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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate

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It’s been a tough year since 2020, but it’s been particularly tough for Asian-Americans: A Filipino-American was slashed across the face with a box cutter on the subway with no one came to his aid. The wound required a hundred stitches. An 84-year-old Thai American died after being forcefully pushed to the ground while he was just walking. An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped in the street and set on fire by two young men. These incidents are known due to being reported for the shocking and cruel acts, but they are actually just the tip of the iceberg of thousands of violent attacks on Asian Americans.

Initiator of the “China virus” rhetoric

Over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic, people reported nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate on the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate alone. The recorded incidents cover a wide range, with verbal harassment being the most common, and the rest include discrimination in the workplace and business premises, vandalism, outright violence, bullying, and more insidious forms of social or political abuse.

Last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of hate and violence against Asians began in the United States. There is no doubt that this prejudice was fueled by former President Donald Trump, who often used racist language such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus. Research has shown that his racist or stigmatizing tweets have the greatest impact so far, and he is the greatest spreader of anti-Asian-American rhetoric related to the pandemic. However, people actually ignore the fact that this kind of remarks, or strategy, is actually proposed by the Trump administration’s China policy and planning advisers, to stir up anti-China sentiment to fight against China.

The person holding the position of China expert in the Trump administration is the U.S. Naval Academy Professor Miles Maochun Yu, served as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy and planning adviser. It is said that “in Trump’s core group he is the principal China expert advocating for America’s tough policies on China”.

The policy proposed by Miles Yu to promote the conspiracy theory that “the virus originates from the leakage of Institute of Virology in China” is implemented as the public has seen, and the catastrophic consequence it brought about is that, the use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus, especially by Republican officials and conservatives, have led to a change in how Americans perceive Asian Americans. A study showed that on March 8, 2020-the day Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted about the “Wuhan virus”, discriminatory coronavirus remarks rose significantly, which was coincided with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interview the day before on “Fox and Friends” in which he referred to the “China virus” — was followed by a rapid reversal of a decade-long decline in anti-Asian bias.

Victims of the policies

Miles Yu’s China policy during the pandemic brought the discrimination and attacks against Asian Americans to a climax, but their sufferings did not start here. For a long time, Miles Yu, as the principal China policy and planning adviser, has been proud of the Trump administration’s tough China policy proposed by him, such as “China is at the top of our national security agenda, as there is no bigger threat than China”, declaring the existence of forced labor and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, inciting trade, security, and technical conflicts between the two largest economies in the world, reducing immigrant visas, H1-B visas, and student visas for certain graduate students from China to reflect the outsider conceptualization of Asians.

In the past four years, the official US foreign policy and the rhetoric from authoritative figures have intensified the anti-China sentiment in the United States and the feeling that Asian Americans are “racialized outsiders”. Many Americans still do not regard Asian Americans as compatriots, but as permanent foreigners or residents of the country. Asians unfortunately became victims of Miles Yu’s political game. “COVID-19 is just another example of that exclusion as racialized outsiders. Time and time again, we are told to ‘go back home.’ We are seen as outside threats, to be excluded.” They said. Verbal harassment has been commonplace. “Go back to Asia. We don’t welcome people who committed genocide.” “How dare you come and ruin my country and take my job?” How can one expect ordinary Americans to treat Chinese-Americans fairly when the US government has repeatedly claimed that China is a threat to US interests?

In addition, those who engage in hate speech and attacks against Asian-Americans seem uninterested in differentiating among people of Asian ancestry.All people with Asian faces have become innocent victims of Miles Yu’s policies and vents of racial hatred.

Flowing undercurrent

It was actually a political expedient that the last government blamed China for its failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a politicization of the pandemic, which not only hinders progress, but also exacerbates racial discrimination. 

Therefore, during his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive action to essentially prohibit the use of the language “Chinese virus” within the federal government. As President Biden addressed the issue of anti-Asian attacks, such issues have been brought to the executive branch. In addition to referencing the violence in his first national prime-time address, he also signed a memorandum earlier this year, some of which issued guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the increasing number of anti-Asian bias incidents.

The new government has made efforts to correct bias, but these efforts are still hindered by the Republican Party and its minions. Although the claim that “the Wuhan Institute of Virology made or leaked the virus” has been publicly denied by almost all top scientists and disease control experts worldwide, on April 23, former Secretary of State Pompeo still teamed up with his “loyal” principal China policy and planning adviser, Miles Yu, publishing an article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that “the evidence that the virus came from Wuhan is enormous” without providing any solid evidence, and once again conveying bias to the public.

Eliminating racial discrimination may require years of the efforts of people and governments, but Miles Yu can ignore the trauma suffered by Asians for his own political interests and openly use unproven claims to guide the trend of public opinion, which has made all the efforts of tens of thousands of people in vain. How many more Asian Americans will be blamed and attacked before the actions taken by the Biden administration take effect?

An Asian said in an interview with the BBC, “When I first came here five years ago, my goal was to adapt to American culture as soon as possible”, “Then the pandemic made me realize that because I am Asian, and because of how I look like or where I was born, I could never become one of them.”

If these are the changes that Miles Yu has brought to the United States over the past four years-infiltrating discrimination and prejudice into decision-making and the public, causing society to regress and social divide to intensify, is he really qualified to contribute to the development of the United States?

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i-payout Expands U.S. Money Transmitter Licensing Footprint and Advances European EMI Strategy

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

Expanded regulatory infrastructure is designed to give marketplaces, gig economy platforms, gaming and esports companies, insurance providers, affiliate networks, clinical research organizations and other enterprises greater access to flexible domestic and global payout capabilities

International Payout Systems, Inc. (“i-payout”), a global provider of payment and payout technology, today announced the continued expansion of its U.S. money transmitter licensing footprint while advancing its strategy to obtain a European Electronic Money Institution (“EMI”) license.

The initiative reflects i-payout’s long-term commitment to building a more direct, efficient, and scalable global payments infrastructure. By expanding its regulatory capabilities, i-payout aims to increase control over payment flows, reduce reliance on intermediary relationships, broaden the payment services it can support and create more efficient pathways for domestic and cross-border transactions.

The strategy is particularly relevant to enterprises operating payment programs across multiple jurisdictions, including marketplaces, gig economy and freelance platforms, gaming and esports companies, affiliate networks, insurance providers, clinical research organizations, direct selling companies, and businesses managing refunds, claims and reimbursements.

For these businesses, expanded licensing is intended to give i-payout greater flexibility to introduce new payment capabilities, broaden geographic coverage and create a more integrated payment experience for both enterprises and their recipients.

Whether a marketplace is paying thousands of sellers, a gig platform is compensating independent workers, a gaming company is distributing player or tournament payments, an insurer is issuing claims payments, or a clinical research organization is paying study participants, the underlying challenge is similar: moving money securely and efficiently to large numbers of recipients while supporting different payment methods, currencies, jurisdictions and regulatory requirements.

i-payout’s licensing strategy is designed to strengthen the infrastructure supporting those increasingly complex payment programs.

Expanding U.S. Regulatory Coverage

i-payout has continued expanding its U.S. money transmitter licensing footprint during 2026 and is working toward completing its required U.S. licensing coverage by the end of 2027.

As part of that expansion, i-payout recently received approval from the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico for its Money Services Business license, further expanding the company’s regulated U.S. footprint.

The company’s broader licensing initiative is intended to increase the number of markets it can support directly and provide greater flexibility in how payment services are delivered to enterprise customers.

For i-payout customers, the objective is straightforward: broader reach, greater control over payment delivery, more payment capabilities and an increasingly unified infrastructure for managing payouts at scale.

“For nearly two decades, i-payout has been building technology that helps companies move money efficiently around the world,” said Eddie Gonzalez, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of i-payout. “Our customers include businesses that may need to pay thousands or even millions of people across different markets. Expanding our U.S. money transmitter licensing footprint gives us greater control over the infrastructure supporting those payments and positions us to provide our customers with more capabilities as their businesses grow.”

Advancing i-payout’s European EMI Strategy

At the same time, i-payout is advancing plans for a European EMI application as part of its broader international expansion strategy.

The European initiative is intended to strengthen i-payout’s ability to support a wider range of regulated payment services across multiple European markets and further enhance its ability to serve enterprise customers with international payment requirements.

For marketplaces, gig and freelance platforms, gaming and esports companies, affiliate networks, insurance providers and other digital businesses operating internationally, managing payment programs across markets through a more unified technology relationship can reduce the operational complexity associated with multiple payment providers, integrations and processes.

“Our goal is not simply to collect licenses,” Gonzalez said. “We are building regulatory infrastructure that creates tangible benefits for our customers: more markets, more payment options, greater control and a simpler way to manage increasingly complex global payment programs.”

Global Reach With True Local Payment Capabilities

A key component of i-payout’s global strategy is expanding access to true local payment capabilities.

For i-payout, a local payment means a payment delivered through domestic payment rails directly to a recipient’s local bank account in the recipient’s local currency — not through SWIFT and not through an international wire.

This distinction is important for enterprises managing large recipient populations across multiple countries. Combining global reach with local payment capabilities can help businesses create a more localized recipient experience while reducing dependence on traditional cross-border payment processes.

i-payout’s infrastructure is designed to give enterprise customers multiple ways to deliver funds, including local bank payments, virtual and physical cards, digital wallets, real-time payment capabilities and other alternative payment methods, depending on market availability and program requirements.

Compliance Technology Supporting the Expansion

Alongside its licensing initiative, i-payout continues to invest in technology designed to strengthen risk management, transaction monitoring and financial crime compliance.

As part of this investment, i-payout is implementing Hawk’s AI-powered financial crime technology to enhance transaction monitoring and risk-assessment capabilities.

Hawk provides AI-enabled technology for AML transaction monitoring, screening and other financial-crime risk functions used by banks, payment firms and fintech companies.

These investments are intended to support the increasingly sophisticated payment environments of the enterprises i-payout serves while maintaining robust compliance controls as transaction volumes, payment methods and geographic coverage expand.

One Platform Across Multiple Industries

i-payout provides enterprise payout solutions across a range of industries and payment use cases, including:

  • Marketplaces: seller, merchant and participant payouts
  • Gig Economy & Freelance: contractor and worker payments
  • Gaming & Esports: player, creator, tournament and reward payouts
  • Affiliate & Performance Marketing: affiliate and commission payments
  • Direct Selling: distributor and commission payouts
  • Insurance: claims, reimbursements and other disbursements
  • Clinical Trials & Market Research: participant and research payments
  • Refunds & Reimbursements: consumer refunds, claims and corporate reimbursement programs
  • Enterprise & Global Workforce: high-volume domestic and international disbursements

The company’s strategy combines regulatory infrastructure, payment technology, compliance controls and multiple payout methods within a configurable enterprise platform designed to help businesses move money to recipients domestically and internationally.

“Licensing is not simply a compliance exercise for us,” Gonzalez added. “It is part of the infrastructure that allows us to build better products, create stronger financial relationships and give enterprise customers greater confidence in the platform handling their payments.”

About i-payout

International Payout Systems, Inc. (“i-payout”) is a global payments technology company providing configurable payment and payout solutions for businesses and organizations that need to distribute funds to recipients domestically and internationally.

Founded in 2007, i-payout supports multiple payout methods and serves enterprises across industries including marketplaces, the gig economy and freelance workforce, gaming and esports, affiliate marketing, direct selling, insurance, clinical research, market research, refunds and reimbursements, and other high-volume payment programs.

i-payout’s technology combines payment orchestration, recipient onboarding, identity verification, compliance capabilities, APIs, digital wallets and program-management tools within a unified enterprise payment environment.

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AI STUDIOS Expands Sales Training With Emotionally Expressive AI Roleplay

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PALO ALTO, Calif, September 15th, 2026 — AI STUDIOS, DeepBrain AI’s enterprise AI video and avatar platform, announced enhanced emotional expression capabilities for AI Roleplay, its interactive training solution designed to help employees practice realistic customer conversations. DeepBrain AI plans to expand the solution across sales, customer service, wealth management and other customer-facing teams.

▶ DeepBrain AI expands AI Roleplay across sales and wealth management markets, targeting industries with frequent customer interactions

▶ AI customers express emotions through lifelike facial expressions and tone of voice, creating training experiences similar to real customer consultations

▶ Companies can build customized training programs based on their products, customer profiles and consultation guidelines

AI Roleplay is a training solution in which AI assumes the role of a customer, allowing employees to repeatedly practice conversations in an environment similar to a real customer interaction. Building on its existing conversation-based training capabilities, DeepBrain AI has made the experience more realistic by enabling AI customers to express emotions through facial expressions and tone of voice and respond differently based on their personalities, interests and attitudes toward the conversation.

Organizations can use AI Roleplay to create a variety of situations commonly encountered in customer-facing roles, including customers who show little interest in a product, question the information they receive, compare multiple options or continue asking technical questions. Participants repeatedly practice the full customer conversation, from identifying customer needs and explaining products to responding to questions and objections.

Rather than repeating predetermined answers, AI customers react differently depending on how each conversation develops. Participants must pay attention to the customer’s facial expressions, tone of voice and the overall direction of the discussion as they determine how to respond. This allows employees to build practical communication skills in a more realistic environment than training based solely on prerecorded videos or memorized scripts.

AI Roleplay also provides analysis and coaching throughout the conversation. The solution analyzes each participant’s speaking pace, intonation and facial expressions to provide real-time feedback. After the session, it reviews the full conversation and identifies what the participant handled effectively, what needs improvement and which expressions could be refined. Participants can review their approach and repeat situations in which their response could have been stronger.

Organizations can customize the training experience to reflect their own business environments. Product and service information, key customer profiles, conversation guidelines and successful sales practices can be incorporated into AI customer personas and evaluation criteria. This enables companies to build training around situations employees frequently encounter, apply consistent standards across teams and locations, and update scenarios as products, services or policies change.

AI Roleplay is already being used across a range of customer-facing functions, including insurance sales training, contact center training, in-store customer service and interactive learning following instructor-led courses. Wealth management and financial advisory teams can rehearse how to identify a client’s financial goals, explain financial products clearly and respond to concerns. Other sales teams can practice each stage of the customer conversation, from discovery and product recommendations to price objections and purchase decisions.

The solution can also help reduce the operational burden associated with traditional instructor-led roleplay. New employees can experience a wider range of customer situations before handling live conversations, while experienced employees can focus on difficult customer profiles or complex scenarios. Organizations can evaluate conversations using consistent standards while helping employees strengthen their customer-facing and sales capabilities.

“In sales and financial services, product knowledge is only part of what builds customer trust. Employees must also understand how customers are reacting and respond with language that fits the moment,” said Eric Jang, CEO of DeepBrain AI. “AI Roleplay allows employees to practice with customers who express different emotions and behaviors, review their own approach and improve before the real conversation. By incorporating each organization’s sales expertise and training standards, we aim to help teams strengthen their customer communication skills and support meaningful improvements in sales performance.”

DeepBrain AI plans to expand AI Roleplay across financial services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, education and other industries where customer interactions play a critical role. By connecting live conversations with AI customers, real-time coaching, post-session analysis and repeated practice, the company aims to help enterprises develop customer-facing talent and improve frontline readiness.

About DeepBrain AI

DeepBrain AI develops AI video generation, AI Human and conversational AI solutions for enterprises. Its flagship platform, AI STUDIOS, enables organizations to create AI-powered video content and interactive avatar experiences for corporate training, financial services, retail, media and customer service.

Through AI STUDIOS, organizations can create and deliver video content, build interactive AI experiences and provide scalable training across teams and locations. DeepBrain AI also develops customized AI Human and AI agent solutions for enterprise, public-sector and educational organizations. The company operates a U.S. office in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit AI STUDIOS.n

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Foundation Lets Ledger Users Switch to Open Source Without Starting Over

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September 15, 2026

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Boston, MA, USA, September 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

Legacy Mode brings open source apps developed for Ledger to Passport, letting users keep their existing accounts and familiar wallets on hardware assembled in the United States.

Foundation today announced the beta release of Legacy Mode for Passport, enabling Ledger users to switch to open source hardware and software while keeping their existing accounts for supported assets. Legacy Mode runs open source cryptocurrency apps originally developed for Ledger and connects to familiar software wallets over USB.

The release accompanies Foundation’s Switch campaign, built around a simple promise: switch to open source without starting over. As Ledger phases out support for the original Nano S, users can switch to Passport without transferring supported assets to new accounts. Their addresses, balances, and transaction history stay the same.

“We started Foundation because we believe an open, decentralized Internet must be built on a foundation of open source hardware and software,” said Zach Herbert, cofounder and CEO of Foundation. “But people have spent years building their wallet setups. Asking them to move every asset and relearn everything is a real barrier. Legacy Mode lets them keep what they’ve built and put it on an open source foundation.”

Ledger and its developer community have built an extensive library of open source cryptocurrency apps. Those apps normally run on Ledger’s operating system, which includes proprietary code. Foundation’s compatibility layer allows supported apps to run on KeyOS, the fully open source operating system powering Passport.

KeyOS is a microkernel operating system written in Rust, with isolated processes and sandboxed apps. Foundation publishes its operating-system source code and hardware designs so developers and security researchers can inspect how Passport works.

“We reimplemented the interfaces that Ledger’s open source apps use to talk to BOLOS, its operating system,” said Ken Carpenter, cofounder and CTO of Foundation. “That includes cryptographic operations, screen rendering, and USB communication. We can compile the existing app code for Passport and run it on KeyOS, without running Ledger’s proprietary operating system.”

Ethereum and Solana are the first supported app families, selected for their broad adoption. Early beta users have tested compatibility with Rabby for Ethereum and EVM networks, and Phantom for Solana, over USB. Foundation plans to add further open source Ledger apps as users and developers need them.

Legacy Mode launches in beta today as an optional, manual installation on Passport Prime. Users enter their existing recovery phrase on the device and connect to a compatible software wallet over USB. Foundation welcomes feedback from beta users to help improve compatibility and installation ahead of the full release this fall.

Legacy Mode is a bridge to native KeyOS apps. As developers release apps built specifically for Passport, users can install them on the same device and choose when to move beyond Legacy Mode.

The Foundation SDK is available now, and KeyOS 1.4.0 introduced app sideloading. This fall, a new KeyOS release will bring Foundation’s app catalog, where users will be able to seamlessly access a growing catalog of native KeyOS apps from Foundation and third-party developers – and install them with a single tap.

Passport Prime is available starting at $349. To see the Switch campaign, supported apps, and installation guides, visit foundation.xyz/switch.

About Foundation

Foundation builds Human Authority Hardware: open source security devices that give individuals control over their money, identity, and digital lives. Its flagship device, Passport Prime, combines hardware security with KeyOS, an open source operating system for independently developed apps. Foundation’s hardware is assembled in the United States. Learn more at foundation.xyz.

For media inquiries, users can contact 21M Communications: phil@21mcommunications.com.

Ledger and BOLOS are trademarks of Ledger SAS. Foundation is not affiliated with Ledger, and Legacy Mode is not sponsored or endorsed by Ledger. References to Ledger are for identification and compatibility purposes only.

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