Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms has completed its withdrawal from Latin America by selling its final mining facility in Paraguay for up to $30 million.

In a rare moment of bipartisan alignment, U.S. senators have introduced the GUARD Act — a sweeping bill that would effectively ban AI companions for minors and make it a crime for companies to allow bots to engage in sexualized or manipulative interactions with children. The legislation signals Washington’s growing anxiety over AI’s encroachment into the emotional lives of teenagers — and the tech industry’s failure to self-regulate before things got weird.

In a characteristically blunt declaration, former President Donald Trump made it clear this week that under his watch, the United States won’t be strong-arming AI companies into coughing up licensing fees for every snippet of copyrighted content used in training data. Calling for a “common sense application” of IP laws, Trump dismissed the idea that large language models should pay for every book, article, or video they ingest.

In a roadmap update today, Sam Altman outlined OpenAI’s plans to simplify its product offerings and streamline the user experience. Recognizing that the rapidly expanding array of models was becoming overly complex, Altman emphasized a commitment to making AI “just work” for users.

The name isn’t subtle: AI16z is a playful riff on the legendary Andreessen Horowitz (known as a16z), the fund that practically defines traditional venture investing’s gold standard.