A ban on state AI regulation is back on the table. Will it work the second time around?
Press Clips #39 - November 24, 2025
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POLITICS
Federal preemption is back on the table. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said that House Republicans are looking to use the NDAA as a vehicle for banning state regulation of AI.
Trump backed the idea, calling for a federal standard, and the Transformer published the full text of a draft executive order from the White House.
In Lawfare, Charlie Bullock discussed the right way to do preemption.
The DOJ has charged four people for their alleged involvement in a scheme to illegally export AI chips to China.
At the same time, the GAIN AI Act -- and its restrictions on AI chip exports -- looks unlikely to pass, with the White House pressing lawmakers to remove it from the NDAA.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons appear to be doing quite well out of the datacenter frenzy.
The solar industry is backing Trump’s plans to accelerate solar buildout -- in part to meet AI demand.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a second letter to Google after its Gemma model produced ‘defamatory output.’
TECH
Google released a set of new models and tools, including…
Gemini 3 Pro, which beat existing benchmarks and currently ranks #1 on LMArena.
Nano Banana Pro: a SOTA image generation model
Antigravity: a new agentic coding environment
Jeff Bezos is back in business, returning to chair his new AI startup, Prometheus Labs.
According to the NYT, the startup has already secured $6.2B in funding.
In its Q3 earnings call, NVIDIA announced that it had beat its earnings forecasts, prompting a brief market rally as fears of an AI bubble were temporarily soothed.
“Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out,” said Jensen Huang.
Larry Summers resigned from the board of OpenAI after his relationship and communications with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed.
Anthropic announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA, with the two tech giants agreeing to invest up to $15 billion in the model developer.
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