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In brief Mississippi College School of Law now requires all first-year students to take an AI course. The move follows courtroom incidents involving faulty AI-generated legal work. Students are building prototype tools aimed at tasks like jury analysis and legal drafting. Mississippi College School of Law now requires all first-year students to complete a course on artificial intelligence, according to a report by Mississippi Today.The Jackson-based college is one of the first law schools to mandate AI instruction for all students.The requirement comes as courts confront both the potential benefits and the risks of using AI tools in legal practice.…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on A recent American Bankers Association (ABA) ad running across Washington shows a clear edge in a campaign that has been running for months.The ad reads:“Protect local lending while embracing innovation. Tell Senators to close the stablecoin loophole.”ABA’s advertising archive documents Politico Morning Money placements during the week of Mar. 9, urging senators to act on stablecoin yield, as well as a separate digital campaign targeting Congress, the White House, and regulatory agencies.In January, more than 3,200 bankers signed a letter calling on the Senate to close what they called the “payment of interest loophole.”ABA-backed trade groups…

In brief Growth in USDT’s market cap has outpaced USDC’s since Drift Protocol was exploited for $285 million this month. If USDC holders begin off-ramping the stablecoin or move it to exchanges, Compass Point analysts foresee lower profits for both Circle and Coinbase. Nansen analyst Jake Kennis posited to Decrypt that Tether’s stablecoin likely offers superior liquidity during DeFi crises. Tether’s dominance over Circle has been rising since Solana-based Drift Protocol was exploited for $285 million this month, with decentralized finance users appearing to propel USDT’s market cap to an all-time high on Tuesday following another major hack.Since attackers linked…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Bitcoin is heading into one of the year’s largest options expirations at the worst possible moment.CoinGlass data shows roughly $8.07 billion in notional open interest for Deribit’s options expiring on April 24, split between 56,300 calls and 49,540 puts. While the ratio itself leans bullish, it’s sitting against one of the most uncertain macro backdrops in the past few months.The expiry takes place three days before the Federal Reserve convenes for its April 28-29 meeting and four days before the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes both Q1 GDP and March PCE inflation data on April 30.That’s…

In brief AI engineer Kyle Hessling merged two of Jackrong’s Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 distilled finetunes into a single “frankenmerge.” A post-merge “heal fine-tune” was required to fix garbled code output caused by the layer boundary between the two independently-trained models. The model over-reasons on some tasks, but it’s a solvable problem. You thought Qwopus was cool because it merged Qwen and Opus? Well, Kyle Hessling, an AI engineer with a lot of knowledge and free time just took that recipe and threw GLM—one of the best reasoning models out there—into the mix. The result is an 18 billion…

In brief DoorDash will use Tempo, Stripe’s payments and stablecoin-focused blockchain, to pay workers and merchants in 40+ countries. The firm believes stablecoins can reduce payment settlement times and fees for foreign currency spreads and intermediaries. Shares of DASH are down around 2% on Tuesday following the announcement. Publicly traded food, grocery, and retail delivery firm DoorDash will use Tempo’s payments and stablecoin-focused blockchain to pay its delivery workers with stablecoins in more than 40 countries. The firm, which has to deal with multiple currencies, payment rails, and regulatory requirements, is building on the blockchain network—which was incubated by payments giant…

Bitcoin traded near $76,000 on Tuesday morning as fresh on-chain data revealed that the cryptocurrency’s largest holders have been accumulating at their fastest pace in over a year — a confluence of whale demand and easing geopolitical risk that is reshaping the near-term price picture. Bitcoin opened near $76,000, up 2.7% from Monday’s lows of $73,854.25. The price action comes on top of a wave of institutional buying that analysts say has tightened available supply. Wallets classified as “whales” — those holding between 100 and 10,000 BTC — added roughly 45,000 BTC last week, the largest single-week accumulation since July…

In brief Amazon announced up to $25 billion in new investment in AI startup Anthropic, with $5 billion committed immediately. Anthropic commits to spending $100 billion on AWS infrastructure over the next 10 years. The AI company secured 5 gigawatts of computing capacity on Amazon’s custom Trainium chips. Amazon.com announced an expanded partnership with AI startup Anthropic late Monday, committing up to $25 billion in new investment that includes $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones.The deal adds to Amazon’s previous $8 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total potential stake to $33 billion.…

In brief Cash App launched managed accounts for children ages 6-12, offering 3.25% interest on savings. Parents control all account activity and can approve transfers from up to five trusted contacts. The accounts include no Bitcoin access, but BTC is an option for sponsored accounts for teenagers. Cash App launched managed accounts for children ages 6-12 on Tuesday, offering 3.25% interest on savings as the Block-owned fintech platform expands into youth banking. But the accounts include no access to Bitcoin, which is available to older Cash App users.Parents maintain complete control over the new accounts, approving transfers from up to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Neha Narula has laid out a proposed roadmap for making Bitcoin resilient to a future cryptographically relevant quantum computer, arguing the network should prioritize a practical, low-risk path that lets users secure their coins now rather than waiting for consensus on harder questions such as how to handle unmoved coins. In a post published April 20, Narula said Bitcoin does not need “100% of the answers immediately” before taking meaningful action. Instead, she argued for a staged approach: deploy a post-quantum-safe output…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Ripple is building a multi-stage plan to prepare the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for an eventual shift to post-quantum cryptography, setting a 2028 target for full readiness.This comes as advances in quantum computing force blockchain developers to think more concretely about how existing security systems may need to change in preparation for “Q-day.”The company said the work will begin immediately with testing of quantum-resistant signatures, hybrid deployments that run alongside current systems, and a fallback process for moving users to safer accounts if existing cryptography is ever broken faster than expected.The plan places Ripple among the first…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The latest geopolitical risk to crypto from the Strait of Hormuz has come via radio from a tanker under fire.“Sepah Navy, Sepah Navy, this is Motor Vessel Sanmar Herald. You gave me clearance to go. My name is second name on your list. You gave me clearance to go. You are firing now. Let me turn back.”That transmission, circulated by OSINTtechnical, was accompanied by a first-class maritime incident report from UKMTO, warning 037-26.The warning said the master of a tanker reported being approached 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman by two IRGC gunboats, with no VHF challenge before the…

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In brief New Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song emphasized central bank digital currencies and bank-issued deposit tokens in his first policy address. The governor highlighted payment system stability through Project Hangang while notably omitting any mention of stablecoins. The address comes amid ongoing legislative debates over stablecoin regulation in South Korea. Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song, who began his four-year term Tuesday, delivered his first address in office prioritizing central bank digital currencies and bank-issued deposit tokens while omitting any mention of stablecoins.Per reports in local media, the governor opened his address by declaring, “In this time of…