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T. Rowe Price, the nearly two trillion dollar asset management giant, has launched what it calls the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF. This isn't a passive index play — the firm is putting human judgment behind a diversified basket of digital assets, a significant signal that institutional finance is still leaning into crypto despite years of volatility.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Anthropic is doing something unusual for a tech company — actively asking governments to regulate it faster. The AI safety firm backed landmark transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its own policy team now says those laws may already be outdated. It's a rare case of a company outpacing the regulators it helped recruit.
And on a quieter note, a developer has published AttoChess — a fully playable chess program for sixteen-bit DOS machines, squeezed into just two hundred seventy eight bytes. That's smaller than most email signatures. It's a reminder that before the age of gigabyte installs, programmers treated every byte like it cost something, because it did.
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