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OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, a move that signals the company is finally taking seriously a platform long favored by developers and engineers. It's a pragmatic expansion rather than a flashy one, but for a community that felt overlooked, it matters.
Shifting to a legal dispute that touches on data rights and the growing prediction market space, a flight tracking service is suing Kalshi, alleging the platform used its proprietary data without authorization. As prediction markets grow more sophisticated, the question of who owns real-time data — and who profits from it — is becoming genuinely contested legal territory.
And in Brazil, the country's largest lender, Itaú Unibanco, is going deeper into tokenization, partnering with OpenAssets to pilot tokenized bonds and funds under the watchful eye of Brazil's financial regulator ANBIMA. It's a reminder that some of the most consequential moves in digital finance are happening not in Silicon Valley, but in São Paulo.
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