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The UK's National Audit Office is putting the brakes on government optimism around artificial intelligence, telling officials to do the math before counting on forty-five billion pounds in projected savings. Auditors are urging civil service leaders to honestly account for how AI might reshape workforce size, roles, and skills before those numbers get baked into long-term plans.
Meanwhile, in a legal drama with some high-profile names attached, Apple appears likely to keep its trade secret theft lawsuit focused on OpenAI rather than expanding it to include designer Jony Ive. Ive, who left Apple years ago and has since partnered with OpenAI, sits at an interesting intersection here, but for now Apple seems content to keep its legal aim narrow.
And in Japan, logistics firm AZ-Com Maruwa is moving forward with what would be the country's first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout, planning to pay roughly two thousand three hundred partners, including truck drivers, using the yen-pegged digital currency JPYC. It's a real-world test of whether stablecoins can move from financial experiment to payroll infrastructure.
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