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Colorado lawmakers are taking another swing at AI regulation, pushing a new bill designed to dial back the friction from last year's contentious law while keeping meaningful consumer protections intact. It's a familiar balancing act — industry wants room to move, advocates want guardrails — and Colorado is trying to thread that needle before the old rules take hold.
On the research front, Nature has retracted a paper that claimed ChatGPT had measurable benefits for student learning. The study, a meta-analysis from Hangzhou Normal University, was pulled after questions arose about its methodology. It's a reminder that the rush to study AI's impact on education is moving faster than the peer review process can comfortably handle.
And in stablecoin news, senators have unveiled a compromise version of the Clarity Act, addressing how stablecoin rewards would be treated under federal oversight. Crypto circles seem cautiously pleased, but the banking sector has gone notably quiet — and in Washington, silence from banks rarely means approval.
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