Mark Zuckerberg is asking investors for patience again. Instead, they’re alarmed.

For Worldcoin, the project that scans people’s irises in order to give them a digital identity and crypto tokens, the race to gather as many users as possible has been marked by increasing regulatory scrutiny and data privacy concerns. These setbacks, which included investigators raiding the startup’s offices in Hong Kong, don’t appear to have curtailed its ambitions. The group is now aiming to team up with some of the biggest names in tech — including OpenAI.

Bullish Bitcoin traders appear to have scaled back their bets on the world’s largest cryptocurrency as its two major tailwinds subside.

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Thai mutual funds will be permitted to invest directly in cryptocurrencies for the first time, according to the local securities regulator.

The beating heart of the crypto bull market sweeping the world isn’t Miami, Paris or the Middle East. It’s South Korea, where speculation has reached such intensity that the won has <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"SC0N21T1UM0W","_id":"0000018f-1468-d583-afbf-d6fc50310000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">supplanted the dollar as the most-used currency for swapping in and out of Bitcoin and other tokens.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the union representing most of its workers reached a tentative agreement on compensation.

Pfizer investors dismissed a proposal that would have required the drugmaker to disclose how its political donations square with its publicly stated values, at the company’s annual meeting Thursday.

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Barclays Plc says more money needs to go toward climate transition projects that are too advanced to interest venture capitalists, and too nascent to attract infrastructure investors.

One promising study concluded that high-voltage direct-current connections between the grids — which already exist, albeit in limited fashion — could offer a kind of workaround to the frequency problem.

Political leaders said this year’s COP29 talks will center on a challenge they’ve failed for years to overcome: massively increasing funds to help poorer countries fight global warming.

Mark Zuckerberg is asking investors for patience again. Instead, they’re alarmed.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-14cf-d583-afbf-d6df42b50000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook should be blocked from exploiting public information on a users’ sexual orientation for targeted advertising under the European Union’s data protection rulebook, an adviser to the bloc’s top court warned.

A measure to change a 2023 law that gave Californians the ability to more conveniently delete their data from all brokers will not advance this legislative session.

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K&L Gates’ Bruce Heiman assesses identity verification on social media platforms, examining California legislation that would require more authentication.

A Los Angeles County Assistant District Attorney was charged on Wednesday with 11 felony counts alleging she repeatedly accessed confidential sheriff’s deputy files without permission.

New York’s highest court overturned <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-158f-d583-afbf-d7df57780000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction on Thursday, saying the former Hollywood movie mogul’s trial judge had improperly allowed witnesses to describe being attacked by him.

A Houston personal injury lawyer and his former office manager have been charged in connection with a $2.4 million scheme to defraud clients of settlement proceeds, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

A federal appeals court corrected an earlier decision to indicate that it partially granted the National Labor Relations Board’s petition to enforce a ruling on a concrete maker’s illegal conduct.

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Quinn Emanuel, a law firm with a reputation for driving hard-nosed litigation, is squaring off against former partners on behalf of Jane Street Group, which claims a theft of its trading strategy.

Loren Brown is the rare law firm leader I’ve spoken with who can articulate a business plan around generative artificial intelligence.