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Crypto regulation in the United States hit another wall this week, as the Senate confirmed it will not vote on the Clarity Act before heading into recess. The bill, which aimed to draw clearer lines around digital asset oversight, now faces a much steeper climb toward becoming law before the year is out.
Shifting to artificial intelligence in Europe, a new piece out of Reprodev is pushing back on the EU AI Act's content labelling requirements, arguing the rules are tougher to fake your way around than some might hope. It's a pointed reminder that compliance theater has limits, and regulators are watching more closely than the industry sometimes assumes.
And in the world of AI benchmarking, a preprint on arXiv is making the case that large language models have actually been underestimated on scientific coding tasks. The argument is that flawed benchmark design, not model capability, was skewing the results downward. It raises a fair question about how much we trust the tools we use to measure intelligence in the first place.
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