Today, we delve into the unified message from AI industry leaders to Congress, urging for reduced regulations and increased infrastructure investment to maintain the U.S. lead in the global AI race against China. We discuss insights from executives at OpenAI, Microsoft, AMD, and CoreWeave on the risks of strict export controls and the importance of speed.Tune in to hear about OpenAI's strategic move to hire Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as its CEO of Applications, a step designed to boost product offerings and business operations while allowing Sam Altman to focus on research and safety. Discover Alibaba's ZeroSearch technique, which promises to drastically cut AI search training costs by using simulations instead of expensive API calls, matching or even outperforming traditional methods.We also explore Apple's potential shift away from Google as its default search engine, considering incorporating AI-powered search tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. Plus, get the details on Meta's experimental AI software for smart glasses that could enable facial recognition, despite significant privacy concerns.Finally, we round up everything else in AI today, including FDA talks with OpenAI on drug development, Amazon's AI coding app 'Kiro', Google's implicit caching for Gemini, hints of a potential OpenAI lifetime subscription, new AI search tools on LinkedIn and Netflix, Baidu's animal noise translation patent, Meta appointing Robert Fergus to head FAIR, and showcase today's trending AI tools such as Anthropic Web Search API, Mistral Medium 3, Figma Make, and others. Don't miss these essential AI updates!