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Big Tech signs open letter urging Washington to protect open-weight AI
Five major companies want open models treated as a national asset
Samsung and Broadcom sign $200 billion AI chip pact through 2030
A five-year MoU spanning memory, foundry, and packaging gives Samsung a marquee client and Broadcom a hedge against TSMC dependence.
Amazon requires AI-image labels for sellers under New York law
A New York disclosure rule is now changing how products look on the world's largest marketplace.
Big Tech and startups push back on US limits for open-weight AI
Two lobbying efforts converge on Washington as Congress weighs new AI oversight powers

UC Riverside tool traces fake videos to their AI source
A new forensics framework moves past asking whether a video is fake to identifying which system made it.

Lawmakers propose AI kill switch after OpenAI test model hacks Hugging Face
A bipartisan bill would give Homeland Security power to shut down rogue models, and the thresholds it sets will determine whether it has teeth

YouTube cuts ad revenue for three types of AI-generated content
Creators lose monetization eligibility for mass-produced, manipulative, or synthetic-persona videos on sensitive topics

Google ships three Gemini Flash models and delays its flagship again
Google's cheaper AI push tests the limits of access, regulation, and flagship delays

OpenAI backs lighter Massachusetts AI bill as Anthropic pushes stricter rules
Two leading AI labs are lobbying for opposite versions of the same state's safety framework

Deepmind CEO wants to create new US Agency to regulate AI
The head of Google's AI lab is pushing for a US-led body to test frontier models before release, a proposal that aligns with White House momentum but carries an obvious tension at its center.

Kimi K3 puts Washington on defense over Chinese open-source AI
Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter model is cheap, capable, and freely available, and U.S. regulators don't have a clean answer for it

Anthropic and Meta discuss $10 billion compute lease deal
Anthropic needs chips it can't easily buy; Meta has infrastructure it hasn't fully monetized

Hawaii moves ahead of Congress to criminalize AI-generated fake abuse
Hawaii's new civil liability framework lets victims of AI-generated fakes sue for up to $25,000

Meta's Iris chip enters production in September with 14 GW capacity target
Custom silicon marks Meta's clearest break yet from GPU dependence on Nvidia and AMD

Germany classifies AI search summaries as media content in landmark ruling
Google and Perplexity lose their liability shield as regulators reframe AI outputs

Google adds AI labels to ads, but enforcement relies on advertiser honesty
A new disclosure system covers Search, YouTube, and Discover, with a major gap at its center




