A | FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried believed in utilitarianism and thought rules against lying or stealing inhibited his ability to maximize the greatest benefit for the most people, his former girlfriend and co-worker testified Wednesday at his federal fraud trial."He didn't think rules like 'don't lie' or 'don't steal' fit into that framework," Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's on-again, off-again girlfriend, said.She said Bankman-Fried's belief caused her to accept behavior she recognized as wrong."I think it made me more willing to do things like lie or steal over time. When I started working at Alameda, I don't think I would have believed if you told me I would be sending false balance sheets or taking customer money," Ellison, who served as CEO of Alameda Research, said. "Over time it became something I was more comfortable with."Bankman-Fried faces seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering centered on his alleged use of customer deposits on the crypto trading platform FTX to cover losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.On the witness stand for a second day Wednesday, Ellison walked the jury through Alameda balance sheets which, by October 2022, showed Bankman-Fried's private hedge fund owed FTX customers nearly $14 billion."We had a lot of risk on and we owed a lot of money to FTX customers," Ellison said. "We had no way to repay it."She said Bankman-Fried thought about trying to raise money from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, or by selling shares in FTX, which would collapse in bankruptcy the following month, in November 2022."I was in a state of dread. I was thinking, worrying, imagining every day what would happen if people tried to withdraw too much money at one time," she said. "I was imagining all the FTX customers who we worked with who would get hurt by this."To shore up Alameda's precarious financial position Bankman-Fried told Ellison to repay Alameda's loans with money it borrowed surreptitiously from FTX customers, she testified Wednesday."He directed me to continue repaying Alameda's loans," Ellison said."How?" prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked."By taking money from FTX customer funds," she replied.When Sassoon asked her if she knew it was wrong, Ellison replied, "Yeah I thought it was wrong," but continued to do it because "Sam told me to."By that point, Alameda had taken about $10 billion from FTX and Ellison said she worried its lender, Genesis, would find out."We had been borrowing increasing amounts of money from FTX customers and I didn't want Genesis to know that," Ellison said. "I didn't want Genesis or others to know that Alameda was borrowing a lot of money from FTX."Ellison said Bankman-Fried cautioned her against putting anything in writing, once telling her, "Anything we put on Slack should be something we're comfortable seeing in The New York Times."Ellison also described a "large bribe to Chinese government officials to get some of our trading accounts unlocked." Alameda had two trading accounts worth about a billion dollars on exchanges based in China, which were both frozen in 2021 as part of a Chinese government investigation into money laundering.It was a substantial amount of Alameda's trading capital at the time and Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of saying "that we should send the cryptocurrency transfers" equaling about $100 million.。 第十一届亚太经合组织（APEC）粮食安全部长级会议8月25日在浙江杭州召开。会议通过并发布《创新与数字化增强亚太区域粮食体系韧性原则文件》，呼吁各经济体应用创新成果和人工智能等数字技术，提高粮食体系全链条的决策能力、互联互通水平和响应速度，推动粮食体系更好地预见风险、承受冲击、适应变化和恢复产能，提升运行效率和整体效能。 2026年是APEC“中国年”，中方肩负东道主责任，与各经济体多轮磋商、深入交流，牵头起草该原则文件。8月21日，原则文件经APEC粮食安全政策伙伴关系机制2026年第二次全体会议审议通过后，提交第十一届APEC粮食安全部长级会议审议。 原则文件围绕数据驱动与科学决策、技术创新与全链应用、广泛参与与普惠共享、多元协作与政企携手、系统思维与转型发展等五个方面原则，规划了17项关键行动，凝聚了各方共识，为今后一个时期深化亚太粮食安全合作提供了行动方向。 国家粮食和物资储备局局长刘焕鑫表示，中方愿与APEC各经济体携手，以落实原则文件为契机，秉持开放合作、互利共赢精神，持续开展政策对话，持续推进交往交流，持续深化务实合作，携手建设更具韧性、更有效率、更高质量的亚太粮食体系。
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