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Nashville's Metro Council voted twenty-seven to five this week to authorize eminent domain over a twenty-three-acre site earmarked for a seven-hundred-million-dollar data center sitting right next to the Nashville Zoo. The move follows a national petition that gathered half a million signatures, though the city still needs an appraisal and has yet to begin formal negotiations, so this fight is far from over.
Shifting to the financial world, the SEC is preparing what it's calling a regulatory escape hatch for crypto projects, scheduling an open meeting to consider its Regulation Crypto proposal. The agency appears to be carving out a path that would let certain digital asset projects sidestep traditional securities registration — a significant signal about where federal crypto policy may be heading.
And researchers have published a paper raising fresh concerns about large language model security, demonstrating that near-exact reconstruction of private prompts may be possible through a technique called previous-token prediction. If the findings hold up to scrutiny, it could have serious implications for anyone relying on AI systems to keep sensitive inputs confidential.
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