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Anthropic, the AI safety company, has filed an S-1 that reads less like a business prospectus and more like a philosophical wager. The document essentially argues that building increasingly powerful AI is both the risk and the only viable hedge against that risk — spend everything on compute, or cede the frontier to someone less careful. It is a striking pitch to Wall Street.
Turning to the UK, Ofcom has laid out its framework for enforcing the government's under-sixteen social media ban, due to take effect in the first half of two thousand twenty seven. The regulator has identified which age verification methods actually work — and which ones don't. Perhaps most telling is that around four in ten affected teenagers already say they plan to find a way around it.
And in the world of tokenized finance, a growing coalition of companies is pushing back against plans by OKX and ICE to list tokenized stocks. Walmart and Eli Lilly are among the latest to object, bringing the total number of corporate dissenters to thirty eight. A rival platform is meanwhile preparing to launch under the SEC's innovation exemption, suggesting this battle is just getting started.
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