🗞️In this edition

• •Trump unblocks Nvidia’s H20 shipments to China 

• • Workflow Wednesday #28 ‘AI Independence’

• •Trump unveils $90B AI-Energy deal in Pennsylvania

• • In other AI news –

  • •Google Discover adds AI news summaries

  • •Mistral debuts open-source AI audio model

  • •Copilot Vision can now scan full screen

  • •Claude AI rolls out for finance pros

• • 4 must-try AI tools

Nvidia gets green light to resume China chip sales after Trump meeting

♨️News –  Nvidia has secured US approval to resume shipments of its H20 AI chips to China, reversing earlier restrictions that cost the company billions. The move follows CEO Jensen Huang’s recent meeting with President Trump and a visit to Beijing, signaling a shift in US-China tech relations.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Nvidia’s H20 chip was previously blocked by the US Commerce Department in April.

• The US government will now green-light export licenses for the chip.

• AMD also received similar assurances for its MI308 chips.

• Nvidia and AMD shares surged following the announcement.

• Officials now admit H20 restrictions were used as leverage in trade talks.

🤓OpenTools POV – This U-turn shows how geopolitics continues to shape the AI hardware race. Nvidia’s win isn’t just about chips, it’s about influence, access, and how much power CEOs like Huang now hold in global negotiations.  

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #28: AI Independence

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Trump unveils $90B AI and Energy push in Pennsylvania

☕News – At the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, Donald Trump unveiled over $90 billion in private-sector investments tied to AI, energy, and infrastructure. The lineup includes tech giants like Google and Amazon, alongside major energy players betting big on natural gas and data centers across the state.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Blackstone is spending $25B on data center and energy infrastructure in Northeast Pennsylvania.

• Google announced $25B for AI and data centers across the PJM region, plus a $3B hydropower deal.

• Amazon reaffirmed $20B in AI and cloud infrastructure investments in Pennsylvania.

• Enbridge, Equinor, and Capital Power plan over $5B combined in gas expansions.

• CoreWeave will invest $6B in a new AI-focused data center.

• Meta and Anthropic pledged smaller amounts to support local startups and education.

🤓OpenTools POV –  This AI-energy alliance shows just how tightly tech’s future is tied to infrastructure and power. Pennsylvania could become a blueprint for how energy-rich states attract AI investment, with big environmental tradeoffs to watch. 

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines // Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major publication, users will see multiple news publishers’ logos in the top-left corner, followed by an AI-generated summary that cites those sources

• Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model // The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that’s capable of deploying “truly usable speech intelligence in production

• Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen // Previously, the tool was able to look at two apps at a time and connect the dots between the two, but with this change, it can look at your whole desktop or “any specific browser or app window,” Microsoft says

• Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for financial services // The AI tools can help financial professionals make investment decisions, analyze markets and conduct research

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