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OpenAI has recently submitted a 15-page response to the White House's call for public input on the AI Action Plan, proposing that AI companies be shielded from state-level regulations in favor of federal oversight.

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• OpenAI Calls for Federal Shield as Part of AI Policy Proposal

• Microsoft and Xbox launched "Copilot for Gaming"

• Alibaba introduced New Quark, an updated version of its AI assistant mobile app

• Google enhanced the Gemini API and Google AI Studio

• AI fun fact

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Microsoft and Xbox launched "Copilot for Gaming," an AI-driven assistant aimed at helping players dive into games more quickly, offering in-game coaching, and enhancing social interactions. Early access will soon be available for mobile users.

Alibaba introduced New Quark, an updated version of its AI assistant mobile app, now powered by the company's new Qwen reasoning model.

Google enhanced the Gemini API and Google AI Studio with new support for YouTube, enabling the model to use vision capabilities to interact with video content.

Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy predicted that AI will drive a fundamental transformation in web content design, with pages optimized for LLMs and context windows rather than human readability.

Insilico Medicine raised $110M in funding for its AI-driven drug discovery platform, which features multimodal foundation models and a fully automated robotic lab, complete with a bipedal humanoid AI scientist.

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OpenAI Calls for Federal Shield as Part of AI Policy Proposal

OpenAI has recently submitted a 15-page response to the White House's call for public input on the AI Action Plan, proposing that AI companies be shielded from state-level regulations in favor of federal oversight.

Key points:

• OpenAI cautions that the 781 state-level AI bills introduced this year could undermine American innovation and competitiveness, especially in comparison to China’s growing AI ambitions.

• The proposal also calls for increased investment in infrastructure, reforming copyright laws, and expanding access to government datasets for AI development.

• OpenAI specifically highlights China's "unfettered access to data" and argues that the AI race will be “effectively over” if fair use copyright laws aren’t applied in the U.S.

• OpenAI further urged the U.S. government to ban models like DeepSeek, citing security concerns and calling the lab "state-controlled."

Why it matters: With its $500 billion Stargate Project and increasing influence in Washington, OpenAI’s regulatory goals now rival its technical ambitions. However, the call for exemptions from state laws while simultaneously pushing to restrict open-source competitors comes at a controversial moment, amid ongoing debates over closed-source models and copyright disputes.

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• Gemma 3: Google’s multimodal, multilingual AI model family with a 128k context window.

• Gemini 2.0 Flash exp: A new feature allowing users to upload, create, and edit images directly through text conversations with built-in native image generation.

• R1-Omni: Alibaba’s new open-source multimodal reasoning model capable of “reading” emotions.

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