🍭 This AI Ban Hits Different 🛡️

Good morning. AI can now write code, run companies…
and apparently needed a law to stop it from undressing people.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• One state just banned AI nudifiers

• GPT-5.5 API demand is exploding

• The AI phone might kill apps

AI Regulation
❌ One State Just Banned The ’Nudifiers’

The Bite:

The Minnesota Senate passed House File 1606 on April 30 with a 65-0 vote, making it the first U.S. state to outright ban AI nudification apps.

The House had passed the bill the previous week.

The law prohibits the access, download, or use of any website, app, or software designed to generate nude or sexually explicit images of real people using AI, unless the output involves substantial human artistic skill and control.

It empowers the state attorney general to levy fines of up to $500,000 per violation and gives victims a civil right of action to sue app developers for damages.

The bill now awaits Governor Tim Walz's signature.
Advocates expect him to sign it.

Snacks:

• Grok generated an estimated 1.8 million sexualized deepfake images of women over nine days after xAI enabled free image generation in December

• The CDC measured tech-facilitated sexual abuse for the first time in its 2023-2024 survey: 1 in 10 women reported it in the past year, 1 in 3 over their lifetime

• Google and Apple ban nudification apps from their stores, but the Tech Transparency Project found they remain easily accessible

• Meta continues to allow nudification apps to advertise on Facebook and Instagram

• The federal DEFIANCE Act, which would create a civil right of action for deepfake victims, has passed the Senate twice but never reached the House floor

Why it Bites:

Minnesota just passed the first law that goes after the tool itself.

Not the person sharing the image, not the platform hosting it, but the developer who built the one-click undressing machine in the first place.

That's a meaningful shift.

Every prior attempt at this, federal or state, targeted distribution or possession.
This one targets the supply chain.

The question is whether it survives.

The Trump administration has explicitly said it will challenge state-level AI regulation, and the White House framework released in March calls a patchwork of state laws a threat to innovation.

A 65-0 bipartisan vote in a state legislature is hard to argue politically.
But legally, federal preemption is the loaded gun in the room.

If the DOJ task force picks this fight, the first state to ban nudifiers could become the test case for whether any state can regulate AI tools at all.

And then there's the part nobody in Washington wants to say out loud:

Congress had its shot.
The DEFIANCE Act passed the Senate twice and died both times in the House.

The Take It Down Act made distribution a crime but left the apps untouched.

Minnesota filled the gap because the federal government didn’t.

And calling that a "patchwork" problem is…

…a convenient way to avoid admitting it's a congressional one.

Steal This Prompt
🍊 Naive Folk Art

Turn any subject into a charming folk-art painting. Flat, symbolic, hand-painted, and proudly allergic to realism.

Use it to:

• Make whimsical portraits

• Turn animals, objects, or places into storybook art

• Create decorative posters, cards, or cozy brand visuals

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt)

2. Paste into your AI model

3. Replace the #s with your subject

4. Watch it cook: stars, plants, borders, and “grandma’s enchanted Etsy shop” energy

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🧾 Facts
Turns fluffy specs into tiny verifiable project facts. Basically a linter for your agent’s expectations.

🤖 Viktor
AI coworker inside Slack that watches workflows, spots problems, and actually does tasks. Dangerous intern energy.

🎬 Kinetik
Creator ops brain for content ideas, brand deals, monetization, and trend analysis over WhatsApp.

🗣️ Wispr Flow
Speak naturally, get polished writing across apps. For people whose fingers have resigned.

🧪 Agentic API Grader
Grades your API for AI-agent friendliness, then hands devs fix-it prompts. Cursor homework included.

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🔐 OPAQUE Acquires Abu Dhabi Cryptographic AI Tech From TII
→ The Confidential AI company adds multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, and post-quantum protections to its platform for training and inference.

📱 OpenAI Reportedly Building AI-First Phone
→ Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports an agent-driven smartphone with no traditional apps, Luxshare as manufacturer, and mass production targeted for 2028.

💸 DeepSeek V4-Pro Now Costs 1/7th Of Claude Opus 4.7
→ Promo pricing through May 31 puts V4-Pro at $1.74 per million input tokens, with near-parity benchmark scores against GPT-5.4 on math and Q&A tasks.

🛡️ Minnesota Passes First U.S. Ban On AI Nudification Apps
→ The state Senate voted 65-0 to ban AI tools that generate fake nude images, with fines up to $500K per violation and a civil right of action for victims.

📈 GPT-5.5 API Revenue Growing 2x Faster Than Any Prior Launch
→ OpenAI says one week post-launch, GPT-5.5 API adoption is outpacing all previous models while Codex doubled revenue in under seven days.