
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Tell Trump: Don't Ban Open AI
Twenty-five companies signed an open letter urging the White House not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, using Jensen Huang's first-ever X post to deliver it.
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Twenty-five companies signed an open letter urging the White House not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, using Jensen Huang's first-ever X post to deliver it.

Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after three months, the third AI policy leadership departure since March, while the agency built to test frontier models sits outside the White House's new Gold Eagle cyber program.

OpenAI's Dean Ball floated regulatory pressure on Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K3, and within days Trump's own AI and defense officials turned on each other over it.

Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.

Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.

Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law takes effect June 30, but a federal lawsuit by xAI, DOJ intervention, and a replacement bill signed in May have already stripped its core protections.

New reporting reveals Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a Fable 5 jailbreak on a routine White House call, triggering a 90-minute ultimatum that shut down Anthropic's two best models worldwide.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.

The Trump administration is in talks with OpenAI about donating equity to a US sovereign-style fund, a deal that would make American taxpayers co-owners of the most valuable AI startup on Earth.

A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about US competitiveness - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.