to shut down a newspaper if it can freeze the journalists' bank accounts. That's the concern after authorities in El Salvador froze assets linked to journalists at El Faro following a documentary investigation. It's one of several examples highlighted in my latest feature on the Human Rights Foundation's free Financial Freedom webinar for nonprofits and activists – featuring @npub13rvv...d4e0 @BITCOINSAFARITZ and @npub1d39s...h33r #Bitcoin #BTC #education @npub17xvf...c9as View article →

"The rescue of the downed American airman was real. Ghost Murmur, as described, almost certainly was not. I say this not to diminish the operation, but because the technology being credited for it contradicts sixty years of established physics" – says my good friend (and biomedical engineering graduate), MJ Zerehpoush. If any of you weren't forced down a rumour-induced rabbit hole after the CIA made this bold claim, don't worry, I've done it for you. They claim to have isolated the man's heartbeat across a deserted 40 km expanse, with a little bit of help (as always nowadays) from artificial intelligence. The technology they're talking about definitely exists but there's no public evidence that it can work to this extent. However, we can prove that it's being used elsewhere with a high degree of success. I asked Jeffrey Bander, MD and Kit Yee Au-Yeung of SandboxAQ to explain what it can do and how it's being used. Read more in my first article for WIRED Middle East 👇 #AI #tech #journalism #WIRED #freelance

“When an #AIagent makes a costly error, users will sue deployers and deployers will sue developers,” says Dennis G. Jansen, AI-native Chief Legal Officer at J-Law. "Specialized #AI insurance can support taking risks, ease negotiations, and thereby enable AI adoption” Read more and subscribe (please):

When AI fails, insurance may pay – but who is at fault?

Claude and other AI tools are now embedded in everyday work, but legal responsibility has not caught up with their use

“#AIagents can still hallucinate, misunderstand intent, or take actions they should not,” says #AI security leader Hammad Atta. “A lot of issues only show up in messy, real-world conditions. Real users do not behave like test cases – they jump between topics, reuse conversations, and interact over time.” Read more tech-made-simple articles here:

When AI fails, insurance may pay – but who is at fault?

Claude and other AI tools are now embedded in everyday work, but legal responsibility has not caught up with their use

“I see parallels between #AI insurance and other industries where risk was financialised before being fully understood – think early #cyber insurance and the first wave of autonomous-vehicle coverage,” says AI Advisor Avron Welgemoed. "The same pattern is playing out here" “We’re financialising a risk we still don’t fully understand and probably can’t predict” Subscribe to my Substack:

When AI fails, insurance may pay – but who is at fault?

Claude and other AI tools are now embedded in everyday work, but legal responsibility has not caught up with their use

I’m not a technical person. That’s exactly why I wanted to understand this properly. Most people using #AI agents aren’t experts either. They’re just trying to get their work done more efficiently. So I didn't just want to know how the technology works. I needed to understand how it behaves in everyday use – and what happens when something goes wrong. View article →

Do you use an AI agent or chatbot? Does your company? Ever wondered what happens when it gets things not slightly wrong but catastrophically wrong? We’re giving AI tools more and more power but, as the old adage goes, with great power comes great responsibility. Or does it? Can AI be held responsible? View article →

Hosted entirely by women but open to all, the Women of Bitcoin Summit 2026 drew a largely female audience from across the U.S., the U.K., Europe and countries including Brazil, India, Italy, Germany, Guatemala and El Salvador. Rest all about it in this month’s Proof of Work Magazine 🧡

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The Third Edition is live! Check it out at www.proofofworkmagazine.com Amazing contributors shared insightful stories. Over the next coupke of day...

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