One million robots, AI regulations & more (July 2, 2025)

Good morning!

The robots just hit seven figures, Grammarly is going full Iron Man on your inbox, and the Senate made a quiet but pivotal move on AI regulation. If you blink this week, you’ll miss a new frontier in medicine, logistics, and internet economics. Let’s dive in.

🧠 The AI Power Moves

🧾 Senate Strips AI Guardrails from Tax Bill

A key amendment that would’ve limited state-level AI regulation has been quietly removed from the Senate’s tax bill. It’s a stealthy but significant win for the AI industry, giving companies more room to maneuver and keeping the regulatory power decentralized, for now.

🤖 Amazon Reaches One Million Robots

Amazon now has over one million robots working in its warehouses, thanks to a new AI routing system called DeepFleet. It’s already speeding things up by 10%, cutting delivery times and streamlining costs. This marks a new chapter in Amazon’s plan to automate its logistics layer with AI.

👩‍⚕️ AI Doctors Now Outperform Humans

In a clinical showdown, AI systems correctly diagnosed four times as many conditions as human doctors. The breakthrough is a major step toward AI-assisted triage and diagnostics, though researchers are cautious about risks like data bias and overreliance on automation.

💼 The AI Infrastructure Shift

💌 Grammarly Acquires Superhuman for AI Inbox Agents

Grammarly just acquired email app Superhuman, with a bold plan to turn your inbox into a multi-agent AI productivity platform. Think of it as ChatGPT meets executive assistant, filtering, summarizing, and replying with superhuman speed. The goal: full-stack email intelligence.

🌐 Cloudflare Launches Pay-per-Crawl

Cloudflare is now blocking AI crawlers by default for new sites and introducing a “pay-per-crawl” marketplace. Publishers can charge bots to access content, potentially reshaping how the web is monetized and creating two tiers of internet visibility—premium vs open.

🧳 OpenAI’s $10M+ Enterprise Consulting

OpenAI launched a high-end consulting business to help enterprises build custom AI solutions, starting at $10M. They’re deploying engineers from places like Palantir to develop domain-specific tools for massive clients like the Pentagon and Morgan Stanley.

🛠️ Tools of the Day

• Co-STORM – Wikipedia-style articles from scratch
• Well Extract – AI-powered receipt & invoice extraction for developers
• String.com – World's first AI automation engineer

🎯 Prompt of the Day

“Compare how Amazon and Walmart use AI in logistics, using real stats and a visual timeline of innovations.”

⚡ Quick Hits

• Sam Altman slams Meta for poaching OpenAI staff
• Cursor poached Claude Code devs from Anthropic
• X is letting AI chatbots write Community Notes
• Microsoft Copilot is coming to Premier League platforms
• Ai2’s SciArena ranks OpenAI’s o3 as top in science QA

📬 TLDR

Amazon passes 1 million warehouse robots, Grammarly buys Superhuman to build an AI-powered inbox assistant, and the Senate removes limits on state AI regulation. Cloudflare wants bots to pay for data, and OpenAI is now selling custom AI solutions, if you can afford the eight-figure entry fee.

Catch you in the inbox,
David