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Federal prosecutors are seeking eighty-four point two million dollars from a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank allegedly tied to Tether, the stablecoin giant. The government claims the institutions moved money without proper licensing, adding another chapter to the long and complicated legal story surrounding crypto's shadow banking infrastructure.
On a very different front, a new study out of arXiv finds that AI tutoring produces learning gains essentially equivalent to working with a human tutor, at least when measured by GRE performance. That's a striking result, and it raises real questions about access and cost in education — though researchers are careful to note that equivalence on a standardized test doesn't capture everything a human teacher brings to the room.
And in a story that cuts right to the heart of digital identity, a journalist took to Bluesky after someone sent her an advertisement featuring an AI-generated version of herself — created without her knowledge or consent. She asked publicly what she should even do. It's a question that's quickly becoming less hypothetical and more urgent for anyone with a public presence online.
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