Daily brief: CLARITY ethics deal, AI slowdown call, ByteDance loan

CoinDesk's daily briefing rounded up three developments. President Trump agreed to most of a stricter crypto ethics package ahead of the CLARITY Act vote, which would establish a federal framework for digital assets. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei separately called for slowing the AI race as frontier labs race toward more autonomous systems. Separately, ByteDance, TikTok's parent, secured a $29.6 billion loan to fund its AI ambitions, after reportedly considering spending as much as $70 billion on AI data centers and infrastructure.