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POLITICS
President Trump announced Project Vault, “a critical mineral stockpile for American businesses.”
Civil society and policy groups wrote a letter to Senate leaders opposing AI preemption.
Sens. Cotton (R-AR) and Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced The Biosecurity Modernization and Innovation Act, requiring “gene synthesis providers screen their orders and customers for bad actors or dangerous pathogens.”
Americans for Responsible Innovation endorsed the legislation, citing AI’s role in accelerating biosecurity risks.
A coalition of non-profits urged a Grok ban in federal agencies following the controversy surrounding its generation of harmful sexualized images.
New York is considering a pair of bills to restrict AI industry and usage.
The first bill imposes a three-year moratorium on new data center construction.
The second (“NY FAIR News Act”) would require sites to label AI generated news, and mandates that any news content created by AI must be approved by a human with “editorial control.”
A report by the Center for Data Innovation and Public First found that the U.S. is an “uneven adopter” of AI use in government.
The report surveyed thousands of government workers across ten countries.
TECH
Anthropic released Opus 4.6 with new “agent teams” feature. The new addition uses teams of agents to break down larger coding tasks into more manageable subtasks.
OpenAI also released their newest coding model GPT-5.3-Codex, which they claim is their “first model that was instrumental in creating itself.”
OpenAI is also reported to be unhappy with Nvidia, and looking for alternative suppliers for its chips.
At the same time, Nvidia’s $100 billion investment in OpenAI, announced in September, seems to be off the table.
Sam Altman responded on X that they “love working with Nvidia” and “hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time.”
Gemini surpassed 750 million monthly users ahead of Gemini 3 launch.
Intel announced it will begin producing GPUs.
Meta announced in an emailed statement that it would be testing a standalone Vibes app.
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says that “the American people are being lied to about AI”, arguing that it should be seen as a tool that empowers workers, not replaces them.
SemiAnalysis discussed the ‘once-in-four-decades’ shortage fueling a ‘memory boom.’
Nathan Lambert compared Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and discussed the difficulty of evaluating models in 2026.
International AI Safety Report was released, led by Yoshua Bengio.
DISCOURSE
Data to start your week (Exponential View) 📊
Brain-Inspired AI Chips | $4.5B Unconventional AI (Sourcery)
How close is AI to taking my job? (Epoch AI) ✍
Do AI models cover their costs? (Epoch AI x Exponential View) 📽 🔉
10 articles that set the tone for AI policy in 2025 (AI Policy Bulletin Newsletter) ✍
An Allied World on the American AI Stack: A Strategy for Export Leadership (Anton Leicht, Sarosh Nagar, Liam Patell and Sam Winter-Levy) ✍
How to build a data moat (The AI Fronter) ✍
On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I) (Dean Ball) ✍
“Build the AI Wall” with Steve Bannon (The Last Invention) 🔉
AI manipulation (AI Policy Perspectives) ✍
In both China and the US, compute makes up more than 50% of the cost of running an AI company (Epoch AI) ✍
Elon’s entire tech tree is converging right now (Dwarkesh Patel) 📽
Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models. (Latent Space) ✍
LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench (Import AI) ✍
The many masks LLMs wear (Understanding AI) ✍