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The crypto industry is playing political hardball. Days after the Senate blocked the Clarity Act, the super PAC Fairshake is pouring thirty million dollars into Ohio to target Senator Sherrod Brown. It's a stark reminder that when legislation fails in Washington, the industry doesn't retreat — it reaches for its checkbook.
On a quieter but deeply troubling front, a federal report from the Department of Health and Human Services finds that a child welfare technology system has shown minimal progress after ten years and two billion dollars in spending. The Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System was meant to modernize how states track vulnerable children. Instead, it stands as a cautionary tale about government IT projects that consume resources while delivering almost nothing.
And in the hardware race reshaping artificial intelligence, Huawei is pushing its Ascend nine sixty SuperPoD platform toward systems capable of handling ten trillion parameters, connecting over four thousand processors through an upgraded interconnect architecture. Whether it can truly challenge Nvidia remains unproven, but China's determination to build sovereign AI infrastructure is clearly not slowing down.
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