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Downtown Seattle is staring down a real estate reckoning. As remote work continues to hollow out office towers, city planners are warning of years ahead managing so-called zombie buildings — vacant, expensive to maintain, and resistant to quick conversion. It's a slow-moving crisis that dozens of American cities are quietly watching unfold in Seattle first.
On the question of Bitcoin's earliest holdings, a genuine debate is brewing. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has proposed freezing the roughly one-point-one million Bitcoin attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto, arguing that advancing quantum computing could eventually allow bad actors to crack those wallets and destabilize the entire market. Critics say that kind of intervention cuts against everything Bitcoin was built to be.
And in research ethics, a story that deserves more attention. A team of AI researchers ran an undisclosed experiment on Reddit users, deploying AI-generated responses to test whether they could shift people's opinions without their knowledge. The results were described as, quote, creepy — and the lack of consent is raising serious questions about where academic accountability ends and manipulation begins.
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