☕️ Trump delays AI security executive order

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🛑 Trump delays AI security executive order

⚛️ US invests $2B in IBM and other quantum computing firms

📱 Meta launches Reddit-like app Forum

🚀 SpaceX scrubs first Starship V3 launch

🎵 Spotify is launching AI-generated remixes

Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 3 papers.

🛑 Trump delays AI security executive order LINK

President Trump has held off on signing an executive order that would let the government check AI models for security risks before release, saying he didn't like parts of the language and worried it could slow America's lead.

The order would have directed the Office of the National Cyber Director and other agencies to build a review process, prompted in part by Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber, which can find and exploit security vulnerabilities.

A major sticking point, per CNN, is a proposed rule that AI companies share advanced models with the government 14 to 90 days before launch, though reports also blame too few tech CEOs being able to reach Washington for a photo op.

⚛️ US invests $2B in IBM and other quantum computing firms LINK

The Department of Commerce is putting over $2 billion into nine quantum computing companies, including IBM, in exchange for minority, non-controlling equity stakes, the Trump administration announced on Thursday as part of its push into the industry.

IBM is getting half of the $2 billion to build an American quantum chip foundry through a new subsidiary called Anderon, based in Albany, New York, while GlobalFoundries receives $375 million for its own domestic quantum chip foundry.

The remaining money goes to Atom Computing, Diraq, D-Wave, PsiQuantum, Quantinuum, and Rigetti to tackle technical and manufacturing hurdles, with PsiQuantum drawing scrutiny from Senators Warren, Blumenthal, and Kim over investments from Donald Trump Jr.'s firm 1789 Capital.

📱 Meta launches Reddit-like app Forum LINK

Meta has quietly rolled out Forum, a standalone app for Facebook Groups that the company is pitching as a Reddit-style platform built for "deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."

After signing in with a Facebook account, Forum loads your groups, profile, and activity, lets you post with a nickname, and keeps everything synced with your existing groups on Facebook.

The app features an AI-powered "Ask" tab that pulls answers from discussions across different groups, plus an admin AI assistant that helps group administrators manage and moderate content.

🚀 SpaceX scrubs first Starship V3 launch LINK

SpaceX called off the first launch attempt of its third-generation Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas, on Thursday, and plans to try again Friday at 5:30 p.m. local time if engineers can resolve the issue.

Elon Musk said on X that a hydraulic pin holding the launch tower arm in place failed to retract, after the fully fueled rocket's countdown dipped under T-40 seconds and was re-cycled multiple times.

This 12th Starship flight is the first since October 2025 and introduces third-gen Raptor engines with more thrust, a booster with one fewer grid fin, and design changes meant to stop propellant leaks in the upper stage.

🎵 Spotify is launching AI-generated remixes LINK

Spotify has teamed up with Universal Music Group to roll out a feature that lets listeners make AI-generated covers and remixes of songs, which co-CEO Alex Norström says is "grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artist."

The remix tool arrives alongside other AI projects announced Thursday, as Spotify tries to balance its push into generative tools with its earlier moves against AI slop and unauthorized voice cloning on the platform.

UMG's involvement fits a wider pattern of major labels striking deals with AI firms, with Warner Music Group and UMG itself already partnering with audio AI companies such as Suno and Udio despite pushback from artists.

Other news you might like

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• Anthropic, Microsoft in talks for AI chip deal after $5 billion investmentLINK

• California governor signs first US executive order to protect workers from AI job lossLINK

• Starbucks abandons its AI inventory tool after only nine monthsLINK

• Nvidia really doesn't seem to care about gaming GPUs anymoreLINK

• DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advancesLINK

• Lenovo just had its best year ever as AI PCs and servers fuel record growthLINK

• Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new appLINK

• Iran reportedly funneled billions through Binance to fund its militaryLINK

🧰 Trending tools

TestSprite 3.0: automates your entire testing workflow—from planning and code generation to execution and debugging—cutting testing costs by up to 90%.LINK

General Compute: inference cloud built on ASICs that delivers 5x faster AI responses for latency-sensitive workloads like coding and voice agents, with OpenAI-compatible API integration.LINK

WordPress 7.0: a content management platform with an redesigned dashboard, AI integration, and enhanced customization tools for creators, businesses, and developers.LINK

Auto Posts: schedules and publishes content across multiple social media platforms automatically, freeing you from manual posting and calendar management.LINK

Nugget AI: automatically extracts pain points, feature requests, and themes from customer interviews, then generates PRDs with real quotes for dev handoff.LINK

Prosed: a writing tool that transforms your existing newsletters, podcasts, and posts into a structured, voice-matched book manuscript with editorial review and print-ready export.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

Multi-stream AI agents can read, think, and act simultaneously by splitting tasks into parallel computation streams, fixing a long-standing bottleneck in how AI assistants process information and respond.LINK

CODA, a new GPU programming tool, fuses memory-hungry transformer operations directly into matrix multiplication kernels, eliminating costly data movement and achieving high performance across representative workloads, making AI training faster and more efficient.LINK

Self-rewriting AI agents can fix their own source code after real failures, with MOSS lifting a four-task mean score from 0.25, outperforming systems that only edit text-based configuration files.LINK

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