In April, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das announced plans to expand its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot beyond banks. Last month the central bank said payment providers would join the digital rupee pilot this quarter. Now Reuters reported that five payment providers have applied, citing sources. They are Google Pay, […]

Image by Ledger Insights.   Thai digital money giveaway highlights programmable money challenges   At the start of August, Thailand opened the registration process for the 10,000 baht ($284) digital money giveaway that was part of an election pledge last year. This week the Senate approved a budget increase to fund the payments to less […]

Image by The Crypto Times   Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, announced on July 16 the launch of Eureka Labs, a startup aimed at developing “a new kind of school that is AI native.”   The company’s goal is to leverage generative AI to create virtual teaching assistants, that can […]