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Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are putting cameras inside their robotaxis, and those cameras are pointed at you. Wired reports that riders in self-driving vehicles are being recorded, raising serious questions about what that data is used for, how long it's kept, and who can access it. Convenience and surveillance, it turns out, may be riding together.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, OpenAI banned YouTuber PewDiePie twice while he was building his own AI model called Ajax. One ban was explicitly over distillation, the practice of using an existing model's outputs to train a new one. He's now running Ajax locally on home hardware, which points to a growing tension between what these tools can do and who the companies building them want using them.
And in the crypto markets, bitcoin dominance is closing in on sixty percent of total market capitalization, while stablecoin holdings have slipped to around six point three percent. That combination suggests traders are moving away from the safety of cash equivalents and back into riskier assets, a signal analysts typically read as renewed confidence in the broader market.
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