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Tesla's Cybercab made its long-awaited debut this week, but the rollout raised as many questions as it answered. The invite-only event in Austin kept most of the public and online followers completely in the dark for hours, a curious choice for a vehicle Elon Musk has staked much of Tesla's near-term future on. For a product meant to redefine transportation, the quiet entrance felt more like a soft test than a bold declaration.
On the regulatory front, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted a provisional charter to OpenReserve, a blockchain-native bank, giving it the initial green light to operate as a full-service institution. It is a meaningful signal that federal banking regulators are cautiously making room for crypto-native players within the traditional financial system, though provisional approval is still a long road from full legitimacy.
And in infrastructure news, SpaceXAI issued an apology after an outage disrupted Grok and several other AI services that rely on its compute network. The incident was brief but pointed, highlighting how deeply interconnected the AI industry has become and how a single infrastructure provider going down can ripple across multiple competing platforms simultaneously.
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