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Meta has reached a settlement in one of the most closely watched lawsuits brought by school districts over the alleged harms its platforms cause to young people. The company avoided trial, but this resolution is far from a clean exit — dozens of similar cases remain in the pipeline, and the legal pressure on big social platforms over youth mental health is only building.
Shifting to Washington, President Trump has halted a proposed artificial intelligence executive order, citing concerns that certain provisions could slow down the American AI industry at a moment when competition with China is intensifying. The move signals how carefully the administration is trying to balance domestic regulation against the fear of ceding technological ground to Beijing — a tension that isn't going away anytime soon.
And on Capitol Hill, a new piece of legislation called the American Reserve Modernization Act is proposing that the Treasury Department establish and hold a strategic Bitcoin reserve for a minimum of twenty years. It's a significant signal of how far cryptocurrency has moved from the fringes into formal policy conversations, though whether it gains traction in Congress remains very much an open question.
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