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OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam is departing the company after nearly nine years focused on AI safety research. Achiam gained wider public attention during the Musk versus Altman trial, and his exit raises fresh questions about the depth of OpenAI's safety bench at a pivotal moment in the industry.
Shifting to Latin America, Tether — the company behind the world's most widely used stablecoin — has put twenty million dollars into Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin. The move signals Tether's ambition to deepen its footprint across a region where dollar-pegged digital currencies have found genuine everyday demand.
And in Europe, a regulation that quietly took effect this year now requires all new cars sold in the EU to include a driver-facing camera monitoring for distraction and drowsiness. The technology is framed as a safety measure, but it's already drawing scrutiny over data retention, who owns the footage, and what happens to it beyond the dashboard.
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