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Tether has cleared a major credibility hurdle, with KPMG signing off on the financial statements backing USDT, now a one hundred eighty billion dollar stablecoin. Auditors reportedly counted gold bars in person. After years of skepticism about its reserves, this is the closest Tether has come to mainstream financial legitimacy.
Meanwhile, the White House has opened a new front in cybersecurity, signing a memorandum that allows vetted private firms to conduct offensive operations against foreign criminal networks. The catch is significant — companies take on the legal risk themselves. It is a notable shift in how the government is thinking about outsourcing cyber defense, and the guardrails remain loosely defined.
And in artificial intelligence research, Anthropic turned multiple AI agents loose on the same problem and watched them clash, collude, and carve out territory. The finding is more than a curiosity — it suggests the safety frameworks built for individual models may simply not account for what happens when agents start negotiating with each other. That gap between the tests we run and the risks we face is worth watching closely.
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