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Meta is preparing to launch its Hatch AI agent platform, while OpenAI doubles down on workplace agents with ChatGPT Work and urges California to strengthen its AI safety law. Hugging Face is reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B+, and Nvidia is spending billions to counter Chinese AI — a busy 24 hours across AI agents, policy, and infrastructure.
Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at a $30 billion-plus valuation, deepening its push into the AI application layer. OpenAI is urging California to strengthen its newly passed AI safety law, Anthropic hired Google's former TPU chief to pursue in-house silicon, and Meta poached an OpenAI veteran — while export-control and rogue-model stories raise fresh governance questions.
Nvidia's upcoming Q2 earnings serve as a referendum on the resurgent AI trade, with hyperscaler capex and guidance in focus. New data shows OpenAI closing the gap with Anthropic among enterprise buyers, while enterprise AI agents double in deployment as confidence outpaces governance — and one in five firms can't halt runaway agent spending in real time.
NVIDIA's AVO harness took Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 100% on ARC-AGI-3, showing the agent scaffold — not the model — is the new moat. OpenAI leaders warn of a new era of 'persistent' AI cyber-attacks, NVIDIA is spending $6 billion on a US-built answer to Chinese AI, and Anthropic's flagship struggles for adoption as cheaper models thrive.
NVIDIA customers are bracing for AI-related price hikes above 15%, Anthropic is reportedly eyeing a $100 billion IPO, and OpenAI is urging California to strengthen its AI safety bill. Meta launched an AI Mac app, Google's trade-secret case took a new turn, and AI agents are starting to pay with stablecoins.
The New York Times reports Anthropic could aim to raise $100 billion in a blockbuster IPO that may target a $2 trillion valuation, while streamers sue Twitch and Amazon over using their content to train AI. MAHA activists warn Trump against coal-powered AI data centers, an AI agent saga unfolds on Resy, the UK bets on chip newcomers for sovereign AI, and a TechCrunch feature spotlights an AI model trained on living skin.
