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A surveillance company called Flock Safety is drawing scrutiny after one of its workers called police on a journalist who was filming the public installation of a license plate camera. The incident, which took place on a public street, raises sharp questions about who gets to decide what's visible in plain sight, and whether private contractors installing public infrastructure should have any say in the matter at all.
Shifting to markets, Bitcoin climbed above seventy-seven thousand dollars even as technology stocks slipped under pressure from renewed calls to slow artificial intelligence development. It's a telling split — crypto and AI have often moved together, but this week they pulled in opposite directions, with AI safety concerns acting as a brake on equities while Bitcoin found room to run.
And in the stablecoin space, Circle is paying four hundred million dollars to acquire Tazapay, a payments firm with deep roots in emerging markets. The move is a direct challenge to Tether's long-standing dominance in those regions, and it signals that the real competition in dollar-pegged digital currency is now being fought in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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