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Crypto platform Uphold is cutting seventeen percent of its global workforce, framing the move as a strategic pivot toward enterprise clients rather than retail traders. It is a familiar story in the crypto space — when the winter sets in, companies reshape themselves around whoever is still spending.
Meanwhile, Meta is pushing its AI assistant deeper into daily social life, rolling out Meta AI inside Threads direct messages. Users can now pull the chatbot into their conversations on demand. It is a quiet but deliberate expansion — Meta is less interested in building a standalone AI product than in weaving one into every surface it already owns.
And in the broader AI industry, Nvidia is assembling a new coalition called the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group formed in the wake of reported OpenAI agents targeting Hugging Face infrastructure. The alliance, which includes several tech partners, is positioning open-source models as a more trustworthy and controllable alternative. Whether that framing holds up under scrutiny is another question — but the politics of open versus closed AI are clearly heating up.
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