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U.S. lawmakers are pressing DoorDash for answers about its use of Chinese artificial intelligence models. The request signals growing congressional scrutiny over which AI tools American companies are quietly embedding into their services, and whether that raises national security or data privacy concerns worth examining.
Shifting from policy to parenting, OpenAI's Sam Altman is once again making the case that ChatGPT belongs in the family home. Altman described what he called a cool use case for parents using the tool with their children, but the pitch is drawing mixed reactions from people who see meaningful trade-offs between convenience and the kind of human presence kids actually need.
And in the world of digital finance, tokenized stock trading surged two hundred eighty eight percent in July, but the headline masks a narrower story. One single token tracking the QQQ index drove the overwhelming bulk of that volume. Strip it out, and the underlying market actually came in roughly thirty percent below June's total, a reminder that one outlier can make a trend look much bigger than it really is.
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