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OpenAI is going on offense with a new advertising campaign designed to shift how everyday people feel about artificial intelligence. The effort comes as public skepticism around A.I. tools remains stubbornly high, and the company appears to be betting that emotional storytelling can do what product demos alone have not — build genuine trust with ordinary users.
Meanwhile, the biggest names in American banking are moving to reshape digital money on their own terms. JPMorgan, Citi, and several other major institutions are developing a shared tokenized deposit system, essentially a blockchain-based layer built on top of traditional bank accounts. It's a direct response to the growing pressure from crypto, and a signal that Wall Street isn't ceding that ground quietly.
And in a conversation worth paying attention to, Linux kernel veterans Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds sat down to talk honestly about artificial intelligence and what it means for kernel development. Torvalds has been characteristically blunt about A.I.-generated code quality in the past, so any shift in his thinking carries real weight inside the open source community.
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