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AI Daily Brief — 3 July 2025

A Washington-and-Beijing Thursday. The House passed OBBBA 218-214 in a holiday-eve vote, definitively killing the federal AI moratorium. Baidu’s open-source ERNIE 4.5 family continued spreading on Hugging Face — Apache 2.0 weights up to 424B MoE. Amazon shipped DeepFleet, a foundation model for its 1M+ warehouse robots. Cloudflare’s “Content Independence Day” branding picked up Condé Nast, AP, Reddit, UMG.

Top stories

  • House passes OBBBA 218-214 — AI moratorium officially dead. US House voted to pass the Senate-amended OBBBA on July 3, with all Democrats and two Republicans against. The 10-year federal moratorium on state AI regulation was no longer in the bill — Senate stripped it 99-1 two days earlier. Preserves the 1,000+ state-level AI bills moving through legislatures. via AHA News
  • State AI moratorium dies on the vine. Legal analysis confirmed the proposed federal AI moratorium — 10 years in House version, 5 years in Senate compromise — was definitively dead with the House’s July 3 vote. States retain regulatory authority. via Goodwin
  • Baidu ERNIE 4.5 family open-sources. 10 variants from 0.3B dense up to 424B-parameter MoE under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Baidu claims the 300B ERNIE outperforms DeepSeek V3 at roughly half the size. Sharp reversal for CEO Robin Li, who had argued proprietary models would outpace open ones. via ERNIE Blog
  • Cloudflare “Content Independence Day” picks up launch partners. Publishers signed up for Pay Per Crawl include Condé Nast, AP, Gannett, The Atlantic, Time, Fortune, Reddit, Pinterest, Universal Music Group. HTTP 402 “Payment Required” responses gate AI crawler access per-domain. via Cloudflare
  • Amazon unveils DeepFleet AI for 1M+ warehouse robots. Generative AI foundation model trained on warehouse inventory and operations data via SageMaker to coordinate robot navigation across 1,200+ fulfillment centers. Claimed ~10% reduction in robot travel time. via Digital Commerce 360

Who shipped

The US House shipped a vote. Baidu shipped Apache-2.0 weights. Amazon shipped DeepFleet. Cloudflare shipped publisher signups.

Open-source pulse

Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 is the largest open-weight MoE drop since DeepSeek V3 — at 424B parameters, second only to MiniMax-M1 (456B) in the year’s open-weight reasoning class.

Money, infra & hardware

xAI’s $10B raise was the standout funding story of the holiday-shortened week. Three days after Zuckerberg’s MSL launch, reporting detailed continued aggressive recruiting from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

Quiet corners

EU AI Act’s targeted consultation on high-risk AI systems (launched June 6) was running through July 18, gathering input from life sciences and medical-device developers. The UK ICO signalled a statutory code of practice on AI for autumn 2025 — shift from voluntary guidance to legally binding standards. via King & Spalding

By the numbers

  • 218-214 — House vote passing OBBBA
  • 10 variants / 0.3B–424B — ERNIE 4.5 family size range
  • Apache 2.0 — ERNIE 4.5 licence
  • 1M+ / 1,200+ — Amazon warehouse robots / fulfillment centers
  • ~10% — DeepFleet robot-travel-time reduction

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 3 July 2025.