AI deals that the US struck with the UAE and Saudi Arabia reinforce its AI leadership, but raise security concerns that the US can mitigate through safeguards
5 GW Datacenter, HUMAIN, G42, Diversion and Misuse Risks, Security Requirements, American AI Wins
Q&A with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the parts of the economy AGI will affect last, why he's relatively bearish on AI-fueled economic growth, and more
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Sources: Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI's restructuring, seeking assurance that the changes will protect its $13.75B investment
After months of public pressure, OpenAI walked back part of its effort to create a more conventional for-profit company …
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to conve...
Meta defines the types of AI systems that it deems too risky to release, including ones capable of aiding in cybersecurity, chemical, and biological attacks
here's what that means Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta May Restrict Access to High-Risk AI Following Misuse of LLaMA Models Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Meta won't release high...
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B over the next four years
OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
The UK's PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal — Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying it applies only to large AI models and doesn't account for if deployment is high risk
Governor seeks more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI, Meta and supported by research scientists
A profile of several AI “doomers”, including AI Impacts researcher Katja Grace, and “effective accelerationists”, as both make arguments about the future of AI
Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us.
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation
- The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision
Update Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : UK CMA and US FTC Are Investigating Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI (UPDATED) Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Microsoft's investment in OpenAI fac...
Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...
OpenAI and DeepMind execs, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others release a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired integrates GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a Virtual Volunteer feature in closed beta
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Microsoft says the new Bing is “running on GPT-4, which we've customized for search” and was using an early version of the model over the past five weeks
Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today. — We are happy to confirm that the new Bing …