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In New York's twelfth congressional district, a Democratic primary race has become an unlikely proxy war for the future of AI regulation. Anthropic and OpenAI are each spending millions to influence who represents the district — and in doing so, they've turned a low-profile candidate named Alex Bores into someone people are actually paying attention to. The irony writes itself.
Shifting to a different kind of power play, Wall Street bank Jefferies is projecting a wave of crypto and blockchain companies going public over the next two years, potentially building toward a one trillion dollar market. The argument is that institutional money is moving away from speculative trading and toward real financial infrastructure — tokenization, settlement, the unglamorous plumbing of finance.
And on the question of whether AI can actually handle the complexity of a real human life, Huawei's new benchmark called Claw-Anything offers a sobering answer. The test simulates months of a person's digital existence and asks AI assistants to manage it. The best model available, GPT-five point five, scored thirty-four and a half percent. Capable, but nowhere near ready to run your life.
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