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Crypto markets took a hit this week as a broader selloff in AI and chip stocks dragged risk assets down across the board. Bitcoin slipped toward sixty-three thousand dollars, down more than three percent on the week, with South Korean markets falling a sharp six percent. When confidence drains from the hottest tech trades, crypto tends to feel it too.
Meanwhile, the White House moved on two fronts at once in the quantum computing race. President Trump signed a pair of executive orders — one to accelerate American development of large-scale quantum machines, and a second to harden defenses against those same machines, which could one day shatter current encryption standards. It's a rare acknowledgment that the technology Washington wants to build is also the technology Washington needs to fear.
And in a story that sits squarely at the intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Amazon has dropped a film about Sam Altman after the studio's partnership with OpenAI apparently made the project untenable. The film, titled Artificial and directed by Luca Guadagnino, raises real questions about where corporate relationships end and editorial independence begins.
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