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The federal government is putting the brakes on OpenAI's latest model, GPT five point six. Washington's Office of the National Cyber Director asked the company to stagger its release, limiting access to a small group of government-selected customers. It's the same treatment Anthropic's Mythos received, signaling that regulators are quietly asserting oversight over frontier AI before it reaches the public.
On the financial side, Strategy's preferred stock hit a new record low as Bitcoin slipped below sixty thousand dollars. CEO Michael Saylor is calling this a volatility test, but investors are watching closely. The episode is a reminder that instruments built on top of crypto inherit all of its turbulence, and then some.
And shifting from markets to the cosmos, the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has captured a stunning new image of the heart of the Milky Way. The photograph offers a preview of the galactic region that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study in depth in the coming years, deepening our understanding of what lies at the center of our own galaxy.
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