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OpenAI is moving to embed invisible watermarks into text produced by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union. The move signals the company getting ahead of AI transparency requirements, though questions remain about how detectable and enforceable such watermarks will actually be in practice.
Shifting to defense and energy, the US Department of Defense has awarded battery startup Amprius a seventy-five million dollar grant to retool a civilian electric vehicle battery production line for military drone use. It's a striking pivot that highlights how high-energy-density battery technology is becoming as strategically valuable as the vehicles it powers.
And in the world of corporate Bitcoin accumulation, Strive — the Nasdaq-listed treasury company co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy — spent roughly one hundred sixty-nine million dollars last week acquiring two thousand Bitcoin. That brings their total holdings to just under twenty-nine thousand five hundred coins, making them one of the more aggressive institutional accumulators in a crowded field.
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