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Reploy AI Unveils Groundbreaking $RAI Token ICO, Pioneering Blockchain AI Technology in Web3 12-05-2024 11:56 PM CET | Business, Economy, Finances, Banking & Insurance Press release from: ABNewswire Image: https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeRLTJ36fBt34mMQ6gBDntEr9OCRAl7NGFyhcHNd30krFiG_A3GH_hWwq4rpFhaHG9xZXn-yAvWwPFCFN61trbX8JPHkUOGu-NAp-mhTSydtVAUI2MGQMp-iR4GmYemsC2vHuOz?key=03PtSRvOrHOtZCneCGR1JrsT December 5, 2024 - Reploy AI [ https://www.reploy.ai/ ], a trailblazer in the convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain, is thrilled to announce the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for its highly anticipated $RAI token. Scheduled to commence on December 11, 2024, this crypto presale marks a transformative milestone in the integration of advanced AI technologies within the Web3 landscape. By launching $RAI, Reploy AI aims to empower users with unparalleled access to AI-driven solutions tailored for blockchain environments. Upon conclusion of the presale, $RAI will officially launch on the Ethereum blockchain, setting the stage for innovative use cases that harness the combined power of AI and decentralization. A Paradigm Shift: Blockchain AI for the Web3 Era Reploy AI's $RAI token represents a cutting-edge innovation designed to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies. The token fuels Reploy AI's vision of creating smarter, more intuitive systems that redefine user experiences in Web3. From predictive analytics to contract automation, $RAI stands at the forefront of blockchain AI advancements. "At Reploy AI, we believe that the fusion of AI and blockchain is the future of decentralization. The $RAI token is our first step in realizing this future, providing users with intelligent tools to enhance their blockchain experiences," said Adam Filich, spokesperson for Reploy AI. Key Features of the $RAI Token The $RAI [ https://www.reploy.ai/ ] token introduces several groundbreaking features that distinguish it from other cryptocurrencies: * Seamless Blockchain AI Integration: $RAI is specifically designed to merge AI functionalities with blockchain technology, optimizing decision-making and operational efficiency. * Ethereum Ecosystem Compatibility: As a leading blockchain platform, Ethereum provides the ideal infrastructure for $RAI's secure and scalable deployment. * Driving Web3 Innovations: The token powers applications that leverage AI to streamline processes, from decentralized finance (DeFi) to supply chain management. ICO and Presale Details The $RAI token presale begins on December 11, 2024, offering early investors a unique opportunity to participate in Reploy AI's groundbreaking ecosystem. During the presale, investors can access exclusive benefits and tiered rewards based on their level of participation. The funds raised during the ICO will support Reploy AI's mission to expand its blockchain AI capabilities and roll out new applications in 2025. With growing interest in the intersection of AI and blockchain, the $RAI presale is expected to attract significant attention from developers, enterprises, and individual investors. Unlocking the Potential of Blockchain AI The fusion of blockchain and artificial intelligence addresses key challenges in decentralized systems, such as scalability, security, and efficiency. Reploy AI's $RAI token introduces groundbreaking solutions, including: * Enhanced Security: AI-powered threat detection mechanisms ensure a safer blockchain environment, protecting users from fraud and cyberattacks. * Smarter Contract Automation: $RAI enables the development of intelligent smart contracts that can adapt to changing conditions, improving functionality and flexibility. * Predictive Analytics: By leveraging AI-driven insights, $RAI helps businesses and developers make data-informed decisions to optimize performance. * Streamlined Operations: From token transactions to decentralized app (dApp) development, $RAI integrates AI to simplify complex blockchain processes. A Glimpse Into the Future: Reploy AI's Roadmap The launch of the $RAI token marks the beginning of an ambitious roadmap for Reploy AI. Key milestones planned for the coming year include: * Expansion of Blockchain AI Applications: Reploy AI will introduce new tools and services powered by $RAI, catering to industries such as finance, logistics, healthcare, and gaming. * Developer Ecosystem Growth: The company will establish a robust ecosystem for developers to build AI-driven decentralized applications (dApps) using $RAI. * Strategic Partnerships: Reploy AI plans to collaborate with industry leaders to drive adoption of blockchain AI solutions across global markets. * Community Engagement: The company is committed to fostering an inclusive community of users and investors through educational initiatives, forums, and token-holder benefits. Why $RAI Matters As blockchain technology continues to evolve, the integration of AI becomes a critical factor in realizing its full potential. The $RAI token positions itself as a transformative tool in this journey, offering: * Efficiency: AI-driven processes reduce time and costs associated with blockchain operations. * Scalability: $RAI enables networks to handle increased workloads without compromising performance. * User Empowerment: By simplifying complex processes, $RAI empowers users to engage with blockchain technology more effectively. Testimonials and Anticipation Industry experts and early adopters have expressed excitement about the $RAI token's potential to revolutionize Web3. "The integration of AI with blockchain is the next big leap for decentralization, and Reploy AI is leading the charge," said one industry analyst. About Reploy AI Reploy AI [ https://www.reploy.ai/ ] is a U.S.-based technology company dedicated to advancing blockchain AI solutions for the Web3 era. By combining the power of artificial intelligence with decentralized systems, Reploy AI delivers innovative tools and applications that redefine user experiences across industries. The $RAI token represents the company's commitment to pioneering the future of blockchain and AI integration. Contact Information Reploy AIAdam Filich Email: support@reploy.ai Website: www.reploy.ai [ https://www.reploy.ai/ ] Disclaimer: This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies (including product offerings, regulatory plans and business plans) and may change without notice. You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Media Contact Company Name: Reploy AI Contact Person: Adam Filich Email:Send Email [ https://www.abnewswire.com/email_contact_us.php?pr=reploy-ai-unveils-groundbreaking-rai-token-ico-pioneering-blockchain-ai-technology-in-web3 ] Country: United States Website: https://www.reploy.ai/ This release was published on openPR.

A holiday luncheon is when Surrey Urban Mission heard word of an early Christmas gift of "lifesaving" funding for its Welcome Hub community kitchen in Whalley. The facility will remain open into 2026, thanks to $1.9-million in B.C. government funding to help feed people in the area. The kitchen, which serves 200 meals a day at 13545 King George Blvd., was , noted Jack O'Halloran, CEO of Surrey Urban Mission (SUMS). "It's such a relief, down to the wire here," he said Thursday (Dec. 5). "In November, recent weeks, we've seen a decline in the number of people coming in because they heard we were closed. We're not. We're open, we'll stay open." Minutes prior to lunch, O'Halloran said he received a phone call from Surrey City Centre MLA Amna Shah with news of the funding. "She wanted to make sure we started off with some great news here by saying that the BC NDP and BC Housing are coming through with funding that will take us into February 2026," O'Halloran said. "There's still a question of the overdose-prevention site and if that's going to come back, but the great news is we have funding now for our CCWS, our community connection workers, we have funding for our meal program," he added. "BC Housing had already come forward and said that they were going to fund the shelter, so the shelter part was all taken care of." The long-established SUMS, which provides shelter and food for people living in Whalley, was recently forced to close its on 106 Avenue, after the tap ran dry on the nearly $700,000 needed annually to operate the shower and washroom facility, which remains closed. "I accepted today's good news (from Shah), and now I'm hoping that when the details get ironed out, we can bring it (the hygiene facility) back to life," O'Halloran said. Turkey lunch was served at SUMS' holiday event, attended by MLAs Shah and Linda Hepner (Surrey-Serpentine River), Surrey city councillors Linda Annis and Mike Bose, media reps for Surrey Police (Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton) and Metro Vancouver Transit Police (Const. Amanda Steed), and Surrey Board of Trade interim CEO Indra Bhan, among others. Anita Huberman, former SBOT president and CEO, presented O'Halloran and SUMS with a cheque for $5,000 on behalf of Western Community College, located in Surrey's Health & Technology District. The donation "highlights WCC’s broader community engagement strategy, which includes initiatives to support local organizations, empower underserved populations, and promote city-building efforts through education and outreach," according to a news release from the college. Shah said the B.C. government "wanted to make sure that we could do whatever we could do to step in to help SUMS" before the community kitchen closed mid-December. "As soon as the election was over, we got to work on this," Shah said. "Let's just say I've been fiercely advocating for SUMS to make sure that we can, you know, step in and support them in a way so that they don't have to close this facility. "Especially in winter time, it's very important to make sure that we have these services available in this particular core area of Surrey," Shah added. On Nov. 7, B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad urged the NDP government to provide . In October, a week before the B.C. election, both Rustad and BC NDP leader David Eby, elected Premier of B.C., .TORONTO — Canada's main stock index eked out a gain Friday as a rise in tech stocks helped outweigh losses in energy, while U.S. markets were mixed after employment reports on both sides of the border. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 11.76 points at 25,691.80. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 123.19 points at 44,642.52. The S&P 500 index was up 15.16 points at 6,090.27, reaching another all-time high, while the Nasdaq composite was up 159.05 points at 19,859.77, another record. Both Canada and the U.S. got fresh jobs data on Friday, but the two reports painted very different pictures, said Pierre-Benoît Gauthier, vice-president of investment strategy at IG Wealth Management. U.S. employers hired more than expected last month but the unemployment rate also ticked higher to 4.2 per cent. “This report was just good enough,” said Gauthier — not too weak, but also not too strong. The report sealed expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will announce a quarter-percentage-point interest rate cut later in December, said Gauthier. It shows the economy continues to handle higher rates well, he added. In Canada, the economy added 51,000 jobs in November, while the unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent. The jobs number was undermined by the fact the gain was mainly public-sector hiring, said Gauthier. “The federal government creating jobs is in no way, shape or form an indication of the strength of the Canadian economy,” he said. The Bank of Canada is set to cut next week, and Gauthier thinks it could be an outsized half-percentage-point cut. “The rate cuts here cannot come fast enough,” he said. But the Bank of Canada will need to keep an eye on the increasing differential between rates in the U.S. and Canada, he added, which could put further downward pressure on the already weak Canadian dollar. “The Bank of Canada will be stuck between a rock and a hard place, because at some point they'll still have to defend the Canadian dollar," he said. A lower Canadian dollar could also result in some inflation as imports from the U.S. cost more. The Canadian dollar traded for 70.74 cents US compared with 71.24 cents US on Thursday. The January crude oil contract was down US$1.10 at US$67.20 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was essentially unchanged at US$3.08 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was up US$11.20 at US$2,659.60 an ounce and the March copper contract was up a penny at US$4.20 a pound. — With files from The Associated Press This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD) Rosa Saba, The Canadian Press

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By HALELUYA HADERO The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce novel and detailed online reviews with almost no work has put merchants , service providers and consumers in uncharted territory, watchdog groups and researchers say. Related Articles National News | Mega Millions jackpot nears $1 billion ahead of Christmas Eve drawing National News | The Container Store, buffeted by rough housing market and competition, seeks bankruptcy protection National News | An ex-police officer is convicted of lying about leaks to the Proud Boys leader National News | 2 US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent ‘friendly fire’ incident, US military says National News | Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to state murder and other charges in United Healthcare CEO’s death Phony reviews have long plagued many popular consumer websites, such as Amazon and Yelp. They are typically traded on private social media groups between fake review brokers and businesses willing to pay. Sometimes, such reviews are initiated by businesses that offer customers incentives such as gift cards for positive feedback. But AI-infused text generation tools, popularized by OpenAI’s ChatGPT , enable fraudsters to produce reviews faster and in greater volume, according to tech industry experts. The deceptive practice, which is illegal in the U.S. , is carried out year-round but becomes a bigger problem for consumers during the holiday shopping season , when many people rely on reviews to help them purchase gifts. Fake reviews are found across a wide range of industries, from e-commerce, lodging and restaurants, to services such as home repairs, medical care and piano lessons. The Transparency Company, a tech company and watchdog group that uses software to detect fake reviews, said it started to see AI-generated reviews show up in large numbers in mid-2023 and they have multiplied ever since. For a report released this month, The Transparency Company analyzed 73 million reviews in three sectors: home, legal and medical services. Nearly 14% of the reviews were likely fake, and the company expressed a “high degree of confidence” that 2.3 million reviews were partly or entirely AI-generated. “It’s just a really, really good tool for these review scammers,” said Maury Blackman, an investor and advisor to tech startups, who reviewed The Transparency Company’s work and is set to lead the organization starting Jan. 1. In August, software company DoubleVerify said it was observing a “significant increase” in mobile phone and smart TV apps with reviews crafted by generative AI. The reviews often were used to deceive customers into installing apps that could hijack devices or run ads constantly, the company said. The following month, the Federal Trade Commission sued the company behind an AI writing tool and content generator called Rytr, accusing it of offering a service that could pollute the marketplace with fraudulent reviews. The FTC, which this year banned the sale or purchase of fake reviews, said some of Rytr’s subscribers used the tool to produce hundreds and perhaps thousands of reviews for garage door repair companies, sellers of “replica” designer handbags and other businesses. Max Spero, CEO of AI detection company Pangram Labs, said the software his company uses has detected with almost certainty that some AI-generated appraisals posted on Amazon bubbled up to the top of review search results because they were so detailed and appeared to be well thought-out. But determining what is fake or not can be challenging. External parties can fall short because they don’t have “access to data signals that indicate patterns of abuse,” Amazon has said. Pangram Labs has done detection for some prominent online sites, which Spero declined to name due to non-disclosure agreements. He said he evaluated Amazon and Yelp independently. Many of the AI-generated comments on Yelp appeared to be posted by individuals who were trying to publish enough reviews to earn an “Elite” badge, which is intended to let users know they should trust the content, Spero said. The badge provides access to exclusive events with local business owners. Fraudsters also want it so their Yelp profiles can look more realistic, said Kay Dean, a former federal criminal investigator who runs a watchdog group called Fake Review Watch. To be sure, just because a review is AI-generated doesn’t necessarily mean its fake. Some consumers might experiment with AI tools to generate content that reflects their genuine sentiments. Some non-native English speakers say they turn to AI to make sure they use accurate language in the reviews they write. “It can help with reviews (and) make it more informative if it comes out of good intentions,” said Michigan State University marketing professor Sherry He, who has researched fake reviews. She says tech platforms should focus on the behavioral patters of bad actors, which prominent platforms already do, instead of discouraging legitimate users from turning to AI tools. Prominent companies are developing policies for how AI-generated content fits into their systems for removing phony or abusive reviews. Some already employ algorithms and investigative teams to detect and take down fake reviews but are giving users some flexibility to use AI. Spokespeople for Amazon and Trustpilot, for example, said they would allow customers to post AI-assisted reviews as long as they reflect their genuine experience. Yelp has taken a more cautious approach, saying its guidelines require reviewers to write their own copy. “With the recent rise in consumer adoption of AI tools, Yelp has significantly invested in methods to better detect and mitigate such content on our platform,” the company said in a statement. The Coalition for Trusted Reviews, which Amazon, Trustpilot, employment review site Glassdoor, and travel sites Tripadvisor, Expedia and Booking.com launched last year, said that even though deceivers may put AI to illicit use, the technology also presents “an opportunity to push back against those who seek to use reviews to mislead others.” “By sharing best practice and raising standards, including developing advanced AI detection systems, we can protect consumers and maintain the integrity of online reviews,” the group said. The FTC’s rule banning fake reviews, which took effect in October, allows the agency to fine businesses and individuals who engage in the practice. Tech companies hosting such reviews are shielded from the penalty because they are not legally liable under U.S. law for the content that outsiders post on their platforms. Tech companies, including Amazon, Yelp and Google, have sued fake review brokers they accuse of peddling counterfeit reviews on their sites. The companies say their technology has blocked or removed a huge swath of suspect reviews and suspicious accounts. However, some experts say they could be doing more. “Their efforts thus far are not nearly enough,” said Dean of Fake Review Watch. “If these tech companies are so committed to eliminating review fraud on their platforms, why is it that I, one individual who works with no automation, can find hundreds or even thousands of fake reviews on any given day?” Consumers can try to spot fake reviews by watching out for a few possible warning signs , according to researchers. Overly enthusiastic or negative reviews are red flags. Jargon that repeats a product’s full name or model number is another potential giveaway. When it comes to AI, research conducted by Balázs Kovács, a Yale professor of organization behavior, has shown that people can’t tell the difference between AI-generated and human-written reviews. Some AI detectors may also be fooled by shorter texts, which are common in online reviews, the study said. However, there are some “AI tells” that online shoppers and service seekers should keep it mind. Panagram Labs says reviews written with AI are typically longer, highly structured and include “empty descriptors,” such as generic phrases and attributes. The writing also tends to include cliches like “the first thing that struck me” and “game-changer.”EDITORIAL: Doug Ford's push to modernize transit, ease congestion will be his legacy