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US inflation, AI adoption, government reform...

The U.S. Consumer Price Index for November is slated to rise to 3.1 % year‑over‑year, a full point above the Federal Reserve’s 2 % target, prompting analysts to anticipate a firmer stance from hawkish policymakers. CoinDesk notes that Bitcoin has been swinging wildly between $86,000 and $90,000 ahead of the release, while its implied volatility has surged toward 45 % and put‑options skew signals growing downside bets. Glassnode adds that a breach of the $81.3 k “True Market Mean” could trigger broader sell‑offs across crypto‑linked assets, underscoring how macro‑inflation data now reverberates through digital‑currency markets. CoinDesk CoinDesk CoinDesk

In a damning report, Washington Monthly argues that the federal bureaucracy remains “risk‑averse, incremental, and wed to process,” hampering swift policy implementation and eroding public trust. The authors highlight chronic hiring delays—often six months to a year—and a civil‑service structure ill‑suited to rapid AI‑driven challenges, suggesting that even urgent initiatives like climate or fintech regulation stall in procedural red tape. Their call for “bold, swift” actions aligns with broader economic concerns about government efficiency shaping market confidence. Washington monthly

President Trump signed the “Educational Choice for Children Act,” a federal tax credit that incentivizes private‑school tuition via donor‑funded scholarship organizations. Critics point out that the credit, while framed as an “innovation,” effectively subsidizes private education without robust accountability, potentially diverting resources from public schools. Washington Monthly warns that the Treasury’s forthcoming regulations may limit governors’ ability to tailor the program, leaving the credit as a de‑facto private‑school voucher scheme with uncertain economic impact on the broader education sector. Washington monthly

After a bullish AI‑centric earnings preview, Oracle posted quarterly revenue that fell short of expectations, triggering a 7 % stock slide and dragging down AI‑infrastructure peers such as Broadcom and CoreWeave. The market reaction, reported by CNBC and Les Échos, reflects investor anxiety over the massive $50 B capex plan and mounting debt, despite the company’s $248 B long‑term data‑center lease commitments. Analysts now question whether the AI hype can sustain the heavy balance‑sheet burdens that accompany such rapid scaling. Harvard Business Review

A new SD Times analysis argues that enterprises are moving beyond flashy demos toward “hard engineering” of AI systems, emphasizing production‑grade reliability, governance, and auditability. The piece cites studies from MIT and McKinsey showing that while AI pilots are ubiquitous, few have scaled to core operations, highlighting a market‑wide need for robust tooling and disciplined deployment practices. This pragmatic turn is reshaping investment priorities, favoring infrastructure and security over speculative model breakthroughs. SD Times

Intel’s libvpl 2.16 adds experimental APIs that enable AI‑driven video encoding, promising higher compression efficiency for streaming and broadcast workflows. Early adopters anticipate reduced bitrate requirements while maintaining visual fidelity, a development that could lower bandwidth costs for content providers amid rising data‑traffic volumes. The move underscores Intel’s strategy to embed AI capabilities across its heterogeneous compute stack. Phoronix

Apple’s new SHARP model can synthesize a photorealistic 3D scene from a single 2D image in under a second, as detailed in a Wccftech preview. The technology leverages advanced monocular depth estimation and neural rendering pipelines, opening possibilities for rapid content creation in AR/VR and gaming. Apple’s rapid‑deployment approach hints at a broader push to monetize AI‑generated media across its ecosystem. Wccftech

SK Hynix announced the industry’s first 256 GB DDR5 RDIMM, certified for Intel’s Xeon 6 server CPUs, marking a milestone in high‑density memory for AI workloads. The 32 Gb “5th Gen 10nm” chips address the persistent memory shortage that has constrained data‑center scaling, enabling larger model parameters and faster training cycles. This supply‑chain development is likely to ease the bottleneck that has driven up AI‑hardware pricing this year. Wccftech

Amazon Web Services unveiled a public preview of the DevOps Agent, designed to detect, diagnose, and remediate production incidents with minimal human intervention. By integrating telemetry analysis and automated root‑cause identification, the agent aims to shorten mean‑time‑to‑recovery and bolster system reliability for cloud‑native applications. Early adopters expect cost savings and improved uptime, especially as observability data volumes continue to explode. InfoQ

An analysis by CodeRabbit, reported in DevOps.com, examined 470 open‑source pull requests and found that AI‑generated code introduces significantly more defects across logic, security, and performance categories than human‑written code. The findings raise concerns for organizations scaling AI coding assistants, suggesting that rigorous code‑review pipelines remain essential to mitigate quality regressions. As AI tools proliferate, the trade‑off between speed and reliability will shape software development economics. DevOps.com

The Washington Monthly report emphasizes that effective reform must prioritize “bold, swift” actions such as stronger antitrust enforcement and streamlined public‑procurement pricing alerts, leveraging AI to flag anomalies in tender processes. By aligning regulatory agility with concrete outcomes, policymakers hope to restore confidence in institutions that have appeared distant and labyrinthine to everyday citizens. Such reforms could have measurable macro‑economic benefits by improving market efficiency and consumer protection. Washington monthly