- Trump is publicly calling fears about runaway AI a "hoax," echoing his past dismissals like climate change and using the label to deflect controversy.
- Tech leaders and figures like Obama are urging a national conversation and possible controls, while many Americans mainly worry AI will cost jobs rather than cause extinction.
- Politics and money are at play—concerns about markets, presidential investments, and GOP strategy mean AI could become a big midterm issue that forces Congress to act.
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- Huawei predicts massive growth in autonomous agents — about 900 billion active by 2035 — generating over 90% of global AI token traffic and driving huge demand for compute.
- Rather than calling for slower development, Huawei pushes rapid deployment while stressing new security and privacy tools (AI firewalls, autonomous security ops) to keep agents controllable.
- The stance highlights a broader US–China split on AI pacing: China favors fast adoption and standards-building, with Huawei aiming to rival firms like Nvidia in AI infrastructure.
- Former Google software engineer who quit in 2022 and now runs Swil Arts as a watercolor artist in San Diego.
- Uses AI for business tasks—planning, bookkeeping, copyediting, mock-ups—and trains custom GPTs as an art coach and opportunity filter, but never to generate or ideate her actual artwork.
- Prefers sketching on location and sharing “California moments worth keeping”; cautious about AI’s ethical and environmental impacts yet optimistic it can augment (not replace) artists.
- EU chief Ursula von der Leyen will invite top frontier AI labs to talks on how to curb AI risks.
- An Anthropic researcher resigned, accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of recklessly racing toward self‑improving superintelligence.
- The EU has adopted landmark AI rules and is proposing a social‑media ban for under‑15s to protect children.
- The U.S. for the first time confirmed it has deployed "on-orbit space control" weapons to defend against hostile actions, though officials gave no details about the systems.
- The move highlights growing worries about anti‑satellite threats from Russia and China and the broader vulnerability of services that rely on satellites.
- The Air Force says it will add many more autonomous systems and one‑way attack drones by 2032, reflecting a rapid shift in how space and warfare are being approached (the Space Force was created in 2019).
- China is rapidly closing the AI gap with standout homegrown models (e.g., Moonshot’s Kimi K3, DeepSeek’s R1/V4, Z.ai’s GLM series and Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max) that are challenging U.S. leaders.
- The U.S. accuses Chinese firms of “industrial-scale distillation” and limits high-end chip access, while China rejects the claims and criticizes U.S. attempts to monopolize AI technology.
- Both countries publicly warn about AI risks and call for stronger governance — a debate that will be front and center when Xi visits Washington to meet President Trump.
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