**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🧑‍⚖️ AI Governance and Regulation: Congressional Push to Block State AI Laws
Congress debates a federal law that could block state-level AI regulation for a decade, reshaping the landscape for AI oversight and innovation.

Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

🚀 Nvidia Nears $4 Trillion Market Value
Nvidia is on track to become the first $4 trillion tech company, highlighting the surging market value of AI hardware leaders.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-06-27/bloomberg-tech-6-27-2025-video

🤖 AI in the Workplace: Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Program
Anthropic introduces a research initiative to track and understand AI’s looming impacts on jobs and the broader economy.

As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

🛡️ Riskonnect Launches AI Governance Capabilities
Riskonnect unveils a suite of AI governance tools to help organizations balance innovation with risk compliance.

Riskonnect Launches AI Governance Capabilities for the Next Era of Risk

💡 Advances in Multimodal AI: Qwen VLo Model
Qwen VLo introduces a unified multimodal AI model capable of both understanding and generating high-quality image content.
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-vlo/

🩺 Ant Group Launches AI Healthcare App AQ
Ant Group debuts AQ, an AI-powered healthcare app designed to enhance efficiency and personalization in medical services.

Ant Group Launches AI Healthcare App AQ Amid Push into Healthcare Sector

🧠 SymbolicAI: Neuro-Symbolic Framework for LLMs
SymbolicAI merges classical programming with LLMs into a natural, modular framework for advanced AI development.
https://github.com/ExtensityAI/symbolicai

📈 Meta’s AI Talent Race: Multi-Million Dollar Pay Packages
Meta offers substantial pay packages to attract top AI researchers, intensifying the competition for AI talent.

Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

📱 Facebook Requests Access for AI-Editing Your Photos
Facebook seeks user permission to access and AI-edit all camera roll photos, sparking privacy and data use discussions.

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

🔬 Explainable, Hallucination-Resistant AI Systems Patented
Data² secures a patent for advanced, explainable AI systems designed to reduce hallucinations and improve transparency.

Data² Secures Patent for Hallucination-Resistant, Explainable AI Systems

🏪 Project Vend: Can Claude Autonomously Run a Store?
Anthropic tests Claude AI’s ability to autonomously manage a shop, revealing both promise and unexpected challenges.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

🐾 Petlibro’s AI Smart Camera Monitors Your Pet
Petlibro launches an AI-powered camera that describes pets’ movements in real time for enhanced owner insights.

Petlibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it’s adorable

⚠️ AI-Generated Fraud Surges as Consumer Concern Drops
AI-powered scams are rising sharply even as consumers become less vigilant, exposing a dangerous confidence gap.

AI-Generated Fraud Surges 62% YoY Even as Consumer Concern Drops

🩸 AI Enables Real-Time Blood Clot Detection
University of Tokyo researchers use AI and advanced microscopy to observe blood clotting in real time for personalized treatment.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250515132126.htm

📰 Startups Weekly: Tech and the Law
A roundup of notable startup news and legal stories, including lawsuits and M&As, from the tech world this week.

Startups Weekly: Tech and the law

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