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In Washington, the White House is preparing a high-level meeting to resolve the most contested section of the Clarity Act, the crypto market structure bill that has stalled in its final weeks of Senate runway. The ethics provisions remain unresolved, and administration officials are expected to step in directly to break the deadlock before time runs out.
Meanwhile, South Korea is signaling a major philosophical shift in how it treats digital assets. The government plans to modify a seventy-six-year-old law to formally classify cryptocurrencies as national assets. Officials also reaffirmed plans to pilot tokenized government bonds next year and explore tokenizing state-owned real estate, a sweeping embrace of blockchain infrastructure at the sovereign level.
And Apple Intelligence is finally heading to China. Regulatory approval has come through, and Apple is expected to partner with Baidu and Alibaba to roll out its artificial intelligence service in the country. It's a significant market unlock for Apple, though the partnership structure raises familiar questions about data, localization, and just how much of the original product survives the translation.
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