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Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the US government’s immigration surveillance arsenal, revealing fresh details about how spending on technology and AI tools to find and track migrants has soared to record levels during Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week, analyzed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) contracts with 11 companies the authors said provide surveillance tech. They found the money awarded to these firms doubled from 2024 to 2025, to just over $310m – and in 2026, that number soared to a record $513m. Continue reading...
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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, and crypto exchange OKX have launched a joint venture that will operate as a US-regulated broker dealer and futures commission merchant. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will co-chair the venture. The venture will let OKX’s US and international customers access ICE futures […] The post Intercontinental Exchange Partners With Crypto Exchange OKX To Operate as US Broker Dealer; Andrew Cuomo To Co-Chair Joint Venture appeared first on The Daily Hodl.
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OKX and Intercontinental Exchange have appointed Andrew Cuomo to co-chair a tokenization venture that would give users access to ICE futures and NYSE-linked digital equities. According to a joint June 22 announcement released by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the…
Intercontinental Exchange and OKX will build a U.S. broker-dealer to route OKX's customers into NYSE tokenized equities and ICE futures, pending regulatory approval.
The pair will focus on advancing tokenization and digital asset infrastructure in a joint venture co-chaired by the former governor of New York.
The venture is subject to regulatory approvals but will be co-chaired by ICE and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who began working with OKX in 2023.
Intercontinental Exchange, also known as ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, and crypto platform OKX have announced a 50-50 joint venture designed to connect OKX’s 120 million global users to U.S.-regulated futures markets and tokenized equities. The two companies disclosed the deal Monday, describing the venture as infrastructure focused on tokenized […]
