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President Trump canceled a scheduled signing ceremony for a draft AI executive order hours before the event was set to occur.
President Trump stated his reason for pulling a draft AI executive order was that he believed it would hinder the U.S. lead over China in the AI race.
Former AI czar David Sachs reportedly intervened by calling President Trump to persuade him not to sign a draft AI executive order.
A significant change in the final AI executive order compared to the scrapped draft is the reduction of the voluntary pre-release sharing period for advanced models from 90 days to 30 days.
The signed AI executive order does not provide any mechanism for the U.S. government to block the release of a new AI model.
The signed AI executive order includes a disclaimer explicitly stating it does not authorize the creation of a mandatory government licensing, pre-clearance, or permitting requirement for new AI models.
Anthropic stated that a general access release of Mythos-level capabilities requires robust safeguards that it and other AI developers have not yet developed.
SK Hynix plans to double its manufacturing capacity for memory chips by the end of the decade to address the global shortage.
SK Hynix Chairman Chey Tae-won predicted that the global memory chip shortage could last until 2030.
OpenAI's Codex product has reached 5 million weekly active users.
According to OpenAI, non-technical knowledge workers are adopting Codex at a rate three times faster than developers.
OpenAI has introduced three major new features for Codex: Annotations, role-specific Plugins, and Sites.