☕️ OpenAI wants to shield AI companies from lawsuits

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🛡️ OpenAI wants to shield AI companies from lawsuits

🔧 Anthropic explores building its own AI chips

👀 Google News now prominently features Polymarket

🔒 Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile

🕶️ Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses

💰 OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Pro plan

Plus: 🎁 19 other news you might like, 🧰 5 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

🛡️ OpenAI wants to shield AI companies from lawsuits LINK

OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act that would protect AI developers from lawsuits over catastrophic harm, as long as they publish safety reports and didn't act recklessly.

The bill covers "critical harms" like 100 or more deaths, $1 billion in property damage, or AI-assisted weapons development, and applies to frontier models built on over $100 million in compute.

OpenAI, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft spent $50 million on federal lobbying in the first nine months of 2025, while no federal law yet addresses who is responsible if AI causes large-scale disaster.

🔧 Anthropic explores building its own AI chips LINK

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is exploring the possibility of building its own AI chips as the industry faces a growing shortage of the sophisticated hardware needed to train and run new models.

The exploration is still early — sources told Reuters that Anthropic has not yet set up a project team or put formal plans in place, though rivals Meta and OpenAI already have custom chip projects underway.

Anthropic currently runs Claude on Amazon Trainium, Google TPUs, and Nvidia GPUs, and recently expanded a deal to tap 3.5GW of Google TPU capacity through Broadcom, expected online in 2027.

👀 Google News now prominently features Polymarket LINK

Google News has started displaying Polymarket betting pages alongside real news articles, often showing them as large blocks in personalized feeds, search results, and even the home page.

Google now lets users select Polymarket as a "source" in its News search bar, a option also available for Reddit and X but not for Kalshi, Polymarket's main competitor.

Critics say prediction markets deal in the language of journalism while peddling irresponsible falsehoods, and scandals like suspected insider trading on the Venezuela bet have drawn national attention.

🔒 Google rolls out Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile LINK

Google has made Gmail end-to-end encryption available on Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users compose and read encrypted emails directly in the mobile app without extra tools.

Recipients who don't have the Gmail app can still read encrypted messages through a web browser, and senders can encrypt emails to any recipient regardless of their email service.

The feature requires Enterprise Plus licenses with Assured Controls add-ons and uses client-side encryption, meaning encryption keys stay outside Google's servers to meet regulatory requirements like HIPAA.

🕶️ Snap gets closer to releasing new AI glasses LINK

Snap is moving closer to releasing its AR glasses, called Spectacles or Specs, after announcing a new partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm to power the wearable device later this year.

The glasses will run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR platforms, which are systems-on-a-chip designed for augmented and virtual reality devices, as part of a multi-year strategic agreement.

Snap has been developing Spectacles for over a decade, with the last consumer-facing version released in 2019, and earlier this year it spun off a separate company focused on Specs.

💰 OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Pro plan LINK

OpenAI has introduced a new $100 per month ChatGPT Pro plan, filling the gap between the $20 Plus tier and the $200 Pro tier that still exists but is no longer listed on its pricing page.

The $100 Pro plan offers 5x more Codex coding capacity than Plus, and OpenAI openly says it is designed to compete with Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option on price and value.

OpenAI is temporarily offering even higher Codex limits on the $100 plan through May 31, and none of its plans provide unlimited usage, with the $200 tier giving 20x higher limits than Plus.

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🧰 Trending tools

Matcha: an AI-powered note-taking app that helps students and professionals organize, search, and synthesize their notes more efficiently in one place.LINK

MiniMax CLI: command-line interface for accessing MiniMax's multimodal AI models that handle text, audio, images, video, and music with extended context processing capabilities.LINK

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📚 Trending papers & reports

Evolving AI agents achieves 90% performance of expensive methods while using 10 times fewer evaluations by combining genetic algorithms with language model guidance to search the design space efficiently.LINK

PaperOrchestra's AI system automates academic paper writing by coordinating multiple specialized agents that handle literature review, methodology, experiments, and formatting, producing complete draft manuscripts without human intervention.LINK

Malicious AI agents can be injected into open source repositories, with researchers finding that 78% of tested LLM systems executed harmful code from compromised agent packages without detection.LINK

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