🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-05-20
Exploring bold opinions on AI legislation and its financial implications.
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Two hot takes on bills and banks.
⚖️ + 🤖 I guess if you wanted to say anything goes with AI you could just make a law that says anything goes with AI, right?
Techmeme: The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House (Clare Duffy/CNN)
By Clare Duffy / CNN. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤖 + 🏦 If you do, then I guess you could literally take that to the bank, right?
Techmeme: Catena Labs, co-founded by Circle co-founder Sean Neville to build an “AI-native bank”, emerges from stealth with an $18M seed led by a16z (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
By Ben Weiss / Fortune. View the full context on Techmeme.
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