🍭 Who Governs the Algorithms? 👔

Good morning!
Santa already peaked.
It’s all downhill from here. 🎄

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• A coloring book prompt that prints money (for kids… sure)

• The global shift toward country-by-country AI rules

• Vietnam drops an AI law with teeth

• Japan puts AI search on regulatory watch

Steal This Prompt
🖍️ Coloring Book Cheat Code

This prompt helps you generate popular cartoon characters as fresh, printable coloring-book pages, so you don’t have to buy a new book every time.

Perfect for:

• Parents bribing kids with “art time”

• Teachers who need a last-minute worksheet

• Adults who pretend it’s “mindfulness” (it is, you’re fine)

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Paste into GPT

3. Replace the #s with your character + style preferences

4. Watch it cook (suddenly you’re running a DIY coloring book empire)

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

Vietnam's
🌏️ AI Law Signals a New Power Play

The Bite:
Vietnam just passed its first comprehensive AI law.
It's less about paperwork and more about positioning.

The law sets clear rules for how AI can be built, deployed, and governed.
Special attention is on foreign companies operating inside the country.

Rather than copying the EU or the U.S., Vietnam is carving out a middle path:
Pro-innovation, but tightly controlled where it counts.

This isn’t a niche policy update.
It’s a signal about where Vietnam wants to sit in the global AI supply chain.

Snacks:

• AI systems are classified by risk, with stricter rules for high-impact uses like finance, healthcare, and public services

• Overseas AI companies must appoint a local legal representative and comply with Vietnamese standards

• Explicit restrictions on social scoring, mass surveillance, and certain deepfake uses

• The law takes effect March 1, 2026 so companies have a short runway to adapt

Why it Bites:
Vietnam is doing something quietly smart:
Making itself AI-friendly without giving up control.

Zoom out, and this looks like part of a broader shift: countries that don’t want to be AI superpowers still want leverage over the systems shaping their economies.

For global tech firms, this is both an invite and a filter.
You can build here, but you’ll play by local rules.

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Japan
🔬 Puts AI Search Under the Microscope

The Bite:
Japan’s competition watchdog is launching a formal investigation into AI-powered online search services.

The concern: AI-generated answers may be steering users away from original sources while reinforcing the dominance of already-powerful platforms.

This isn’t a casual review.
Officials are openly signaling that new rules are on the table.

For foreign AI companies, Japan is making it clear:
If you control discovery, you control markets, and that power won’t go unchecked.

Snacks:

• Regulators are focused on “zero-click” answers that reduce traffic to news and content sites

• Large overseas platforms are expected to be central to the probe

• The concern is whether AI search locks users into one ecosystem

• Japanese publishers argue AI search weakens sustainable journalism

• This could lead to new competition rules tailored specifically to AI search

Why it Bites:
Japan is treating AI search less like a cool feature and more like infrastructure.

And then regulating it.

Compared to the EU’s slow, legal-heavy approach:
Japan looks faster and more willing to intervene early.

If Vietnam is setting their rules for AI, so can Japan.

Together, they point to a clear future:

AI is governed country by country and not platform by platform.

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🧠 You Need to Know

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→ Fujitsu unveiled Kozuchi Physical AI 1.0, a multi-AI agent framework integrating physical and agentic AI to automate workflows securely and support real-world robot collaboration.

🤖 Google’s AI Year In Review 2025
→ Google recapped its AI efforts in 2025 with highlights across Gemini models, Search AI updates, infrastructure investments, and diverse AI integration in products.

💳 Top Five AI Stories in Fintech in 2025
→ FinTech Futures reflected on the year’s biggest AI moments in finance, including new regulatory sandboxes, executive hires, and agentic AI partnerships shaping the industry.

⚖️ Vietnam’s AI Law Regulatory Milestone
→ Vietnam passed its first comprehensive AI law, introducing risk-based classifications, compliance standards, and incentives that will take effect from March 1, 2026.

🔍 Japan’s Watchdog to Investigate AI Search Services
→ Japan’s competition authority announced plans to investigate AI-driven online search services to assess competition and fairness in the digital search market.