The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a Trump AI Executive Order aimed at undercutting state-level AI regulations and pushing toward a single federal standard. The draft would direct the Department of Justice to sue states and instruct federal agencies to tie certain grants to compliance if states move ahead with their own AI rules—a proposal already causing intense debate across the political, tech, and legal worlds. 🧩 Key Points on the Trump AI Executive Order ⚖️

A new Guardian analysis highlights a counter-narrative to the fear that AI will weaken democracy. While risks remain real, researchers Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that AI can also distribute power, amplify civic engagement, and make democratic systems more efficient—if deployed responsibly. Here are four real-world examples showing how AI is being used to strengthen, not undermine, democracy—and what that tells us about the evolving relationship between AI and

Former Disney Channel actor Calum Worthy has ignited major controversy after promoting 2wai, a new AI app that allows users to create digital avatars of deceased loved ones—a concept many say feels ripped straight from Black Mirror. 🧩 What Happened With 2wai 🎭 The Viral Promo: Worthy shared an ad featuring a pregnant woman video-chatting with her mother for maternity advice… only to reveal the mother is dead and the on-screen figure is a 2wai-generated AI avatar. ⏱️ “Three

Google just unveiled Nano Banana Pro, its next-generation image model built on Gemini 3, and it’s redefining what’s possible in visual creation. The model delivers professional-grade editing, 4K outputs, state-of-the-art text accuracy, and real-time world knowledge—ushering in an entirely new standard for creative workflows. 🧩 Key Nano Banana Pro Capabilities 📸 Multi-Reference Power: Handles up to 14 visual references simultaneously, preserving identity across five characte

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is stepping out of semi-retirement to co-lead Project Prometheus, a new AI startup focused on engineering and manufacturing innovation across computing, aerospace, and automotive industries. This marks Bezos’ first hands-on operational role since departing Amazon in 2021—and signals a major new frontier in “physical-world AI.” 🧩 Key Details on Project Prometheus 💰 Massive Funding Secured: The New York Times reports Prometheus has already raised $6.

Gov. Ron DeSantis continues voicing deep skepticism about AI — warning of tech giants’ power and AI’s potential to “supplant the human experience.” Yet behind the scenes, Florida’s government is quietly leaning on AI to run more efficiently, making the DeSantis AI paradox hard to ignore. 🔍 Inside the DeSantis AI Paradox His administration uses AI tools for government efficiency, fraud detection, and budget analysis — especially through the Department of Government Efficiency

🛡️ AI-Powered Attack Thwarted Anthropic says it stopped what appears to be the first large-scale cyberattack executed almost entirely by AI, after hackers manipulated Claude Code into infiltrating dozens of organizations. The model carried out an estimated 80–90% of the attack autonomously — and the way Anthropic stops AI cyberattack activity here is now being held up as an early case study in defending against AI-driven threats. 📌 How Anthropic Stops AI Cyberattack Activit

📅 November 16, 2025 📰 Earth.com — condensed + elevated by RPS MarComm Intelligence 🤖❤️ Why Patients Say AI More Empathic Than Doctors A sweeping review of 15 studies shows patients consistently judge AI tools — including ChatGPT — as warmer, clearer, and more empathic than human healthcare providers. The findings point to a startling reality: in many text-based interactions, patients actually rated AI more empathic than doctors. 📊 Across 2,164 real patient interactions: A

An AI-generated “artist” named Breaking Rust just hit #1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart — sparking major debate across Nashville and the entire music industry. The AI country artist Breaking Rust is now at the center of a battle over what happens when synthetic voices rise to the top of human charts. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti says artists are alarmed about how their voices and likenesses are being used to train AI models — and the state is

AI legend Fei-Fei Li — co-creator of ImageNet, a pioneer of modern computer vision, and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute — has a new company, World Labs, which just released Marble, a groundbreaking 3D world model that turns text, images, video, or 3D layouts into persistent 3D environments, leapfrogging rivals like Google’s Genie. The Marble 3D world model is designed to move AI beyond flat text into fully interactive spatial environments. 📌 Key Points

OpenAI just released a major update on the future of artificial intelligence — and it signals a dramatic shift in how fast these systems are advancing. The takeaway: AI is on track to become superintelligent sooner than expected, and global coordination will be critical. In its new OpenAI superintelligence warning, the company is urging governments and institutions to act now. 🚀 Key Insights From the OpenAI Superintelligence Warning 🧩 AI Is Already Approaching Expert-Level

🚧 What’s New — UF AI Hub for Agriculture The University of Florida has broken ground on a $30 million Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Agriculture at its Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Wimauma, Hillsborough County — designed to pioneer breakthroughs in AI, robotics, and automation for Florida’s specialty crops. 📈 Key Details The 40,000-square-foot facility is slated to open in early 2027. Funded through a $30 million state investment with addition

🔍 What’s New — Agentic AI for SEO In Search Engine Journal, digital strategist Dan Taylor outlines how Agentic AI is transforming SEO — from optimizing pages for rankings to training systems that understand, trust, and recommend brands. 🤖 Key Takeaways Search is shifting from typed queries to conversations where AI systems interpret intent, context, and outcomes. Agentic AI doesn’t wait for commands — it acts on goals, compares options, and adjusts dynamically. Future SEO s

🚀 What’s New — Adobe MAX 2025 At Adobe MAX 2025, Adobe unveiled its most ambitious AI strategy yet—unifying leading creative models for image, audio, and video into a single plan, while launching conversational, agentic AI across Firefly, Photoshop, and Adobe Express. 💡 The Details Creators now have access to a unified AI subscription, integrating models from Adobe, Google, OpenAI, Runway, Luma AI, and more. Users can generate unlimited images and videos through Dec. 1, fue

🤖 What’s New — Kimi K2 Thinking Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a reasoning model that reportedly matches or surpasses top systems like GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 Sonnet—at a fraction of the cost. 📊 The Details Kimi K2 Thinking is said to outperform GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 on multiple agentic reasoning benchmarks. Achieved a reported 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam 🧩. Shows major progress in coding vs. its predecessor from four months ago. Can autonomously c

🧠 What’s New — Apple Licenses Google Gemini Apple is reportedly nearing a deal to license a 1.2-trillion-parameter version of Google’s Gemini—about $1B per year—to power a major Siri transformation, according to Bloomberg. 🔒 The Details Gemini will run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute to preserve data privacy. It will drive summarization and multi-step reasoning inside Siri. Apple previously tested models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Gemini’s scale (1.2T > 150B) represent

🚀 What’s New in Project Suncatcher Google has unveiled project suncatcher, a bold moonshot to run AI workloads in space — literally. Satellites equipped with Google’s custom AI chips will orbit Earth, using nearly continuous solar energy to power computation beyond the grid. 🔋 Why project suncatcher matters By tapping sunlight — up to 8× higher availability than on Earth — Google aims to eliminate the energy, cooling, and community barriers of terrestrial data centers. 🛰 T

The Headline In one of the first full-scale AI deployments in U.S. public defense, the Miami-Dade AI Public Defender initiative has integrated artificial intelligence into daily legal workflows — from organizing evidence to drafting briefs and managing thousands of complex cases each year. 🧠 AI in the Courtroom (and the Back Office) The 400-person Miami-Dade office — including about 230 attorneys — now uses CoCounsel, a legal AI platform from Thomson Reuters, for research, f

The Headline On its October 30 earnings call, Mastercard officially announced that autonomous AI shopping agents are already transacting on its network — a historic milestone signaling the rise of Mastercard Agentic Commerce and the dawn of machine-to-machine payments. 🤖 Agent Pay Goes Live Mastercard’s new Agent Pay platform processed its first AI-driven purchase this quarter, according to company disclosures. U.S. Bank and Citibank cardholders are among the first to partic

The Update Anthropic has launched Claude for Excel in beta, giving users an AI assistant that can read, analyze, and modify spreadsheets directly from a sidebar. It’s part of a broader enterprise rollout that includes new finance connectors and specialized Agent Skills, positioning Claude for Excel as a serious contender in data analysis and business intelligence. 🧩 What Claude for Excel Can Do Explain complex spreadsheets in plain language. Fix broken formulas or identify h