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Trump Advocates for Federal Override of State AI Regulations: President Trump is advancing a federal-first approach to AI regulation through an executive order, aiming to challenge state laws on safety and child protection. Meanwhile, Utah Republicans are promoting legislation requiring safety plans and whistleblower protections for AI firms. Link

Amazon’s AI Pricing Algorithms Under Scrutiny as FTC Responds to Antitrust Challenges: Amazon's AI systems can influence market prices without explicit collusion, raising antitrust concerns that the FTC is now trying to address. Link

Insurers Navigate AI Liability Challenges: Insurers are seeking to exclude AI-related harms from corporate liability coverage as questions grow over who is responsible when AI systems make mistakes. Link

Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic MCP Affects Over 7,000 Servers: A design flaw in Anthropic MCP has enabled remote code execution, affecting more than 7,000 servers and 150 million downloads across AI SDKs and supply chains. Link

AI Insiders Sound Alarm on Rising Risks: Industry insiders are increasingly warning about escalating AI dangers and calling on businesses, governments, and society to act now on safety. Link

Singapore Calls for Enhanced Security Measures in Banks Amid AI Concerns: Singapore’s financial regulator is urging banks to close cybersecurity gaps as worries over Anthropic’s Mythos model spread across Asia. Link

AI Chip Startups Draw Unprecedented Funding as Competition Escalates: A new wave of AI chip startups is securing record funding as investors back challengers to Nvidia’s dominance. Link

Morgan Stanley Predicts Rise in CPU Demand Driven by Autonomous AI: Morgan Stanley says increasingly autonomous AI could expand chip spending beyond GPUs, boosting CPU demand and reshaping data center investment. Link

NVIDIA Denies Acquisition Rumors, Focuses on AI Infrastructure Expansion: Nvidia says it is not pursuing a major PC-maker acquisition and is instead leaning into AI infrastructure growth. The company is also deepening partnerships around safety-critical industrial edge AI. Link

China's Affordable AI Models Attract Global Users, Boosting Stock Market: China’s low-cost AI models are rapidly gaining global traction, creating new winners in the country’s tech and stock markets. Link

Chinese Researchers Develop Self-Evolving AI Model: Chinese researchers have built an AI model that improves itself through self-analysis, intensifying debate over how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. Link

China’s Streaming Giant Anticipates AI to Produce Majority of Content by 2031: IQiyi expects AI to generate most of its films and shows within five years, driving its biggest corporate overhaul since launch. Link

A Blockchain CEO's Journey with AI Automation: A blockchain executive’s experience living with an AI life coach offers a glimpse into how deeply AI automation is moving into daily work and life. Link

Lawyers May Soon Face Malpractice Risks Without AI Adoption: As AI makes legal work faster and cheaper, lawyers who avoid the technology may increasingly face fiduciary and malpractice risks. Link

Samsung's Vision for the Future of Design and AI: Samsung argues that human direction remains essential to guide AI creatively and ethically as the technology becomes more embedded in design. Link

Google Sets Sights on New Chips to Compete with Nvidia: Google is developing new chips to speed up AI performance, building on recent partnerships with Meta and Anthropic as it pushes against Nvidia. Link

Anthropic launched Claude Design: A new tool for creating prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and design systems with plain-language prompts, signaling a bigger push beyond chat into visual work creation. Link

SK Hynix Starts Production of SOCAMM2 for Nvidia's Vera Rubin Chips: SK Hynix has begun producing the SOCAMM2 server module, a primary memory solution for next-generation AI servers built around Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips. Link

Apple Silicon Optimized for Local AI Models: Apple’s hardware is increasingly well-suited for running local AI models, and growing demand for on-device AI could shape a new business model for the company. Link

QNX and NVIDIA Collaborate to Enhance Safety-Critical Edge AI: QNX and Nvidia are expanding their work on a unified platform for real-time control, functional safety, and AI across robotics, medical, and industrial systems. Link