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Meta's $600 billion investment pledge well received by Trump

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Leo Rodman
November 10, 2025

Meta details $600 billion US investment pledge that led to a hot-mic moment between Zuckerberg and Trump

The $600 billion US investment that Mark Zuckerberg previously floated at a White House dinner with Trump is set to become a reality.

www.businessinsider.com/meta-600-billion-us-investment-ai-infrastructure-data-center-jobs-2025-11

Meta’s $600B US investment pledge—sheer scale, policy ramifications (jobs, power, water, tax credits), and the signal it sends about AI as national infrastructure make it the dominant headline.

$600B - that’s not a roadmap
It’s a moonshot for compute

Data centers
Power contracts
Water rights
Talent flows

AI isn’t “an app” anymore
It’s national infrastructure

Winners won’t be the loudest models
They’ll be the builders who master:
Capacity
Latency
Reliability
Cost per token

If you’re a founder:
Design for the real world constraints—power, placement, partners

If you’re an operator:
Audit your AI unit economics before they audit you

If you’re a policymaker:
Incentives beat bailouts
(And grid upgrades beat slogans)

$600B says the AI wave is just getting started
Question is:
Are you surfing it—
Or funding someone else’s ride?

EU set to water down landmark AI act after Big Tech pressure

Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book

www.ft.com/content/af6c6dbe-ce63-47cc-8923-8bce4007f6e1

Microsoft AI says it’ll make superintelligent AI that won’t be terrible for humanity

Humans will stay “at the top of the food chain.”

www.theverge.com/news/815619/microsoft-ai-humanist-superintelligence

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe | TechCrunch

Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of-ai-slop-to-europe

AI's ability to 'think' makes it more vulnerable to new jailbreak attacks, new research suggests | Fortune

A new study suggests that the advanced reasoning powering today’s AI models can weaken their safety systems.

fortune.com/2025/11/07/ai-reasoning-models-more-vulnerable-jailbreak-attacks-study

OpenAI Asks US to Expand Chips Act Tax Credit to AI Data Centers

OpenAI has asked the Trump administration to revamp a Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure, as the startup explores additional ways the US government can support an industrywide data center build-out for AI.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07/openai-asks-us-to-expand-chips-act-tax-credit-to-ai-data-centers

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/11/being-too-nice-online-is-a-dead-giveaway-for-ai-bots-study-suggests

The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.

www.wired.com/story/data-center-ai-boom-us-economy-jobs

Exclusive: Hawley and Warner introduce AI jobs bill

The bipartisan push shows there is concern on both sides of the aisle about AI's impact on jobs.

www.axios.com/2025/11/05/hawley-warner-ai-jobs-bill

Amazon sues AI startup over browser’s automated shopping and buying feature

Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing

www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/05/amazon-perplexity-ai-lawsuit

Google removes AI model after it allegedly accused a senator of sexual assault

A Google AI model called Gemma was recently removed after a sitting US senator accused it of making up sexual assault allegations. The company says the model was never intended for public use.

www.engadget.com/ai/google-removes-ai-model-after-it-allegedly-accused-a-senator-of-sexual-assault-170235679.html

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.

www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03624-1

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