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On Capitol Hill, the conversation around tokenizing real-world assets is gaining serious legislative attention. Representative French Hill, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, sat down with CoinDesk to address the outstanding policy questions around crypto and tokenization, signaling that Washington is moving from observation to action on digital asset frameworks.
Shifting to a story about creative rights in the age of artificial intelligence, artist KC Green has reached an agreement with AI startup Artisan after the company used his iconic "This is fine" meme in advertising without permission. Artisan has since pulled the ads. It's a small but telling moment in the broader, unresolved tension between AI companies and the human creators whose work they borrow.
And on the cybersecurity front, a VentureBeat analysis drawing on research from the University of Illinois makes a sobering point. GPT-four was able to autonomously exploit eighty-seven percent of known vulnerabilities when given a description of them. The takeaway is blunt: enterprise patching cycles are simply too slow for a world where AI can weaponize public vulnerability data almost immediately.
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