🏛️ New York just put AI safety on the books - for real
New York’s governor signed the RAISE Act, putting a substantial AI safety law on the books at the state level. It’s framed as “transparency first”… but transparency rules have a habit of turning into pressure, fast.
Big frontier-model developers have to publish details about their safety practices and report serious safety incidents to the state within 72 hours. Enforcement sits with a new oversight office inside the state’s financial regulator, and penalties can reach $1M (then $3M for repeat violations) - which is not nothing.
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🎮 An AI that can play basically any video game - and it’s not just for fun
Researchers tied to Nvidia and several universities introduced NitroGen, an open-source foundation model trained to play 1,000+ games. Think “generalist gamer brain” - less chess-bot, more adaptable hands-and-eyes.
It learned from a mountain of public gameplay video (including footage where inputs are visible), and the team says it generalizes across genres and can cope with unfamiliar or procedurally generated environments. The slightly spooky part - the methods overlap with robotics, so this isn’t only about games, even if that’s the flashiest demo.
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🏫 Odisha wants AI taught in schools - and used across government
Odisha’s electronics and IT minister said the state plans to introduce AI in school curricula and carry it through higher education. The logic is blunt: if AI is going to touch everything, people should at least understand what it’s doing - and what it’s not doing.
They’re also talking about deploying AI across all 41 government departments, plus setting up an “AI Mission” and a supporting portal. It’s ambitious, strangely exciting, and also the kind of plan where execution is the whole story.
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💳 The AI boom is turning “safe” debt into something a bit spicier
Bloomberg’s angle: the AI buildout (data centers, grid upgrades, power supply) is leaning hard on credit markets, and utilities are becoming a central borrower class. It’s an AI narrative, powered by very unglamorous finance plumbing.
More borrowing means more bond supply, which can pressure prices - and if regulators cap how much utilities can raise rates, profits get squeezed while capital spending keeps climbing. It’s like trying to sprint while carrying a filing cabinet… not impossible, just awkward.
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📱 OpenAI’s bigger target might be Apple - not Google
A Fortune piece argues OpenAI’s real heavyweight fight might be about devices, not just models - the kind of consumer hardware that could challenge the iPhone’s default role as “the place where digital life happens.” That’s a massive claim, and I’m half-eye-rolling… but also, yeah, it tracks.
The tangible detail is that Sam Altman brought in famed designer Jony Ive, and the article frames their work as an attempt to build a new AI-first device category. No reveal, no specs, just the sense of a slow, deliberate push to own the interface - not merely the chatbot.
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