🗞️In this edition

• •Sponsored: Pacaso - Co-own homes across top global destinations

• •Trump unveils pro-growth AI blueprint

• •Workflow Wednesday #29 ‘AI Momentum’

• •Trump targets bias in federal AI

• • In other AI news –

  • •Google Photos adds AI remix and video tools

  • •YouTube Shorts rolls out new AI effects

  • •AWS shuts Shanghai AI lab amid US-China tensions

• • 4 must-try AI tools

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Trump’s AI plan pushes growth, limits guardrails and state control

♨️News – The Trump administration has released its AI Action Plan, marking a clear departure from the Biden-era focus on safety and regulation. Instead, the plan puts the spotlight on accelerating infrastructure, scaling up national security efforts, and removing regulatory hurdles to keep pace with global AI competition.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Focuses on building more data centers, even on federal lands, and easing environmental rules to speed up construction.

• Proposes limiting federal funds for states that introduce AI regulations seen as restrictive.

• Encourages the use of open AI models that reflect what the plan calls “American values”.

• Suggests federal agencies should only contract with developers of “neutral” AI systems, though how neutrality is defined is unclear.

• National security is a major focus, with efforts to track foreign AI projects and integrate AI across defense and intelligence agencies.

🤓OpenTools POV – This plan makes it clear that the priority is scale and speed. But shifting the focus from guardrails to growth could raise bigger questions about long-term accountability, especially as government and industry lines blur.

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #29: AI Momentum

Momentum-Driven Descriptions in Seconds with Writesonic

We’ve all been there - agonizing over product descriptions, trying to make them sound fresh, persuasive, and on-brand. It’s slow, repetitive, and pulls your focus from everything else that matters. But in the era of AI momentum, there’s no reason to keep doing it the hard way.

Step 1: Sign Up and Set Up
Head to Writesonic and sign up for free.
Use your work email or personal, either one gets you access to their full template suite.
Once inside, navigate to the “E-commerce” section.

Step 2: Choose the Product Descriptions Template
From the dashboard, select ……. We break it down fully in this week’s issue, along with 2 other ultra-simple AI workflows.

Trump bans “Woke AI” from federal use in new executive order

☕News – Former President Trump has signed an executive order banning AI tools that are not “ideologically neutral” from being used in government contracts. The order specifically targets what it calls “woke AI,” criticizing models influenced by ideas like DEI or critical race theory, and sets a new standard for how federal agencies evaluate AI systems.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• The order defines “truth-seeking” AI as prioritizing historical accuracy and scientific inquiry.

• It calls DEI a “destructive ideology” that distorts AI output quality.

• Agencies have been instructed to issue compliance guidelines.

• Experts say the terms “neutral” and “objective” are vague and politically charged.

• xAI’s Grok, known for anti-woke positioning, has been approved for government use.

🤓OpenTools POV – This isn’t just about AI standards, it’s about who controls the narrative. When political agendas shape definitions of neutrality, developers may find themselves coding to fit ideology rather than accuracy.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• Google Photos adds AI features for ‘remixing’ photos in different styles, turning pics into videos // Google announced a handful of new features that will allow users to get more creative with their photo memories, including an option to turn photos into videos, and “remix” photos into different styles, like anime, comics, sketches, or 3D animations

• YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects // YouTube announced that it’s giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects

• Amazon Web Services to close Shanghai AI lab amid US-China tech tensions // AWS will close its seven-year-old AI Shanghai Lablet due to ‘China-US strategic realignment’, according to the facility’s chief applied scientist

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