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Character dot AI has filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection, and the court filings are telling. The AI startup, founded by former Google engineers, owes nearly seven million dollars to Google and five major law firms alone, with total unsecured creditor claims topping ten point six million. A cautionary tale for the venture-backed AI buildout.
Shifting to the currency markets, the dollar index slid four-tenths of a percent Tuesday after Fed Governor Christopher Waller signaled that rising long-term bond yields are effectively doing the tightening work for the central bank. That language strongly implies the Fed is comfortable holding rates steady, which pulled the greenback lower across the board.
And in a story with serious implications for AI security, the FBI arrested a Saudi national employed at OpenAI after he allegedly planted a recording device inside a company conference room. The incident lands at a particularly sensitive moment, as OpenAI and its competitors are already facing intensified scrutiny over safety and governance practices. Expect this one to reverberate on Capitol Hill.
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