The Justice Department filed in support of OpenAI's fair use argument in the New York Times copyright lawsuit, signaling that restricting AI training would hinder American interests. This legal move reduces vendor risk for companies building on top of licensed models. Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in a semiconductor company, tying custom AI silicon directly into Nvidia's interconnect technology as an infrastructure play. An open-source personal agent project shipped version 2.0 with 933 contributors and 16,000 merged pull requests, adding shared cloud sessions and multi-agent fleet modes as a free-to-build alternative to proprietary tooling. AI data center investment alone could reach $31 to $32 trillion by 2050, roughly the entire current US GDP, but local governments are pushing back hard over water usage and power grid strain. Beijing hosted th ...