Trump's "one rule" AI order drops this week

📋 Trump Promises to Fix AI With... One Rule??

• Trump's dropping an executive order this week for a SINGLE national AI approval process because apparently getting "50 Approvals" is too hard (his caps, not mine)

• States are about to lose their AI safety powers while Silicon Valley gets a federal fast pass. What could possibly go wrong?? (source)

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💰 IBM Drops $11B on Confluent (They Still Exist!)

• IBM just paid $11 BILLION (34% premium btw) for data streaming company Confluent because their AI models are starving "purpose-built for hungry workloads"

• Big Tech's infrastructure spending is getting stupiddd - IBM literally bought a fire hose to feed its AI. The bubble's not popping, it's INFLATING. (source)

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🧠 6 Nerds Just Beat Google at Their Own Game

• Startup Poetiq scored 54% on ARC-AGI-2 (Google only hit 45%) using Gemini 3... which Google made... within HOURS of release... for cheaper... I-

• You don't need OpenAI's budget to push AI forward anymore - just borrow Google's homework and do it better 💀 (source)

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🎭 Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Poetry Can Jailbreak Your AI Too

• Italian researchers found that reformulating harmful requests as POEMS bypasses AI safety 62% of the time. Gemini 2.5 Pro? 100% vulnerable. Shakespeare would be proud (and terrified).

• AI safety is literally getting defeated by haikus. We're sooooo cooked. (source)

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💊 Nvidia-Backed AI Drug Actually... Works??

• Recursion Pharma's AI-discovered drug reduced colon polyps by 53% in rare disease patients. 9 out of 11 kept improvements after stopping treatment (!!)

• AI drug discovery just went from "maybe someday" to actually saving lives. We love to see it :) (source)

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📿 Meta Buys Another Dead Hardware Startup (Shocking)

• Meta acquired Limitless (the AI pendant that records your convos), who immediately discontinued hardware sales. RIP to another AI wearable nobody asked for.

• The AI hardware graveyard grows while Meta/OpenAI build their own devices. It's giving monopoly vibes. (source)

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📰 Meta AI Becomes a News Aggregator Nobody Wanted

• Meta partnered with CNN, Fox News, USA TODAY to bring "diverse viewpoints" to Meta AI. Because what we needed was another place to argue about politics.

• AI assistants are becoming the new Facebook feed - except now the algorithm has opinions too :/ (source)

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🚗 95% of Car Companies About to Get REKT by AI

• Gartner says only 5% of automakers (basically Tesla and BYD) will keep investing in AI by 2029. The rest? They're about to discover they're hardware companies in a software world.

• Legacy carmakers who can't code are about to become the Blockbuster of transportation. Brutal. (source)

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🛍️ OpenAI Turns Off Ads After Getting Caught Red-Handed

• CRO Mark Chen admitted they "fell short" after ChatGPT's shopping suggestions looked suspiciously like... ads. Feature's disabled while they "work on improvements" (sure bestie).

• Users will tolerate hallucinations but draw the line at sneaky advertising. Trust = demolished. (source)

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🔬 DOE Launches Robot Lab That Never Sleeps

• Pacific Northwest Lab's AMP2 facility uses AI and robots to run microbial experiments 24/7. What took weeks now takes minutes. Science doesn't need coffee breaks anymore.

• Autonomous labs are speedrunning biotech discovery - we're about to unlock trillions in bioeconomy value (or create super bacteria, idk). (source)

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💕 Hinge's AI Writes Your Pickup Lines Now

• Hinge launched "Convo Starters" giving you 3 AI-generated conversation tips when you like someone. Because apparently "hey" isn't cutting it anymore.

• Gen Z wants authentic connections but needs AI to start conversations. The irony is chef's kiss 👨‍🍳 (source)

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