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Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on calls for a coordinated AI slowdown, arguing that market competition and legal liability already give developers strong incentives to act responsibly. He pointed to Meta's own decision to delay its Muse model as evidence that companies can self-regulate without industry-wide mandates.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is making a significant move in the AI productivity space, rolling out document and slideshow creation directly inside Claude. The update also merges regular chats and Cowork into a single unified interface, giving users access to all of Claude's tools from one place. The features arrive first for Pro and Max subscribers, and the timing is hard to miss — this puts Claude in direct competition with Google's Gemini on familiar office ground.
On the policy front, a crypto tax bill is advancing through the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act aims to simplify the tax treatment of everyday cryptocurrency transactions, though some lawmakers raised concerns about the administration's close ties to the crypto industry, adding a layer of political friction to what might otherwise look like straightforward reform.
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