Welcome, humans.

Speaking of AI video games… you’ve gotta check out Oasis from Etched, the “first playable AI-generated game”, where you can explore and build in environments that generate themselves in real-time:

The craziest part about this whole thing is you can upload an image (we’re talking ANY image) and Oasis will generate a map in the style of its game world for you to play. For example, here’s what happened when we gave it a screenshot of our Neuron homepage:

Try it for yourself here. When you’re done, you can download a video of you playing (like ours above). Pretty cool!

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• We rank the best (and worst) places to be an AI company.

• Regulators blocked Meta and Amazon's nuclear power plans.

• Bezos backed AI robot brain startup with $400M.

• AI now writes 5% of all new Wikipedia pages.

The BEST (and WORST) places to be an AI company right now…

Sunday’s story about EU regulations got us wondering about other global regulations. So we looked into it, and this is what we found:

First, we checked out China. Like the EU, China is preeetty cautious. Its new draft regulations state:

• GenAI content must be marked explicitly (text watermarks) or implicitly (metadata labels).

• Content categorized as definitely, likely, or suspected AI-generated.

• Third parties like app stores must ensure tools comply.

What about good ol’ Murica? America’s focused on staying competitive, especially in national security:

1. The White House Executive Order on AI called for federal standards, and plenty of stuff exists which “encourages” federal law-making. But...

2. The U.S. is light on firm regulations: 690+ bills proposed in 2024 alone, yet few laws.

3. Right now, the White House is pushing the Pentagon to speed up its AI adoption, and is passing export controls on China.

To drive this home, look at what the private companies are doing—OpenAI just signed its first Defense deal, providing tools for U.S. Africa Command via Microsoft, and Meta is making its Llama models available to U.S. security agencies and contractors like Lockheed Martin and Palantir.

If we had to rank it, here’s the Global AI landscape from “Most” to “Least” AI-friendly:

1. United States: most freedom + capital.

   • Pro-innovation stance with encouraged guidelines rather than strict rules.

2. Asia minus China .

   • Japan is prepping “Basic [AI] Law“ for late 2024, letting industry self-regulate w/ government oversight.

   • South Korea’s taking an “allow first, regulate later“ approach, except when it comes to high-risk sectors.

   • Southeast Asia + India are choosing the “soft law“ route—more like guidelines.

3. LatAm: mostly following Asia / USA’s lead.

   • Brazil proposed 3 AI laws.

   • Argentina + Colombia created ethical frameworks.

   • Uruguay pushing for government AI adoption.

4. Africa: less infrastructure, but growing talent.

   • African Union just released its first AI blueprint.

   • Only 7 out of 54 nations have national AI policies so far.

5. Everywhere else besides Europe…

6. …and finally Europe.

To our EU readers—this just means operating there is hardest, not that there aren't great companies!

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Treats To Try.

1. *Think of a manual task at work that eats up too much of your time. Sana AI automates those repetitive chores. Sana syncs with your apps so it knows everything about your business (and you), and then it does what you do—but quicker. Check out 7 other cool use cases for Sana here!

2. Hume helps you get answers, advice, and stories through assistants that combine emotional voice generation with search capabilities. It just launched a new app combining their own voice tech with Claude and other models.

3. Kling AI 1.5 is out with a new feature called “Custom Models” that lets you generate videos with consistent-looking characters by training on your own video clips—demo here.

4. Zefi automatically collects and categorizes all your user feedback in one place to help you make better product decisions.

5. Loopple builds you a complete website from a text description in under 30 seconds.

6. Smartrip plans your entire trip and books everything for you, just like having a personal travel agent in your pocket.

7. Fable helps you create interactive product demos by capturing your screen and customizing them with generated content + voiceovers.

8. Streamin is a search engine for finding where to stream any movie or TV show is available via streaming in over 40 countries.

See our top 51 AI Tools for Business here!

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Around the Horn.

• Meta and Amazon’s nuclear power ambitions are getting stopped by regulators—in Amazon’s case, it’s because their planned expansion will potentially cause blackouts for other power users; in Meta’s case, their new nuclear build out could impact rare bees.

• Jeff Bezos and some VCs invested $400M in a new startup called Physical Intelligence ($2B valuation) that plans to create brains for robots via AI.

• New research shows 5% of all new Wikipedia pages (that’s 1 out of every 20) is now written using AI.

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