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IRS Sends Experts Next Month Around the World To Combat Cybercrime With a Focus on Crypto ✅

*🟢 *The US Internal Revenue Service will deploy experts next month to four continents to combat cybercrime, with a particular focus on tax and financial crimes that use cryptocurrency.🆕 That is part of a pilot program the IRS announced last week where “cyber attachés” will be sent to Sydney, Bogota, Frankfurt and Singapore from June to September.*🤍 "In order to effectively combat cybercrime, we need to ensure that our foreign counterparts have access to the same tools and expertise we have here in the United States," said IRS Criminal Investigation Chief Jim Lee in a statement.**📣 *David Strager, who will go to Sydney, has overseen criminal investigations regarding crypto tax evasion, money laundering and international fraud, according to the IRS.

*🧬 “Strager holds a variety of cryptocurrency certifications and active licenses for cryptocurrency tracing tools,”* the IRS said.

TON Foundation launches $25M accelerator program 🔥

✅ On May 22, The Open Network (TON), a layer-1 blockchain previously created by Telegram, announced the launch of a $25 million fund for projects building on its ecosystem.♾ The venture, dubbed “TON Accelerator Program,” will invest between $50,000 and $250,000 per project and be accompanied by partnerships and mentorships from TON’s staff. Justin Hyun, head of incubation and growth at TON Foundation, commented:

*👌 “Funding forms part of our local hubs rollout strategy and our ecosystem will work to attract new developers as well as successful repeat founders, based across a variety of key global locations.”*

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​MakerDAO publishes 5-phase roadmap featuring funding for open-source AI projects ⚡️

DAI stablecoin proprietor MakerDAO offered up an AI-heavy roadmap for the future with plans for a new blockchain🌸.

MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the Dai stablecoin and its related Maker governance token, recently announced a slew of planned updates to its ecosystem, including a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the planned development of a new blockchain.

🌿Beginning with an upgrade to unify the organization’s brand, the new roadmap details a five-phase project called “Endgame.”

😺Per an official forum post written by MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen, the first phase of Endgame will involve a “full rebrand” to unify the Dai and Maker brands.

“Crucially,” writes Christensen, “Dai and MKR will not be altered.” MakerDAO intends to preserve both tokens in their current form. However, the organization does intend to add two new tokens with updated features which are being temporarily referred to as “NewStable” and “NewGovToken.”Christensen elaborated on this in a reply to a comment on the post:👇

“Dai will remain and will be the undisturbed OG stablecoin with no flashy features, and its liquidity will always be bootstrapped by the unlimited 1:1 conversion to NewStable.”🧐

Going forward, the “key product launch of Endgame” will include the eventual launch of six “Maker SubDAOs” and accompanying NewStable token farms.The subDAOs will be split between facilitator and allocator DAOs and, per Christensen, their purpose will be to streamline the “workload and complexity that Maker Governance needs to manage.”

🙊Phase three of the roadmap is all about AI. MakerDAO intends to launch several internal AI tools to optimize governance tasks such as monitoring and data **siloing.

Alongside the planned launch of the AI tools, MakerDAO intends to enter the open-source AI development space with a project entitled “The Purpose Fund.**”

​Buzzfeed shutters news division, leans into AI😱

😌Less than one month after it shuttered its news division and laid off 180 staffers, BuzzFeed’s CEO says it’s “leaning into AI” in a Q1 earnings call.

In its first quarter financial call, the digital media company BuzzFeed revealed significant declines in revenue and hinted at upcoming changes in the near future.

According to an official press release from the company, the media outlet is down 27% in its Q1 revenue compared with 2022. Additionally, both advertising and content revenue declined by at least 30%.

🤪Buzzfeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said to address these shortfalls, the company will need to “adapt,” which will include integrating artificial intelligence (AI).👇

“By leaning into Creators and AI, I believe we can unlock new opportunities across our portfolio of trusted brands…”

The statement comes after BuzzFeed shut down its news division and laid off 180 staff toward the end of April. At the time, a spokesperson from BuzzFeed said none of the jobs were being replaced by AI, though Peretti commented that AI would become “part of our core business.”

Cointelegraph reached out to BuzzFeed for further comment on integrating AI into its content strategy.

😺Although BuzzFeed says AI is not taking over any jobs, other companies cannot say the same. Earlier in May, the CEO of technology firm IMB said that around 7,800 jobs at the company could be replaced by AI within years.

On May 9, the fast food restaurant Wendy’s announced 🙊it will be trialing an AI chatbot drive-thru operator it calls “FreshAI.” The bot is said to reduce costs so funds can be allocated elsewhere.

Companies may see AI as enhancing cost efficiency by cutting back on roles. However, a study by Accenture revealed that 40% of working hours across various industries are at risk of AI takeover as tools like ChatGPT advance.😇