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Jack Dorsey's payments company Block is making a significant regulatory move, applying for a federal bank charter to create what it calls Builders Bank. The goal is to consolidate Bitcoin custody operations currently spread across more than fifty state money transmitter licenses into a single, federally supervised structure. It's a bet that cleaner regulatory architecture builds long-term trust.
Meanwhile, India's financial intelligence unit is tightening its grip on crypto, issuing non-compliance notices to fifteen virtual digital asset platforms for alleged anti-money laundering failures. The move signals that regulators in one of the world's largest markets are losing patience with the industry's historically loose approach to financial oversight. The pressure is real and growing.
And over at Microsoft, a second major team is openly admitting that AI-generated code is arriving faster than humans can review it. The Edge browser team joins the Exchange team in flagging this bottleneck, noting that developers are building extensions at a pace the review pipeline simply wasn't designed to handle. It raises a quiet but serious question about quality control in an era of automated abundance.
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