Jonas Vale follows Wednesday's AI power map through ICE surveillance contracts, OpenAI and Broadcom's inference chip, Nvidia's export-control argument, congressional AI workflow, new respiratory-virus philanthropy, medical AI trials and logging, and the token cost paid by African-language users.

• The Guardian on ICE and surveillance contracts
• OpenAI on Jalapeno and Broadcom's release, with additional coverage from The Verge
• CNBC on Nvidia export controls and Techmeme's Qualcomm roundup
• The X post about Representative Anna Paulina Luna
• MIT Technology Review on Intercept
• RaDaR rare-disease paper, MedLog medical AI logging paper, and The African Language Tax