Newsletter Archive

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are pushing AI deregulation while labor groups push back, creating a fundamental split in Washington that will shape AI policy for years—executives are winning ground on workforce displacement concerns for now.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Policy

Samsung and other major advertisers are bypassing TikTok's mandatory AI disclosure policy by not labeling AI-generated ads, leaving viewers unable to distinguish synthetic from real content despite platform rules requiring transparency.

The Verge AI · 6 min read Policy

Anthropic confirmed Claude paid subscriptions doubled in 2024, though total user counts remain murky (18–30M estimates). The growth signals Claude's traction against OpenAI and other competitors, but hard numbers are scarce.

TechCrunch · 5 min read Market

Hollywood's actors union is negotiating a 'Tilly Tax'—compensation for actors whose likenesses are used to create AI film characters—as labor unions emerge as a practical counterweight to rapid AI deployment in entertainment.

Bloomberg Tech · 1 min read Policy

Kandou AI secured $225M in Series B funding from SoftBank and Synopsys to scale memory interface technology that alleviates the bandwidth bottleneck strangling AI model training and inference—a hardware constraint that increasingly constrains scaling.

Thenextweb · 5 min read Hardware

Suno released v5.5 with three major features: Voices (train the model on your own voice by uploading acapellas or singing into your phone), My Taste (personalization), and Custom Models. The voice training is the most-requested feature and works with varying audio quality.

The Verge AI · 2 min read Industry

Elon Musk is promoting Terafab as a solution to ongoing AI chip shortages. The move signals growing pressure to expand chip manufacturing capacity beyond existing bottlenecks constraining AI model training and deployment.

Digitimes · 3 min read Hardware

Deep-dive tutorial on nanobot, a 4,000-line Python agent framework, walking through tool wiring, memory persistence, subagent spawning, and cron scheduling by manually rebuilding each subsystem—culminating in a multi-step research pipeline with concurrent workers.

MarkTechPost · 13 min read Tools