WAO ART #279

Saudi investments in Egypt have reached $6.3 billion across various sectors, including industry, construction, tourism, services, and telecommunications. Egyptian investments in Saudi Arabia have also reached $1.6 billion in manufacturing, retail, and construction.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has made an interesting proposal to Sam Altman, the dismissed CEO of OpenAI. Hoskinson has invited Altman to join a decentralized big language model (LLM) on the Cardano partner chain. This comes after Cardano announced the use of the Polkadot stack on its public chain.

Investors at OpenAI are pushing for the reinstatement of former CEO Sam Altman, disagreeing with the board's decision to terminate him. OpenAI, the AI company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly receiving criticism from investors who are in contact with its largest shareholder, Microsoft, to advocate for Altman's return.

Two brothers from Co Derry, Sean and Eoghan O'Kane, raised almost £9,000 for the charity Marie Curie by doing a skydive in Australia. They wanted to honor their mother, who died from cancer 20 years ago and was cared for by Marie Curie.

Argentinians are voting in a run-off election between populist Javier Milei and current economy minister Sergio Massa. Milei, a self-described "anarcho-capitalist" and admirer of Donald Trump, is slightly favored to win, according to polls.

ECB President Christine Lagarde has proposed the creation of a European counterpart to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to address Europe's challenges such as deglobalisation, demographic changes, and decarbonisation. Lagarde also suggests consolidating Europe's national financial exchanges.

South Korea's largest political party, the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), will require all its candidates to declare their digital asset holdings in a move towards transparency. This comes after a scandal involving a DPK legislator who held and sold off digital assets before they were delisted.