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Canada's privacy regulators have taken direct aim at OpenAI, claiming the company violated both federal and provincial privacy law by collecting personal data without meaningful consent. It's a significant move, and one that signals regulators outside the United States are increasingly willing to push back hard on how AI companies handle people's information.
Shifting from privacy to planetary ambition — Chinese scientists used supercomputers to crack a long-standing mystery about Yellowstone's volcanic plumbing, finding that tectonic forces carved the pathways that move magma beneath the surface. The researchers now want to go further, building a full digital twin of the entire Earth to model and predict its future behavior. It's a staggering goal, and one that raises as many questions about geopolitical data control as it does about scientific possibility.
And in Washington, the White House is moving on two crypto fronts at once. Digital assets adviser Patrick Witt says an update to the U.S. Bitcoin Reserve is coming within the next few weeks, citing a recent security exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals. Separately, Witt named July fourth as the target date for passage of the Clarity Act, with a Senate Banking Committee hearing expected this month on crypto market structure.
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