Hacker News with Generative AI: International Aid

Trump administration's blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher (wired.com)
According to a memo circulating among State Department staff and reviewed by WIRED, the Trump administration plans to rename the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as US International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA), and to bring it directly under the secretary of state.
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to keep $2B in foreign aid frozen (cbsnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt a lower court order that required the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding, clearing the way for the money to flow to groups that have done work for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development overseas.
Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices after USAID funding pause (apnews.com)
In a warehouse in Haiti, nearly four metric tons of seeds cannot be distributed. Soon the planting season will be gone and with it, the best chance for those seeds to produce emergency food.
USAID was investigating its public-private partnership between Starlink-Ukraine (gizmodo.com)
Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will soon be shuttered and could be subsumed into the U.S. State Department. Now, new reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency.
Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN's Top Gaza Aid Agency (wired.com)