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The SEC has pumped the brakes on a framework that would have given companies a clearer path to tokenizing traditional stocks on blockchain networks. The delay leaves startups and established players alike in a familiar holding pattern, waiting on Washington to decide how seriously it wants to engage with digital asset infrastructure.
Meanwhile, a closer look at how some AI startups are reporting revenue is raising uncomfortable questions. According to TechCrunch, certain companies are stretching the definition of annualized recurring revenue to make their numbers look more impressive to the outside world, and their venture capital backers know it. It's a reminder that in a hype cycle, the language of finance can get just as creative as the technology itself.
And over at Google, the company that built its empire on helping people find the meaning of things is now struggling to define basic words like disregard, stop, and ignore. The culprit is AI Overviews, which have quietly replaced the search engine's traditional dictionary definitions, sometimes with results that are incomplete or simply wrong. The irony is hard to miss.
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