Artificial intelligence sat at the center of tech news today, from Washington to the codebase. At the White House, AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is set to leave at the end of June, a notable shift as the Trump administration weighs its next moves on frontier technology and possible new ways of engaging the AI industry. Elsewhere, governments are grappling with the social effects of digital platforms: Singapore ordered YouTube, Facebook and X to block posts aimed at the Indian community, framing the move as a defense of racial harmony and multiculturalism. Inside the developer world, attention turned to the messier side of generative AI, with engineers proposing “AI slop” quality gates to catch plausible-looking but brittle machine-written code before it reaches production. And in crypto, a parallel lesson emerged: faster AI-driven execution may help place trades, but it still cannot compensate for poor risk management or human discipline.