💸Meta Pours Millions Into AI Politics

PLUS: Microsoft’s Cool New AI Trick

September 24, 2025

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🗞️In this edition

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  • Meta spends big to steer AI laws

  • Workflow Wednesday #38 ‘Workflow Evolution’

  • Microsoft explores liquid cooling for AI chips

  • In other AI news –

    • OpenAI to build five new Stargate data centers with Oracle, SoftBank

    • Google debuts Mixboard, an AI-powered moodboard builder

    • Alibaba unveils Qwen3-Max, trillion-parameter AI model

    • 4 must-try AI tools

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♨️News – Meta is stepping up its political game with two new super PACs that will fund state-level campaigns supportive of artificial intelligence. The company has pledged tens of millions of dollars, marking one of its biggest pushes yet to influence policy shaping the future of AI.

👨‍💻Fast facts – 

  • The new PAC, American Technology Excellence Project, is Meta’s second in a month.

  • Meta California was launched earlier to focus on state-level AI proposals.

  • Brian Baker, a Republican strategist, and Hilltop Public Solutions, a Democratic firm, are leading the effort.

  • Zuckerberg told President Trump the company plans to invest $600 billion in AI data centers.

  • More than 1,100 AI-related bills have been introduced across nearly every state this year.

🤓Open Tools POV – Meta’s deeper political involvement shows how AI battles are expanding beyond technology into legislation. The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be a major test of how much influence big tech will wield over AI policy.

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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #38: Workflow Evolution

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☕News – Microsoft is testing a new way to cool the chips powering its AI data centers. The company is experimenting with microfluidics, a method that runs liquid through tiny channels inside processors, which could make data centers more efficient and allow chips to run faster.

👨‍💻Fast facts – 

  • Cooling fluid can be applied directly at temperatures up to 70C.

  • Tested on both server chips and GPUs for AI workloads.

  • Allows short bursts of overclocking during demand spikes, like Teams meetings.

  • Microsoft added more than 2 gigawatts of data center capacity last year.

  • The company is also advancing hollow-core fiber for faster networking and exploring new memory technologies.

🤓Open Tools POV – Microsoft’s push into custom cooling and networking highlights how scaling AI is as much a hardware challenge as a software one. This could set the stage for more powerful and efficient data centers across the industry.

  • OpenAI is building five new Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank // The new Stargate AI data centers are part of OpenAI’s massive infrastructure buildout, as the company works to train and serve more powerful AI models

  • Google’s Mixboard is an AI moodboard builder // The experimental tool uses generative AI to build Pinterest-like design boards

  • Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than a trillion parameters // The model contains more than 1 trillion parameters, or variables that determine how an AI system processes information, and shows particular strength in code generation and autonomous agent capabilities

  1. ZeroBot - A voice-enabled chatbot that allows users to have conversations with a computer friend that talks like a real person

  2. Tripmix - An AI travel planner that crafts personalized trips based on individual preferences 

  3. Softr AI - An AI-powered tool that generates web applications from a single prompt

  4. Piktochart AI - An infographic generator that uses artificial intelligence to quickly create high-quality infographics

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