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Autonomous vehicles are facing some hard questions tonight. A police official told federal regulators last month that Waymo deployed its technology too quickly, flooding city streets with hundreds of vehicles before the system was truly ready. Emergency first responders say the cars are becoming a growing problem, not a solved one.
On a very different front, Taylor Swift is pushing to trademark her own likeness, and the timing makes the reason plain. Researchers have documented scammers using AI-manipulated video of celebrity interviews on TikTok to harvest personal data from unsuspecting users. It's a reminder that deepfakes aren't a future problem — they're already running ad campaigns.
And in Washington, Senator Thom Tillis is calling on his colleagues to finally bring the Clarity Act to a vote, a crypto regulation bill that has been stalled for months. Tillis is a key swing vote on the Senate Banking Committee, and his public pressure signals the bill may be closer to movement than it has been all year — though significant hurdles remain.
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