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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is raising eyebrows with a public warning aimed squarely at enterprises building on proprietary AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. In a blog post, Nadella cautioned companies about the risks of locking themselves into closed AI systems — a striking message from the man whose company has billions invested in OpenAI.
Shifting from corporate strategy to the battlefield, Ukraine has now floated more than one thousand stratospheric balloons into Russian airspace, using them as decoys, communication relays, and increasingly as launch platforms. The DART missile, dropped from altitudes between twelve and eighteen kilometers, deliberately disables its own navigation in the final phase, giving Russian jammers nothing to lock onto and effectively doubling strike range to around three hundred kilometers.
And on the software side, New Hampshire has signed what it's calling blockchain basic laws, following its earlier move to establish a Bitcoin reserve. The legislation extends protections to crypto users, miners, and stakers, making the state one of the more aggressively crypto-friendly jurisdictions in the country.
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