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The White House is wrestling with a question that has no easy answer: what do you do about Chinese artificial intelligence? Inside the Trump administration, a genuine debate is underway over how to respond to increasingly capable Chinese AI models, with officials divided on strategy, tone, and timing. The stakes are significant, and so far, no consensus has emerged.
Shifting to the financial world, Coinbase is setting its sights on Canada with what it's calling an Everything Exchange — a single platform combining stocks, cryptocurrency, and prediction markets. The company's Canadian chief executive says phase two is already in motion, though no launch date has been confirmed. It's an ambitious bet that consolidation is what consumers actually want.
And in a story that feels equal parts engineering showcase and spectacle, a fifty-thousand-dollar humanoid robot named White Eagle made headlines in China by landing a precision kick that knocked the head clean off its opponent during what's being described as the world's first robotics mixed martial arts fight. The headless robot, Matador, kept fighting anyway — which tells you something about where autonomous systems are headed.
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