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OpenAI is making its case to European regulators, publishing a detailed account of how its safety, transparency, and content provenance practices align with the EU AI Act. It reads partly as reassurance, partly as lobbying — a company trying to shape the rules it will eventually have to live by.
From the roads of the future, Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit Zoox has become the first steering wheel-free robotaxi to receive federal approval for paid rides. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cleared the vehicle, which has no manual controls whatsoever — meaning no fallback human driver. That's a meaningful threshold, and one the broader industry has been watching closely.
And in the cryptocurrency markets, Bitcoin's daily price swings have compressed to their narrowest range since January, which sounds calm until you understand what traders are actually saying — that the tighter the coil, the more violent the eventual break. Whether that break goes up or down remains the open question, and right now, nobody has a clean answer.
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