White House AI Advisor Krishnan Launches New Policy Institution

Seattle City Council will vote June 9th on a one-year moratorium on new data centers, just two months after companies proposed five large-scale facilities in the city. Amazon employees have joined other supporters in testifying for the moratorium, citing concerns about water consumption, electricity prices, and noise. The vote reflects growing tension between tech infrastructure expansion and local environmental and operational impacts.

OpenAI has launched the Economic Research Exchange, a platform designed to study artificial intelligence's effects on employment, productivity, and broader economic outcomes. The initiative opens applications for selected research projects that will examine AI's economic impact. The program represents a structured effort to generate empirical evidence on how AI deployment affects labor markets and economic performance.

AWS has introduced cross-Region Inference (CRIS) on Amazon Bedrock, a managed capability that automatically routes AI model inference requests across multiple AWS regions within defined geographic boundaries. The feature allows European customers to access generative AI models and compute capacity while maintaining compliance with data protection regulations like GDPR. CRIS includes both global profiles that route to any supported AWS commercial region and EU-specific profiles designed for customers with regional data processing requirements.

Anthropic announced that Claude now writes 80% of its code, highlighting progress toward recursive self-improvement, where AI systems create the next generation without human involvement. The company simultaneously warned that this capability poses control risks, as unintended model behaviors could compound across generations and become harder to understand. The announcement reflects broader industry momentum, with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and well-funded startups like Recursive Superintelligence and Inherent all pursuing similar capabilities.