🗞 Trump Signs Anti-Exploitation Law, Microsoft Launches Agent Tools, and Nvidia Battles Export Controls

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Trump Signs TAKE IT DOWN Act: New Law Combats Digital Exploitation

• Microsoft Unveils AI Agent Tools: Building the "Open Agentic Web"

• Nvidia CEO Challenges Export Controls: Restrictions Threaten US AI Leadership

• GitHub Copilot Evolves: AI Assistant Now Works as Autonomous Coding Agent

• Sam Altman Profile: The New Yorker Examines OpenAI Leader's Complex Industry Role

• Other news you might find interesting

📝 President Trump signs the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law, championed by First Lady Melania Trump to combat digital exploitation.

• The bipartisan legislation makes non-consensual sharing of explicit images illegal, requiring social media platforms to remove deepfakes and revenge porn within 48 hours.

• Major tech leaders, lawmakers from both parties, and advocacy organizations like the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children praised the new law for closing dangerous gaps in protecting children online.

• The White House signing ceremony included victims' advocates whose personal stories helped drive this legislation, aimed at holding both perpetrators and platforms accountable for digital abuse.

🔄 Microsoft unveils over 50 AI tools to build the "open agentic web" at Build 2025 conference.

• The company introduced dozens of technologies spanning GitHub, Azure, Windows and Microsoft 365, all focused on advancing autonomous AI agents that can make decisions and complete complex tasks with minimal human supervision.

• Microsoft is addressing key agent requirements with new memory capabilities through structured RAG, multi-agent collaboration frameworks, and the GitHub Copilot coding agent that can function as a team member for development tasks.

• Enterprise security concerns are being tackled with Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Purview data security integration, while the company promotes interoperability through open standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the new NLWeb project.

💪 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues US chip export controls are "exactly wrong" for maintaining American AI leadership.

• In a Stratechery interview, Huang criticized the AI diffusion rule that limits chip exports, noting the company "wrote off $5.5 billion" in inventory and "walked away from $15 billion of sales" in China, while inadvertently encouraging Chinese competitors to develop alternative AI infrastructure.

• Huang predicts AI will drive substantial economic growth by addressing labor shortages with AI agents and robots, stating he would "hire a $100,000/year AI agent in a heartbeat" since it could amplify the productivity of employees who are paid much more.

• The CEO explained Nvidia's Dynamo system ("the operating system of an AI factory") which disaggregates AI processing in data centers, and predicts that within five years, reasoning models could become "100,000 times faster" through hardware and software advances.

🚀 GitHub Copilot advances to autonomous agent with asynchronous code testing capabilities.

• GitHub Copilot Agent (previously known as Project Padawan) now works independently to check, test, and iterate code, allowing developers to assign coding issues directly to the AI assistant while they focus on other tasks.

• The agent embeds into GitHub workflows, following the developer's style while logging its reasoning and validation steps, and can tap into GitHub Actions to boot up virtual machines, clone repositories, and update pull requests.

• The upgrade includes support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling Copilot to communicate with other systems and retrieve missing context or data, keeping GitHub competitive as the AI coding assistant landscape grows more crowded with rivals like OpenAI's Codex.

👨‍💼 The New Yorker explores Sam Altman's complex role in shaping OpenAI and the future of artificial intelligence.

• Benjamin Wallace-Wells profiles how Altman evolved from a "radiant child" of Silicon Valley who secured billions from Microsoft to a more pragmatic business leader navigating the tension between the "boomer" optimists and "doomer" alarmists in AI development.

• The article examines how OpenAI's transformation from a nonprofit "Manhattan Project for AI" (co-founded with Elon Musk) to a for-profit company mirrors the broader industry's shift toward a scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development.

• Drawing from two new books about Altman and OpenAI, the piece suggests that despite all the philosophical debate around artificial general intelligence, the technology ultimately reflects the corporate conditions of its creation rather than transcending them.

More news you might find interesting:

• OpenAI launches $250K challenge to discover lost Amazon civilizations using AI models.

• Apple reportedly considering letting EU users replace Siri with third-party voice assistants amid ongoing AI struggles.

• Research finds OpenAI's GPT-4 significantly outperforms humans in persuasive debates.

• Foxconn chair predicts AI and robotics will end manufacturers' reliance on cheap labor in low-GDP countries.

• NYU researchers find AI performs better when trained like children - starting with simple tasks before tackling complex ones.

• Microsoft launches Healthcare Agent Orchestrator to transform cancer care planning with AI.

• Microsoft partners with xAI to bring Grok models to Azure AI Foundry platform.

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