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The province of British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, connecting the company's technology to a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge. It's a significant legal escalation — one of the first times a government has moved to hold an AI firm directly accountable for real-world violence, and it won't be the last case like it.
On the blockchain front, Solana is testing a sweeping upgrade called Alpenglow that would slash transaction finality from nearly thirteen seconds down to one hundred fifty milliseconds. That's not a modest improvement — it's a fundamental shift in how merchants, exchanges, and payment bridges could treat crypto transactions as settled almost the moment they happen.
And in a moment of unusual candor, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told reporters this week that no government on earth is actually prepared for what artificial intelligence is about to do to society. Coming from a sitting head of state on a trade mission, that admission carries more weight than the usual optimistic talking points we tend to hear from the political class.
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