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Sunday’s news cycle didn’t slow down — between Washington walking back AI threats, Europe wrestling with AI ads, and a viral celebrity confession about using ChatGPT as a therapist, there’s plenty to chew on before bed. Here’s the wrap.
Trump softens on Anthropic
One week after the Commerce Department slapped Anthropic with new compliance demands, President Trump told The Axios Show he no longer considers the company a national security threat — praising Dario Amodei’s team for “behaving very responsibly.” A quick whiplash moment for the SF lab, and a reminder of how fast political winds can shift around frontier AI players.
Eurocommerce wants AI ads off the disclosure hook
Reuters reports that Eurocommerce — the lobby representing Amazon, H&M, Inditex, and IKEA — is asking EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated ads from the bloc’s incoming disclosure rules. Their argument: if every retouched product shot needs an “AI” label, retail marketing grinds to a halt. Consumer groups, predictably, are not amused.
EU bans nudifier apps, US Senate clears NO FAKES Act
Two big deepfake moves on the same day. Brussels has banned AI systems whose primary purpose is generating non-consensual nudes, while the US Senate finally pushed the NO FAKES Act through — giving people legal recourse against unauthorized AI replicas of their face and voice. Long overdue on both sides of the Atlantic.
MIT spinoff goes after AI’s cooling bill
MIT News spotlighted Ferveret, a startup from two MIT researchers building a new cooling system that slashes energy and water needed to keep AI chips from melting. With data-center electricity demand still the elephant in every earnings call, infra plays like this are getting real traction.
🔥 Hot take: ChatGPT as therapist goes mainstream
Jesse Eisenberg went on Hot Ones and casually admitted he uses ChatGPT for emotional processing — and the clip is blowing up across Reddit and X. r/ChatGPT is split: half the comments are “same, it’s the only thing that listens,” the other half warn about algorithmic empathy — a model trained to validate, not push back. Either way, the stigma around AI-as-confidant just dropped another notch. Healthy? Debatable. Already happening? Absolutely.
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