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The United Kingdom's communications regulator is putting social media platforms on notice following the recent riots in Belfast. Ofcom reminded companies like Meta and X that they carry a legal obligation under the Online Safety Act to actively minimize hateful content — not simply react after the damage is done. The message is clear: passive moderation is no longer acceptable.
Turning to the world of artificial intelligence, new data from the Ramp AI Index reveals that the most AI-committed companies are spending roughly seven thousand five hundred dollars per employee every single month on AI tools and infrastructure. To put that in context, that figure is not yet higher than a typical engineer's annual salary divided monthly — but analysts note the gap is narrowing, raising real questions about where that spending actually delivers returns.
And in the crypto space, analysts at CryptoQuant are signaling that Bitcoin may be approaching the bottom of its current bear cycle. The catch is that neither retail buyers nor institutional investors appear eager to step in right now. A potential floor without meaningful demand is less a green light than an open question about what recovery actually looks like.
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