Topshots of the Week (17-23 August, 2024)

A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from August 17th to August 23th, 2024.


Women wearing traditional clothes

Women wearing traditional hanbok dresses visit the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on August 19, 2024.
© Anthony WALLACE / AFP

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Elliptic Launches Its Decode Agent to Answer On-Chain Risk Questions and Shows Its Work

Elliptic, the global leader in on-chain risk, today launched Decode, an AI agent built on Elliptic’s intelligence platform. The Decode agent answers natural-language questions about cryptoasset addresses and their exposure in seconds, and returns the evidence behind every answer. Compliance and investigations teams need answers to questions nobody planned for. Getting them out of the data is now a specialist skill, so the questions wait for someone who has it, or go unasked. Meanwhile illicit...

Topshots of the Week (22-27 June 2024)

A selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists from 22th to 27th June 2024.


View of Rocinha Favela (shantytown) at sunrise in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 June 2024.​
© Pablo Porciuncula / AFP