SCOOP: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was sent a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang.
Lutnick oversees the agency charged with keeping sensitive U.S. technology out of the hands of American adversaries. The warning raises questions about how the department weighed potential security risks as it cleared advanced Nvidia chip sales to China-affiliated entities.
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NEW: The AI industry is scrambling to repackage a $10 trillion infrastructure buildout to appease a hostile electorate, that includes:
-No more non disclosure agreements
-Money for schools and cities
-Environmental concessions
-Labor protections
-Codified obligations over voluntary frameworks
-Job training programs
The bottom line: The race is on to see whether Democrats can translate election momentum into binding restrictions or the industry tries to head off tougher rules.
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Scoop: The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI.
-Each CID is more than 50 pages long.
-The FTC is seeking documents related to security incidents and safeguarding practices.
-The agency also requests marketing materials and documents detailing company privacy policies.
-Investigative demands to third-party AI organizations will be issued at a later date.
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Scoop: President Trump's new "Super Intelligence Force" made its first big swing today, following what officials called Anthropic's "fraudulent" use of the State Department's immigrant visa application system.
The admin officials are now mandating ALL AI labs adhere to a notification and remediation process, though no details of enforcement mechanisms or penalties were shared.
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Scoop: Anthropic's Dario Amodei to have White House dinner with Trump
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@hollyotterbein and @AlexThomp asked nearly 20 Democrats who are seen as potential White House contenders whether they support Bernie Sanders' call for a pause on AI development. Only one directly answered the question.
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