Merrill launches NewMod law firm for litigation

The SEC's Division of Examinations added "super intelligence and other advanced technologies" to its FY2027 exam priorities, covering more than 34,000 registrants. Tokenization was listed separately under market infrastructure risks alongside Treasury clearing reforms.

A r/Singularity post argues AGI is "more likely to happen in 2-24 months than ever" and asks what it should solve first beyond global warming, with the poster's own pick being low-impact energy work. No concrete model, benchmark, or lab result is cited.

A r/ChatGPT post links an Alignment Forum post, "How to Become a Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher," as the starting point for getting into the field, with learning Python as the first step.