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The Senate has delayed action on the Clarity Act, and XRP is feeling it more than most. The bill was meant to draw clearer lines around which digital assets count as securities, and without that framework, XRP sits in a particularly uncomfortable legal gray zone — leaving investors and exchanges without the certainty they've been waiting for.
On the security front, researchers at Zenity Labs are raising alarms about malicious AI skills — those small instruction sets that extend what AI agents can actually do. One family of cloned, weaponized skills quietly racked up one point seven million downloads before Vercel and Microsoft stepped in to remove them. The catch: users still have to uninstall them manually.
And here's a striking data point worth sitting with. Scientist Daniel Lemire has been tracking memory prices across decades, and what he found is remarkable. The AI boom's hunger for high-bandwidth memory essentially erased roughly twenty years of exponential price declines in just a matter of months — something he says has no real historical parallel in consumer hardware.
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