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• The AI Avengers Just Assembled for U.S. Science

• Crypto CLARITY Act Finally Reaches Senate

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TODAY IN AI

The AI Avengers Just Assembled for U.S. Science

The U.S. Department of Energy announced partnerships with 24 organizations to power the Trump administration's Genesis Mission effort to accelerate scientific research with AI, including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Nvidia.

The initiative unites 17 national labs with 40,000 researchers, targeting breakthroughs in nuclear energy, quantum computing, and manufacturing. Google DeepMind will grant lab scientists early access to tools, including its AI co-scientist agent, AlphaEvolve coding system, and AlphaGenome DNA model.

AWS pledged up to $50 billion in government AI infrastructure, with OpenAI already deploying models on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Venado supercomputer. Additional signatories include xAI, Microsoft, Palantir, AMD, Oracle, Cerebras, and CoreWeave.

This feels like an Avengers collaboration for U.S. AI, with everyone from frontier labs, chipmakers, cloud providers, and other industry titans teaming up to tackle AI advances that have been compared to the Manhattan Project. What comes out of it is anyone's guess, but this group of collaborators is a very strong first step.

When the DOE unites 40,000 researchers across 17 national labs with every major AI company, that's not just research coordination. That's mobilizing for technological supremacy.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Crypto CLARITY Act Finally Reaches Senate

The CLARITY Act is finally moving forward. White House crypto czar David Sacks confirmed on Thursday that the bill will reach the Senate for markup in January, after months of delays.

Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott and Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman both confirmed the timeline. The CLARITY Act would hand the CFTC regulatory authority over most digital assets, define what qualifies as digital commodities, and clarify the roles of the SEC and other financial regulators.

The goal is ending the regulatory ambiguity that's kept crypto firms in legal limbo for years. Industry advocates say clearer compliance pathways will unlock innovation and strengthen investor protections.

The Senate markup process will debate and potentially amend the bill before sending it to the full chamber for a vote. If the Senate passes it with changes, the bill returns to the House for final approval before reaching Trump's desk.

Why the delays? Senator Cynthia Lummis predicted in September the bill would be signed by the end of 2025. That clearly didn't happen. The record 43-day government shutdown in October and November stalled legislative momentum, though regulators continued working on the bill during the shutdown.

What happens next? Scott needs a supermajority to pass the bill without it getting permanently stalled. That's the challenge. If he can't secure the votes, the CLARITY Act risks being abandoned entirely, leaving crypto regulation in the same fragmented state it's been in for years.

But if it passes, the U.S. finally gets the market structure framework the industry has been demanding since 2017.

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