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OpenAI finds itself in an unusual position today — conspicuously absent from Nvidia's new Open Agent Safety Platform, a broad industry coalition aimed at reining in autonomous AI systems. TechCrunch reports the company is actually working with Nvidia privately, raising questions about why one of the most prominent names in AI is staying off the marquee while the rest of the industry signs on publicly.
Shifting to Wall Street's quiet but accelerating move into crypto infrastructure, Cboe and S&P Dow Jones have extended their licensing agreement in a way that opens the door to tokenized options contracts. This comes as major institutions including Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, and the DTCC push traditional financial markets onto blockchain rails — a signal that tokenization is moving from experiment to plumbing.
And on the consumer crypto side, Bitcoin ETFs are having a strong run, pulling in nearly three billion dollars in fresh inflows over just thirty days. The streak has now stretched to eight consecutive days of positive flows, suggesting institutional appetite for Bitcoin exposure remains firm despite recent volatility around the Clarity Act.
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