Decrypt

Lawsuits, privacy complaints, secret recordings, and government investigations have put Meta’s AI glasses under scrutiny.

Gallup says Americans are growing more skeptical of artificial intelligence, with rising concerns about job losses, businesses’ use of the technology, and the technology’s growing impact.

The approval comes weeks after Circle won federal approval to establish a national trust bank, adding another license as the USDC issuer expands.

The eSafety Commissioner accused the social media platform of failing to detect material relating to the Christchurch and Buffalo attacks.

Plus markets are mixed ahead of FOMC; new Wall St. giants are backing the Clarity Act; and Zcash officially launched its Ironwood upgrade

Plus crypto broadly falls following memory stock slide, Coinbase leans into memes with new feature, and the Fomo app sets a new ATH.

The Bitcoin treasury firm also tapped its $1 billion preferred buyback for the first time, spending $25 million on STRC.

After two years of silence from Thinking Machines Lab, Murati’s debut model is out and on OpenRouter. The MCP score is genuinely impressive. The price-to-performance math is more complicated.

The AI Kill Switch Act would let Homeland Security order frontier AI throttled or shut down, with fines up to $20 million a day for defying it.

The 21st package stops short of a full asset freeze for HTX, which it accused of «significantly frustrating» its Russia measures.