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OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano, a senior technical advisor at the U.S. Commerce Department’s AI center, would be joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the charity that has a 26% stake in the company. Christiano will also be a non-voting observer on the board of OpenAI’s for-profit company. #REAL Truth Christiano previously worked at OpenAI as a member of its technical staff until 2021, when he created the nonprofit Alignment Research Center. He joined the Biden administration’s AI Safety Institute in April 2024 as the head of safety. The institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation under President Trump amid a restructuring, and Christiano remained as a senior technical advisor. According to his LinkedIn profile, Christiano returned to the Alignment Research Center as executive director in July, though he still lists his White House advisor position as current. OpenAI said that Christiano will join the safety and security committee of the foundation’s board, which provides governance across all of OpenAI. “AI capabilities have advanced very rapidly in the last year and alignment remains a difficult technical problem,” he said in a statement. Other board members include BNY CEO Robin Vince, Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. https://openai.com/index/paul-christiano-joins-openai-foundation-board/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

The Supreme Court may wade into a battle between state lawmakers and prediction markets companies after New Jersey regulators filed a petition with the highest U.S. court to rule on whether sports bets offered by startups like Kalshi and Polymarket fall outside of state gambling regulations New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport made the application on Wednesday, asking the U.S. Supreme Court whether prediction markets can offer sports bets without following state sports gambling laws, if those bets are made on markets registered with the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The prediction market companies have argued that their contracts, which allow people to bet ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the outcome of an event, are swaps contracts regulated by the CFTC. State lawmakers argue the prediction market firms are flouting state gambling regulations. Appeals courts last week split on the matter. Sports betting generated nearly $17 billion in revenue for U.S. states last year, New Jersey said. The state said because trading swaps outside of CFTC-regulated markets is prohibited, traditional sports betting would become illegal outside of contracts listed on CFTC-regulated markets if the Supreme Court rules in Kalshi’s favor. https://focusgn.com/new-jersey-asks-supreme-court-to-settle-prediction-market-dispute

The Pentagon added Starshield AI's Grok for Government and ChatGPT Mil for unclassified work, providing the AI tools to 3 million-plus military personnel https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6061714-pentagon-adds-grok-chatgpt-ai/?_bhlid=d2d277239fbb64b52d0be2d2e95d4b9fe5cac4a3

Elon Musk lamented a global “crisis of power” on Tuesday as the Tesla and SpaceX CEO spoke virtually at a G20 innovation event hosted in North Carolina by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Commerce Department. Musk cited a likely 15 gigawatt shortage of power next year for AI chips, calling on other countries to build data centers that could service AI companies desperate for computing capacity. In a brief virtual interview with Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios, Musk predicted that AI will grow the global economy by 20-30% annually. He also predicted that a billion humanoid robots—including those Musk’s Tesla are building—will be available in the next decade. The robots will be five times more productive than humans, he said. Musk’s compensation package at Tesla is partially tied (https://e.customeriomail.com/e/c/eyJlbWFpbF9pZCI6ImRnU2kwUVlDQUplSkJwYUpCZ0dnWWNjano1b2hGeUFIRnpKR3RWWT0iLCJocmVmIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZHcuY29tL2VuL2Vsb24tbXVzay1jb3VsZC1iZWNvbWUtYS10cmlsbGlvbmFpcmUtdGVzbGEtc3BhY2V4L2EtNzQ2ODQ3NTY_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPSU1QlJFQlJBTkQlNUQrJTVCVEktQU0lNUQrVGhcdTAwMjZ1dG1fY29udGVudD0xMDk1XHUwMDI2dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbFx1MDAyNnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Y2lvXHUwMDI2dXRtX3Rlcm09MTI0IiwiaW50ZXJuYWwiOiJhMmQxMDYwMzg2NGE5Nzg5MDYifQ/a6ad138ba89190de25044ef71637c8334dd437c5b380a8e7717ca9153adda268) to the success of the company’s robot product, dubbed Optimus. Opening the program, Kratsios said the event is designed to build consensus around the “Carolina Principles, or guidelines that encourage companies to invest in frontier technologies while adopting limited regulation. After Musk spoke, former White House AI czar David Sacks derided the idea of the U.S. government building a “FDA for AI” that would approve new AI models before companies release them to the public. The Information reported (https://e.customeriomail.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) last week that an executive order draft that would establish a self-regulatory organization for AI companies has stalled within the Trump administration. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are expected to speak on Wednesday during the second day of the event.

Communities that don’t want data centers will end up being “backwards and poor,” President Donald Trump said on Monday, signaling his backing of the politically-charged industry ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. “If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame,” Trump added in a social media post. Last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned that Democrats were using voter opposition to data centers successfully in a campaign against a sitting Ohio Senator #REAL Truth https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117190477440173795?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

Europe has already shattered meteorological records this summer, and things are likely to get worse https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/world/europe/summer-heat-wave-fires-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.awhz.XBvirZKfGWbn&smid=url-share&utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260730&utm_content=20964af6990a9ea2bb51dc7b9d41dd79

New data from energy think tank Ember shows that solar supplied 12.8% of US energy generation in May — marking not only the highest share ever recorded for the clean energy source, but also the first time it’s surpassed coal. #ScholER #Data is beautiful https://sherwood.news/world/solar-generated-more-power-than-coal-in-the-us-for-the-first-time-ever/?utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260615&utm_content=f56f3bdef8972461ef7ae51424d69b7b