Colorado lawmakers repealed and replaced the state’s landmark AI Act before it could go into effect, swapping out the original law’s discrimination prevention and algorithmic accountability requirements for a stripped-down framework focused almost entirely on notice and data access rights.
GLM-5.2 from Zhipu AI, released under an MIT license in mid-June, posted a SWE-bench Pro coding score of 62.1 against GPT-5.5’s 58.6 — while costing $4.40 per million output tokens versus OpenAI’s $30.
House lawmakers have released a 269-page bipartisan draft of the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act, which would create the first comprehensive federal framework for governing AI in the United States and preempt all state-level AI regulations for at least three years.
Google DeepMind has invested $75 million in indie film studio A24 in a multiyear research and development partnership to build AI filmmaking tools — with an explicit promise that Google will not train on A24’s content library.
Meta has launched its own branded smart glasses starting at $299 — cheaper than the Ray-Ban models and carrying 26 styles across three frames, including a line designed in partnership with Kylie Jenner.
Email productivity company Superhuman has acquired GPTZero, the AI detection startup built by Princeton grad Edward Tian as a senior thesis project that grew into a 19-million-user business generating $30 million in annual recurring revenue.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture and Google’s own co-lead of Gemini, has defected to OpenAI in one of the most significant talent moves the AI industry has seen in years.
Trump’s June 2 executive order on AI asks companies to voluntarily submit frontier models for up to 30-day government review before release — with no mandatory requirement, no enforcement mechanism, and no way to actually stop a company from shipping.
Writer launched event-triggered AI agents that monitor Gmail, Slack, Gong, and other enterprise tools and take action without any human prompt — a direct challenge to Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce in enterprise AI.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a widely-read essay warning that a handful of AI frontier models are poised to commoditize entire industries’ expertise, drawing a direct parallel to how globalization hollowed out manufacturing.