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The Clarity Act, Congress's most ambitious attempt to build a regulatory framework for digital assets, is looking shaky. Galaxy has cut its odds of the bill passing this year to a coin toss, citing a Senate calendar that's running out of room. JPMorgan is watching closely, backing the bill in principle while urging lawmakers to pair any new framework with meaningful safeguards — a reminder that even the biggest players in traditional finance want guardrails, not just green lights.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, the startup behind Chatbot Arena, the free leaderboard that researchers and developers have quietly relied on to benchmark AI models, has crossed a significant threshold. Just nine months after launching its commercial service, Arena is now valued at one hundred million dollars. It's a striking example of how infrastructure that starts as an open community tool can quietly become the backbone of an industry.
And on the hardware front, Nvidia is bringing back the RTX thirty sixty twelve gigabyte card, five years after its original launch, priced at three hundred thirty nine dollars. CEO Jensen Huang floated the idea of resurrecting older cards on trailing-edge chips back at CES to ease pressure on supply and pricing. That idea, it seems, is now a product.
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