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US and China Open Direct AI Incident Hotline Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the United States and China are now speaking directly about AI risks, with the Trump administration proposing a direct notification system between Washington and Beijing for artificial intelligence incidents serious enough to affect national security. The move marks a new phase in US-China AI talks as both governments prepare for the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting. (Washington Times, INVC News)
Trump Pushes AI Agenda — and Rejects Industry “Pacing” Proposal
Over the weekend, President Trump announced he will stand up an “AI Force” modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar, while explicitly rejecting the frontier-pacing proposal that Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk converged on earlier this month. Bloomberg reports AI pressure is rising ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting, with calls growing for a slowdown; a White House draft framework seen by Google, Anthropic and OpenAI was received negatively as too prescriptive on model development, release timing and customer eligibility. (Bloomberg, Politico Magazine)
$33 Trillion in Stock Gains Riding on the Future of AI
Bloomberg reports that roughly $33 trillion in equity gains are now tied to AI expectations, warning that any AI slowdown is a serious threat to those gains. Markets are watching policy signals out of Washington and Beijing closely this week. (Bloomberg)
Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image-2.1 Open-Weight Model
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight image model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency support and the ability to use up to ten reference images — a notable open-source release landing today. (via Techmeme)
OpenAI Launches GPT-Live Native Voice Model; Tracking Cookie Under Fire
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a native voice AI model powering ChatGPT Voice with sub-300ms latency and emotional nuance, eliminating the text-pipeline bottleneck. Meanwhile, an independent researcher’s teardown of “__obi” — an OpenAI cookie that binds a signed-in ChatGPT account to browsing activity on third-party sites — became the most-discussed AI item on Hacker News today. (AI Herald, AI Daily Digest)
Jensen Huang: AI Leaders Want Relief From Existing Laws, Not New Rules
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang pushed back today against the wave of AI-leader regulation calls, saying executives asking for regulation don’t want new legislation but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons.” (via Techmeme)
Tencent-Backed Naive AI Hits $1.42B Valuation Seven Months After Founding
Beijing-based Naive AI, founded in February 2026 by Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng, has reached a $1.42B valuation after raising $400M across three rounds from Tencent, IDG Capital, MPCi and HSG — before shipping anything. Its first open-weights LLM is due as early as this month, and the company says it intends to build it without a conventional pre-training run. (via AI Weekly, The Information)
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