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🤖 Microsoft unveils Copilot super app
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- Microsoft rolled out a new all-in-one Copilot app that folds AI chat, coding and always-on agents into one place, adding sections called Home, Code and Autopilot along with full versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- The app lets people switch between AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft's own MAI, or an Auto mode that picks one per request, a pitch aimed at companies that want to swap models and run their own tests.
- Pricing now splits into a per-user monthly license for everyday chat and Office features, plus usage-based billing for heavier agent work like Cowork, Code and Autopilot, with most new features arriving in the coming weeks and later this year.
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🤝 Xi urges Trump to cooperate on AI
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- At a White House summit yesterday, China's president Xi Jinping pushed Trump to work together on artificial intelligence, saying the technology must stay "under human control," though Trump had already ruled out negotiating any limits on AI development.
- Ahead of the meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agreed with Chinese officials to set up a "U.S.-China AI Dialogue," proposing a notification system between the two countries, while experts expect little beyond a hotline and promises to keep talking.
- OpenAI and Anthropic, seen as building the world's most capable AI models, have begun using their systems to train the next generation, and their leaders warn that competition between the two nations could block efforts to prevent a human catastrophe.
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📞 Gemini can now call businesses for you
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- Google is rolling out an early test that lets Gemini, its AI assistant, place phone calls to businesses on your behalf to order food, book appointments, make reservations, or check whether an item is in stock.
- The feature, open only to Pixel 11 owners for now, has Gemini identify itself as an AI on the call, show a live text transcript, and let you step in and take over the conversation at any moment.
- Gemini also handles automated phone menus and waits on hold until a real person picks up, building on Google's earlier "Call for me" and "Talk to a Live Representative" tools that offered less user control.
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🇺🇸 White House wants first AI model look
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- The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back their newest AI models from the UK's AI Security Institute until the US government finishes testing them first, according to a report from Politico.
- The request came from the Office of the National Cyber Director, which wants to confirm US systems are secure before models reach partners; Anthropic already withheld its Mythos 5.1 model from the UK body.
- The UK institute, set up in 2023 and one of the world's best-funded government AI bodies, had tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra before release, but its director confirmed it never got access to Anthropic's model.
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🚗 Waymo is scaling fast
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- Waymo has grown from robotaxi service in three cities in September 2024 to 15 U.S. cities today, running about 4,000 vehicles and giving 500,000 paid rides each week, though most cars sit in just two states.
- Around 80% of Waymo's fleet is in California and Texas, and the Texas count jumped 49% in three weeks to 1,102 vehicles, powered by a new Chinese-built minivan called the Ojai that now makes up a third of the state's cars.
- The Ojai is a Zeekr minivan fitted with Waymo's self-driving system at its Arizona factory, and the company plans to bring 5,100 into the U.S. by year's end, absorbing steep import tariffs that eat into the vehicle's expected cost savings.
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🪙 Fed proposes stablecoin reserve rules
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- The Federal Reserve is asking for public comment on two proposals that would set reserve and capital rules for stablecoin issuers it oversees under the GENIUS Act, the country's first crypto law.
- One proposal would force supervised stablecoin issuers to fully back their coins with approved reserve assets, set capital and risk management standards, and lay out rules for firms holding the assets behind the stablecoins.
- The second proposal creates a special application process for supervised banks wanting to issue stablecoins, plus rules for appeals and hearings, with a 60-day comment window opening after the proposals appear in the Federal Register.
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