(Salesforce) Salesforce Ventures is announcing a new $500 million AI fund, bringing its total commitment to AI innovators to $1 billion in the past 18 months.  Read more here.

(FC) Out of almost 160 bills in state legislatures, only a small handful of anti-ESG considerations have become law. Read more here.

(CNBC) Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and several American power and utility companies met Thursday at the White House to discuss the future of artificial intelligence energy infrastructure in the U.S., sources familiar with the meeting told CNBC. Read more here.

(TechCrunch) The White House says several major AI vendors have committed to taking steps to combat nonconsensual deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. Read more here.

(Bloomberg) The SEC has quietly disbanded a group of enforcement lawyers who helped bring litigation fighting misleading environmental, social and governance disclosures for more than three years. Read more here.

(Barrons) Palantir stock, along with Dell and Erie Indemnity are joping the S&P 500. American Airlines, Bio-Rad and Etsy are out. Read more here.

(Washington Post) You have options to click one box to order companies not to blab your personal data. California might soon require it by law. Read more here.

(NYT) In some ways, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan has already assumed the position of mayor of San Francisco’s tech world. But he shared his thoughts on running for the city’s chief executive job. Read more here.

(Verge) The companies will grant the AI Safety Institute access to major new models for safety testing. Read more here.

(NYT) The multibillion-dollar trading firm said that its billionaire co-chief executives, John Overdeck and David Siegel, would step down. Read more here.