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White House calls for “light-touch” on AI
The Trump administration released a national AI policy framework, calling on Congress to adopt a “light-touch” legislative approach to the technology. The framework aims to establish uniform safety guardrails and secure American AI dominance while preempting individual states from enacting their own regulations. The proposal places emphasis on infrastructure, tasking Congress with ensuring that the massive energy demands of new AI data centers do not lead to increased electricity costs for residential ratepayers.
Actors, musicians and writers welcome UK U-turn on AI use of copyrighted work
The UK government has reversed course on its decision to permit AI companies to train their models using copyright-protected work without permission; actors, musicians, and writers celebrated the decision. Alongside this announcement from technology secretary Liz Kendall came the announcement of “the establishment of a taskforce to examine proposals to label AI content; a consultation on protecting someone’s likeness from being used in deepfakes; a working group to support smaller creative organisations in licensing their content; and a review of how creators can monitor use of their work by AI firms.”
Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord
Back in early February we featured OpenClaw (then referred to as “Moltbot”), an autonomous agent that users can text via Telegram, Discord, or WhatsApp that has been the bane of the existence of IT administrators, as it introduces all sorts of security risks. Now Anthropic has released a more secure and accessible version of OpenClaw in the form of Claude Code Channels, which allows users to send messages to Claude Code via Telegram or Discord to direct Claude Code to autonomously develop code while on the go. Said an X user in response to this news: “Claude just killed OpenClaw with this update. You no longer need to buy a Mac Mini. I say this as someone who owns a one lol.”
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Quick Hits
Tool of the Week: Gamma Imagine
Gamma Imagine is a dedicated AI design canvas inside Gamma that lets you create infographics, posters, logos, social media posts, diagrams, and more from a simple text prompt. Users can upload reference images to guide the visual style and apply existing Gamma themes to keep graphics on-brand. Once a graphic is generated, a full canvas editor gives you tools to refine it further, including freeform text-based edits, resizing, erasing elements, background removal, and restyling.
AI-generated image of the week
Fashion photo shoot for the Innovation Profs!
Prompt: A photorealistic fashion upper body shot of the man in the photo wearing a green and white track suit. The subject is framed inside a central white Instagram-style post border.
Composition: The white frame is perfectly centered in the middle of the image, leaving balanced empty green space above and below the frame to match the theme.
Frame Details: The top, left, and right white borders are very thin. The bottom white section is thicker to include UI elements. The bottom section features a red heart icon, comment bubble, share icon, and bookmark icon.
Text Details: Clearly visible text on the bottom panel: "163 likes", username "innovationprofs", caption "Follow Innovation Profs on Instagram... more", and below that, "View all comments".What we found
Tennis, anyone?
NCAA Bracket updates
We asked four LLMs to predict the NCAA brackets. Here’s an update after the first weekend of games (more info at the bottom of this post).
Grok: 510 points (max possible of 1670)
ChatGPT: 510 points (max possible of 1510)
Gemini: 480 points (max possible of 1760)
Claude: 480 points (max possible of 1640)
All four still have a legit shot at winning.
