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State Farm is in serious legal trouble after defense attorneys admitted that AI-generated fake case citations appeared in filings tied to a Los Angeles lawsuit. It's a stark reminder that when lawyers lean on language models without verification, the consequences land in actual courtrooms, with real clients on the line.
Shifting to the payments world, Visa is actively searching for a new stablecoin settlement partner after BVNK, its previous collaborator, was acquired by Mastercard. Visa's request for proposals signals the company wants flexibility across a range of stablecoins, which tells you how seriously traditional financial infrastructure is now treating digital currency as a settlement layer.
And on the Ethereum side, developers are warning that the network's next upgrade quietly breaks one of the most relied-upon assumptions in crypto software. The flat twenty-one thousand gas fee that wallets have used for years will no longer hold, because sending ETH to a brand-new address will cost more than sending to an existing one. Any app built around that fixed number will simply get the math wrong.
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