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Week 5: What's Happening in AI
US rules explained, Big AI launches industry forum, AI’s Oppenheimer moment, and more.
| Policy
Americas:
Senate passes "AI, Group of Four" amendments in the National Defense Authorization Act
Children's online safety bills clear Senate hurdle amidst civil liberties pushback
California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car data
Europe:
Asia:
Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations (more on China’s new rules here)
Commerce Sec. Raimondo plans August China trip as tensions over tech controls simmer
ICYMI: Biden-Harris administration secures voluntary commitments from leading AI companies (more here)
| Responsible AI
Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI launch Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development
Security and safety:
Attacks on AI Models: Prompt injection vs supply chain poisoning (more here)
Interview: Anthropic’s co-founder Dario Amodei on the paradoxes of AI safety
Benchmarks and frameworks:
Resource: HIPAA explainer for start-ups
Workforce:
The workers behind AI rarely see its rewards. This Indian startup wants to fix that
ICYMI: 'Training my replacement’: Inside a call center worker’s battle with AI
Language:
Google’s Jigsaw was trying to fight toxic speech with AI. Then the AI started talking
ICYMI: AI often mangles African languages. Local scientists and volunteers are taking it back to school
ICYMI: OpenAI worries about what its chatbot will say about people’s faces
| Where AI is going
Frontiers:
Palantir's co-founder on our Oppenheimer moment: the creation of AI weapons (more here)
DeepMind’s AlphaFold changed the shape of science — but there is more to do (more here)
Aided by AI language models, Google’s robots are getting smart
Hardware and compute:
Chinese researchers used AI to design a CPU in under 5 hours
CoreWeave poised to make billions with its GPU cloud (more here)
Replicas and scans:
This games rating agency wants to scan gamers' faces to verify their ages
ICYMI: Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever
Information:
Opinion: Unregulated AI will worsen inequality, warns Nobel-winning economist
What's happening in AI is shaped by our Charter themes and Responsible AI work.