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Wisconsin has officially become the first state to buy bitcoin, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And while $98 million isn’t considered a lot of money for a state pension fund, it’s still a notable move given how notoriously volatile cryptocurrency investing can be.

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Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan. A jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of one of the largest white-collar crimes in history roughly five months ago. The 32-year-old could be in jail until he’s 57.

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Sam Bankman-Fried once faced 13 criminal charges relating to his massive fraud scheme at the crypto exchange FTX. However, he’ll only face consequences for the seven charges he was found guilty of in November.

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Meta’s long-promised AI-enabled vision features for the company’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses are finally incoming, allowing the onboard AI to see, hear, and interpret its environment through the glasses’ 12 MP camera and microphone.

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Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty on all seven federal charges in his criminal trial for defrauding customers of his crypto exchange out of billions of dollars with his crypto empire, jurors decided on Thursday night in a Southern District of New York court, Reuters

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testified in his fraud trial Thursday with no jury present.

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FTX Trading is examining restarting the crypto exchange with three bidders, according to a Bloomberg report Tuesday.

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The trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried reached its halfway point, and a flurry of incriminating evidence, emotional testimonies, and odd tales have surfaced in the last three weeks.

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