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A new study from Surfshark is putting hard numbers on what privacy advocates have long argued: Meta's apps collect roughly triple the data types of competitors like Apple and Microsoft. The seven most data-hungry apps in the study were all Meta-owned, and the figures come from the companies' own App Store disclosures — making it difficult to dismiss.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Anthropic is telling investors it sees more than thirty trillion dollars in potential revenue. That is a staggering number, and it reflects how aggressively AI companies are framing their total addressable market right now. Whether that vision reflects genuine opportunity or investor storytelling is a question worth sitting with.
And in crypto, the industry trade group is pushing back hard against proposed expansions of the GENIUS Act, warning that requiring identity verification for peer-to-peer wallet transfers would, in their words, cripple the industry. Regulators see consumer protection. The industry sees an existential threat to how decentralized finance actually functions. That tension is only going to sharpen.
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