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President Trump is escalating tensions with Europe over antitrust enforcement, vowing to investigate the EU for its fines against Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon. He's calling for those penalties to be entirely reversed, framing them as an attack on American business. It's a significant move that puts transatlantic trade and tech regulation on a direct collision course.
Meanwhile, a coalition of twenty-five companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Hugging Face have signed an open-weights policy letter urging Washington to protect open AI development. Notably absent from that list are OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Jensen Huang used his very first post on X to promote the letter, signaling how much is at stake in the debate over regulating Chinese AI models.
And in a story about trust in prediction markets, Polymarket allegedly paid content creators to stage fake winning bets as a way to attract users in the United States. If accurate, that raises serious questions about how platforms build credibility and whether the crowds doing the predicting were ever really as organic as advertised.
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