The Olympics and Politics Are More Intertwined Than Ever. Maybe That’s a Good Thing

The declines are coming as the Nasdaq tumbles nearly 2%, led by a post-earnings selloff in Nvidia.

Also: Ethereum’s “strawmap”, Robinhood chain update and OpenAI + smart contracts

Before the Senate Banking Committee gaveled its banking-oversight hearing to a start, crypto claimed much of the oxygen, including in an OCC policy push.

Google is planning to test changes to how it displays search results for certain topics, nearly a year after it was charged with violating antitrust rules in the European Union, Reuters reports. The shift will show top-ranked rival services for hotels, flights, restaurants, and transportation higher up in results, rather than prioritizing Google's own services like Google Flights. It will be rolling out soon "across Europe," starting with results for lodgings, with "flights and other services" following later. This update could address one of the core issues the European Commission highlighted when it ruled last year that Google was in vio … Read the full story at The Verge.

The majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT found.

The majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT found.