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Justin Sun's HTX exchange is playing a shell game with blockchain addresses, and regulators are struggling to keep up. TRM Labs reports the UK-sanctioned platform has been rotating its hot wallets across multiple blockchains, deliberately outpacing the address-list screening tools that compliance teams rely on. It's a reminder that sanctions enforcement in crypto moves slower than the wallets it's chasing.
Across the Atlantic, Ireland is pumping the brakes on a Microsoft procurement deal potentially worth one billion euros, and the reasoning goes deeper than budget concerns. Members of the Irish parliament have raised pointed questions about digital sovereignty and the nation's dependence on American tech providers, with some voices pushing toward free and open-source alternatives. It's a debate playing out quietly in governments across Europe.
Meanwhile, Anthropic has pulled back the curtain on how it actually keeps Claude contained across its products. The company says real agent safety isn't about permission prompts — it's about hard, deterministic limits on filesystem access, network reach, and execution environments. Anthropic even acknowledges design failures at trust boundaries that forced revisions. Rare candor from an AI lab about what went wrong.
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