🟡 Let’s get physical

Claims

• Some JPMorgan employees are spending more on AI tokens than their salaries, prompting monitoring but not a companywide cutback.
• OpenAI is pursuing a state-level regulatory strategy designed to create a de facto national AI governance framework in the absence of federal legislation.
• Microsoft is launching Scout, an AI agent powered by OpenClaw that can schedule meetings, order food, and file expenses.
• Frontier AI models combined with harnesses outperform smaller fine-tuned models, making higher token costs worthwhile for faster-moving companies.
• Nvidia is embedding more AI processing capability into laptop chips, targeting consumers with growing data-privacy concerns.