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The clock is ticking on Capitol Hill. The Senate heads into summer recess in just one week, leaving precious little runway for crypto legislation. The Clarity Act remains unresolved, and lawmakers are running out of calendar to change that. Whether this bill survives the break or gets buried under the fall agenda is the question the industry is watching very closely.
Shifting from policy to hardware, a Singapore-based startup called Acrab has launched something genuinely worth paying attention to. Their Agent Box mini PC, backed by the world's largest battery maker, claims to run one hundred billion parameter language models entirely on local hardware, powered by a proprietary chip delivering seven hundred trillion operations per second, and at a fraction of Nvidia's five thousand dollar DGX Spark price point.
And a story that sits uncomfortably at the intersection of school safety and civil liberties — pepper-spraying drones are being deployed in some schools as a response to active shooter scenarios. Proponents argue speed saves lives, while critics raise serious questions about autonomous force, misidentification risk, and whether we are solving a social crisis with the wrong kind of technology.
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