The U.S. Senate confirmed Michael Selig as CFTC chairman on Dec. 18, setting up a leadership change as Congress debates expanding the agency’s role in bitcoin-related market oversight.

White House AI and bitcoin czar David Sacks said Senate leaders have confirmed a January markup for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a bipartisan market structure bill dividing oversight between the SEC and CFTC.

What's new? Mistral OCR 3 wins 74% over its prior version in document text extraction; it powers Document AI Playground on Mistral AI Studio with an API at $2 per 1,000 pages;

Beam debuts its Veo 3.1-powered platform for web-publishable AI-generated mini-games and interactive videos, launching in early access now.

For decades, Lenovo was recognised mainly as a global PC pioneer, innovating form factors, developing rugged ThinkPads, and eventually becoming a leading PC manufacturer. But today, the company finds itself at the heart of a vastly different opportunity:…