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Spokane’s city council has passed an ordinance targeting crypto kiosks used in a billion-dollar nationwide fraud scheme.

Shanghai-based MiniMax has launched its M1 model, a powerful and efficient open-weight AI that directly challenges rival DeepSeek on performance, cost, and its "true open-source" Apache 2.0 license, ...