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A new study from Originality dot ai analyzed more than two thousand religious titles on Amazon and found that sixty-three percent show signs of AI generation. The highest offender was witchcraft, where nearly four in five books flagged as likely machine-written. It raises real questions about what readers are actually buying when they seek out spiritual guidance.
Shifting to crypto, XRP has surged fifty percent in a single week, its strongest performance in twenty-one months. The rally is being tied to renewed hopes around Treasury buyback programs and what traders are calling curve control — a signal that institutional sentiment around crypto assets may be quietly warming again.
And staying in the crypto space, stablecoin spending on consumer cards just crossed one billion dollars in tracked volume, more than tripling over the past year. USDC and USDT now fund over seventy percent of that activity, with people using them for groceries, rideshares, and subscriptions. Stablecoins are no longer just a trading instrument — they are quietly becoming a payment layer.
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