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Add Arizona to the growing list of state legislatures that are creating state bitcoin reserves. SB 1025 strengthens state recognition of crypto currencies & SB 1373 creates the reserve. The bills are on the Governor’s desk. If signed it would be the first state bitcoin reserve.
NBC News | Arizona Legislature pushes for a state bitcoin reserve
@MIT Sloan introduces us to the new term of art, “intelligent choice architectures.” Intelligent choice architectures are “AI systems that proactively participate in structuring and shaping strategic decisions.”
What makes this so powerful? “their ability to actively learn from outcomes, seek information, and alter the options available to decision makers.”
Guess which country leads in innovation? If you guessed Switzerland, you are correct. Sweden is 2nd. The U.S. is third. WIPO’s GII 2024 results
@techcrunch reports that OpenAI is complaining that saying please and thank you to their AI costs them millions. These are smart people, right? So why not program the AI to ignore please and thank you? What kind of a society are we if there is no please and thank you- that’s like the barest of minimums.
A new report from Semperis, an identity security and cyber resilience company, found that 62% of water and power operators in the United States and the United Kingdom have been targeted by cyberattacks in the past year, 80% of which have been targeted multiple times. 59% of those surveyed confirmed that cyber criminals sponsored by nation-states were behind the attacks, which experts say could be higher.
More than half — 57% — said the attacks disrupted their normal operations, while 54% suffered permanent corruption or destruction of their data or systems.
Route Fifty | ‘Living off the land’ a major cyber threat to critical infrastructure, report finds
Pennsylvania Legislature is considering making it a criminal offense to use a tracking device to track someone. HB 407 (2025 | PA) Similar laws have been enacted in Ohio; Florida; and according to NCSL 11 states have created criminal offense for tracking devises.
Route Fifty } PA House passes bill creating criminal offense for tracking device-based stalking
An Arkansas judge struck down the state’s social media law that restricts kids social media use and verifies the ages of all account holders. The judge found the law unconstitutional as it violates residents’ First Amendment rights by restricting speech without being tailored narrowly to serve a “compelling government interest.”
Let’s take a look at some fresh words that are used to describe crypto mining or data center needs:
proofing — the solving of math problems in crypto mining
currency mining — a rebrand that could sound prettier
Route Fifty | Legislators propose bills to back data centers, legislate blockchain technology
Add Ohio to the list of states seeking to prohibit the use of AI in healthcare decisions. SB 164 (2025 | OH) ” would provide transparency for patients on the use of AI by health insurers by making sure there is human oversight on whether or not someone receives health coverage.” The bill author wants accountability for healthcare insurance.
WFMJ | Cutrona introduces legislation addressing usage of AI in healthcare authorization
R Street says that if we want to look for a way to regulate AI without impeding innovation look to Virginia and Texas. 900 bills regulating AI have been proposed in 2025. Virginia Governor vetoed HB 2094 because its “rigid framework fails to account for the rapidly evolving and fast-moving nature of the AI industry and puts an especially onerous burden on smaller firms and startups that lack large legal compliance departments.”
They also say that Texas’ HB 149 (2025 | TX) removed problematic issues that mirrored Virginia’s vetoed legislation.