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A college professor in Mississippi has turned the tables on AI-assisted cheating in a way that's drawing attention far beyond campus. Jason Gibson embedded a hidden prompt in an exam, and all thirty-five students who used AI to answer fell directly into his trap. It's a small experiment with a large implication — the technology students lean on to cut corners can just as easily be turned against them.
Shifting to the financial world, Wall Street heavyweights including BlackRock, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and Franklin Templeton have thrown their weight behind the Clarity Act, a bill aimed at establishing a regulatory framework for crypto markets. When institutions managing trillions of dollars align publicly on a piece of legislation, it signals that the industry is moving from speculative frontier to something closer to regulated infrastructure.
And if you've been paying for a VPN, your wallet may have taken a quiet hit you didn't authorize. A new analysis of Play Store reviews finds widespread complaints against major providers including ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Surfshark over subscriptions that renewed despite users turning off auto-renewal. Several providers are already facing legal scrutiny, and the pattern suggests a business model built more on friction than trust.
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