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House AI Committee, Meta Muse Agent & Kepler's $468M Memory Bet
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Congress debates a dedicated House AI Select Committee while Meta launches Muse, an autonomous agent with isolated cloud VMs and surrogate-token security. Plus, Kepler Computing secures $468M to build HBM without extreme ultraviolet lithography — and the race to match AI capability with governance and hardware is on.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Democrats are proposing a dedicated House Select Committee on AI, and the question worth sitting with is whether that structure would actually fix anything or just move the fragmentation problem one level up. Representatives Foster and Lieu brought the proposal directly to House Minority Leader Jeffries.
While Congress debates who governs AI, Meta shipped something that illustrates exactly why governance gets complicated fast. Muse is Meta's new personal AI agent platform.
The third major development sits firmly in hardware, and it connects directly to why AI agent systems like Muse need better memory infrastructure in the first place. Kepler Computing has secured up to two hundred and forty-five million dollars from the US Department of Commerce, part of a total funding base of four hundred and sixty-eight million dollars.
The production roadmap runs from HBM samples shipping later this year, to a Singapore ramp next year, to US production by twenty twenty-eight. Commerce Department backing signals this is now part of a federal industrial strategy, not just a startup pitch.
Three things to track from here. First, whether the Democrats' AI Select Committee proposal gets enough support to move, and specifically whether it would carry legislative authority or get diluted into another advisory structure.
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