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The New York Stock Exchange is placing a significant bet on blockchain infrastructure, tapping Avalanche as the core ledger technology for its new tokenized stock platform. The goal is ambitious — around-the-clock trading, clearing, and settlement of securities, all running onchain. It's a signal that traditional finance isn't just watching crypto from a distance anymore.
From Wall Street to Hollywood, Disney and Adobe have announced a multi-year partnership to build proprietary generative AI tools designed specifically for Disney's production pipeline. Crucially, both companies are framing this as artist-led, meaning human creatives are meant to guide the models rather than be replaced by them. Whether that framing holds up in practice is a question the industry will be watching closely.
And over at Microsoft, Windows eleven is preparing two notable interface changes. One is a cleaner app updates panel in Settings, which most users will welcome. The other is Copilot AI folded into the taskbar search box — opt-in only, but already drawing skepticism from users who wonder whether opt-in today means something else tomorrow.
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