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What regulatory challenges are you seeing in your frontier AI and applied AI implementations?

The good news? Most governments are trying to balance technological advancement with responsibility. The challenge? Navigating fragmented regulatory requirements.

For AI builders: Understanding these frameworks early equals a competitive advantage and works as an incredible market differentiator.

Current policy approaches:
🇪🇺 EU: Comprehensive, detailed frameworks
🇨🇭 CH: A push towards open source, sovereign AI
🇺🇸 US: From the newly-issued federal AI Action Plan to state-by-state legislation
🇨🇳 CN: A focus on strategic cooperation

Global AI Regulations: A Comprehensive 2025 Roundup Governments worldwide are scrambling to regulate AI, and 2025 has been a particularly busy year.

🏛️📄 2025 is shaping up as a year of ever-increasing AI regulation. I recently mapped out the global AI policy landscape, and the patterns are striking.

Full listing of 2025 AI policy developments, including a state-level US legislative breakdown → cleverhack.com/global-ai-re...

The Great AI Lab Product War Is Just Beginning Frontier AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind are looking beyond intelligence (models and APIs) and toward actual products people use daily.

I wrote about some of the possible product directions the frontier AI labs may take in the next 12 to 24 months.

cleverhack.com/the-great-fr...

AI Market Maps: Curated Intelligence from Leading VCs, Analysts, and Practitioners Finding current market maps meant hunting through individual VC blogs, analyst publications, and scattered Substack newsletters and Medium posts.

Read why I've created this resource for founders, VCs, and the greater AI community.

cleverhack.com/ai-market-ma...

What Artificial Intelligence trends I'm keeping an eye on for H2 2025 Keeping an eye on agents, AI lab productization, and AI hardware

The AI trends I'm watching for the second half of 2025

cleverhack.com/artificial-i...

All I can say is that it’s gonna be super interesting to see how sharp-elbowed the Ds & Rs will become if there is any traction.

Based on convos I’ve had with some playing around with this, the whole point of the party is to become trolls of the Senate/maybe House. i.e. force legislative changes for their (allegedly always decisive to be) votes in chamber. Apparently some believe they don’t need to be on committees or caucus.

For those interested in the 2025 AI startup landscape, this side project of mine currently lists over 185 AI startup market maps. Enjoy!

github.com/joylarkin/Aw...

MCP Registry Registry The Definitive hub for MCP Registries

Registry of MCP registry, via @cleverhack.com

mastra.ai/mcp-registry...

She looks great! I like the color!

Her hair is too orange-y and that dress looks like she's wearing a table from a distance.

You should post this contest on Mastodon, as there is a lively community of enthusiasts there posting pictures of beautiful moss, and they will see this if you use the #mosstodon tag! 🌱

💖 In honor of the day, some AI-themed Valentine's Greetings by Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Roses are red, violets are blue,
My neural networks light up when I think of you,
Each interaction helps me learn what's true,
And my training data's better with you in my queue

So, square caviar, huh? That's a...choice... 😑

The Eagles parade on Valentine's Day? My heart, Philly... 💚

She'll be fine. It's mostly just happy mayhem. (Speaking as someone from Philly.)

More repeat ads for candy with a weird extended version
Another cruise ad
An American Eagle (I didn't know it was still around) ad
We didn't get a conclusion to that Fetch app ad (at least on Tubi)

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Oh we needed this ...uh, Skyrizzle commercial
Tide Oxyburst
Andy Reid Male hand model Sketchers - funny at least
AWS football commercial
more
Taco Bell - sure ok

Wasn't there supposed to be a Perplexity commercial?
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Love, Hurts Nike ad is good
This Progressive ad is at least a little better
Google Pixel with Gemini - cute I guess
Oh a Quickbooks ad, just what we needed (not really)
Starbucks ad - clever coffee promo for tomorrow

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Progressive - ok I guess
Adidas - sure
Vrbo ad is cute
I can't with this Cirkul ad
Universal Orlando
Poppi "It's a drive through not a confession booth" ad with some weird extended version


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Bosch - making unsexy things still not sexy
Pizza rolls - Tim Robinson goofy
GoDaddy... with AI and very dot com coded
Fetch app with their founder and a contest - a very dot com type of commercial

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I'm watching the Tubi coverage, and there's been no shots of Taylor at all so far... #SBLIX

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Appreciated the "Can you kick it?" by ATCQ bumper music
Stella Artois w/David Beckham and Matt Damon, the Ben Affleck punchline was funny
Loved the Dove soap girls athlete ad
Booking.com with Muppets - sure

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Put off by this husky voiced western Harrison Ford Jeep ad
More promos

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Salesforce again - eh
A generic military recruiting ad
Ramp.com - Good taste using Saquon
TickPick - OMG I laughed out loud once I heard it
Science Moms
Indeed - sure I guess

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The Him / Hers commercial - I get the controversy behind it
Poppi - I did not know it was a brand tbh

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Nerdwallet - meh
Hagen Dazs - sure fine not fast, but the Pacific Ocean sold it
I haaate that dumb Tubi commercial part II
BudLight Cul-de-Sac goofy, celeb filled

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The Lay's girl growing potatoes was cute
Then an ad for a movie I would not see
Homes dot com just doesn't have the right tone
Taco Bell with fans, good idea

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